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67,000 years of coastal engagement at Panga ya Saidi, eastern Africa

scientific article published on 26 August 2021

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

scientific article

Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion.

scientific article

Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa

scientific article published on 27 January 2021

Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea: Practice, Potential and Prospects

article

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Asian Crop Dispersal in Africa and Late Holocene Human Adaptation to Tropical Environments

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Blind tests in microscopic residue analysis: comments on Wadley et al. (2004)

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

scholarly article

Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory

Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: Contextualizing the archaeology of an early Islamic port of trade

scientific article published on 27 February 2022

Collagen fingerprinting traces the introduction of caprines to island Eastern Africa

scientific article

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

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Coring, profiling, and trenching: Archaeological field strategies for investigating the Pleistocene-Holocene-Anthropocene continuum

scientific article published in March 2022

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

scientific article

Dietary Diversity on the Swahili Coast: The Fauna from Two Zanzibar Trading Locales.

scientific article published on 9 April 2017

Documenting contamination in ancient starch laboratories

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

Earliest known human burial in Africa

scientific article published on 5 May 2021

East Africa and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean world

article

Eastern Africa and the Early Indian Ocean: Understanding Mobility in a Globalising World

scientific article published on 16 February 2021

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

scientific article

Excavations at the Iron Age Village Site of Fibobe II, Central Zambia

scientific article published on 12 January 2022

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

scholarly article by Richard Helm et al published March 2012 in Azania Archaeological Research in Africa

Indian Ocean Food Globalisation and Africa

article

Intersections, Networks and the Genesis of Social Complexity on the Nyali Coast of East Africa

article

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

article

Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya

scientific article published in June 2021

Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa

scientific article published in January 2020

Late Pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: Multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-lena

scientific article

Late Quaternary speleogenesis and landscape evolution in a tropical carbonate island: Pango la Kuumbi (Kuumbi Cave), Zanzibar

Long-term Trends in Terrestrial and Marine Invertebrate Exploitation on the Eastern African Coast: Insights from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar

scientific article published on 16 November 2018

Microbotanical signatures of kreb: differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses

Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene

scientific article published on 18 January 2021

Multidisciplinary evidence for early banana (Musa cvs.) cultivation on Mabuyag Island, Torres Strait

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Old World globalization and the Columbian exchange: comparison and contrast

scholarly article by Nicole Boivin published in September 2012

Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history

scientific article published on 3 May 2022

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

article

Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest.

scientific article

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

scientific article

Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

scientific article published on September 2017

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

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

scientific article

Reply to Westaway and Lyman: Emus, dingoes, and archaeology's role in conservation biology

scientific article

Research article, Biological Sciences - Anthropology, Genetics Of cats and men: the paleogenetic history of the dispersal of cats in the ancient world

scientific article published on 9 October 2016

Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the Timing of Social and Subsistence Transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa

scientific article published on 27 August 2021

Ships of the Desert, Camels of the Ocean

Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Species identification of Australian marsupials using collagen fingerprinting

scientific article published in October 2021

Spice and rice: pepper, cloves and everyday cereal foods at the ancient port of Mantai, Sri Lanka

scientific article published in December 2018

Starch residues on undecorated Lapita pottery from Anir, New Ireland

Structural characterization and decontamination of dental calculus for ancient starch research ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

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

article

TA 30 - Archaeological Science Under a Microscope : Studies in Residue and Ancient DNA Analysis in Honour of Thomas H. Loy

scholarly article by Michael Haslam published in January 2009

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

scientific article published in January 2018

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

scholarly article by Alison Crowther published in May 2012

The domestication syndrome in vegetatively propagated field crops

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

The oldest and longest enduring microlithic sequence in India: 35 000 years of modern human occupation and change at the Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter

scholarly article by Chris Clarkson published in June 2009

The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world

article by Claudio Ottoni et al published 19 June 2017 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Towards a Historical Ecology of Intertidal Foraging in the Mafia Archipelago: Archaeomalacology and Implications for Marine Resource Management

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

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

scholarly article by Alison Crowther et al published January 2015 in Journal of Archaeological Science

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

scholarly article by Marilee Wood et al published 20 January 2016 in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

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