Publications by Prof. Nicole Boivin

Peters, C.; Oertle, A.; Gillespie, R.; Boivin, N.; Douka, K.: Collagen peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species. Frontiers in mammal science 4, 1564287 (2025)

Markowska, M.; Vonhof, H. B.; Groucutt, H. S.; Breeze, P. S.; Drake, N.; Stewart, M.; Albert, R.; Andrieux, E.; Blinkhorn, J.; Boivin, N. L. et al.; Budsky, A.; Clark-Wilson, R.; Fleitmann, D.; Gerdes, A.; Martin, A. N.; Martínez-García, A.; Nicholson, S. L.; Price, G. J.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Scholz, D.; Vanwezer, N.; Weber, M.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Omari, A. A. A.; Al-Mufarreh, Y. S. A.; Al-Jibreen, F.; Alqahtani, M.; Al-Shanti, M.; Zalmout, I.; Petraglia, M. D.; Haug, G. H.: Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years. Nature, s41586-025-08859-6 (2025)

Wang, H.; Caetano Andrade, V. L.; Boivin, N. L.; Clement, C. R.; Ayala, W. E.; Melinski, R. D.; da Costa, F. S.; Weigel, D.; Roberts, P.: Long-term human influence on the demography and genetic diversity of the hyperdominant Bertholletia excelsa in the Amazon Basin. Current Biology 35 (3), 023, pp. 629 - 639.e4 (2025)

Mercader, J.; Akuku, P.; Boivin, N. L.; Camacho, A.; Carter, T.; Clarke, S.; Cueva-Temprana, A.; Favreau, J.; Galloway, J.; Hernando, R. et al.; Huang, H.; Hubbard, S.; Kaplan, J. O.; Larter, S.; Magohe, S.; Mohamed, A.; Mwambwiga, A.; Oladele, A.; Petraglia, M.; Roberts, P.; Saladié, P.; Shikoni, A.; Silva, R.; Soto, M.; Stricklin, D.; Mekonnen, D. Z.; Zhao, W.; Durkin, P.: Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago. Communications Earth & Environment 6 (1), s43247-024-01919-1 (2025)

Amano, N.; Faulkner, P.; Wedage, O.; Clarkson, C.; Amila, D.; del Val, M.; Jurkenas, D.; Kapukotuwa, A.; López, G. I.; Pares, J. et al.; Pathmalal, M. M.; Smith, T.; Wright, M.; Roberts, P.; Petraglia, M.; Boivin, N.: Early Sri Lankan coastal site tracks technological change and estuarine resource exploitation over the last ca. 25,000 years. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 26693 (2024)

Yu, Y.; Wu, H.; Zhang, W.; Boivin, N.; Yu, J.; Zhang, J.; Zhou, X.; Luo, W.; Deng, C.; Ge, J. et al.; Guo, Z.: Climate and cultural evolution drove Holocene cropland change in the Huai River Valley, China. iScience 27 (10), 110841 (2024)

Boivin, N.; Täuber, S.; Mahmoudi, M.: Overcoming gender bias in STEM. Trends in Immunology 45 (7), 004, pp. 483 - 485 (2024)

Goldstein, S. T.; Mueller, N. G.; Janzen, A.; Ogola, C.; Dal Martello, R.; Fernandes, R.; Li, S.; Iminjili, V.; Juengst, S.; Odera Otwani, A. et al.; Sawchuk, E. A.; Wang, K.; Ndiema, E.; Boivin, N.: Early agriculture and crop transitions at Kakapel Rockshelter in the Lake Victoria region of eastern Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291 (2026), 20232747, pp. 1 - 12 (2024)

Antonosyan, M.; Hill, E.; Jodry, M.; Amano, N.; Brown, S.; Rick, T.; Boivin, N.: A new legacy: potential of zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry in the analysis of North American megafaunal remains. Frontiers in mammal science 3, 1399358 (2024)

Shoaee, M. J.; Vahdati Nasab, H.; Storozum, M.; Frenzel, P.; Akhavan Kharazian, M.; Fernandes, R.; Hashemi, S. M.; Jayez, M.; Amano, N.; Marzban Abbasabadi, B. et al.; Aalipoor, M.; Lucas, M.; Marzo, S.; Ilgner, J.; Patalano, R.; Roberts, P.; Boivin, N.; Petraglia, M.: Initial upper paleolithic in the Zagros Mountains. Frontiers in Earth Science 12, 1352099 (2024)

Stewart, M.; Andrieux, E.; Blinkhorn, J.; Guagnin, M.; Fernandes, R.; Vanwezer, N.; Hatton, A.; Alqahtani, M.; Zalmout, I.; Clark-Wilson, R. et al.; Al-Mufarreh, Y. S. A.; Al-Shanti, M.; Zahrani, B.; Al Omari, A.; Al-Jibreen, F.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Boivin, N.; Petraglia, M.; Groucutt, H. S.: First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: the archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia. PLOS ONE 19 (4), e0299292 (2024)

Antonosyan, M.; Roberts, P.; Aspaturyan, N.; Mkrtchyan, S.; Lucas, M.; Boxleitner, K.; Jabbour, F.; Hovhannisyan, A.; Cieślik, A.; Sahakyan, L. et al.; Avagyan, A.; Spengler, R.; Kandel, A. W.; Petraglia, M.; Boivin, N.; Yepiskoposyan, L.; Amano, N.: Multiproxy evidence for environmental stability in the lesser caucasus during the late pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 330, 108559, pp. 1 - 22 (2024)

Peters, C.; Richter, K. K.; Wilkin, S.; Stark, S.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Fernandes, R.; Maksudov, F.; Mirzaakhmedov, S.; Rahmonov, H.; Schirmer, S. et al.; Ashastina, K.; Begmatov, A.; Frachetti, M.; Kurbanov, S.; Shenkar, M.; Hermes, T.; Kidd, F.; Omelchenko, A.; Huber, B.; Boivin, N. L.; Wang, S.; Lurje, P.; von Baeyer, M.; Dal Martello, R.; Spengler III, R. N.: Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia. Nature Communications 15, 2697 (2024)

Jha, D.; Patalano, R.; Ilgner, J.; Achyuthan, H.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Armitage, S.; Blinkhorn, J.; Boivin, N.; Breeze, P. S.; Devra, R. et al.; Drake, N.; Groucutt, H. S.; Guagnin, M.; Roberts, P.; Petraglia, M.: Preservation of plant-wax biomarkers in deserts: implications for Quaternary environment and human evolutionary studies. Journal of Quaternary Science 39 (3), 3597, pp. 349 - 358 (2024)

Rowson, B.; Law, M.; Miller, J.; White, T.; Shipton, C.; Crowther, A.; Ndiema, E.; Petraglia, M.; Boivin, N. L.: A Quaternary sequence of terrestrial molluscs from East Africa: a record of diversity, stability, and abundance since Marine Isotope Stage 5 (78,000 BP). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 153 (1), 153/061-086, pp. 61 - 86 (2024)

Boivin, N.; Braje, T.; Rick, T.: New opportunities emerge as the Anthropocene epoch vote falls short. Nature Ecology & Evolution, s41559-024-02392-x (2024)

Kotarba-Morley, A. M.; Kourampas, N.; Morley, M. W.; MacAdams, C.; Crowther, A.; Faulkner, P.; Horton, M.; Boivin, N. L.: Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: contextualizing the archaeology of an early Islamic port of trade. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 19 (1), 2030441, pp. 57 - 91 (2024)

Ciesielska, J. A.; Stark, R. J.; Obłuski, A.; Boivin, N. L.; Lucas, M.; Le Roux, P.; Roberts, P.: Multi-isotopic investigation of population dynamics and mobility among rural medieval Christian communities at Ghazali, Northern Sudan. Journal of African archaeology 21 (2), 10028, pp. 131 - 153 (2023)

Peters, C.; Wang, Y.; Vakil, V.; Cramb, J.; Dortch, J.; Hocknull, S.; Lawrence, R.; Manne, T.; Monks, C.; Rössner, G. E. et al.; Ryan, H.; Siversson, M.; Ziegler, T.; Louys, J.; Price, G. J.; Boivin, N.; Collins, M. J.: Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years. Communications Earth & Environment 4 (1), 438 (2023)

Ventresca Miller, A. R.; Wilkin, S.; Smithers, R.; Larson, K.; Spengler, R.; Haruda, A.; Kradin, N.; Bazarov, B.; Miyagashev, D.; Odbaatar, T. et al.; Turbat, T.; Zhambaltarova, E.; Konovalov, P.; Bayarsaikhan, J.; Hein, A.; Hommel, P.; Nash, B.; Nayak, A.; Vanwezer, N.; Miller, B. K.; Fernandes, R.; Boivin, N.; Roberts, P.: Adaptability of millets and landscapes: ancient cultivation in North-Central Asia. Agronomy 13 (11), 2848 (2023)