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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicole Lise Boivin is an archaeologist and former director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Education and career Boivin has a BSc in cellular, molecular and microbial biology from the University of Calgary , and an MPhil and PhD in archaeology from the University of Cambridge. Following her PhD she held a Fyssen Foundation postdoctoral research fellowship at Université de Paris X and CNRS in 2005, and a research fellowship at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in Cambridge . This was followed by a senior research fellowship at the University of Oxford. She also held a senior research fellowship at Jesus College. She joined the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History as director of the Department of Archaeology in July 2016.
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- Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions (2016) (511)
- The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia (2019) (307)
- Middle Paleolithic Assemblages from the Indian Subcontinent Before and After the Toba Super-Eruption (2007) (299)
- Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use (2019) (296)
- Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa (2015) (266)
- Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure (2017) (256)
- People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years (2021) (223)
- Shell Middens, Ships and Seeds: Exploring Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade and the Dispersal of Domesticates in and Around the Ancient Arabian Peninsula (2009) (219)
- Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene (2013) (203)
- Zebu cattle are an exclusive legacy of the South Asia neolithic. (2010) (187)
- Old World globalization and the Columbian exchange: comparison and contrast (2012) (179)
- Out of Africa: new hypotheses and evidence for the dispersal of Homo sapiens along the Indian Ocean rim (2010) (152)
- East Africa and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean world (2013) (142)
- Life rhythms and floor sequences: excavating time in rural Rajasthan and Neolithic Catalhoyuk (2000) (126)
- Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago (2009) (124)
- Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion (2016) (119)
- Bronze Age population dynamics and the rise of dairy pastoralism on the eastern Eurasian steppe (2018) (116)
- The oldest and longest enduring microlithic sequence in India: 35 000 years of modern human occupation and change at the Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter (2009) (115)
- Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present (2018) (112)
- Involve social scientists in defining the Anthropocene (2016) (111)
- A Dynamic 6,000-Year Genetic History of Eurasia’s Eastern Steppe (2020) (94)
- Dating the Neolithic of South India: new radiometric evidence for key economic, social and ritual transformations (2007) (87)
- Continental Island Formation and the Archaeology of Defaunation on Zanzibar, Eastern Africa (2016) (79)
- Zanzibar and Indian Ocean trade in the first millennium CE: the glass bead evidence (2017) (79)
- Ancient proteins from ceramic vessels at Çatalhöyük West reveal the hidden cuisine of early farmers (2018) (78)
- Indian Ocean Food Globalisation and Africa (2014) (77)
- 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest (2018) (76)
- The origins of cannabis smoking: Chemical residue evidence from the first millennium BCE in the Pamirs (2019) (74)
- 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 (2015) (69)
- Soils Stones and Symbols Cultural Perceptions of the Mineral World (2004) (68)
- Dairy pastoralism sustained Eastern Eurasian Steppe populations for 5000 years (2020) (67)
- Late Acheulean hominins at the Marine Isotope Stage 6/5e transition in north-central India (2011) (64)
- Exploring agriculture, interaction and trade on the eastern African littoral: preliminary results from Kenya (2012) (63)
- The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia (2018) (60)
- Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa (2017) (59)
- Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory (2016) (56)
- Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia (2020) (56)
- Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago (2019) (54)
- Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa (2020) (53)
- The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation (2017) (52)
- The malice of inanimate objects: Material agency (2010) (51)
- The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation. (2017) (51)
- Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene (2021) (46)
- Rock art and rock music: Petroglyphs of the south Indian Neolithic (2004) (46)
- Iron Age agriculture, fishing and trade in the Mafia Archipelago, Tanzania: new evidence from Ukunju Cave (2014) (45)
- Archaeological, Linguistic and Historical Sources on Ancient Seafaring: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Early Maritime Contact and Exchange in the Arabian Peninsula (2010) (44)
- Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago (2020) (44)
- Anthropological, historical, archaeological and genetic perspectives on the origins of caste in South Asia (2007) (42)
- Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets (2017) (41)
- Landscape and Cosmology in the South Indian Neolithic: New Perspectives on the Deccan Ashmounds (2004) (41)
- Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest (2018) (40)
- Sensual, material, and technological understanding: exploring prehistoric soundscapes in south India (2007) (40)
- Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka (2019) (40)
- A southern Indian Middle Palaeolithic occupation surface sealed by the 74 ka Toba eruption: Further evidence from Jwalapuram Locality 22 (2012) (39)
- Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa: Personal ornaments, bone artifacts, and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya. (2020) (37)
- The Sri Lankan ‘Microlithic’ Tradition c. 38,000 to 3,000 Years Ago: Tropical Technologies and Adaptations of Homo sapiens at the Southern Edge of Asia (2015) (37)
- Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics (2020) (35)
- Grasping the elusive and unknowable: material culture in ritual practice (2009) (34)
- Tropical forests and the genus Homo (2016) (34)
- Early Pastoral Economies and Herding Transitions in Eastern Eurasia (2020) (33)
- Early pastoral economies along the Ancient Silk Road: Biomolecular evidence from the Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan (2018) (32)
- Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa (2020) (32)
- Intersections, Networks and the Genesis of Social Complexity on the Nyali Coast of East Africa (2013) (32)
- Heading north: Late Pleistocene environments and human dispersals in central and eastern Asia (2019) (32)
- Human dispersal and species movement: From prehistory to the present (2017) (31)
- Dietary Diversity on the Swahili Coast: The Fauna from Two Zanzibar Trading Locales (2017) (31)
- Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea (2020) (30)
- Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation (2016) (30)
- Human occupation, adaptation and behavioral change in the Pleistocene and Holocene of South India: Recent investigations in the Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh (2009) (30)
- Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions (2021) (30)
- Signs of Life: Engraved Stone Artefacts from Neolithic South India (2006) (30)
- Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in ‘Green Arabia’ (2018) (29)
- Earliest known human burial in Africa (2021) (28)
- Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa (2021) (27)
- Economic Diversification Supported the Growth of Mongolia’s Nomadic Empires (2020) (26)
- Late Quaternary speleogenesis and landscape evolution in a tropical carbonate island: Pango la Kuumbi (Kuumbi Cave), Zanzibar (2015) (24)
- Early evidence for mounted horseback riding in northwest China (2020) (24)
- The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor. (2018) (24)
- Finding the anthropocene in tropical forests (2018) (24)
- Poison arrows and bone utensils in late Pleistocene eastern Africa: evidence from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar (2016) (23)
- Local diversity in settlement, demography and subsistence across the southern Indian Neolithic-Iron Age transition: site growth and abandonment at Sanganakallu-Kupgal (2016) (21)
- Variation in Lithic Technological Strategies among the Neanderthals of Gibraltar (2013) (20)
- Radiocarbon dating and cultural dynamics across Mongolia’s early pastoral transition (2019) (19)
- First farmers in South India: the role of internal processes and external influences in the emergence and transformation of south India's earliest settled societies (2007) (19)
- Restructuring of nutrient flows in island ecosystems following human colonization evidenced by isotopic analysis of commensal rats (2018) (19)
- The transition to a barley-dominant cultivation system in Tibet: First millennium BC archaeobotanical evidence from Bangga (2021) (18)
- New rock art discoveries in the Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh, India (2010) (17)
- Characterising marine mollusc exploitation in the eastern African Iron Age: archaeomalacological evidence from Unguja Ukuu and Fukuchani, Zanzibar (2017) (17)
- Exploring Neolithic and Megalithic south India: the Bellary District archaeological project (2002) (16)
- Origins of equine dentistry (2018) (16)
- Pleistocene and Holocene occupations of the Kurnool District India: Cave and rockshelter records, the Toba super-eruption and forager-farmer interactions (2009) (16)
- Ancient DNA from the skeletons of Roopkund Lake reveals Mediterranean migrants in India (2019) (16)
- An Imagined Past? (2021) (15)
- Ecosystem Engineering Among Ancient Pastoralists in Northern Central Asia (2020) (15)
- Reimagining the relationship between Gondwanan forests and Aboriginal land management in Australia's “Wet Tropics” (2021) (15)
- Tropical Trees as Time Capsules of Anthropogenic Activity. (2020) (15)
- Spice and rice: pepper, cloves and everyday cereal foods at the ancient port of Mantai, Sri Lanka (2018) (15)
- Late Pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: Multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-lena (2020) (15)
- Mid-Holocene age obtained for nested diamond pattern petroglyph in the Billasurgam Cave complex, Kurnool District, southern India (2013) (14)
- Distinguishing African bovids using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS): New peptide markers and insights into Iron Age economies in Zambia (2021) (14)
- Isotopic and microbotanical insights into Iron Age agricultural reliance in the Central African rainforest (2020) (14)
- Sampling and Pretreatment of Tooth Enamel Carbonate for Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Analysis. (2018) (14)
- First farmers in south India: The role of internal processes and external influences in the emergence of the earliest settled societies (2008) (14)
- Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya (2021) (14)
- Orientalism, ideology and identity (2005) (14)
- The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa. (2021) (13)
- Literary evidence for taro in the ancient Mediterranean: A chronology of names and uses in a multilingual world (2018) (13)
- C120+ ISOMERS FROM LASER ABLATION OF FULLERENE FILMS (1994) (13)
- Risk assessment of drug‐induced drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome: a disproportionality analysis using the French Pharmacovigilance Database (2016) (13)
- Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago (2021) (13)
- Lithic technology and social transformations in the South Indian Neolithic: The evidence from Sanganakallu-Kupgal (2012) (12)
- The southern Central Asian mountains as an ancient agricultural mixing zone: new archaeobotanical data from Barikot in the Swat valley of Pakistan (2020) (12)
- Early agriculture in Sri Lanka: New Archaeobotanical analyses and radiocarbon dates from the early historic sites of Kirinda and Kantharodai (Kandarodai) (2018) (11)
- Indian lithic technology prior to the 74,000 BP Toba super-eruption: Searching for an early modern human signature (2010) (11)
- 67,000 years of coastal engagement at Panga ya Saidi, eastern Africa (2021) (10)
- Species identification of Australian marsupials using collagen fingerprinting (2021) (9)
- Rock art research in India: Historical approaches and recent theoretical directions (2012) (9)
- Long-term Trends in Terrestrial and Marine Invertebrate Exploitation on the Eastern African Coast: Insights from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar (2018) (9)
- High altitude hunting, climate change, and pastoral resilience in eastern Eurasia (2021) (9)
- Micro Methods for Megafauna: Novel Approaches to Late Quaternary Extinctions and Their Contributions to Faunal Conservation in the Anthropocene (2019) (8)
- A Journey to the West: The Ancient Dispersal of Rice Out of East Asia (2021) (8)
- Non-uniform tropical forest responses to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Neotropics and Asia-Pacific (2021) (8)
- Asian Crop Dispersal in Africa and Late Holocene Human Adaptation to Tropical Environments (2019) (8)
- Taphonomy of an excavated striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) den in Arabia: implications for paleoecology and prehistory (2021) (7)
- Proto-globalisation and biotic exchange in the Old World (2017) (7)
- Plant wax biomarkers in human evolutionary studies (2021) (6)
- Globalization in Prehistory: Contact, exchange, and the 'people without history' (2018) (6)
- Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history (2021) (6)
- Collagen fingerprinting traces the introduction of caprines to island Eastern Africa (2021) (6)
- Re-evaluating Scythian lifeways: Isotopic analysis of diet and mobility in Iron Age Ukraine (2021) (5)
- Large-scale reptile extinctions following European colonization of the Guadeloupe Islands (2021) (5)
- 'Emptying Forests?' Conservation Implications of Past Human-Primate Interactions. (2021) (5)
- Megalithic Markings in Context: graffiti marks on burial pots from Kudatini, Karnataka (2003) (5)
- Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) for bone material - Acid insoluble protocol v1 (2020) (5)
- Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) for bone material - AmBiC protocol v1 (2020) (5)
- A step forward in tropical anthracology: understanding woodland vegetation and wood uses in ancient Sri Lanka based on charcoal records from Mantai, Kirinda and Kantharodai (2020) (4)
- Reply to Ellis et al.: Human niche construction and evolutionary theory (2016) (4)
- Exaptation Traits for Megafaunal Mutualisms as a Factor in Plant Domestication (2021) (4)
- Archaeological and environmental cave records in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia (2021) (4)
- Whale Bone Puzzles: Reconstructing and Identifying Historical Whale Skeletons Using Archive Records, Osteology, and Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) (2020) (4)
- Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest (2018) (4)
- Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the Timing of Social and Subsistence Transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa (2021) (4)
- The spread of herds and horses into the Altai: How livestock and dairying drove social complexity in Mongolia (2022) (3)
- Hunting, herding, and people in the rock art of Mongolia: New discoveries in the Gobi-Altai Mountains (2021) (3)
- Skeletal remains from the Kudatini sarcophagus burial (2003) (3)
- Towards a Historical Ecology of Intertidal Foraging in the Mafia Archipelago: Archaeomalacology and Implications for Marine Resource Management (2019) (3)
- Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet): evidence from Iron Age Kenya (2021) (3)
- Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) for bone material - Acid soluble protocol v1 (2020) (3)
- Oral Signature Screening Database for Palaeoproteomic Analyses of Dental Calculus (2020) (3)
- Multi-isotope analysis of dietary variation among the early Christian communities of northern Sudan (2021) (2)
- Risk Assessment of drug-induced DRESS syndrome : A disproportionality analysis using French Pharmacovigilance Database (2016) (2)
- 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest (2018) (2)
- Oldowan Technology Amid Shifting Environments ∼2.03–1.83 Million Years Ago (2022) (2)
- Homo sapiens lithic technology and microlithization in the South Asian rainforest at Kitulgala Beli-lena (c. 45 – 8,000 years ago) (2022) (2)
- Hunter-gatherer technological organization and responses to Holocene climate change in coastal, lakeshore, and grassland ecologies of eastern Africa (2022) (2)
- Reply to Shelach-Lavi et al.: Implications of the horse assemblages from Shirenzigou and Xigou (2021) (2)
- Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS)- Pretreatment protocols for bone material v1 (2020) (2)
- Early Holocene Human Burials from Fa Hien-lena and Kuragala, Sri Lanka (2022) (2)
- Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: Contextualizing the archaeology of an early Islamic port of trade (2022) (2)
- Shamanism and Indian rock art (2006) (1)
- India and Sri Lanka (1982) (1)
- Excavations at the Iron Age Village Site of Fibobe II, Central Zambia (2022) (1)
- Early Pastoral Economies and Herding Transitions in Eastern Eurasia (2020) (1)
- Reply to Westaway and Lyman: Emus, dingoes, and archaeology’s role in conservation biology (2016) (1)
- Small game forgotten: Late Pleistocene foraging strategies in eastern Africa, and remote capture at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya (2023) (1)
- Author Correction: Early Pastoral Economies and Herding Transitions in Eastern Eurasia (2020) (1)
- 4000-year-old hair from the Middle Nile highlights unusual ancient DNA degradation pattern and a potential source of early eastern Africa pastoralists (2022) (1)
- Invisible agents of eastern trade; Foregrounding Island Southeast Asian agency in pre-modern globalisation (2018) (1)
- Multidisciplinary perspectives on the origins of past foodways and farming practice in South Asia (2021) (1)
- Agriculture in the Karakum: An archaeobotanical analysis from Togolok 1, southern Turkmenistan (ca. 2300–1700 B.C.) (2022) (1)
- New methodological approaches to Indian rock art: Preliminary report from the Kurnool District Archaeological Project (2009) (1)
- Human and human-mediated species dispersals through time: Introduction and overview (2017) (1)
- Prehistoric agricultural decision making in the western Himalayas: ecological and social variables (2022) (0)
- Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution (2023) (0)
- From Forests to the Coast - Multidisciplinary Investigation of Human Adaptations at the Mini-athiliya Shell Midden, Sri Lanka (2022) (0)
- HUMAN EVOLUTION The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia (2019) (0)
- Leveraging palaeoproteomics to address conservation and restoration agendas (2022) (0)
- Paleoproteomic evidence reveals dairying supported prehistoric occupation of the highland Tibetan Plateau (2023) (0)
- Author Correction: Early Pastoral Economies and Herding Transitions in Eastern Eurasia (2020) (0)
- Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa (2021) (0)
- Economic Diversification Supported the Growth of Mongolia’s Nomadic Empires (2020) (0)
- SP3 (Single-Pot, Solid-Phase, Sample-Preperation) Protocol for ZooMS applications v1 (2020) (0)
- SP3 (Single-Pot, Solid-Phase, Sample-Preperation) Protein Extraction for Dental Calculus v1 (2020) (0)
- Permafrost preservation reveals proteomic evidence for yak milk consumption in the 13th century (2023) (0)
- Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran (2023) (0)
- Domesticating the Mosaic: Stable Isotope Approaches to Agroecologies in South Asia (2018) (0)
- Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea (2020) (0)
- Using stable isotopes to explore ancient wildebeest mobility in the context of pastoral expansion (2017) (0)
- A stable isotope perspective on archaeological agricultural variability and Neolithic experimentation in India (2022) (0)
- Isotopic and microbotanical insights into Iron Age agricultural reliance in the Central African rainforest (2020) (0)
- Multidisciplinary digital methodologies for documentation and preservation of immovable Archaeological heritage in the Khovd River Valley, Western Mongolia (2022) (0)
- Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago (2019) (0)
- Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in ‘Green Arabia’ (2018) (0)
- Hominin Ecology of the Early Oldowan 2 Ma (2020) (0)
- Synthesis 2006, 10, 1664 (2006) (0)
- Data for: Early Agriculture in Sri Lanka: New Archaeobotanical Analyses and Radiocarbon Dates from the Early Historic Sites of Kirinda and Kantharodai (2018) (0)
- Of forests and grasslands: human, primate, and ungulate palaeoecology in Late Pleistocene-Holocene Sri Lanka (2023) (0)
- Ecological flexibility and adaptation to past climate change in the Middle Nile Valley: A multiproxy investigation of dietary shifts between the Neolithic and Kerma periods at Kadruka 1 and Kadruka 21 (2023) (0)
- Late Pleistocene to late Holocene palaeoecology and human foraging at Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar Island (2023) (0)
- When Did the Chicken Cross the Road: Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia (2022) (0)
- Ancient proteins from ceramic vessels at Çatalhöyük West reveal the hidden cuisine of early farmers (2018) (0)
- Impact of the Toba eruption on rainfall – a speleothem record suggests multi-staged eruption affected EASM (2021) (0)
- Ecological consequencesofhumanniche construction:Examininglong-termanthropogenic shapingofglobal speciesdistributions (2016) (0)
- Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene (2022) (0)
- BE HAV IORAL CHANGE IN THE PLEIS TO CENE AND HO LO CENE OF SOUTH IN DIA : RE CENT IN VES TI GA TIONS IN THE KURNOOL DIS TRICT , ANDHRA PRADESH (2009) (0)
- Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots of the human age, the Anthropocene (2019) (0)
- Human-ecodynamics and the intertidal zones of the Zanzibar Archipelago (2022) (0)
- Scientific Practice (2018) (0)
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