Alison Crowther – The Conversation

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November 9, 2023

Farmers or foragers? Pre‑colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple

Michael Westaway, The University of Queensland; Alison Crowther, The University of Queensland; Nathan Wright, University of New England; Robert Henry, The University of Queensland, and Rodney Carter, Indigenous Knowledge

For a decade, debate has raged over Dark Emu’s account of Aboriginal agriculture. But ancient food production in Australia is more complex than labels like farming or hunter-gathering suggest.

Anna Kotarba-Morley

February 28, 2022

At Unguja Ukuu, human activity transformed the coast of Zanzibar more than 1,000 years ago

Anna M. Kotarba-Morley, Flinders University; Alison Crowther, The University of Queensland; Mike W. Morley, Flinders University, and Nicole Boivin, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Human waste created the landscape for a medieval Indian Ocean trading port and may eventually have led to its demise.

Mohammad Javad Shoaee

May 5, 2021

A cave site in Kenya’s forests reveals the oldest human burial in Africa

Alison Crowther, The University of Queensland and Patrick Faulkner, University of Sydney

A small child buried almost 80,000 years ago in a cave in Kenya shows how ancient humans treated the dead.

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