Honorary Professor Nicole Boivin
Honorary Professor & Honorary Professor
School of Social Science

Book Chapters
Crowther, Alison, Boivin, Nicole and Mark, Sinyati R. (2025). East African islands : a deep archaeological history. The Oxford Handbook of Island and Coastal Archaeology. (pp. 465-492) Oxford, United Kindom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197607770.013.32
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
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.
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
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.
Haslam, Michael, Clarkson, Chris, Petraglia, Michael, Korisettar, Ravi, B., Janardhana, Boivin, Nicole, Ditchfield, Peter, Jones, Sacha and Mackay, Alex (2010). Indian lithic technology prior to the 74,000 BP Toba super-eruption: Searching for an early modern human signature. The upper Palaeolithic revolution in global perspective: Papers in honour of Sir Paul Mellars. (pp. 73-84) edited by Katherine V. Boyle, Clive Gamble, Ofer Bar-Yosef and James Barrett. Cambridge, U.K.: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University.
Journal Articles
Ristevski, Jorgo, Louys, Julien, O’Connor, Sue, Yates, Adam M., Husdell, Molly, Price, Gilbert J., Ulm, Sean, McNiven, Ian J., Salisbury, Steven W. and Boivin, Nicole (2026). The late Quaternary crocodylian record from Australasia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 207 (1) zlag065. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlag065
Miller, Jennifer M., Shipton, Ceri, Kourampas, Nikos, Parés, Josep M., Vonhof, Hubert, Shoaee, Mohammad Javad, Cueva-Temprana, Arturo, Harding, Makayla, Crowther, Alison, Jurkenas, Dovydas, Mutoro, Doreen, Cerassoni, Jacopo Niccolò, Fernandes, Ricardo, Maroma, Christine, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael D. (2026). Cave morphology and human-mediated sediment deposition: Late Pleistocene to Holocene evolution of the cave floor at Panga ya Saidi, coastal Kenya. PLoS One, 21 (5 May) e0347491, 1-24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0347491
Cheeseman, Marc, Lambourne, Mary-Louise, Peters, Carli, Amano, Noel, Boivin, Nicole and Manne, Tiina (2026). Food and identity (re)creation in migrant communities: applying ZooMS to highly fragmented faunal remains from an historical Queensland gold mining town, Ravenswood. Journal of Archaeological Science, 190 106565, 106565. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2026.106565
Roberts, Patrick, Louys, Julien, Zech, Jana, Shipton, Ceri, Kealy, Shimona, Carro, Sofia Samper, Hawkins, Stuart, Boulanger, Clara, Marzo, Sara, Fiedler, Bianca, Boivin, Nicole, Mahirta, Aplin, Ken and OʼConnor, Sue (2025). Correction to: Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea (Nature Communications, (2020), 11, 1, (2068), 10.1038/s41467-020-15969-4). Nature Communications, 16 (1) 1993, 1-1. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-57105-0
Jha, Gopesh, Vyas, Varun, Jha, Deepak Kumar, Patalano, Robert, Paladugu, Roshan, Ilgner, Jana, Boivin, Nicole, Raj, Rachna, Krishnan, K., Roberts, Patrick and Petraglia, Michael (2025). On-site plant-wax biomarker analysis for assessing soil-organic-microbial degradation in archaeological contexts: A case study from Southern India. iScience, 28 (11) 113656, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113656
Groucutt, Huw S., Stewart, Mathew, Al-Jibreen, Faisal, Al-Qahtani, Mesfer, Al-Shanti, Mahmoud, Andrieux, Eric, Blinkhorn, James, Boivin, Nicole, Breeze, Paul S., Drake, Nick, Memesh, Abdullah, Mufarreh, Yahya, Price, Gilbert, Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Vanwezer, Nils, Vonhof, Hubert, Zalmout, Iyad, Alsharekh, Abdullah M. and Petraglia, Michael D. (2025). Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia. PLOS ONE, 20 (11) e0337005, 1-28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0337005
Cueva-Temprana, Arturo, Soto, María, Akuku, Pamela, Hernando, Raquel, Clarke, Siobhán, Favreau, Julien, Magohe, Stephen, Mohamed, Abdallah, Mwambwiga, Aloyce, Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael and Mercader, Julio (2025). Homo erectus technological behaviors during the Middle Pleistocene Transition: Engaji Nanyori, Oldupai Gorge. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 17 (9) 183, 1-25. doi: 10.1007/s12520-025-02285-5
Goldstein, Steven T., Mueller, Natalie G., Finestone, Emma, Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Juengst, Sara, Otwani, Anthony Odera, Miller, Jennifer M., Langley, Michelle C., Fernandes, Ricardo, Steinhof, Axel, Iminjili, Victor, Chepkorir, Christine, Janzen, Anneke, Ogola, Christine, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Petraglia, Michael and Boivin, Nicole (2025). Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya. PLOS ONE, 20 (8) e0328805, e0328805. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0328805
Iminjili, Victor, Crowther, Alison, Fisher, Michael T., Kay, Andrea, Roberts, Patrick, Goldstein, Steve, Boivin, Nicole and Fernandes, Ricardo (2025). A dataset of scientific dates from archaeological sites in eastern Africa spanning 5000 BCE to 1800 CE. Scientific Data, 12 (1) 801, 1-25. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-05138-x
Markowska, Monika, Vonhof, Hubert B., Groucutt, Huw S., Breeze, Paul S., Drake, Nick, Stewart, Mathew, Albert, Richard, Andrieux, Eric, Blinkhorn, James, Boivin, Nicole, Budsky, Alexander, Clark-Wilson, Richard, Fleitmann, Dominik, Gerdes, Axel, Martin, Ashley N., Martínez-García, Alfredo, Nicholson, Samuel L., Price, Gilbert J., Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Scholz, Denis, Vanwezer, Nils, Weber, Michael, Alsharekh, Abdullah M., Al Omari, Abdul Aziz, Al-Mufarreh, Yahya S. A., Al-Jibreen, Faisal, Alqahtani, Mesfer, Al-Shanti, Mahmoud, Zalmout, Iyad ... Haug, Gerald H. (2025). Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years. Nature, 640 (8060) 106112, 954-961. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-08859-6
Jha, Gopesh, Costa, Mafalda, Tsoupra, Anna, Dias, Cristina Barrocas, Kwiecien, Ola, Longman, Jack, Breitenbach, Sebastian F.M., Ditchfield, Peter, Jha, Deepak Kumar, Rudd, Rachel, Anil, Devara, Paladugu, Roshan, Shree, Sindu, Achyuthan, Hema, Raj, Rachna, Krishnan, K., Boivin, Nicole, Roberts, Patrick and Petraglia, Michael (2025). Seasonally resolved stratigraphy at Jwalapuram India shows regional surface warming after the Toba volcanic super-eruption. PNAS Nexus, 4 (4) pgaf109, 1-11. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf109
Wang, Hua, Caetano-Andrade, Victor, Boivin, Nicole, Clement, Charles R., Ayala, Wellyngton Espindola, Melinski, Ramiro Dario, da Silva Costa, Francislaide, Weigel, Detlef and Roberts, Patrick (2025). Long-term human influence on the demography and genetic diversity of the hyperdominant Bertholletia excelsa in the Amazon Basin. Current Biology, 35 (3), 629-639.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.023
Mercader, Julio, Akuku, Pamela, Boivin, Nicole, Camacho, Alfredo, Carter, Tristan, Clarke, Siobhan, Cueva Temprana, Arturo, Favreau, Julien, Galloway, Jennifer, Hernando, Raquel, Huang, Haiping, Hubbard, Stephen, Kaplan, Jed O., Larter, Steve, Magohe, Stephen, Mohamed, Abdallah, Mwambwiga, Aloyce, Oladele, Ayoola, Petraglia, Michael, Roberts, Patrick, Saladie, Palmira, Shikoni, Abel, Silva, Renzo, Soto, Maria, Stricklin, Dominica, Mekonnen, Degsew Z., Zhao, Wenran and Durkin, Paul (2025). Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago. Communications Earth and Environment, 6 (1) 1, 1-13. doi: 10.1038/s43247-024-01919-1
Billings, Traci N., Scott, Erin, Cocozza, Carlo, Hixon, Sean, Boivin, Nicole, Roberts, Patrick, Spengler, Robert N. and Fernandes, Ricardo (2025). The North American repository for archaeological isotopes. Scientific Data, 12 (1) 50, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-04175-2
Peters, Carli, Richter, Kristine K., Wilkin, Shevan, Stark, Sören, Mir-Makhamad, Basira, Fernandes, Ricardo, Maksudov, Farhod, Mirzaakhmedov, Sirojidin, Rahmonov, Husniddin, Schirmer, Stefanie, Ashastina, Kseniia, Begmatov, Alisher, Frachetti, Michael, Kurbanov, Sharof, Shenkar, Michael, Hermes, Taylor, Kidd, Fiona, Omelchenko, Andrey, Huber, Barbara, Boivin, Nicole, Wang, Shujing, Lurje, Pavel, von Baeyer, Madelynn, Dal Martello, Rita and Spengler, Robert N. (2024). Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia. Nature Communications, 15 (1) 2697, 2697. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46093-2
Amano, Noel, Faulkner, Patrick, Wedage, Oshan, Clarkson, Chris, Amila, Dambara, del Val, Miren, Jurkenas, Dovydas, Kapukotuwa, Alexander, López, Gloria I., Pares, Josep, Pathmalal, M. M., Smith, Tam, Wright, Martin, Roberts, Patrick, Petraglia, Michael and Boivin, Nicole (2024). Early Sri Lankan coastal site tracks technological change and estuarine resource exploitation over the last ca. 25,000 years. Scientific Reports, 14 (1) 26693, 1-16. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-77504-5
Yu, Yanyan, Wu, Haibin, Zhang, Wenchao, Boivin, Nicole, Yu, Jie, Zhang, Juzhong, Zhou, Xin, Luo, Wuhong, Deng, Chenglong, Ge, Junyi and Guo, Zhengtang (2024). Climate and cultural evolution drove Holocene cropland change in the Huai River Valley, China. Iscience, 27 (10) 110841, 110841. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110841
Goldstein, Steven T., Mueller, Natalie G., Janzen, Anneke, Ogola, Christine, Dal Martello, Rita, Fernandes, Ricardo, Li, Sophia, Iminjili, Victor, Juengst, Sara, Odera Otwani, Anthony, Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Wang, Ke, Ndiema, Emmanuel and Boivin, Nicole (2024). Early agriculture and crop transitions at Kakapel Rockshelter in the Lake Victoria region of eastern Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 291 (2026) 20232747, 20232747. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2747
Stewart, Mathew, Andrieux, Eric, Blinkhorn, James, Guagnin, Maria, Fernandes, Ricardo, Vanwezer, Nils, Hatton, Amy, Alqahtani, Mesfer, Zalmout, Iyad, Clark-Wilson, Richard, Al-Mufarreh, Yahya S. A., Al-Shanti, Mahmoud, Zahrani, Badr, Al Omari, Abdulaziz, Al-Jibreen, Faisal, Alsharekh, Abdullah M., Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael D. and Groucutt, Huw S. (2024). First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia. PLoS One, 19 (4) e0299292, e0299292. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299292
Antonosyan, Mariya, Roberts, Patrick, Aspaturyan, Narek, Mkrtchyan, Satenik, Lucas, Mary, Boxleitner, Kseniia, Jabbour, Firas, Hovhannisyan, Anahit, Cieślik, Agata, Sahakyan, Lilit, Avagyan, Ara, Spengler, Robert, Kandel, Andrew W., Petraglia, Michael, Boivin, Nicole, Yepiskoposyan, Levon and Amano, Noel (2024). Multiproxy evidence for environmental stability in the lesser caucasus during the late pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 330 108559. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108559
Rowson, Ben, Law, Matthew, Miller, Jennifer M., White, Tom, Shipton, Ceri, Crowther, Alison, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Petraglia, Michael and Boivin, Nicole (2024). A Quaternary sequence of terrestrial molluscs from East Africa: a record of diversity, stability, and abundance since Marine Isotope Stage 5 (78,000 BP). Archiv fuer Molluskenkunde: international journal of malacology, 153 (1), 61-86. doi: 10.1127/arch.moll/153/061-086
Boivin, Nicole, Täuber, Susanne, Beisiegel, Ulrike, Keller, Ursula and Hering, Janet G. (2024). Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding. Nature Reviews Materials, 9 (1), 1-3. doi: 10.1038/s41578-023-00624-3
Boivin, Nicole, Braje, Todd and Rick, Torben (2024). New opportunities emerge as the Anthropocene epoch vote falls short. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8 (5), 844-845. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02392-x
Caetano Andrade, Victor L., Clement, Charles R., Herrera-Ramírez, David, Larsen, Thomas, Durgante, Flavia, Boivin, Nicole, Schöngart, Jochen, Trumbore, Susan and Roberts, Patrick (2024). Insights into growth, ring formation and maximum ages of Brazil nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) using 14C dating and tree-ring analysis. Radiocarbon, 66 (2), 306-325. doi: 10.1017/RDC.2024.39
Shoaee, Mohammad Javad, Vahdati Nasab, Hamed, Storozum, Michael, Frenzel, Peter, Akhavan Kharazian, Mohammad, Fernandes, Ricardo, Hashemi, Seyed Milad, Jayez, Mozhgan, Amano, Noel, Marzban Abbasabadi, Behrokh, Aalipoor, Mehdi, Lucas, Mary, Marzo, Sara, Ilgner, Jana, Patalano, Robert, Roberts, Patrick, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael (2024). Initial Upper Paleolithic in the Zagros Mountains. Frontiers in Earth Science, 12 1352099. doi: 10.3389/feart.2024.1352099
Boivin, Nicole, Täuber, Susanne and Mahmoudi, Morteza (2024). Overcoming gender bias in STEM. Trends in Immunology, 45 (7), 483-485. doi: 10.1016/j.it.2024.05.004
Peters, Carli, Wang, Yiming, Vakil, Vikram, Cramb, Jonathan, Dortch, Joe, Hocknull, Scott, Lawrence, Rochelle, Manne, Tiina, Monks, Carly, Rössner, Gertrud E., Ryan, Helen, Siversson, Mikael, Ziegler, Tim, Louys, Julien, Price, Gilbert J., Boivin, Nicole and Collins, Matthew J. (2023). Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years. Communications Earth and Environment, 4 (1) 438, 1-8. doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-01114-8
Ventresca-Miller, Alicia R., Wilkin, Shevan, Smithers, Rachel, Larson, Kara, Spengler, Robert, Haruda, Ashleigh, Kradin, Nikolay, Bazarov, Bilikto, Miyagashev, Denis, Odbaatar, Tserendorj, Turbat, Tsagaan, Zhambaltarova, Elena, Konovalov, Prokopii, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Hein, Anke, Hommel, Peter, Nash, Brendan, Nayak, Ayushi, Vanwezer, Nils, Miller, Bryan, Fernandes, Ricardo, Boivin, Nicole and Roberts, Patrick (2023). Adaptability of Millets and Landscapes: Ancient Cultivation in North-Central Asia. Agronomy, 13 (11) 2848, 1-14. doi: 10.3390/agronomy13112848
Wilkin, Shevan, Hommel, Peter, Ventresca Miller, Alicia, Boivin, Nicole, Pedergnana, Antonella, Shishlina, Natalia and Trifonov, Viktor (2023). Curated cauldrons: preserved proteins from early copper-alloy vessels illuminate feasting practices in the Caucasian steppe. iScience, 26 (9) 107482, 107482. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107482
Huber, B., Hammann, S., Loeben, C. E., Jha, D. K., Vassão, D. G., Larsen, T., Spengler, R. N., Fuller, D. Q., Roberts, P., Devièse, T. and Boivin, N. (2023). Biomolecular characterization of 3500-year-old ancient Egyptian mummification balms from the Valley of the Kings. Scientific Reports, 13 (1) 12477. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-39393-y
Siu, Ieong, Cui, Jianfeng, Henderson, Julian, Crowther, Alison, Boivin, Nicole, Fergadiotou, Elisavet, Blair, Andrew, Ali, Abdallah K. and Chenery, Simon (2023). Early Islamic glass (7th– 10th centuries AD) in Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: A microcosm of a globalised industry in the early ‘Abbasid period. PLoS One, 18 (6) e0284867, 1-26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284867
Iminjili, Victor, Stewart, Mathew, Culley, Courtney, Hixon, Sean, Goldstein, Steve, Bleasdale, Madeleine, Jesús Sanchez Flores, Antonio, Lucas, Mary, Ilgner, Jana, Prendergast, Mary E., Crowther, Alison, Boivin, Nicole and Roberts, Patrick (2023). Late Pleistocene to late Holocene palaeoecology and human foraging at Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar Island. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 2 1080785, 1-18. doi: 10.3389/fearc.2023.1080785
Tang, Li, Wilkin, Shevan, Richter, Kristine Korzow, Bleasdale, Madeleine, Fernandes, Ricardo, He, Yuanhong, Li, Shuai, Petraglia, Michael, Scott, Ashley, Teoh, Fallen K. Y., Tong, Yan, Tsering, Tinlei, Tsho, Yang, Xi, Lin, Yang, Feng, Yuan, Haibing, Chen, Zujun, Roberts, Patrick, He, Wei, Spengler, Robert, Lu, Hongliang, Wangdue, Shargan and Boivin, Nicole (2023). Paleoproteomic evidence reveals dairying supported prehistoric occupation of the highland Tibetan Plateau. Science Advances, 9 (15) eadf0345, 1-13. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adf0345
Prendergast, Mary E., Miller, Jennifer, Mwebi, Ogeto, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Shipton, Ceri, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael (2023). Small game forgotten: Late Pleistocene foraging strategies in eastern Africa, and remote capture at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya. Quaternary Science Reviews, 305 108032, 1-24. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108032
Ventresca Miller, Alicia R., Wilkin, Shevan, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Ramsøe, Abigail, Clark, Julia, Byambadorj, Batsuren, Vanderwarf, Sandra, Vanwezer, Nils, Haruda, Ashleigh, Fernandes, Ricardo, Miller, Bryan and Boivin, Nicole (2023). Permafrost preservation reveals proteomic evidence for yak milk consumption in the 13th century. Communications Biology, 6 (1) 351, 1-9. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-04723-3
Shoaee, Mohammad Javad, Breeze, Paul S., Drake, Nick A., Hashemi, Seyyed Milad, Vahdati Nasab, Hamed, Breitenbach, Sebastian F. M., Stevens, Thomas, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael D. (2023). Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran. PLoS One, 18 (3) e0281872, 1-31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281872
Le Moyne, Charles, Roberts, Patrick, Hua, Quan, Bleasdale, Madeleine, Desideri, Jocelyne, Boivin, Nicole and Crowther, Alison (2023). Ecological flexibility and adaptation to past climate change in the Middle Nile Valley: A multiproxy investigation of dietary shifts between the Neolithic and Kerma periods at Kadruka 1 and Kadruka 21. PLoS One, 18 (2 February) e0280347, 1-45. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280347
Spengler, Robert N., Kienast, Frank, Roberts, Patrick, Boivin, Nicole, Begun, David R., Ashastina, Kseniia and Petraglia, Michael (2023). Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution. Biological Theory, 18 (2), 134-151. doi: 10.1007/s13752-022-00413-1
Amano, Noel, Wedage, Oshan, Ilgner, Jana, Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael and Roberts, Patrick (2023). Of forests and grasslands: human, primate, and ungulate palaeoecology in Late Pleistocene-Holocene Sri Lanka. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11 1133281. doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1133281
Wang, Ke, Bleasdale, Madeleine, Le Moyne, Charles, Freund, Cacilia, Krause, Johannes, Boivin, Nicole and Schiffels, Stephan (2022). 4000-year-old hair from the Middle Nile highlights unusual ancient DNA degradation pattern and a potential source of early eastern Africa pastoralists. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 20939, 20939. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-25384-y
Picin, Andrea, Wedage, Oshan, Blinkhorn, James, Amano, Noel, Deraniyagala, Siran, Boivin, Nicole, Roberts, Patrick and Petraglia, Michael (2022). Homo sapiens lithic technology and microlithization in the South Asian rainforest at Kitulgala Beli-lena (c. 45 – 8,000 years ago). PLoS One, 17 (10 October) e0273450, 1-36. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273450
Tang, Li, Lu, Hongliang, Chen, Xinzhou, Xu, Hailun, Boivin, Nicole, Storozum, Michael, Yang, Feng, Li, Shuai, Liu, Xinyi and Spengler, Robert N. (2022). Prehistoric agricultural decision making in the western Himalayas: ecological and social variables. Antiquity, 96 (389), 1214-1231. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2022.80
Faulkner, Patrick, Sarathi, Akshay, Crowther, Alison, Smith, Tam, Harris, Matthew, Ali, Abdallah K., Haji, Othman, LaViolette, Adria, Norman, Neil L., Horton, Mark and Boivin, Nicole (2022). Human-ecodynamics and the intertidal zones of the Zanzibar Archipelago. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10 982694, 1-27. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.982694
Finestone, Emma M., Breeze, Paul S., Breitenbach, Sebastian F.M., Drake, Nick, Bergmann, Laura, Maksudov, Farhod, Muhammadiyev, Akmal, Scott, Pete, Cai, Yanjun, Khatsenovich, Arina M., Rybin, Evgeny P., Nehrke, Gernot, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael (2022). Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene. PLoS One, 17 (10) e0273984, 1-31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273984
Billings, Traci N., Cerasetti, Barbara, Forni, Luca, Arciero, Roberto, Dal Martello, Rita, Carra, Marialetizia, Rouse, Lynne M., Boivin, Nicole and Spengler, Robert N. (2022). Agriculture in the Karakum: An archaeobotanical analysis from Togolok 1, southern Turkmenistan (ca. 2300–1700 B.C.). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10 995490. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.995490
Peters, Carli, Richter, Kristine K., Svenning, Jens-Christian and Boivin, Nicole (2022). Leveraging palaeoproteomics to address conservation and restoration agendas. iScience, 25 (5) 104195, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104195
Ventresca Miller, Alicia R., Wilkin, Shevan, Hendy, Jessica, Turbat, Tsagaan, Batsukh, Dunburee, Bayarkhuu, Noost, Giscard, Pierre-Henri, Bemmann, Jan, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Miller, Bryan K., Clark, Julia, Roberts, Patrick and Boivin, Nicole (2022). The spread of herds and horses into the Altai: How livestock and dairying drove social complexity in Mongolia. PLoS One, 17 (5) e0265775, 1-16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265775
Yu, He, Jamieson, Alexandra, Hulme-Beaman, Ardern, Conroy, Chris J., Knight, Becky, Speller, Camilla, Al-Jarah, Hiba, Eager, Heidi, Trinks, Alexandra, Adikari, Gamini, Baron, Henriette, Böhlendorf-Arslan, Beate, Bohingamuwa, Wijerathne, Crowther, Alison, Cucchi, Thomas, Esser, Kinie, Fleisher, Jeffrey, Gidney, Louisa, Gladilina, Elena, Gol’din, Pavel, Goodman, Steven M., Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila, Helm, Richard, Hillman, Jesse C., Kallala, Nabil, Kivikero, Hanna, Kovács, Zsófia E., Kunst, Günther Karl, Kyselý, René ... Orton, David (2022). Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history. Nature Communications, 13 (1) 2399, 2399. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30009-z
Huber, Barbara, Larsen, Thomas, Spengler, Robert N. and Boivin, Nicole (2022). How to use modern science to reconstruct ancient scents. Nature Human Behaviour, 6 (5), 611-614. doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01325-7
Goldstein, Steven T., Shipton, Ceri, Miller, Jennifer M., Ndiema, Emmanuel, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael (2022). Hunter-gatherer technological organization and responses to Holocene climate change in coastal, lakeshore, and grassland ecologies of eastern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews, 280 107390, 1-21. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107390
Cueva-Temprana, Arturo, Lombao, Diego, Soto, María, Itambu, Makarius, Bushozi, Pastory, Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael and Mercader, Julio (2022). Oldowan Technology Amid Shifting Environments ∼2.03–1.83 Million Years Ago. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10 788101, 1-14. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.788101
Rick, Torben C., Alsharekh, Abdullah M., Braje, Todd J., Crowther, Alison, Erlandson, Jon M., Fuller, Dorian Q., Gill, Kristina M., Groucutt, Huw S., Guagnin, Maria, Helm, Richard, Hofman, Courtney A., Horton, Mark, Kay, Andrea, Korisettar, Ravi, Radimilahy, Chantal, Reeder-Myers, Leslie, Shipton, Ceri, Wright, Henry T., Petraglia, Michael and Boivin, Nicole (2022). Coring, profiling, and trenching: Archaeological field strategies for investigating the Pleistocene-Holocene-Anthropocene continuum. Quaternary International, 628, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2022.02.011
Kotarba-Morley, Anna M., Kourampas, Nikos, Morley, Mike W., MacAdams, Conor, Crowther, Alison, Faulkner, Patrick, Horton, Mark and Boivin, Nicole (2022). Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: contextualizing the archaeology of an early Islamic port of trade. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 19 (1), 1-35. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2022.2030441
Goldstein, Steven T., Farr, Jeremy, Kayuni, Martha, Katongo, Maggie, Fernandes, Ricardo, Janzen, Anneke, Markham, Brooke, Kay, Andrea, Crowther, Alison and Boivin, Nicole (2022). Excavations at the iron age village site of Fibobe II, Central Zambia. Journal of African Archaeology, 51 (4), 1-19. doi: 10.1163/21915784-bja10012
Fisher, Michael T., Jurkenas, Dovydas, Jambajantsan, Amina, Jamsranjav, Bayarsaikhan, Nasan-Ochir, Eredene-Ochir, Gelegdorj, Eregzen, Chuluunbat, Munkhbayar, Petraglia, Michael and Boivin, Nicole (2022). Multidisciplinary digital methodologies for documentation and preservation of immovable Archaeological heritage in the Khovd River Valley, Western Mongolia. F1000Research, 11 1250, 1-26. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.126740.1
Taylor, William, Hart, Isaac, Pan, Caleb, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Murdoch, James, Caspari, Gino, Klinge, Michael, Pearson, Kristen, Bikhumar, Umirbyek, Shnaider, Svetlana, Abdykanova, Aida, Bittner, Peter, Zahir, Muhammad, Jarman, Nicholas, Williams, Mark, Pettigrew, Devin, Petraglia, Michael, Lee, Craig, Dixon, E. James and Boivin, Nicole (2021). High altitude hunting, climate change, and pastoral resilience in eastern Eurasia. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 14287, 1-13. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-93765-w
Spengler, Robert N., Stark, Sören, Zhou, Xinying, Fuks, Daniel, Tang, Li, Mir-Makhamad, Basira, Bjørn, Rasmus, Jiang, Hongen, Olivieri, Luca M., Begmatov, Alisher and Boivin, Nicole (2021). A Journey to the West: The ancient dispersal of rice out of East Asia. Rice, 14 (1) 83, 83. doi: 10.1186/s12284-021-00518-4
Mercader, Julio, Akuku, Pam, Boivin, Nicole, Bugumba, Revocatus, Bushozi, Pastory, Camacho, Alfredo, Carter, Tristan, Clarke, Siobhán, Cueva-Temprana, Arturo, Durkin, Paul, Favreau, Julien, Fella, Kelvin, Haberle, Simon, Hubbard, Stephen, Inwood, Jamie, Itambu, Makarius, Koromo, Samson, Lee, Patrick, Mohammed, Abdallah, Mwambwiga, Aloyce, Olesilau, Lucas, Patalano, Robert, Roberts, Patrick, Rule, Susan, Saladie, Palmira, Siljedal, Gunnar, Soto, María, Umbsaar, Jonathan and Petraglia, Michael (2021). Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago. Nature Communications, 12 (1) 3, 3. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20176-2
Patalano, Robert, Roberts, Patrick, Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael D. and Mercader, Julio (2021). Plant wax biomarkers in human evolutionary studies. Evolutionary Anthropology, 30 (6), 385-398. doi: 10.1002/evan.21921
Wilkin, Shevan, Ventresca Miller, Alicia, Fernandes, Ricardo, Spengler, Robert, Taylor, William T.-T., Brown, Dorcas R., Reich, David, Kennett, Douglas J., Culleton, Brendan J., Kunz, Laura, Fortes, Claudia, Kitova, Aleksandra, Kuznetsov, Pavel, Epimakhov, Andrey, Zaibert, Victor F., Outram, Alan K., Kitov, Egor, Khokhlov, Aleksandr, Anthony, David and Boivin, Nicole (2021). Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions. Nature, 598 (7882), 629-633. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03798-4
Peters, Carli, Richter, Kristine K., Manne, Tiina, Dortch, Joe, Paterson, Alistair, Travouillon, Kenny, Louys, Julien, Price, Gilbert J., Petraglia, Michael, Crowther, Alison and Boivin, Nicole (2021). Species identification of Australian marsupials using collagen fingerprinting. Royal Society Open Science, 8 (10) 211229, 211229. doi: 10.1098/rsos.211229
Faulkner, Patrick, Miller, Jennifer M., Quintana Morales, Eréndira M., Crowther, Alison, Shipton, Ceri, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). 67,000 years of coastal engagement at Panga ya Saidi, eastern Africa. PLoS ONE, 16 (8 August) e0256761, e0256761. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256761
Allué, Ethel, Murphy, Charlene, Kingwell-Banham, Eleanor, Bohingamuwa, Wijerathne, Adikari, Gamini, Perera, Nimal, Boivin, Nicole and Fuller, Dorian Q. (2021). A step forward in tropical anthracology: understanding woodland vegetation and wood uses in ancient Sri Lanka based on charcoal records from Mantai, Kirinda and Kantharodai. Quaternary International, 593-594, 236-247. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.12.009
Stewart, Mathew, Andrieux, Eric, Clark-Wilson, Richard, Vanwezer, Nils, Blinkhorn, James, Armitage, Simon J., al Omari, Abdulaziz, Zahrani, Badr, Alqahtani, Mesfer, Al-Shanti, Mahmoud, Zalmout, Iyad, Al-Mufarreh, Yahya S. A., Alsharekh, Abdullah M., Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael D. and Groucutt, Huw S. (2021). Taphonomy of an excavated striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) den in Arabia: implications for paleoecology and prehistory. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13 (8) 139. doi: 10.1007/s12520-021-01365-6
Culley, Courtney, Janzen, Anneke, Brown, Samantha, Prendergast, Mary E., Wolfhagen, Jesse, Abderemane, Bourhane, Ali, Abdallah K., Haji, Othman, Horton, Mark C., Shipton, Ceri, Swift, Jillian, Tabibou, Tabibou A., Wright, Henry T., Boivin, Nicole and Crowther, Alison (2021). Collagen fingerprinting traces the introduction of caprines to island Eastern Africa. Royal Society Open Science, 8 (7) 202341, 1-18. doi: 10.1098/rsos.202341
Hamilton, Rebecca, Wolfhagen, Jesse, Amano, Noel, Boivin, Nicole, Findley, David Max, Iriarte, José, Kaplan, Jed O., Stevenson, Janelle and Roberts, Patrick (2021). Non-uniform tropical forest responses to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Neotropics and Asia-Pacific. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5 (8), 1174-1184. doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01474-4
Vanwezer, Nils, Breitenbach, Sebastian F.M., Gázquez, Fernando, Louys, Julien, Kononov, Aleksandr, Sokol'nikov, Dmitry, Avirmed, Erdenedalai, Burguet-Coca, Aitor, Picin, Andrea, Cueva-Temprana, Arturo, Sánchez-Martínez, Javier, Taylor, William Timothy Treal, Boivin, Nicole, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav and Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). Archaeological and environmental cave records in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia. Quaternary International, 586, 66-89. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.03.010
Culley, Courtney, Janzen, Anneke, Brown, Samantha, Prendergast, Mary E., Shipton, Ceri, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Petraglia, Michael D., Boivin, Nicole and Crowther, Alison (2021). Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya. Journal of Archaeological Science, 130 105368, 105368. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2021.105368
Vanwezer, Nils, Timothy Treal Taylor, William, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Breitenbach, Sebastian F.M., Amano, Noel, Louys, Julien, del Val, Miren, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael (2021). Hunting, herding, and people in the rock art of Mongolia: New discoveries in the Gobi-Altai Mountains. Archaeological Research in Asia, 26 100267, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.ara.2021.100267
Bochaton, Corentin, Paradis, Emmanuel, Bailon, Salvador, Grouard, Sandrine, Ineich, Ivan, Lenoble, Arnaud, Lorvelec, Olivier, Tresset, Anne and Boivin, Nicole (2021). Large-scale reptile extinctions following European colonization of the Guadeloupe Islands. Science Advances, 7 (21) eabg2111, 1-14. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abg2111
Martinon-Torres, Maria, d'Errico, Francesco, Santos, Elena, Alvaro Gallo, Ana, Amano, Noel, Archer, William, Armitage, Simon J., Arsuaga, Juan Luis, de Castro, Jose Maria Bermudez, Blinkhorn, James, Crowther, Alison, Douka, Katerina, Dubernet, Stephan, Faulkner, Patrick, Fernandez-Colon, Pilar, Kourampas, Nikos, Gonzalez Garcia, Jorge, Larreina, David, Le Bourdonnec, Francois-Xavier, MacLeod, George, Martin-Frances, Laura, Massilani, Diyendo, Mercader, Julio, Miller, Jennifer M., Ndiema, Emmanuel, Notario, Belen, Pitarch Marti, Africa, Prendergast, Mary E., Queffelec, Alain ... Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). Earliest known human burial in Africa. Nature, 593 (7857), 95-+. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03457-8
Janzen, Anneke, Richter, Kristine Korzow, Mwebi, Ogeto, Brown, Samantha, Onduso, Veronicah, Gatwiri, Filia, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Katongo, Maggie, Goldstein, Steven T., Douka, Katerina and Boivin, Nicole (2021). Distinguishing African bovids using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS): New peptide markers and insights into Iron Age economies in Zambia. PLoS One, 16 (5 May) e0251061, e0251061. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251061
Ellis, Erle C., Gauthier, Nicolas, Goldewijk, Kees Klein, Bird, Rebecca Bliege, Boivin, Nicole, Díaz, Sandra, Fuller, Dorian Q., Gill, Jacquelyn L., Kaplan, Jed O., Kingston, Naomi, Locke, Harvey, McMichael, Crystal N.H., Ranco, Darren, Rick, Torben C., Rebecca Shaw, M., Stephens, Lucas, Svenning, Jens-Christian and Watson, James E.M. (2021). People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (17) e2023483118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2023483118
Shipton, Ceri, Blinkhorn, James, Archer, Will, Kourampas, Nikolaos, Roberts, Patrick, Prendergast, Mary E., Curtis, Richard, Herries, Andy I.R., Ndiema, Emmanuel, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 153 102954, 102954. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.102954
Spengler, Robert N., Petraglia, Michael, Roberts, Patrick, Ashastina, Kseniia, Kistler, Logan, Mueller, Natalie G. and Boivin, Nicole (2021). Exaptation Traits for Megafaunal Mutualisms as a Factor in Plant Domestication. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12 649394. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.649394
Roberts, Patrick, Buhrich, Alice, Caetano-Andrade, Victor, Cosgrove, Richard, Fairbairn, Andrew, Florin, S. Anna, Vanwezer, Nils, Boivin, Nicole, Hunter, Barry, Mosquito, Desley, Turpin, Gerry and Ferrier, Åsa (2021). Reimagining the relationship between Gondwanan forests and Aboriginal land management in Australia's “Wet Tropics”. iScience, 24 (3) 102190, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102190
Ventresca Miller, Alicia R., Johnson, James, Makhortykh, Sergey, Gerling, Claudia, Litvinova, Ludmilla, Andrukh, Svetlana, Toschev, Gennady, Zech, Jana, le Roux, Petrus, Makarewicz, Cheryl, Boivin, Nicole and Roberts, Patrick (2021). Re-evaluating Scythian lifeways: Isotopic analysis of diet and mobility in Iron Age Ukraine. PLoS One, 16 (3) e0245996, e0245996. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245996
Lu, Hongliang, Tang, Li, Spengler, Robert N., Boivin, Nicole, Song, Jixiang, Wangdue, Shargan, Chen, Xinzhou, Liu, Xinyi and Zhang, Zhengwei (2021). The transition to a barley-dominant cultivation system in Tibet: First millennium BC archaeobotanical evidence from Bangga. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 61 101242, 101242. doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101242
Bleasdale, Madeleine, Richter, Kristine K., Janzen, Anneke, Brown, Samantha, Scott, Ashley, Zech, Jana, Wilkin, Shevan, Wang, Ke, Schiffels, Stephan, Desideri, Jocelyne, Besse, Marie, Reinold, Jacques, Saad, Mohamed, Babiker, Hiba, Power, Robert C., Ndiema, Emmanuel, Ogola, Christine, Manthi, Fredrick K., Zahir, Muhammad, Petraglia, Michael, Trachsel, Christian, Nanni, Paolo, Grossmann, Jonas, Hendy, Jessica, Crowther, Alison, Roberts, Patrick, Goldstein, Steven T. and Boivin, Nicole (2021). Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa. Nature Communications, 12 (1) 632, 632. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20682-3
Boivin, Nicole and Crowther, Alison (2021). Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5 (3), 273-284. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-01361-4
Goldstein, S. T., Crowther, A., Henry, E. R., Janzen, A., Katongo, M., Brown, S., Farr, J., Le Moyne, C., Picin, A., Richter, K. K. and Boivin, N. (2021). Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: implications for the timing of social and subsistence transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa. African Archaeological Review, 38 (4), 625-655. doi: 10.1007/s10437-021-09440-y
Bleasdale, Madeleine, Wotzka, Hans-Peter, Eichhorn, Barbara, Mercader, Julio, Styring, Amy, Zech, Jana, Soto, María, Inwood, Jamie, Clarke, Siobhán, Marzo, Sara, Fiedler, Bianca, Linseele, Veerle, Boivin, Nicole and Roberts, Patrick (2020). Isotopic and microbotanical insights into Iron Age agricultural reliance in the Central African rainforest. Communications Biology, 3 (1) 619, 1-10. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01324-2
Spengler, Robert N., Tang, Li, Nayak, Ayushi, Boivin, Nicole and Olivieri, Luca Maria (2020). The southern Central Asian mountains as an ancient agricultural mixing zone: new archaeobotanical data from Barikot in the Swat valley of Pakistan. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 30 (4), 463-476. doi: 10.1007/s00334-020-00798-8
Langley, Michelle C., Amano, Noel, Wedage, Oshan, Deraniyagala, Siran, Pathmalal, M. M., Perera, Nimal, Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael D. and Roberts, Patrick (2020). Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics. Science Advances, 6 (24) EABA3831, eaba3831. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba3831
Miller, Alicia R. Ventresca, Spengler, Robert, Haruda, Ashleigh, Miller, Bryan, Wilkin, Shevan, Robinson, Sarah, Roberts, Patrick and Boivin, Nicole (2020). Ecosystem Engineering Among Ancient Pastoralists in Northern Central Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8 168. doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.00168
Wang, Ke, Goldstein, Steven, Bleasdale, Madeleine, Clist, Bernard, Clist, Bernard, Bostoen, Koen, Bakwa-Lufu, Paul, Buck, Laura T., Buck, Laura T., Crowther, Alison, Crowther, Alison, Dème, Alioune, McIntosh, Roderick J., Mercader, Julio, Mercader, Julio, Ogola, Christine, Power, Robert C., Power, Robert C., Sawchuk, Elizabeth, Sawchuk, Elizabeth, Robertshaw, Peter, Wilmsen, Edwin N., Wilmsen, Edwin N., Petraglia, Michael, Petraglia, Michael, Petraglia, Michael, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Manthi, Fredrick K., Krause, Johannes ... Schiffels, Stephan (2020). Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa. Science Advances, 6 (24) EAAZ0183, eaaz0183. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0183
Roberts, Patrick, Louys, Julien, Zech, Jana, Shipton, Ceri, Kealy, Shimona, Carro, Sofia Samper, Hawkins, Stuart, Boulanger, Clara, Marzo, Sara, Fiedler, Bianca, Boivin, Nicole, Mahirta,, Aplin, Ken and OʼConnor, Sue (2020). Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 2068, 2068. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15969-4
Petraglia, Michael D., Groucutt, Huw S., Guagnin, Maria, Breeze, Paul S. and Boivin, Nicole (2020). Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (15), 8263-8270. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1920211117
d'Errico, Francesco, Pitarch Martí, Africa, Shipton, Ceri, Le Vraux, Emma, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Goldstein, Steven, Petraglia, Michael D. and Boivin, Nicole (2020). Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa: Personal ornaments, bone artifacts, and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution, 141 102737, 102737. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102737
Caetano-Andrade, Victor Lery, Clement, Charles Roland, Weigel, Detlef, Trumbore, Susan, Boivin, Nicole, Schöngart, Jochen and Roberts, Patrick (2020). Tropical trees as time capsules of anthropogenic activity. Trends in Plant Science, 25 (4), 369-380. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.12.010
Wedage, Oshan, Roberts, Patrick, Faulkner, Patrick, Crowther, Alison, Douka, Katerina, Picin, Andrea, Blinkhorn, James, Deraniyagala, Siran, Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael and Amano, Noel (2020). Late Pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: Multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-lena. Quaternary Science Reviews, 231 106200, 106200. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106200
Wilkin, Shevan, Ventresca Miller, Alicia, Miller, Bryan K., Spengler, Robert N., Taylor, William T. T., Fernandes, Ricardo, Hagan, Richard W., Bleasdale, Madeleine, Zech, Jana, Ulziibayar, S., Myagmar, Erdene, Boivin, Nicole and Roberts, Patrick (2020). Economic diversification supported the growth of Mongolia’s nomadic empires. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 3916, 3916. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60194-0
Wilkin, Shevan, Ventresca Miller, Alicia, Taylor, William T. T., Miller, Bryan K., Hagan, Richard W., Bleasdale, Madeleine, Scott, Ashley, Gankhuyg, Sumiya, Ramsøe, Abigail, Uliziibayar, S., Trachsel, Christian, Nanni, Paolo, Grossmann, Jonas, Orlando, Ludovic, Horton, Mark, Stockhammer, Philipp W., Myagmar, Erdene, Boivin, Nicole, Warinner, Christina and Hendy, Jessica (2020). Dairy pastoralism sustained eastern Eurasian steppe populations for 5,000 years. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4 (3), 346-355. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1120-y
Clarkson, Chris, Harris, Clair, Li, Bo, Neudorf, Christina M., Roberts, Richard G., Lane, Christine, Norman, Kasih, Pal, Jagannath, Jones, Sacha, Shipton, Ceri, Koshy, Jinu, Gupta, M. C., Mishra, D. P., Dubey, A. K., Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael (2020). Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 961, 961. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14668-4
Horton, Mark, Boivin, Nicole and Crowther, Alison (2020). Eastern Africa and the early Indian Ocean: understanding mobility in a globalising world. Journal of Egyptian History, 13 (1-2), 380-408. doi: 10.1163/18741665-12340063
Roberts, Patrick, Prendergast, Mary, Janzen, Anneke, Shipton, Ceri, Blinkhorn, James, Zech, Jana, Crowther, Alison, Sawchuk, Elizabeth, Stewart, Mathew, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Petraglia, Michael and Boivin, Nicole (2020). Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 537 109438, 1-18. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109438
Wagner, Antoine, Richter, Kristine Korzow, Ludes, Elisabeth, Arbogast, Rose-Marie, Carita, David, Guidez, Aurélie, Soussoko, Samba, Boivin, Nicole, Marche, Jean-Christophe, Wandhammer, Marie-Dominique and Meister, Marie (2020). Whale Bone Puzzles: Reconstructing and Identifying Historical Whale Skeletons Using Archive Records, Osteology, and Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS). Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 18 1, 1-12. doi: 10.5334/jcms.196
Power, Robert C., Güldemann, Tom, Crowther, Alison and Boivin, Nicole (2019). Asian crop dispersal in Africa and late holocene human adaptation to tropical environments. Journal of World Prehistory, 32 (4), 353-392. doi: 10.1007/s10963-019-09136-x
Taylor, William, Wilkin, Shevan, Wright, Joshua, Dee, Michael, Erdene, Myagmar, Clark, Julia, Tuvshinjargal, Tumurbaatar, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Fitzhugh, William and Boivin, Nicole (2019). Radiocarbon dating and cultural dynamics across Mongolia’s early pastoral transition. PloS One, 14 (11) e0224241, e0224241. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224241
Stephens, Lucas, Fuller, Dorian, Boivin, Nicole, Rick, Torben, Gauthier, Nicolas, Kay, Andrea, Marwick, Ben, Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda Denise, Barton, C. Michael, Denham, Tim, Douglass, Kristina, Driver, Jonathan, Janz, Lisa, Roberts, Patrick, Rogers, J. Daniel, Thakar, Heather, Altaweel, Mark, Johnson, Amber L., Vattuone, Maria Marta Sampietro, Aldenderfer, Mark, Archila, Sonia, Artioli, Gilberto, Bale, Martin T., Beach, Timothy, Borrell, Ferran, Braje, Todd, Buckland, Philip I., Cano, Nayeli Guadalupe Jiménez, Capriles, José M. ... ArchaeoGLOBE Project (2019). Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science, 365 (6456), 897-902. doi: 10.1126/science.aax1192
Ren, Meng, Tang, Zihua, Wu, Xinhua, Spengler, Robert, Jiang, Hongen, Yang, Yimin and Boivin, Nicole (2019). The origins of cannabis smoking: Chemical residue evidence from the first millennium BCE in the Pamirs. Science Advances, 5 (6) eaaw1391, eaaw1391. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw1391
Li, Feng, Vanwezer, Nils, Boivin, Nicole, Gao, Xing, Ott, Florian, Petraglia, Michael and Roberts, Patrick (2019). Heading north: Late Pleistocene environments and human dispersals in central and eastern Asia. PLoS ONE, 14 (5) e0216433, e0216433. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216433
Wedage, Oshan, Amano, Noel, Langley, Michelle C., Douka, Katerina, Blinkhorn, James, Crowther, Alison, Deraniyagala, Siran, Kourampas, Nikos, Simpson, Ian, Perera, Nimal, Picin, Andrea, Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael and Roberts, Patrick (2019). Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago. Nature Communications, 10 (1) 739, 739. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08623-1
Wedage, Oshan, Picin, Andrea, Blinkhorn, James, Douka, Katerina, Deraniyagala, Siran, Kourampas, Nikos, Perera, Nimal, Simpson, Ian, Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael and Roberts, Patrick (2019). Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka. PLoS ONE, 14 (10) e0222606, e0222606. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222606
Kingwell-Banham, Eleanor, Bohingamuwa, Wijerathne, Perera, Nimal, Adikari, Gamini, Crowther, Alison, Fuller, Dorian Q. and Boivin, Nicole (2018). Spice and rice: pepper, cloves and everyday cereal foods at the ancient port of Mantai, Sri Lanka. Antiquity, 92 (366), 1478-1491. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2018.168
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
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
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
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
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
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
Prendergast, M. E., Quintana Morales, E. M., Crowther, A., Horton, M. C. and Boivin, Nicole (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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Shipton, C., Helm, R., Boivin, Nicole, 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
Shipton, Ceri, Clarkson, Christopher, Antonio Bernal, Marco, Boivin, Nicole, Finlayson, Clive, Finlayson, Geraldine, Fa, Darren, Giles Pacheco, Francisco and Petraglia, Michael (2013). Variation in lithic technological strategies among the Neanderthals of Gibraltar. PLoS ONE, 8 (6) e65185, e65185.1-e65185.13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065185
Tacon, Paul S. C., Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael, Blinkhorn, James, Chivas, Allan, Roberts, Richard G., Fink, David, Higham, Thomas, Ditchfield, Peter, Korisettar, Ravi and Zhao, Jian-xin (2013). Mid-Holocene age obtained for nested diamond pattern petroglyph in the Billasurgam Cave complex, Kurnool District, southern India. Journal of Archaeological Science, 40 (4), 1787-1796. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.12.006
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
Shipton, Ceri, Petraglia, Michael, Koshy, Jinu, Bora, Janardhana, Brumm, Adam, Boivin, Nicole, Korisettar, Ravi, Risch, Roberto and Fuller, Dorian (2012). Lithic technology and social transformations in the South Indian Neolithic: The evidence from Sanganakallu-Kupgal. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 31 (2), 156-173. doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2011.11.003
Haslam, Michael, Clarkson, Chris, Roberts, Richard G., Bora, Janardhana, Korisettar, Ravi, Ditchfield, Peter, Chivas, Allan R., Harris, Clair, Smith, Victoria, Oh, Anna, Eksambekar, Sanjay, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael (2012). A southern Indian Middle Palaeolithic occupation surface sealed by the 74 ka Toba eruption: Further evidence from Jwalapuram Locality 22. Quaternary International, 258, 148-164. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.08.040
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
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
Haslam, Michael, Roberts, Richard G., Shipton, Ceri, Pal, J. N., Fenwick, Jacqueline L., Ditchfield, Peter, Boivin, Nicole, Dubey, A. K., Gupta, M.C. and Petraglia, Michael (2011). Late Acheulean hominins at the Marine Isotope Stage 6/5e transition in north-central India. Quaternary Research, 75 (3), 670-682. doi: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.02.001
Petraglia, Michael D., Haslam, Michael, Fuller, Dorian Q., Boivin, Nicole and Clarkson, Chris (2010). Out of Africa: New hypotheses and evidence for the dispersal of Homo sapiens along the Indian Ocean rim. Annals of Human Biology, 37 (3), 288-311. doi: 10.3109/03014461003639249
Petraglia, Michael, Clarkson, Christopher, Boivin, Nicole, Haslam, Michael, Korisettar, Ravi, Chaubey, Gyaneshwer, Ditchfield, Peter, Fuller, Dorian, James, Hannah, Jones, Sacha, Kivisild, Toomas, Koshy, Jinu, Lahr, Marta Mirazón, Metspalu, Mait, Roberts, Richard and Arnold, Lee (2009). Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106 (30), 12261-12266. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0810842106
Clarkson, Chris, Petraglia, Michael, Korisettar, Ravi, Haslam, Michael, Boivin, Nicole, Crowther, Alison, Ditchfield, Peter, Fuller, Dorian, Miracle, Preston, Harris, Clair, Connell, Kate, James, Hannah and Koshy, Jinu (2009). The oldest and longest enduring microlithic sequence in India: 35 000 years of modern human occupation and change at the Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter. Antiquity, 83 (320), 326-348. doi: 10.1017/S0003598X0009846X
Petraglia, Michael, Korisettar, Ravi, Bai, M. Kasturi, Boivin, Nicole, Clarkson, Christopher, Cunningham, Kevin, Ditchfield, Peter, Fuller, Dorian, Hampson, Jamie, Haslam, Michael, Jones, Sacha, Koshy, Jinu, Miracle, Preston, Oppenheimer, Clive and White, Kevin (2009). Human occupation, adaptation, and behavioral change in the Pleistocene and Holocene of South India: Recent Investigations in the Kurnool District, India. Eurasian Prehistory, 6 (1-2), 119-166.
Petraglia, Michael, Korisettar, Ravi, Boivin, Nicole, Clarkson, Christopher, Ditchfield, Peter, Jones, Sacha, Koshy, Jinu, Lahr, Marta Mirazón, Oppenheimer, Clive, Pyle, David, Roberts, Richard, Schwenninger, Jean-Luc, Arnold, Lee and White, Kevin (2007). Middle Paleolithic Assemblages from the Indian Subcontinent before and after the Toba Super-Eruption. Science, 317 (5834), 114-116. doi: 10.1126/science.1141564
Conference Papers
Huber, Barbara, Hausleiter, Arnulf, Dinies, Michèle, Al-Najem, Muhammad H., Alonazi, Majed T.F., Säumel, Ina, Vassão, Daniel Giddings, Fernandes, Ricardo, Boivin, Nicole, Roberts, Patrick and Pham, Thi Lam Huong (2025). Exploring the aromatic diversity of incense materials at the ancient oasis of Tayma using metabolic profiling. Fifty-fifth Meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Berlin, Germany, 6 August 2022. Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Archaeopress.
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.