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. […]
Sealinks book publication
Dr. Tom Hoogervorst, the first DPhil student on the Sealinks Project, has recently published a monograph with Archaeopress, Oxford. The book, entitled Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World, presents the results of his ERC-funded DPhil studies at the University of Oxford as part of the Sealinks Project. Dr. Hoogervorst is continuing his research […]
Bern Conference: Migrations and Transfers in Prehistory
Dr. Tom Hoogervorst of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies will present research carried out as part of the Sealinks Project at the conference on Migrations and Transfers in Prehistory: Asian and Oceanic Ethnolinguistic Phylogeography. The conference will be held at the University of Bern, 28-30 July, 2014, and features research […]
Science feature on Sealinks conference
The Sealinks conference held in November 2013 is covered in this week’s issue of Science. The 27 June issue of the journal features an article by science writer Andrew Lawler on the Sealinks Project and its conference Proto-Globalisation in the Indian Ocean World, held at the Ashmolean Museum and Jesus College Oxford, November 7-10. To […]
SAfA/Pan-Af Conference: 14th Congress
Dr. Mary Prendergast (Saint Louis University) and Dr. Eren Quintana Morales (Natural History Museum, Paris) will present talks relating to the Sealinks Project’s research in East Africa at the 14th Congress of the Pan-African Archaeological Association and the Society for Africanist Archaeologists meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, 14-18 July, 2014. The following talks will be […]
ACACIA Workshop: Environmental transition of the Iron Age in Africa
Professor Michael Petraglia of the University of Oxford will present a talk by the Sealinks team at the first workshop of the ACACIA Project, which will be held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 17-19 June, 2014. The talk, entitled “Sealinks Project Research in East Africa: Environmental and Archaeological Datasets” is by Michael Petraglia, Alison Crowther, […]
Harvard lecture: Early biological exchange in the Indian Ocean
Dr. Nicole Boivin of the Sealinks Project will give a talk in the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School. The talk, entitled ‘Early biological exchange in the Indian Ocean: Multidisciplinary perspectives’ will take place from 1-2:30 on Tuesday 17 June, 2014.
Modelling domestication
Gerbault, P., Allaby, R., Boivin, N., Rudzinski, A., Grimaldi, I.M., Pires, C., et al. 2014. Storytelling and story testing in domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. PDF Storytelling and story testing in domestication Pascale Gerbault1, Robin Allaby2, Nicole Boivin3, Anna Rudzinski1, Ilaria Maria Grimaldi3, J. Chris Pires4, Cynthia C. Vigueira5, Keith Dobney6, Kristen J. […]
New evidence from Ukunju Cave
Crowther, A., Horton, M., Kotarba-Morley, A., Prendergast, M., Quintana Morales, E., Wood, M., Shipton, C., Fuller, D.Q., Tibesasa, R., Mills, W. & Boivin, N. 2014. Iron Age agriculture, fishing and trade in the Mafia archipelago, Tanzania: New evidence from Ukunju Cave.Azania 49(1): 21-44. PDF Abstract Small-scale excavations were recently undertaken at the site of Ukunju Cave […]
Exhibition: The World in the Viking Age
The Sealinks Project is participating in a new exhibition at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark. The World in the Viking Age Exhibition will include objects from Sealinks excavations in East Africa, including an 8th century bronze mirror fragment (shown here), thought to originate from China. The exhibition, which will run from 10 April […]
