Kuumbi Cave revised stratigraphy
Ceri Shipton, Alison Crowther, Nikos Kourampas, Mary E. Prendergast, Mark Horton, Katerina Douka, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Patrick Faulkner, Eréndira M. Quintana Morales, Michelle C. Langley, Ruth Tibesasa, Llorenc Picornell-Gelabert, Edwin N. Wilmsen, Chris Doherty, Margaret-Ashley Veall, Abdallah K. Ali, Michael D. Petraglia & Nicole Boivin (2016). Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal […]
Colonisation of eastern African islands
Alison Crowther, Patrick Faulkner, Mary E. Prendergast, Eréndira M. Quintana Morales, Mark Horton, Edwin Wilmsen, Anna M. Kotarba-Morley, Annalisa Christie, Nik Petek, Ruth Tibesasa, Katerina Douka, Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert, Xavier Carah & Nicole Boivin (2016). Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. DOI: […]
Ancient crops provide a window into Madagascar’s past
Alison Crowther, Leilani Lucas, Richard Helm, Mark Horton, Ceri Shipton, Henry T. Wright, Sarah Walshaw, Matthew Pawlowicz, Chantal Radimilahy, Katerina Douka, Llorenç Picornell-Gelaber, Dorian Q Fuller, and Nicole Boivin (2016). Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1522714113. Open access link Abstract The Austronesian […]
Poison arrows and bone utensils from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar
Michelle C. Langley, Mary E. Prendergast, Ceri Shipton, Eréndira M. Quintana Morales, Alison Crowther & Nicole Boivin. Poison arrows and bone utensils in late Pleistocene eastern Africa: evidence from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar. Taylor and Francis Online (2016), DOI:10.1080/0067270X.2016.1173302 Open Access link Abstract Most of our current knowledge of late Pleistocene African bone technology is drawn […]
The archaeology of defaunation on Zanzibar
Prendergast, M. E., Rouby, H., Punnwong, P., Marchant, R., Crowther, A.; Kourampas, N.; Shipton, C.; Walsh, M.; Lambeck, K.; Boivin, N. L. Continental island formation and the archaeology of defaunation on Zanzibar, eastern Africa. PLoS One 11 (2) 2016. Open Access link Abstract With rising sea levels at the end of the Pleistocene, land-bridge or […]
Glass bead evidence for Indian Ocean trade
Wood, M., Panighello, S., Orsega, E.F., Robertshaw, P., van Elteren, J.T., Crowther, A., Horton, M. & Boivin, N. 2016. Zanzibar and Indian Ocean trade in the first millennium CE: the glass bead evidence. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Link to open access. Abstract Recent archaeological excavations at the seventh- to tenth-century CE sites of Unguja Ukuu and […]
Old World globalization and food exchanges
Boivin, N., Fuller, D.Q. & Crowther, A. 2015. Old World globalization and food exchanges. In Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia, eds. M.C. Beaudry & K.B. Metheny, pp. 350-356. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Landscape evolution at Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar
Kourampas, N., Shipton, C., Mills, W., Tibesasa, R., Horton, H., Horton, M., Prendergast, M., Crowther, A., Douka, K., Faulkner, P., Picornell, L. & Boivin, N. 2015. Late Quaternary speleogenesis and landscape evolution on a tropical carbonate island: Panga la Kuumbi (Kuumbi Cave), Zanzibar. International Journal of Speleology 44(3): 293-314. Abstract: Kuumbi Cave is one of […]
Indian Ocean food globalisation
Boivin, N., Crowther, A., Prendergast, M. & Fuller, D.Q. 2014. Indian Ocean food globalisation and Africa. African Archaeological Review. Pictured: Archaeobotany in Zanzibar: Flot bags hanging to dry on the beach. Abstract While Africa has sometimes been peripheral to accounts of the early Indian Ocean world, studies of food globalisation necessarily place it centre stage. Africa […]
Chemical insights into trade
Crowther, A., Veall, M-A., Boivin, N., Horton, M., Kotarba-Morley, A., Fuller, D.Q., Fenn, T., Haji, O. & Matheson, C.D. 2014. 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 (in press). Link to Journal of Archaeological Science site. […]
