East African landscapes today are the result of the cumulative effects of climate and land-
use change over millennial timescales. In this review, we compile archaeological and …

Abstract The Iron Age transition in sub-Saharan Africa represents a time when the
relationship between humans and their environment was fundamentally altered at near …

The Austronesian settlement of the remote island of Madagascar remains one of the great
puzzles of Indo-Pacific prehistory. Although linguistic, ethnographic, and genetic evidence …

Recent archaeological research has firmly established eastern Africa's offshore islands as
important localities for understanding the region's pre-Swahili maritime adaptations and …

While Africa has sometimes been peripheral to accounts of the early Indian Ocean world,
studies of food globalisation necessarily place it centre stage. Africa has dispatched and …

Sorghum bicolor, one of the world's five most important crops, originated in Africa. While this
has long been clear, accumulating data from both archaeobotany and genetics, provides the …

The spread of agriculture across sub-Saharan Africa has long been attributed to the large-
scale migration of Bantu-speaking groups out of their west Central African homeland from …

Recent archaeological excavations at the seventh-to tenth-century CE sites of Unguja Ukuu
and Fukuchani on Zanzibar Island have produced large numbers of glass beads that shed …

Madagascar poses a significant challenge for understanding how people colonized islands.
While its inhabitants also share an African ancestry, language, genetics, and culture all point …

With rising sea levels at the end of the Pleistocene, land-bridge or continental islands were
formed around the world. Many of these islands have been extensively studied from a …