New Excavations in Kuumbi Cave
New Excavations in Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar August 17, 2016 A multidisciplinary team of scientists recently excavated one of Zanzibar’s most important caves, revealing a complex human occupation history over the last 18,000 years. Initial occupations by Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers ranged between ~18,000 – 13,000 years ago. Later peoples inhabited the cave in the late […]
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 […]
Sealinks conference podcast
Public lectures by Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray, Dr. Nicole Boivin, Professor Mark Horton and Dr. J.D. Hill at the Ashmolean Museum are now available here. The talks were presented as part of the opening of the Proto-Globalisation in the Indian Ocean World Conference on 7 November. Click on play button below to listen: http://www.sealinksproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/sealinks_keynotes.mp3 Presentations […]
Sealinks invite to Buckingham Palace
Sealinks PI Nicole Boivin talks about her visit to Buckingham Palace and the Sealinks Project in a recent edition of the Jesus College Alumni newsletter. Click here to read the newsletter piece.
Reconstructing pre-modern biological translocations
Hoogervorst, T. 2013. If only plants could talk…: Reconstructing pre-modern biological translocations in the Indian Ocean. In The Sea, Identity and History: From the Bay of Bengal to the South China Sea, eds. S. Chandra & H.P. Ray, pp. 67-92. Delhi: Manohar. PDF
Genetic tracking of mice and other bioproxies
Jones, E.P., Eager, H.M., Gabriel, S.I., Johannesdottir, F. & Searle, J.B. 2013. Genetic tracking of mice and other bioproxies to infer human history. Trends in Genetics (in press). Abstract: The long-distance movements made by humans through history are quickly erased by time but can be reconstructed by studying the genetic make-up of organisms that travelled with them. […]
