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)

61 - 80 of 91 works

2016

Journal Article

Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation

Shipton, Ceri, Crowther, Alison, Kourampas, Nikos, Prendergast, Mary E., Horton, Mark, Douka, Katerina, Schwenninger, Jean-Luc, Faulkner, Patrick, Morales, Erendira M. Quintana, Langley, Michelle C., Tibesasa, Ruth, Picornell-Gelabert, Llorenc, Wilmsen, Edwin N., Doherty, Chris, Veall, Margaret-Ashley, Ali, Abdallah K., Petraglia, Michael D. and Boivin, Nicole (2016). Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation. Azania, 51 (2), 197-233. doi: 10.1080/0067270X.2016.1173308

Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation

2016

Journal Article

Coastal subsistence, maritime trade, and the colonization of small offshore islands in eastern African prehistory

Crowther, Alison, Faulkner, Patrick, Prendergast, Mary E., Quintana Morales, Erendira M., Horton, Mark, Wilmsen, Edwin, Kotarba-Morley, Anna M., Christie, Annalisa, Petek, Nik, Tibesasa, Ruth, Doula, Katerina, Picornell-Gelabert, Llorenç, Carah, Xavier and Boivin, Nicole (2016). Coastal subsistence, maritime trade, and the colonization of small offshore islands in eastern African prehistory. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 11 (2), 211-237. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2016.1188334

Coastal subsistence, maritime trade, and the colonization of small offshore islands in eastern African prehistory

2016

Journal Article

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

Boivin, Nicole L., Zeder, Melinda A., Fuller, Dorian Q., Crowther, Alison, Larson, Greger, Erlandson, Jon M., Denham, Tim and Petraglia, Michael D. (2016). Ecological consequences of human niche construction: examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions. National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings, 113 (23), 6388-6396. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1525200113

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

2016

Journal Article

Poison arrows and bone utensils in late Pleistocene eastern Africa: evidence from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar

Langley, Michelle C., Prendergast, Mary E., Shipton, Ceri, Morales, Erendira M. Quintana, Crowther, Alison and Boivin, Nicole (2016). Poison arrows and bone utensils in late Pleistocene eastern Africa: evidence from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar. Azania, 51 (2), 155-177. doi: 10.1080/0067270X.2016.1173302

Poison arrows and bone utensils in late Pleistocene eastern Africa: evidence from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar

2016

Journal Article

Comment on 'Millets and herders: the origins of plant cultivation in semiarid North Gujarat (India)' by Juan Jose Garcia-Granero, Carla Lancelotti, Marco Madella, and P. Ajithprasad

Crowther, Alison (2016). Comment on 'Millets and herders: the origins of plant cultivation in semiarid North Gujarat (India)' by Juan Jose Garcia-Granero, Carla Lancelotti, Marco Madella, and P. Ajithprasad. Current Anthropology, 57 (2), 166-167.

Comment on 'Millets and herders: the origins of plant cultivation in semiarid North Gujarat (India)' by Juan Jose Garcia-Granero, Carla Lancelotti, Marco Madella, and P. Ajithprasad

2016

Journal Article

Continental Island Formation and the Archaeology of Defaunation on Zanzibar, Eastern Africa

Prendergast, Mary E., Rouby, Helene, Punning, Paramita, Marchant, Robert, Crowther, Alison, Kourampas, Nikos, Shipton, Ceri, Walsh, Martin., Lambeck, Kurt and Boivin, Nicole L. (2016). Continental Island Formation and the Archaeology of Defaunation on Zanzibar, Eastern Africa. PLoS ONE, 11 (2) e0149565, e0149565-e0149565. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149565

Continental Island Formation and the Archaeology of Defaunation on Zanzibar, Eastern Africa

2015

Journal Article

Late quaternary speleogenesis and landscape evolution in a tropical carbonate island: Pango la kuumbi (kuumbi cave), zanzibar

Kourampas, Nikos, Shipton, Ceri, Mills, William, Tibesasa, Ruth, Horton, Henrietta, Horton, Mark, Prendergast, Mary, Crowther, Alison, Douka, Katerina, Faulkner, Patrick, Picornell, Llorenc and Boivin, Nicole (2015). Late quaternary speleogenesis and landscape evolution in a tropical carbonate island: Pango la kuumbi (kuumbi cave), zanzibar. International Journal of Speleology, 44 (3), 293-314. doi: 10.5038/1827-806X.44.3.7

Late quaternary speleogenesis and landscape evolution in a tropical carbonate island: Pango la kuumbi (kuumbi cave), zanzibar

2015

Journal Article

Use of Zanzibar copal (Hymenaea verrucosa Gaertn.) as incense at Unguja Ukuu, Tanzania in the 7-8th century CE: chemical insights into trade and Indian Ocean interactions

Crowther, Alison, Veall, Margaret-Ashley, Boivin, Nicole, Horton, Mark, Kotarba-Morley, Anne, Fuller, Dorian Q., Fenn, Thomas, Haji, Othman and Matheson, Carney D. (2015). Use of Zanzibar copal (Hymenaea verrucosa Gaertn.) as incense at Unguja Ukuu, Tanzania in the 7-8th century CE: chemical insights into trade and Indian Ocean interactions. Journal of Archaeological Science, 53, 374-390. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.10.008

Use of Zanzibar copal (Hymenaea verrucosa Gaertn.) as incense at Unguja Ukuu, Tanzania in the 7-8th century CE: chemical insights into trade and Indian Ocean interactions

2015

Book Chapter

Old World Globalization and Food Exchanges

Boivin, N., Fuller, D. Q. and Crowther, A. (2015). Old World Globalization and Food Exchanges. Archaeology of Food. (pp. 350-356) edited by Methany, K. B. and Beaudry, M. C.. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

Old World Globalization and Food Exchanges

2014

Journal Article

Indian Ocean food globalisation and Africa

Boivin, Nicole, Crowther, Alison, Prendergast, Mary and Fuller, Dorian Q. (2014). Indian Ocean food globalisation and Africa. African Archaeological Review, 31 (4), 547-581. doi: 10.1007/s10437-014-9173-4

Indian Ocean food globalisation and Africa

2014

Journal Article

Documenting contamination in ancient starch laboratories

Crowther, Alison, Haslam, Michael, Oakden, Nikki, Wald, Dale and Mercader, Julio (2014). Documenting contamination in ancient starch laboratories. Journal of Archaeological Science, 49 (1), 90-104. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.04.023

Documenting contamination in ancient starch laboratories

2014

Conference Publication

Lab contamination avoidance in molecular palaeontology: Starch grain analysis

Mercader, Julio, Crowther, Alison, Haslam, Michael, Oakden, Nikki and Walde, Dale (2014). Lab contamination avoidance in molecular palaeontology: Starch grain analysis. 83rd Annual Meeting of the American-Association-of-Physical-Anthropologists, Calgary Canada, Apr 08-12, 2014. HOBOKEN: WILEY-BLACKWELL.

Lab contamination avoidance in molecular palaeontology: Starch grain analysis

2014

Journal Article

Iron Age agriculture, fishing and trade in the Mafia Archipelago, Tanzania: new data from Ukunju Cave

Crowther, Alison, Horton, Mark, Kortarba-Morley, Anna, Prendergast, Mary, Quintana-Morales, Eréndira, Wood, Marilee, Shipton, Ceri, Fuller, Dorian Q., Tibesasa, Ruth, Mills, William and Boivin, Nicole (2014). Iron Age agriculture, fishing and trade in the Mafia Archipelago, Tanzania: new data from Ukunju Cave. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 49 (1), 21-44. doi: 10.1080/0067270X.2013.878104

Iron Age agriculture, fishing and trade in the Mafia Archipelago, Tanzania: new data from Ukunju Cave

2014

Book Chapter

Zanzibar: A network society

Wynne-Jones, Stephanie, Crowther, Alison and Horton, Mark C. (2014). Zanzibar: A network society. The world in the Viking Age. (pp. 109-112) edited by Søren M. Sindbæk and Athena Trakadas. Roskilde, Denmark: Viking Ship Museum.

Zanzibar: A network society

2013

Journal Article

Intersections, networks and the genesis of social complexity on the Nyali Coast of East Africa

Shipton, C., Helm, R., Boivin, N., Crowther, A., Austin, P. and Fuller, D. Q. (2013). Intersections, networks and the genesis of social complexity on the Nyali Coast of East Africa. African Archaeological Review, 30 (4), 427-453. doi: 10.1007/s10437-013-9140-5

Intersections, networks and the genesis of social complexity on the Nyali Coast of East Africa

2013

Journal Article

East Africa and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean world

Boivin, Nicole, Crowther, Alison, Helm, Richard and Fuller, Dorian Q. (2013). East Africa and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean world. Journal of World Prehistory, 26 (3), 213-281. doi: 10.1007/s10963-013-9067-4

East Africa and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean world

2012

Journal Article

Dhaba: An initial report on an Acheulean, Middle Palaeolithic and microlithic locality in the Middle Son Valley, north-central India

Haslam, Michael, Harris, Clair, Clarkson, Chris, Pal, J. N., Shipton, Ceri, Crowther, Alison, Koshy, Jinu, Bora, Janardhana, Ditchfield, Peter, Ram, Harindra Prasad, Price, Kathryn, Dubey, A. K. and Petraglia, Michael (2012). Dhaba: An initial report on an Acheulean, Middle Palaeolithic and microlithic locality in the Middle Son Valley, north-central India. Quaternary International, 258, 191-199. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.09.007

Dhaba: An initial report on an Acheulean, Middle Palaeolithic and microlithic locality in the Middle Son Valley, north-central India

2012

Journal Article

Exploring agriculture, interaction and trade on the eastern African littoral: preliminary results from Kenya

Helm, Richard, Crowther, Alison, Shipton, Ceri, Tengeza, Amini and Boivin, Nicole (2012). Exploring agriculture, interaction and trade on the eastern African littoral: preliminary results from Kenya. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 47 (1), 39-63. doi: 10.1080/0067270X.2011.647947

Exploring agriculture, interaction and trade on the eastern African littoral: preliminary results from Kenya

2012

Journal Article

The differential survival of native starch during cooking and implications for archaeological analyses: A review

Crowther, Alison (2012). The differential survival of native starch during cooking and implications for archaeological analyses: A review. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 4 (3), 221-235. doi: 10.1007/s12520-012-0097-0

The differential survival of native starch during cooking and implications for archaeological analyses: A review

2012

Journal Article

Old World globalization and the Columbian exchange: Comparison and contrast

Boivin, Nicole, Fuller, Dorian Q. and Crowther, Alison (2012). Old World globalization and the Columbian exchange: Comparison and contrast. World Archaeology, 44 (3), 452-469. doi: 10.1080/00438243.2012.729404

Old World globalization and the Columbian exchange: Comparison and contrast

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

    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

    A Zooarchaeological Analysis and Interpretation of the Comoros Islands

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Tiina Manne

  • 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

  • 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

Completed supervision

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