Dr Alison Crowther
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Alison Crowther

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Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

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91 works between 2005 and 2024
All (91) Journal Article (74) Book Chapter (12) Conference Publication (3) Book (1) Other Outputs (1)

41 - 60 of 91 works

2018

Journal Article

Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of middle and later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest

Shipton, Ceri, Roberts, Patrick, Archer, Will, Armitage, Simon J., Bita, Caesar, Blinkhorn, James, Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin, Crowther, Alison, Curtis, Richard, Errico, Francesco D', Douka, Katerina, Faulkner, Patrick, Groucutt, Huw S., Helm, Richard, Herries, Andy I. R., Jembe, Severinus, Kourampas, Nikos, Lee-Thorp, Julia, Marchant, Rob, Mercader, Julio, Marti, Africa Pitarch, Prendergast, Mary E., Rowson, Ben, Tengeza, Amini, Tibesasa, Ruth, White, Tom S., Petraglia, Michael D. and Boivin, Nicole (2018). Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of middle and later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature Communications, 9 (1) 2242, 2242. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04753-0

Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of middle and later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest

2018

Journal Article

Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa

Crowther, Alison, Prendergast, Mary E., Fuller, Dorian Q. and Boivin, Nicole (2018). Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa. Quaternary International, 489, 101-120. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.01.014

Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa

2018

Journal Article

Exaggerated expectations in ancient starch research and the need for new taphonomic and authenticity criteria

Mercader, Julio, Akeju, Tolutope, Brown, Melisa, Bundala, Mariam, Collins, Matthew J., Copeland, Les, Crowther, Alison, Dunfield, Peter, Henry, Amanda, Inwood, Jamie, Itambu, Makarius, Kim, Joong-Jae, Larter, Steve, Longo, Laura, Oldenburg, Thomas, Patalano, Robert, Sammynaiken, Ramaswami, Soto, Maria, Tyler, Robert and Xhauflair, Hermine (2018). Exaggerated expectations in ancient starch research and the need for new taphonomic and authenticity criteria. Facets, 3 (1), 777-798. doi: 10.1139/facets-2017-0126

Exaggerated expectations in ancient starch research and the need for new taphonomic and authenticity criteria

2018

Journal Article

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest

Shipton, Ceri, Roberts, Patrick, Archer, Will, Armitage, Simon J., Bita, Caesar, Blinkhorn, James, Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin, Crowther, Alison, Curtis, Richard, d' Errico, Francesco, Douka, Katerina, Faulkner, Patrick, Groucutt, Huw S., Helm, Richard, Herries, Andy I. R., Jembe, Severinus, Kourampas, Nikos, Lee-Thorp, Julia, Marchant, Rob, Mercader, Julio, Marti, Africa Pitarch, Prendergast, Mary E., Rowson, Ben, Tengeza, Amini, Tibesasa, Ruth, White, Tom S., Petraglia, Michael D. and Boivin, Nicole (2018). 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature Communications, 9 (1) 1832, 1832. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04057-3

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest

2018

Journal Article

Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

Marchant, Rob, Richer, Suzi, Boles, Oliver, Capitani, Claudia, Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin J., Lane, Paul, Prendergast, Mary E., Stump, Daryl, De Cort, Gijs, Kaplan, Jed O., Phelps, Leanne, Kay, Andrea, Olago, Dan, Petek, Nik, Platts, Philip J., Punwong, Paramita, Widgren, Mats, Wynne-Jones, Stephanie, Ferro-Vázquez, Cruz, Benard, Jacquiline, Boivin, Nicole, Crowther, Alison, Cuní-Sanchez, Aida, Deere, Nicolas J., Ekblom, Anneli, Farmer, Jennifer, Finch, Jemma, Fuller, Dorian, Gaillard-Lemdahl, Marie-José ... Wright, David (2018). Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present. Earth-Science Reviews, 178, 322-378. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.12.010

Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

2018

Journal Article

The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor

Brucato, Nicolas, Fernandes, Veronica, Mazières, Stéphane, Kusuma, Pradiptajati, Cox, Murray P, Ng'ang'a, Joseph Wainaina, Omar, Mohammed, Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude, Frassati, Coralie, Alshamali, Farida, Fin, Bertrand, Boland, Anne, Deleuze, Jean-Francois, Stoneking, Mark, Adelaar, Alexander, Crowther, Alison, Boivin, Nicole, Pereira, Luisa, Bailly, Pascal, Chiaroni, Jacques and Ricaut, François-Xavier (2018). The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor. American journal of human genetics, 102 (1), 58-68. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.11.011

The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor

2018

Book Chapter

The domestication, spread and uses of sorghum as a crop

Shapter, F. M., Crowther, A., Fox, G., Godwin, I. D., Watson-Fox, L., Hannah, I. J. C. and Norton, S. L. (2018). The domestication, spread and uses of sorghum as a crop. Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2: sorghum utilization around the world. (pp. 31-64) edited by William Rooney. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. doi: 10.19103/as.2017.0015.01

The domestication, spread and uses of sorghum as a crop

2018

Book Chapter

Starch granule analysis

Crowther, Alison (2018). Starch granule analysis. The encyclopedia of archaeological sciences. (pp. 1-5) Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0550

Starch granule analysis

2018

Book Chapter

Early connections

Boivin, Nicole and Crowther, Alison (2018). Early connections. The Swahili world. (pp. 105-120) edited by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria LaViolette. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis / Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315691459-7

Early connections

2017

Journal Article

Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

Skoglund, Pontus , Thompson, Jessica C. , Prendergast, Mary E. , Mittnik, Alissa , Sirak, Kendra , Hajdinjak, Mateja , Salie, Tasneem , Rohland, Nadin , Mallick, Swapan , Peltzer, Alexander , Heinze, Anja , Olalde, Iñigo , Ferry, Matthew , Harney, Eadaoin , Michel, Megan , Stewardson, Kristin , Cerezo-Román, Jessica I. , Chiumia, Chrissy , Crowther, Alison , Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth , Gidna, Agness O. , Grillo, Katherine M. , Helenius, I. Taneli , Hellenthal, Garrett , Helm, Richard , Horton, Mark , López, Saioa , Mabulla, Audax Z. P. , Parkington, John ... Reich, David (2017). Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure. Cell, 171 (1), 59-71. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.08.049

Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

2017

Journal Article

Characterising marine mollusc exploitation in the eastern African Iron Age: archaeomalacological evidence from Unguja Ukuu and Fukuchani, Zanzibar

Faulkner, Patrick, Harris, Matthew, Ali, Abdallah K., Haji, Othman, Crowther, Alison, Horton, Mark C. and Boivin, Nicole L. (2017). Characterising marine mollusc exploitation in the eastern African Iron Age: archaeomalacological evidence from Unguja Ukuu and Fukuchani, Zanzibar. Quaternary International, 471, 66-80. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.08.051

Characterising marine mollusc exploitation in the eastern African Iron Age: archaeomalacological evidence from Unguja Ukuu and Fukuchani, Zanzibar

2017

Journal Article

Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets

Prendergast, Mary E., Buckley, Michael, Crowther, Alison, Frantz, Laurent, Eager, Heidi, Lebrasseur, Ophelie, Hutterer, Rainer, Hulme-Beaman, Ardern, Van Neer, Wim, Douka, Katerina, Veall, Margaret-Ashley, Morales, Eriendira M. Quintana, Schuenemann, Verena J., Reiter, Ella, Allen, Richard, Dimopoulos, Evangelos A., Helm, Richard M., Shipton, Ceri, Mwebi, Ogeto, Denys, Christiane, Horton, Mark, Wynne-Jones, Stephanie, Fleisher, Jeffrey, Radimilahy, Chantal, Wright, Henry, Searle, Jeremy B., Krause, Johannes, Larson, Greger and Boivin, Nicole L. (2017). Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets. PLoS One, 12 (8) e0182565, e0182565. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182565

Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets

2017

Journal Article

Zanzibar and Indian Ocean trade in the first millennium CE: the glass bead evidence

Wood, Marilee, Panighello, Serena, Orsega, Emilio F., Robertshaw, Peter, van Elteren, Johannes T., Crowther, Alison, Horton, Mark and Boivin, Noivin (2017). Zanzibar and Indian Ocean trade in the first millennium CE: the glass bead evidence. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 9 (5), 879-901. doi: 10.1007/s12520-015-0310-z

Zanzibar and Indian Ocean trade in the first millennium CE: the glass bead evidence

2017

Journal Article

The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world

Ottoni, Claudio, Van Neer, Wim, De Cupere, Bea, Daligault, Julien, Guimaraes, Silvia, Peters, Joris, Spassov, Nikolai, Prendergast, Mary E., Boivin, Nicole, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Bălăşescu, Adrian, Becker, Cornelia, Benecke, Norbert, Boroneant, Adina, Buitenhuis, Hijlke, Chahoud, Jwana, Crowther, Alison, Llorente, Laura, Manaseryan, Nina, Monchot, Hervé, Onar, Vedat, Osypińska, Marta, Putelat, Olivier, Quintana Morales, Eréndira M., Studer, Jacqueline, Wierer, Ursula, Decorte, Ronny, Grange, Thierry and Geigl, Eva-Maria (2017). The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1 (139) 0139, 0139. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0139

The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world

2017

Journal Article

Dietary diversity on the Swahili coast: the fauna from two Zanzibar trading locales

Prendergast, M. E., Quintana Morales, E. M., Crowther, A., Horton, M. C. and Boivin, N. L. (2017). Dietary diversity on the Swahili coast: the fauna from two Zanzibar trading locales. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27 (4), 621-637. doi: 10.1002/oa.2585

Dietary diversity on the Swahili coast: the fauna from two Zanzibar trading locales

2017

Conference Publication

East Africa as a source for Fatimid rock crystal. Workshops from Kenya to Madagascar

Horton, Mark, Boivin, Nicole, Crowther, Alison, Gaskell, Ben, Radimilahy, Chantal and Wright, Henry (2017). East Africa as a source for Fatimid rock crystal. Workshops from Kenya to Madagascar. Gemstones in the First Millennium AD: Mines, Trade, Workshops and Symbolism, Mainz, Germany, 20-22 October 2015. Mainz, Germany: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum.

East Africa as a source for Fatimid rock crystal. Workshops from Kenya to Madagascar

2017

Book Chapter

Ships of the desert, camels of the ocean: an Indian Ocean perspective on Trans-Saharan trading systems

Horton, Mark, Crowther, Alison and Boivin, Nicole (2017). Ships of the desert, camels of the ocean: an Indian Ocean perspective on Trans-Saharan trading systems. Trade in the ancient Sahara and beyond. (pp. 131-155) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108161091.006

Ships of the desert, camels of the ocean: an Indian Ocean perspective on Trans-Saharan trading systems

2016

Journal Article

Reply to Ellis et al.: human niche construction and evolutionary theory

Erlandson, Jon M., Zeder, Melinda A., Boivin, Nicole L., Crowther, Alison, Denham, Tim, Fuller, Dorian Q., Larson, Greger and Petraglia, Michael D. (2016). Reply to Ellis et al.: human niche construction and evolutionary theory. National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings, 113 (31), E4437-E4438. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1609617113

Reply to Ellis et al.: human niche construction and evolutionary theory

2016

Journal Article

Reply to Westaway and Lyman: emus, dingoes, and archaeology’s role in conservation biology

Zeder, Melinda A., Denham, Tim, Erlandson, Jon M., Boivin, Nicole L., Crowther, Alison, Fuller, Dorian Q., Larson, Greger and Petraglia, Michael D. (2016). Reply to Westaway and Lyman: emus, dingoes, and archaeology’s role in conservation biology. National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings, 113 (33), E4759-E4760. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1610697113

Reply to Westaway and Lyman: emus, dingoes, and archaeology’s role in conservation biology

2016

Journal Article

Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion

Crowther, Alison, Lucas, Leilani, Helm, Richard, Horton, Mark, Shipton, Ceri, Wright, Henry T., Walshaw, Sarah, Pawlowicz, Matthew, Radimilahy, Chantal, Douka, Katerina, Picornell-Gelabert, Llorenc, Fuller, Dorian Q. and Boivin, Nicole L. (2016). Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113 (24), 6635-6640. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1522714113

Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion

Current funding

  • 2022 - 2025
    Indian Ocean globalisation and the westward Austronesian expansion
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2025
    Re-evaluating forager-farmer plant use in Anatolias Neolithic transition
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2021 - 2022
    Dr Alison Crowther - AQ WRAP
    Advance Queensland Women's Research Assistance Program
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2022
    Forest Foragers: Archaeobotany and Palaeoecology of Human-Rainforest Adaptations in Sri Lanka
    UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Zooming In, Zooming Out: High-Definition Multi-Scalar Technologies in Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and Environment
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2020
    Human settlement of the Comoros and its role in the westward Austronesian expansion
    National Geographic Society
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2018
    Dr Alison Crowther - Maternity Funding (Advance Queensland Women's Academic Fund)
    Queensland Government Advance Queensland Women's Academic Fund
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2020
    The archaeobotany of farming transitions in Africa and the Indian Ocean periphery (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena)
    Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
    Open grant
  • 2016
    Addressing biases in archaeological understanding of the earliest spread of farming from Southwest Asia's 'Fertile Crescent' using plant micro-remains
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2018
    Food crops and culinary frontiers: the archaeobotany of Indian Ocean interaction and the colonisation of Madagascar
    UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2016
    Operationalising research collections in archaeological science and museum studies
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant

Availability

Dr Alison Crowther is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    A Zooarchaeological Analysis and Interpretation of the Comoros Islands

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Tiina Manne

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The role of humans in controlling the rainforest-sclerophyll forest boundary in Southeast Queensland during the Holocene

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Andrew Fairbairn

  • Doctor Philosophy

    An Archaeobotanical Perspective on the Economy of the Ancient City of Kilwa Kisiwani, Southern Tanzania: AD 800-1600

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Andrew Fairbairn

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Archaeobotanical Analysis of Plant Processing on Mithaka Country

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Andrew Fairbairn, Professor Michael Westaway

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Seed grinding in traditional Aboriginal Australia

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Chris Clarkson

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Settlement resilience and adaptation through the climatic, economic, and political changes of the Central Anatolian Bronze Age

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Andrew Fairbairn

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Landscape as an artefact: Disentangling past human impacts on the vegetation Surry Hills, northern Tasmania using pollen and phytoliths

    Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Seed grinding in traditional Aboriginal Australia

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Chris Clarkson

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Landscape as an artefact: Disentangling past human impacts on the vegetation Surry Hills, northern Tasmania using pollen and phytoliths

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Kevin Welsh, Professor Helen Bostock

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The assembly of plant microfossil assemblages: Characterising pollen and phytoliths from plants and soils to improve palaeoecological interpretations

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Kevin Welsh

  • Doctor Philosophy

    High-speed impact fractures and the global origins of projectile technology

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Chris Clarkson

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Investigating the economy of Mithaka settlements

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Michael Westaway

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Investigating the economy of Mithaka settlements

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Michael Westaway

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Aboriginal and Environmental Interactions in Northern Australia: A faunal analysis of Malangangerr

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Chris Clarkson, Associate Professor Tiina Manne

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Hidden in the Haematite: patterns of continuity and change reflected in the selection, production and use of haematite at Madjedbebe, Arhmen Land, Australia

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Chris Clarkson

Completed supervision

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