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Ostrich eggshell bead diameter in the Holocene: Regional variation with the spread of herding in eastern and southern Africa by Miller, Jennifer M, Sawchuk, Elizabeth A

“…Despite their ubiquity in Holocene African archaeological assemblages, ostrich eggshell (OES) beads are rarely studied in detail. An exception is in southern…”
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A monumental cemetery built by eastern Africa’s first herders near Lake Turkana, Kenya by Hildebrand, Elisabeth A., Grillo, Katherine M., Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Pfeiffer, Susan K., Conyers, Lawrence B., Goldstein, Steven T., Hill, Austin Chad, Janzen, Anneke, Klehm, Carla E., Helper, Mark, Kiura, Purity, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Ngugi, Cecilia, Shea, John J., Wang, Hong

“…Monumental architecture is a prime indicator of social complexity, because it requires many people to build a conspicuous structure commemorating shared…”
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The Jarigole mortuary tradition reconsidered by Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Hildebrand, Elisabeth A., Hill, Austin Chad, Contreras, Daniel A., Edung, Justus Erus, Janzen, Anneke, Kurewa, Abdikadir, Munene, James K., Ndiema, Emmanuel, Grillo, Katherine M.

“…The megalithic pillar sites found around Lake Turkana, Kenya, are monumental cemeteries built approximately 5000 years ago. Their construction coincides with…”
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The bioarchaeology of mid-Holocene pastoralist cemeteries west of Lake Turkana, Kenya by Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Pfeiffer, Susan, Klehm, Carla E., Cameron, Michelle E., Hill, Austin C., Janzen, Anneke, Grillo, Katherine M., Hildebrand, Elisabeth A.

“…Early herders in eastern Africa built elaborate megalithic cemeteries ~ 5000 BP overlooking what is now Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya. At least six…”
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Reconciling Archaeology and Legacy at Gishimangeda Cave, Tanzania by Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Prendergast, Mary E.

“…Gishimangeda Cave, near Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania, exemplifies many challenges inherent in studying poorly documented “legacy collections” in African…”
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Ancient DNA reveals a multistep spread of the first herders into sub-Saharan Africa by Prendergast, Mary E, Lipson, Mark, Sawchuk, Elizabeth A, Olalde, Iñigo, Ogola, Christine A, Rohland, Nadin, Sirak, Kendra A, Adamski, Nicole, Bernardos, Rebecca, Broomandkhoshbacht, Nasreen, Callan, Kimberly, Culleton, Brendan J, Eccles, Laurie, Harper, Thomas K, Lawson, Ann Marie, Mah, Matthew, Oppenheimer, Jonas, Stewardson, Kristin, Zalzala, Fatma, Ambrose, Stanley H, Ayodo, George, Gates, Jr, Henry Louis, Gidna, Agness O, Katongo, Maggie, Kwekason, Amandus, Mabulla, Audax Z P, Mudenda, George S, Ndiema, Emmanuel K, Nelson, Charles, Robertshaw, Peter, Kennett, Douglas J, Manthi, Fredrick K, Reich, David

“…How food production first entered eastern Africa ~5000 years ago and the extent to which people moved with livestock is unclear. We present genome-wide data…”
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Early agriculture and crop transitions at Kakapel Rockshelter in the Lake Victoria region of eastern Africa by Goldstein, Steven T, Mueller, Natalie G, Janzen, Anneke, Ogola, Christine, Dal Martello, Rita, Fernandes, Ricardo, Li, Sophia, Iminjili, Victor, Juengst, Sara, Odera Otwani, Anthony, Sawchuk, Elizabeth A, Wang, Ke, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Boivin, Nicole

“…The histories of African crops remain poorly understood despite their contemporary importance. Integration of crops from western, eastern and northern Africa…”
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Social change and human population movements - dental morphology in Holocene Eastern Africa by Sawchuk, Elizabeth A.

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Charting a landmark-driven path forward for population genetics and ancient DNA research in Africa by Sawchuk, Elizabeth A, Sirak, Kendra A, Manthi, Fredrick K, Ndiema, Emmanuel K, Ogola, Christine A, Prendergast, Mary E, Reich, David, Aluvaala, Eva, Ayodo, George, Badji, Lamine, Bird, Nancy, Black, Wendy, Fregel, Rosa, Gachihi, Njeri, Gibbon, Victoria E, Gidna, Agness, Goldstein, Steven T, Hamad, Reem, Hassan, Hisham Y, Hayes, Vanessa M, Hellenthal, Garrett, Kebede, Solomon, Kurewa, Abdikadir, Kusimba, Chapurukha, Kyazike, Elizabeth, Lane, Paul J, MacEachern, Scott, Massilani, Diyendo, Mbua, Emma, Morris, Alan G, Mutinda, Christina, M'Mbogori, Freda Nkirote, Reynolds, Austin W, Tishkoff, Sarah, Vilar, Miguel, Yimer, Getnet

“…Population history-focused DNA and ancient DNA (aDNA) research in Africa has dramatically increased in the past decade, enabling increasingly fine-scale…”
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Human burials at the Kisese II rockshelter, Tanzania by Laird, Myra F., Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Kwekason, Amandus, Mabulla, Audax Z. P., Ndiema, Emmanuel, Tryon, Christian A., Lewis, Jason E., Ranhorn, Kathryn L.

“…Objectives The Late Pleistocene and early Holocene in eastern Africa are associated with complex evolutionary and demographic processes that contributed to the…”
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Terminal Pleistocene Later Stone Age Human Remains from the Mlambalasi Rock Shelter, Iringa Region, Southern Tanzania by Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Willoughby, Pamela R.

“…This paper introduces research at the Mlambalasi rock shelter in the Iringa Region of southern Tanzania. The deposits are composed of a historic and Iron Age…”
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Land Snail Shell Beads in the Sub-Saharan Archaeological Record: When, Where, and Why? by Miller, Jennifer M., Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Reedman, Amy L. R., Willoughby, Pamela R.

“…Shell beads are well established in the archaeological record of sub-Saharan Africa and appear as early as 75,000 BP; however, most research has focused on…”
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Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa by Roberts, Patrick, Prendergast, Mary E., Janzen, Anneke, Shipton, Ceri, Blinkhorn, James, Zech, Jana, Crowther, Alison, Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Stewart, Mathew, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Petraglia, Michael, Boivin, Nicole

“…The ecological adaptations that stimulated the dispersal and technological strategies of our species during the Late Pleistocene remain hotly disputed, with…”
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Cemeteries on a moving frontier: Mortuary practices and the spread of pastoralism from the Sahara into eastern Africa by Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Goldstein, Steven T., Grillo, Katherine M., Hildebrand, Elisabeth A.

“…•Herders created complex cemeteries as pastoralism spread from North to East Africa.•Cemetery construction is rare among recent East African herders.•The…”
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Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers by Lipson, Mark, Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Thompson, Jessica C., Oppenheimer, Jonas, Tryon, Christian A., Ranhorn, Kathryn L., de Luna, Kathryn M., Sirak, Kendra A., Olalde, Iñigo, Ambrose, Stanley H., Arthur, John W., Arthur, Kathryn J. W., Ayodo, George, Bertacchi, Alex, Cerezo-Román, Jessica I., Culleton, Brendan J., Curtis, Matthew C., Davis, Jacob, Gidna, Agness O., Hanson, Annalys, Kaliba, Potiphar, Katongo, Maggie, Kwekason, Amandus, Laird, Myra F., Lewis, Jason, Mabulla, Audax Z. P., Mapemba, Fredrick, Morris, Alan, Mudenda, George, Mwafulirwa, Raphael, Mwangomba, Daudi, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Ogola, Christine, Schilt, Flora, Willoughby, Pamela R., Wright, David K., Zipkin, Andrew, Pinhasi, Ron, Kennett, Douglas J., Manthi, Fredrick Kyalo, Rohland, Nadin, Patterson, Nick, Reich, David, Prendergast, Mary E.

“…Multiple lines of genetic and archaeological evidence suggest that there were major demographic changes in the terminal Late Pleistocene epoch and early…”
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Corrigendum to “Cemeteries on a moving frontier: Mortuary practices and the spread of pastoralism from the Sahara into eastern Africa” [J. Anthropol. Archaeol. 51 (2018) 187–205] by Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Goldstein, Steven T., Grillo, Katherine M., Hildebrand, Elisabeth A.

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Ancient DNA Reveals a Multi-Step Spread of the First Herders into Sub-Saharan Africa by Prendergast, Mary E., Lipson, Mark, Sawchuk, Elizabeth A., Olalde, Iñigo, Ogola, Christine A., Rohland, Nadin, Sirak, Kendra A., Adamski, Nicole, Bernardos, Rebecca, Broomandkhoshbacht, Nasreen, Callan, Kimberly, Culleton, Brendan J., Eccles, Laurie, Harper, Thomas K., Lawson, Ann Marie, Mah, Matthew, Oppenheimer, Jonas, Stewardson, Kristin, Zalzala, Fatma, Ambrose, Stanley H., Ayodo, George, Gates, Henry Louis, Gidna, Agness O., Katongo, Maggie, Kwekason, Amandus, Mabulla, Audax Z.P., Mudenda, George S., Ndiema, Emmanuel K., Nelson, Charles, Robertshaw, Peter, Kennett, Douglas J., Manthi, Fredrick K., Reich, David

“…How food production first entered eastern Africa ~5000 years ago and the extent to which people moved with livestock is unclear. We present genome-wide data…”
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M. C. Gatto, D. J. Mattingly, N. Ray, and M. M. Sterry (Eds.): Burials, Migration, and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019, 561 pp., ISBN 978-1-108-47408-5 by Sawchuk, Elizabeth A.

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M. C. Gatto, D. J. Mattingly, N. Ray, and M. M. Sterry (Eds.): Burials, Migration, and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond by Sawchuk, Elizabeth A

“…This edited book is reviewed…”
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