Publications
Journal Articles
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
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
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
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). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2023483118
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
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. doi: 10.1007/s10437-021-09440-y
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, 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
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
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