Dr Alison Crowther
School of Social Science Honours Convenor
ARC Future Fellow
School of Social Science
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Book Chapters
Shipton, Ceri and Crowther, Alison (2024). Archaeology of caves along the East African coast. Oxford research encyclopedia of African history. (pp. *-*) edited by Thomas Spear. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.1267
Crowther, Alison (2020). Taphonomy of plant micro-remains in environmental archaeology. Encyclopedia of global archaeology (living edition). (pp. 1-13) edited by Claire Smith. New York, NY United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2511-1
Summerhayes, Glenn, Szabo, Katherine, Fairbairn, Andrew, Horrocks, Mark, McPherson, Shannon and Crowther, Alison (2019). Early Lapita subsistence: the evidence from Kamgot, Anir Islands, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. Debating Lapita: distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. (pp. 379-402) edited by Stuart Bedford and Matthew Spriggs. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU.
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
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
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. 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.
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.
Crowther, Alison (2009). Re-viewing raphides: Issues with the identification and interpretation of calcium oxalate crystals in microfossil assemblages. New Directions in Archaeological Science. (pp. 105-118) edited by Andrew S. Fairbairn, Sue O'Connor and Benjamin Marwick. Canberra, ACT Australia: ANU E Press.
Haslam, Michael and Crowther, Alison (2009). terra australis 30 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE UNDER A MICROSCOPE Studies in Residue and ancient DNA Analysis in Honour of Thomas H. Loy PREFACE. terra australis 30 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE UNDER A MICROSCOPE Studies in Residue and ancient DNA Analysis in Honour of Thomas H. Loy PREFACE. (pp. 1-3) edited by Haslam, M, Robertson, G, Crowther, A, Nugent, S and Kirkwood, L. CANBERRA ACT: AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV.
Crowther, Alison (2009). Morphometric analysis of calcium oxalate raphides and assessment of their taxonomic value for archaeological microfossil studies. Archaeological Science Under the Microscope: Studies in residue and ancient DNA analysis in honour of Thomas H. Loy. (pp. 102-128) edited by Michael Haslam, Gail Robertson, Alison Crowther, Sue Nugent and Luke Kirkwood. Canberra, ACT Australia: ANU E Press.
Journal Articles
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 fĂ¼r Molluskenkunde International Journal of Malacology, 153 (1), 61-86. doi: 10.1127/arch.moll/153/061-086
Kotarba-Morley, Anna M., Kourampas, Nikos, Morley, Mike W., MacAdams, Conor, Crowther, Alison, Faulkner, Patrick, Horton, Mark and Boivin, Nicole (2024). Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: Contextualizing the archaeology of an early Islamic port of trade. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, 19 (1), 57-91. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2022.2030441
Schmidt, Peter R., Walz, Jonathan R., Besigye, Jackline N., Krigbaum, John, Oteyo, Gilbert, Lejju, Julius B., Asiimwe, Raymond, Ehret, Christopher, Crowther, Alison, Mwebi, Ogeto, Dunne, Julie, Schmidt, Jane, Okeny, Charles, Niwahereza, Amon, Yeko, Doreen, Bermudez, Katie and Echoru, Isaac (2024). Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers. African Archaeological Review. doi: 10.1007/s10437-024-09583-8
Westaway, Michael C., Wright, Nathan, Crowther, Alison, Silcock, Jennifer, Carter, Rodney, Moss, Patrick and Henry, Robert (2023). Transdisciplinary approaches to understanding past Australian Aboriginal foodways. Archaeology of Food and Foodways, 2 (1), 47-74. doi: 10.1558/aff.18161
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, JesĂºs 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
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
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
Denham, Tim, Crowther, Alison and Barron, Aleese (2022). Archaeobotanical futures in the Indo-Pacific. Archaeology in Oceania, 57 (3), 155-159. doi: 10.1002/arco.5278
Le Moyne, Charles, Fuller, Dorian Q. and Crowther, Alison (2022). Microbotanical signatures of kreb: differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 32 (1), 1-15. doi: 10.1007/s00334-022-00880-3
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, KovĂ¡cs, ZsĂ³fia E., Kunst, GĂ¼nther Karl, KyselĂ½, RenĂ© ... 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
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
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
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
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
Lentfer, Carol J., Crowther, Alison and Green, Roger C. (2021). The question of Early Lapita settlements in Remote Oceania and reliance on horticulture revisited: new evidence from plant microfossil studies at Reef/Santa Cruz, south-east Solomon Islands. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum (Online), 34, 87-106. doi: 10.3853/j.1835-4211.34.2021.1745
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
Le Moyne, Charles and Crowther, Alison (2021). Effects of chemical pre-treatments on modified starch granules: Recommendations for dental calculus decalcification for ancient starch research. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 35 102762, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102762
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
Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Niang, Khady, Candy, Ian, Blinkhorn, James, Mills, William, Cerasoni, Jacopo N., Bateman, Mark D., Crowther, Alison and Groucutt, Huw S. (2021). Continuity of the Middle Stone Age into the Holocene. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 70, 70. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-79418-4
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
Williams, Robert N., Wright, Duncan, Crowther, Alison and Denham, Tim (2020). Multidisciplinary evidence for early banana (Musa cvs.) cultivation on Mabuyag Island, Torres Strait. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4 (10), 1342-1350. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1278-3
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
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
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
Denham, Tim, Barton, Huw, Castillo, Cristina, Crowther, Alison, Dotte-Sarout, Emilie, Florin, Anna, Pritchard, Jenifer, Barron, Aleese, Zhang, Yekun and Fuller, Dorian Q. (2020). The domestication syndrome in vegetatively-propagated field crops. Annals of Botany, 125 (4), 581-597. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcz212
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
Power, Robert C., GĂ¼ldemann, 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
Faulkner, Patrick, Harris, Matthew, Haji, Othman, Ali, Abdallah K., Crowther, Alison, Shipton, Ceri, Horton, Mark C. and Boivin, Nicole L. (2019). Long-term trends in terrestrial and marine invertebrate exploitation on the eastern African coast: insights from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 14 (4), 1-36. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2018.1501442
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
Faulkner, Patrick, Harris, Matthew, Haji, Othman, Crowther, Alison, Horton, Mark C. and Boivin, Nicole L. (2019). Towards a historical ecology of intertidal foraging in the mafia archipelago: archaeomalacology and implications for marine resource management. Journal of Ethnobiology, 39 (2), 182-203. doi: 10.2993/0278-0771-39.2.182
Soto, MarĂa, Inwood, Jamie, Clarke, SiobhĂ¡n, Crowther, Alison, Covelli, Danielle, Favreau, Julien, Itambu, Makarius, Larter, Steve, Lee, Patrick, Lozano, Marina, Maley, Jason, Mwambwiga, Aloyce, Patalano, Robert, Sammynaiken, Ramaswami, Vergès, Josep M, Zhu, Jianfeng and Mercader, Julio (2019). Structural characterization and decontamination of dental calculus for ancient starch research. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11 (9), 4847-4872. doi: 10.1007/s12520-019-00830-7
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
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
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
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
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
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-VĂ¡zquez, Cruz, Benard, Jacquiline, Boivin, Nicole, Crowther, Alison, CunĂ-Sanchez, Aida, Deere, Nicolas J., Ekblom, Anneli, Farmer, Jennifer, Finch, Jemma, Fuller, Dorian, Gaillard-Lemdahl, Marie-JosĂ© ... 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
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-RomĂ¡n, Jessica I. , Chiumia, Chrissy , Crowther, Alison , Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth , Gidna, Agness O. , Grillo, Katherine M. , Helenius, I. Taneli , Hellenthal, Garrett , Helm, Richard , Horton, Mark , LĂ³pez, 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
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
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
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
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, HervĂ©, Onar, Vedat, OsypiÅ„ska, Marta, Putelat, Olivier, Quintana Morales, ErĂ©ndira 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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
Denham, Tim, Atchison, Jennifer, Austin, Jeremy, Bestel, Sheahan, Bowdery, Doreen, Crowther, Alison, Dolby, Nic, Fairbairn, Andrew, Field, Judith, Kennedy, Amanda, Lentfer, Carol, Matheson, Carney, Nugent, Sue, Parr, Jeff, Prebble, Matiu, Robertson, Gail, Specht, Jim, Torrence, Robin, Barton, Huw, Fullager, Richard, Haberle, Simon, Horrocks, Mark, Lewis, Tara and Matthews, Peter (2009). Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea: Practice, potential and prospects. Australian Archaeology, 68 (1), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2009.11681884
Crowther, Alison and Haslam, Michael (2007). Blind tests in microscopic residue analysis: Comments on Wadley et al. (2004). Journal of Archaeological Science, 34 (6), 997-1000. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.06.003
Crowther, Alison (2005). A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht.. Australian Archaeology, 60, 78-79.
Crowther, Alison (2005). Starch residues on undecorated Lapita pottery from Anir, New Ireland. Archaeology In Oceania, 40 (2), 62-66. doi: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2005.tb00586.x
Conference Papers
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.
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.
Crowther, Alison (2009). Re-viewing raphides: Issues with the identification and interpretation of calcium oxalate crystals in microfossil assemblages. 8th Australasian Archaeometry Conference (AAC), Canberra Australia, Dec 12-15, 2005. CANBERRA ACT: AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV.
Thesis
Alison Crowther (2009). Investigating Lapita subsistence and pottery use through microscopic residues on ceramics: methodological issues, feasibility and potential. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.