Conference/Workshop Presentations
Boivin, N. & Crowther, A. 2014. Biological, cultural and material exchange along the Maritime Silk Road. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Conference, Siem Reap, 12-18 January.
Crowther, C., Pomerantz, S., Fuller, D.Q., Radimilahy, C., Wright, H., Horton, M. & Boivin, N. 2014. Tracing Southeast Asian connections in Madagascar through prehistoric crop transfers. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Conference, Siem Reap, 12-18 January.
Horton, M., Bohingamuwa, W., Blinkhorn, J., Adikari, G. & Boivin, N. 2014. Where East meets West: Port archaeology in southern Sri Lanka. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Conference, Siem Reap, 12-18 January.
Bohingamuwa, W. 2013. Mantai: Looking east or west? Conference on “Proto-Globalisation in the Ancient Indian Ocean World”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7-10 November.
Boivin, N. 2013. Ancient biological exchange. Conference on “Proto-Globalisation in the Ancient Indian Ocean World”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7-10 November.
Crowther, A., Horton, M., Shipton, C., Boivin, N. & the Sealinks team. 2013. Island foragers, farmers, traders and slaves: recent Sealinks fieldwork on Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia. African Archaeology Research Day Conference, University of East Anglia, 1-2 November.
Crowther, C., Pomerantz, S., Fuller, D.Q., Radimilahy, C., Wright, H., Horton, M. & Boivin, N. 2013. Tracing Southeast Asian connections in Madagascar through prehistoric crop transfers. Conference on “Proto-Globalisation in the Ancient Indian Ocean World”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7-10 November.
Eager, H.M., Hulme-Beaman, A., Trinks, A., Goodman, S., Pascal, M., Duplantier, J-M., Boivin, N., Anderson, A., Dobney, K., Larson, G. & Searle, J.B. 2013. The house shrew Suncus murinus as a bioproxy in the western Indian Ocean. Conference on “Proto-Globalisation in the Ancient Indian Ocean World”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7-10 November.
Grimaldi, I.M., Boivin, N. & Allaby, R. 2013. Genetic diversity of taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott) in Africa and implications for maritime contacts in the ancient world. Conference on “Proto-Globalisation in the Ancient Indian Ocean World”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7-10 November.
Horton, M. 2013. A Tale of Three Islands – Zanzibar, Comores and Madagascar: Recent Sealinks Fieldwork in the Western Indian Ocean. Archaeological Field Club Talk, University of Cambridge. 27 November.
Horton, M. 2013. The prehistoric globalisation of East Africa. Conference on “Proto-Globalisation in the Ancient Indian Ocean World”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7-10 November.
Horton, M., Lucas, L., Wright, H., Crowther, A., Gou, M., Fulller, D. & Boivin, N. 2013. Comores in the Indian Ocean: Archaeobotanical perspectives. African Archaeology Research Day Conference, University of East Anglia, 1-2 November.
Ottoni, C., Van Neer, W., Boivin, N., Prendergast, M., Grange, T. & Geigl, E-M. 2013. Ancient DNA from cats hints to early trade in the Indian Ocean world. Conference on “Proto-Globalisation in the Ancient Indian Ocean World”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7-10 November.
Pomerantz, S., Crowther, A., Boivin, N., Radimilahy, C., Wright, H., Horton, M., Faulkner, P., Rasoarifetra, B., Rakotozafy, L. & Ramilisonina. 2013. Early Malagasy agricultural communities and the wider Indian Ocean world: Recent Sealinks excavations in Madagascar. African Archaeology Research Day Conference, University of East Anglia, 1-2 November.
Prendergast, M.E., Crowther, A., Horton, M., Helm, R. & Boivin, N. 2013. Species translocations revisited: Coastal and island zooarchaeology in eastern Africa. Conference on “Proto-Globalisation in the Ancient Indian Ocean World”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7-10 November.
Trinks, A., Hulme-Beaman, A., Eager, H.M., Anderson, A., Evin, A., Cucchi, T., Boivin, N., Searle, J.B., Dobney, K., & Larson, G. 2013. Genetic and morphological analyses of Rattus across the Indian Ocean. Conference on “Proto-Globalisation in the Ancient Indian Ocean World”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7-10 November.
Vrydaghs, L., Bakry, F., Boivin, N., Crowther, A., de Maret, P., De Langhe, E., Denham, T., Donohue, M., Fuller, D., Garcia-Granero, J.J., Lancelotti, C., Madella, M., Perrier, X. & Wollstonecroft, M. 2013. The banana: Insights into an Indian Ocean odyssey. Conference on “Proto-Globalisation in the Ancient Indian Ocean World”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7-10 November.
Wollstonecroft, M., Arthur, K. & Fuller, D.Q. 2013. An ecological and ethnobotanical investigation of into the role of Indian Ocean crops in Borada Gamo societies (Ethiopia). African Archaeology Research Day Conference, University of East Anglia, 1-2 November.
Boivin, N. 2013. Mobile societies and archaic globalisation in the early Indian Ocean. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 3-7 April.
Hoogervorst, T. 2013. Expansion, diversity and Malayness: the relevance of Borneo’s linguascapes. Project Southeast Asia Symposium, Oxford, UK, 9 March.
Bohingamuwa, W. 2013. Mantai, an ancient seaport of Sri Lanka. WUN Indian Ocean Archaeology Network Meeting. British Museum, London, 22-23 February.
Grimaldi, I. 2013. Genetic diversity of taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott) in Africa and implications for maritime contacts in the ancient world. WUN Indian Ocean Archaeology Network Meeting. British Museum, London, 22-23 February.
Boivin, N., Crowther, A., Fuller, D., Hoogervorst, T., Horton, M., Bohingamuwa, W. & Wollstonecroft, M. 2012. “Food globalisation in the early Indian Ocean: Processes and agents.” Conference on “Dimensions of the Indian Ocean Past: Sources and Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Work in Indian Ocean History, 9th-19th Centuries, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, 12-14 November.
Boivin, N. 2012. “The emergence of maritime connectivity in the Indian Ocean From the mid-Holocene to the Iron Age.” World University Network meeting on “Building an Indian Ocean Archaeology Network”, Perth, Australia, 10-11 November.
Boivin, N. 2012. “The ancient Indian Ocean and the Sealinks Project: Exploring connections between Southeast Asia and Africa.” Centre for Archaeological Research, Australian National University, 9 November.
Boivin, N., Crowther, A., Fuller, D., Helm, R., Horton, M. & Kotarba-Morley, A. 2012. “East Africa in the Indian Ocean world: Examining the agents of early contact and commerce on the East African coast”. Conference on “Connections, Contributions and Complexity: Africa’s Later Holocene Archaeology in Global Perspective, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 21-23 September.
Boivin, N. 2012. “Small-scale societies and early Indian Ocean contacts and trade”. Workshop on “East Africa in Indian Ocean World II”, Jesus College, Oxford, 22-23 March.
Crowther, A. 2012. “Early plant movements in the Indian Ocean world.” World University Network meeting on “Building an Indian Ocean Archaeology Network”, Perth, Australia, 11 November.
Crowther, A. 2012. “Sealinks in East Africa: Results of three field seasons.” RLAHA Seminar Series, University of Oxford, 17 October.
Crowther, A. 2012. “Archaeobotany in the Land of the Zanj: Tracing trade, subsistence and interaction in East Africa.” UK Archaeobotanical Work Group Meeting, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 16 June.
Crowther, A., D.Q. Fuller, P. Austin and N. Boivin. 2012. “Archaeobotanical evidence for Iron Age trade and subsistence on Zanzibar.” Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) Conference, Toronto, Canada, 23 June.
Crowther, A., D.Q. Fuller, P. Austin and N. Boivin. 2012. “The archaeobotany of trade and subsistence on Zanzibar”. East Africa. 7th International Workgroup for African Archaeobotany, Vienna, Austria, 4 July.
Crowther, A., Fuller, D. & Austin, P. 2012. “Archaeobotanical evidence for Iron Age trade and subsistence on Zanzibar”. Workshop on “East Africa in Indian Ocean World II”, Jesus College, Oxford, 22-23 March.
Eager, H., Searle, J., Trinks, A., Larson, G., Dobney, K. & Boivin, N. 2012. “Commensal small mammal translocations as a proxy for human trade and contact in ancient East Africa.” Workshop on “East Africa in Indian Ocean World II”, Jesus College, Oxford, 22-23 March.
Fuller, D. 2012. “Archaeobotanical contributions on the development of agricultural systems in eastern Africa: Recent results from Rwanda, southeast Kenya and southwest Ethiopia”. Workshop on “East Africa in Indian Ocean World II”, Jesus College, Oxford, 22-23 March.
Grimaldi, I. 2012. Colocasia esculenta in Africa, genetics and history. 7th International Workshop on African Archaeobotany, IWAA7 Vienna, Austria, 3 July.
Grimaldi, I., Allaby, R. & Boivin, N. 2012. Evaluating early African connections using Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott history and genetics: Preliminary results. Workshop on “East Africa in Indian Ocean World II”, Jesus College, Oxford, 22-23 March.
Helm, R., Crowther, A., Jarman, C., Jembe, S., Kotarba-Morley, A., Shipton, C., Tengeza, A.] & Boivin, N. 2012. “What difference did prehistoric Indian Ocean connections make? Recent archaeological fieldwork in coastal Kenya.” Workshop on “East Africa in Indian Ocean World II”, Jesus College, Oxford, 22-23 March.
Hoogervorst, T. 2012. “Examining contacts between East Africa and the Malay World: Historical linguistic perspectives.” Workshop on “East Africa in Indian Ocean World II”, Jesus College, Oxford, 22-23 March.
Horton, M. 2012. “‘From here after two days sailing off the mainland lies the last mart of Azania’: Resolving ancient texts and East African archaeology.” Workshop on “East Africa in Indian Ocean World II”, Jesus College, Oxford, 22-23 March.
Kotarba-Morley, A., Crowther, A., Horton, M., Kirkwood, L. & Boivin, N. 2012. Understanding early Tana tradition occupation: Preliminary results from Fukuchani and Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar. Workshop on “East Africa in Indian Ocean World II”, Jesus College, Oxford, 22-23 March.
Smith, K. & Wollstonecroft, M. 2012. “The curious case of African bananas: Assessing the types of phytolith finds and specific archaeological contexts that are the most likely to produce evidence of early Musa use in East Africa”. Workshop on “East Africa in Indian Ocean World II”, Jesus College, Oxford, 22-23 March.
Vrydaghs, L. Bakry, F., Boivin, N., de Maret, P., De Lange, E., Denham, T., Donohue, M., Fuller, D. & Perrier, X. 2012. The edible African bananas, an odyssey. 5th Archaeozoology and Genetics ICAZ Working Group. 4-6 June 2012. IPNA Basel, Switzerland.
Boivin, N. 2011. “The Sealinks Project: Investigating the origins of globalisation in the Indian Ocean”, workshop on “The Banana”, Brussels, 20-21 October.
Crowther, A. 2011. “Archaeobotany in East Africa”. Archaeobotany Seminar Series, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 21 November.
Crowther, A., Helm, R., Shipton, C., Fuller, D., Austin, P., Horton, M., Kotarba-Morley, A., Lyaya, E. & Boivin, N. 2011. “Trade, translocations and transformations on the East African coast: Recent Sealinks excavations in Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar”, 8th African Archaeology Research Day, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 25–26 November.
Eager, H. 2011. “Global patterns and drivers of linguistic and biological diversity, and extinction risk”, Graduate Symposium (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department), Cornell University, Ithaca, 6 December.
Fuller, D. 2011. “The archaeobotany of prehistoric contacts across the Indian Ocean: Crop movements and trade between Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia”, Seminar, Department of Anthropology, New York University, 21 September.
Fuller, D. 2011. “Sticky rice or chapatis? An archaeological explorations of the selective movement of crops across the culinary frontiers of Asia” Seminar, Centre for Asian Archaeology, University of Oxford, 23 February.
Grimaldi, I. 2011. “Tracking early Indian Ocean activities using taro (Colocasia esculenta) phylogeography”, Doctoral Student Symposium, University of Oxford, 10 November.
Hoogervorst, T. 2011. “Using linguistic data to reconstruct pre-colonial Malay influence in the Indian Ocean”, 3rd Southeast Asia Update, Leiden, the Netherlands, 24 June.
Hoogervorst, T. 2011. “Anthropogenic plant translocations as an indicator of early cultural contact in the Indian Ocean”, International Seminar on “Maritime Cultures and Traditions of the Bay of Bengal”, New Delhi, India, 22-23 April.
Kotarba-Morley, A. 2011. “Maritime trade in the Arabian Sea: Ocean of questions”, Ancient Maritime Worlds Seminar, University of Oxford, 22 November.
Searle, J. 2011. “Stories from unwanted travelers – the history of the world according to stowaway mice”, Evolution Day, Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milan, 12 February. [Presentation was simultaneously translated and the translation also went out on an internet stream managed by an Italian company].
Bohingamuwa, W. 2010. “Manthai and beyond: Sri Lanka’s early Indian Ocean contacts”, Workshop on “Contact and Creativity in the Ancient World”, Keble College, Oxford, 13 November.
Bohingamuwa, W. 2010. “Sealinks and the archaeological investigation of the ancient port site of Manthai 2009/2010: A preliminary report”, 12th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies, Open University of Sri Lanka, 18-20 March. Abstract published, pp 104 in the conference abstract volume.
Bohingamuwa, W. 2010. “Looking for Links: Sealinks in Ancient Sri Lanka”, 7th Annual Academic Sessions, University of Ruhuna, Faculty of Engineering, 18-19 March. Abstract published, pp 76, 78 in the conference abstract volume.
Boivin, N. 2010. “Intercultural contact and creativity in the ancient world: Some ideas about hybrids, technological philosophies and the domestication of things”, Workshop on “Contact and Creativity in the Ancient World”, Keble College, Oxford, 13 November.
Boivin, N. 2010. “The Sealinks Project”, Seminar for Pattanam Project, Pattanam, Kerala, 5 April.
Boivin, N. 2010. “The Sealinks Project and Pattanam: Opportunities for Collaboration”, Meeting with Kerala Government Ministers and MOU signing, Trivandrum, Kerala, 2 April.
Eager, H. 2010. “Phylogeography of commensals in the Indian Ocean”, Sealinks and Crossing the Green Seas Workshop, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, 18 November.
Fuller, D.Q. 2010. “Arabian economic pursuits in prehistory: Coastal resources, trade, pastoralism and cultivation” in session “Natural Resource Use and Environmental Conservation in the Arabian Peninsula” at the Third International Islamic Area Studies conference, Kyoto, 17-21 December. Also discussant for satellite symposium on “Keystone Species of Human Subsistence Ecosystems in Arab Societies”, Research Institute for Humanity & Nature, Kyoto.
Grimaldi, I. 2010. “Tracking early Indian Ocean activities using taro (Colocasia esculenta) phylogeography”, Trends in Ecology and Evolution seminar series, Life Science Department, University of Warwick, 12 November.
Grimaldi, I. 2010. “Tracking early Indian Ocean activities using taro (Colocasia esculenta) phylogeography”, Doctoral Student Symposium, University of Oxford 4 November.
Helm, R., Crowther, A., Shipton, C., Tengeza, A., Boivin, N. & Fuller, D. 2010. “The Sealinks Project: Prehistoric East Africa in the Indian Ocean’, 13th Pan African Congress/20th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA), University of Chiek Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 1–7 November 2010.
Hoogervorst, T. 2010. “Betel mastication: A history of cultural contact”, Workshop on “Contact and Creativity in the Ancient World”, Keble College, Oxford, 13 November.
Hoogervorst, T. 2010. “(in Indonesian) Kalimantan Tengah sebagai tempat asal-usul orang Bajau dan orang Malagasi”, Ceramah Linguistik [organised by Wacana: Jurnal Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya & Pusat Bahasa Depdiknas], Jakarta, Indonesia,16 August.
Hoogervorst, T. 2010. “Nomadic maritime communities and their historical importance in Southeast Asia”, Southeast Asia Archaeology Workshop III, University of Oxford, 10 June.
Kotarba-Morley, A. 2010. “Maritime connections of the Arabian peninsula in the network of Indo-Roman trade: Study of ports and harbours”, International Symposium on the Relations between Arabia and the Greek World, Riyadh, 6-9 December.
Allaby, R. & Grimaldi, I. 2009. “Tracking dispersal patterns from Asia to Africa through taro phylogeography”, conference on “Ancient Indian Ocean corridors: Placing coastal and island South Asia in their broader Indian Ocean context”, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 7-8 November.
Bohingamuwa, W. 2009. “Archaeological imprints of maritime contacts in ancient Sri Lanka”, conference on “Ancient Indian Ocean corridors: Placing coastal and island South Asia in their broader Indian Ocean context”, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 7-8 November.
Boivin, N. 2009. “Bioarchaeology and materials science approaches to the early Indian Ocean” Seminar for the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, 26 November.
Boivin, N. 2009. “Add bananas and stir? Problematising the origins of early Indian Ocean contact and trade”, conference on “Ancient Indian Ocean corridors: Placing coastal and island South Asia in their broader Indian Ocean context”, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 7-8 November.
Boivin, N. 2009. “Tracing early contacts across the Indian Ocean”, symposium entitled “East Meets West Along the Maritime Silk Route”, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 2-3 July.
Boivin, N. 2009. “Civilising the uncivilized: Examining the origins of Indian Ocean civilization”, Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, University of Bristol, 8 April.
Fuller, D. 2009. “Notes on the history of anthropogenic flora around the Indian Ocean: Evidence from the movement of weeds”, conference on “Ancient Indian Ocean corridors: Placing coastal and island South Asia in their broader Indian Ocean context”, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 7-8 November.
Fuller, D., Boivin, N., Allaby, R., Blench, R. & Hoogervorst. T. 2009. “Westward Austronesian expansion and the Sealinks Project”, 19th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Hanoi, Vietnam, 29 November – 5 December.
Hoogervorst, T. 2009. “Prehistoric interethnic contact and the resulting exchange of maritime technology”, DPhil Student Conference, University of Oxford, 11 November.
Hoogervorst, T. 2009. “The dispersal of boat-building techniques in the Indian Ocean”, conference on “Ancient Indian Ocean corridors: Placing coastal and island South Asia in their broader Indian Ocean context”, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 7-8 November.
Hoogervorst, T. 2009. “(in Dutch) Jongerentalen in wereldsteden” [keynote speaker: Prof. M. Mous], Leiden Centraal Try Out Festival, Leiden, 28-31 October.
Hoogervorst, T. 2009. “Oral tradition as a means for historical reconstruction”, Documenting Oral Traditions in the Non-Western World, Leiden, 27-29 August.
Hoogervorst, T. 2009. “On discourse particles in spoken Malay”, 11th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL), Aussois, France, 22-26 June.
Hoogervorst, T. 2009. “Discourse particles in colloquial Malay”, 13th International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics, Senggigi, Indonesia, 6-7 June.
Hoogervorst, T. 2009. “Maritime archaeology”, Guest lecture, International School of Dravidian Linguistics, Thiruvanantapuram, India, 9 February.
Mahdi, W. 2009. “Malayic Sea-People crews on shipping across the Indian Ocean (approximately 500 BCE – 500 CE)”, conference on “Ancient Indian Ocean corridors: Placing coastal and island South Asia in their broader Indian Ocean context”, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 7-8 November.
Allaby, R. 2008. “Tracking early Indian Ocean movements using taro phylogeography” workshop on “Africa in the Indian Ocean”, Department of Archaeology, University of York, 28 November.
Boivin, N. 2008. “Africa in the Indian Ocean: Questions, challenges and the role of the Sealinks Project”, workshop on “Africa in the Indian Ocean”, Department of Archaeology, University of York, 28 November.
Boivin, N. 2008. “Investigating the role of small-scale societies in long-distance maritime contact and exchange in the ancient Indian Ocean”, Sixth World Archaeological Congress, Dublin, 29 June – 4 July.
Boivin, N. 2008. “The social and political context of prehistoric maritime activity in the Indian Ocean”, Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, 26-30 March.
Fuller, D. 2008. “Plants across the Indian Ocean: Botany, biogeography, and the potential for archaeobotany”, workshop on “Africa in the Indian Ocean”, Department of Archaeology, University of York, 28 November.
Helm, R. 2008. “The later Stone Age and Iron Age data from coastal Kenya: an assessment of potential”, workshop on “Africa in the Indian Ocean”, Department of Archaeology, University of York, 28 November.
Pollard, E.J.D. 2008. “The Late Stone Age and Early Iron Age along the Tanzanian coast: Maritime cultural landscape studies around Kaole and Kilwa Kisiwani“,workshop on “Africa in the Indian Ocean”, Department of Archaeology, University of York, 28 November.
