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

Publications
Journal Articles
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
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
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. 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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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. doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101242
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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