Major Funding

European Research Council (ERC); 2008-2013; Starting Independent Researcher Grant; “Bridging continents across the sea: Multidisciplinary perspectives on the prehistoric emergence of long-distance maritime contacts in the Indian Ocean”; Principal Investigator: Nicole Boivin

Other Funding

Wenner Gren Foundation Conference Grant; 2013; Proto-Globalisation in the Indian Ocean World: Multidisciplinary Perspectives; Principal Investigator: Nicole Boivin

NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) Radiocarbon Facility Dating Grant; 2012; “Zanzibar and its early contacts with the early Indian Ocean world”; Principal Investigator: Nicole Boivin, Co-Investigators: Alison Crowther, Mark Horton, Dorian Fuller, Thomas Higham

NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) Radiocarbon Facility Dating Grant; 2011; “Early foraging, agriculture and exchange on the eastern African littoral”; Principal Investigator: Nicole Boivin, Co-Investigators: Alison Crowther, Dorian Fuller, Richard Helm, Thomas Higham.

British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship; 2010-2013; “The East African agricultural transition: new archaeobotanical insights”; Principal Investigator: Alison Crowther

John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund; 2010; “Addressing the “seed bias” in archaeological science: A comparative archaeobotanical and biomolecular study”; Principal Investigator: Nicole Boivin.

NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) Radiocarbon Facility Dating Grant; 2010; “Tracing maritime subsistence and trade at coastal sites in early Sri Lanka”; Principal Investigator: Nicole Boivin, Co-Investigators: Dorian Fuller, Alison Crowther, Wijerathne Bohinghamuwa, Nimal Perera, Thomas Higham.

Student Scholarships

Clarendon Fund; 2010-2013; “Ancient Sri Lanka and the early Indian Ocean”; Wijerathne Bohingamuwa