Honorary Professor Nicole Boivin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

Honorary Professor Nicole Boivin

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