Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas

Research output

Research output per year 1998 2006 2010 2011 2012 2013 2016 2018 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

• 139 Article
• 83 Chapter
• 40 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 28 Book
• 68 More
  • 19 Book/Film/Article review
  • 11 Editorial
  • 7 Paper
  • 6 Exhibition
  • 5 Digital or Visual Products
  • 5 Other contribution
  • 4 Comment/debate
  • 2 Exhibition Catalogue
  • 2 Other report
  • 2 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 2 Review article
  • 1 Poster
  • 1 Artefact
  • 1 Web publication/site

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  A coastal occupation in Bénin, West Africa: Earthenwares and salt at the time of Atlantic entanglement

  Haour, A., Coulson, I., N'Dah, D. & Labiyi, N., Apr 2024, In: Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology. 19, 2, p. 249-268 20 p.

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• Aerial, surface, and subsurface multimodal mapping in Coastal Peru: Insights from Cerro San Isidro, Moro Region, Nepeña Valley

  Golay Lausanne, K., Chicoine, D., Navarro Vega, J. & Lau, G. F., May 2024, In: Advances in Archaeological Practice. 12, 2, p. 143-155 13 p.

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• Le Fare Iamanaha - Musée de Tahiti et des Îles, au coeur d'une souveraineté culturelle en renouvellement

  Translated title of the contribution: The Fare Iamanaha - Musée de Tahiti et des Îles at the heart of an emerging cultural sovereigntyNyssen, G., 10 Sep 2024, In: Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes. 158-159, p. 151-164

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Making beads and bead making: an introduction. Azania: Archeological Research in Africa, special issue

  Haour, A. & Moffett, A. J., 14 Oct 2024, In: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Poking holes in things: A view from the museum

  Wingfield, C., Dec 2024, In: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 59, 4, p. 606-626 21 p.

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• Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade

  Wang, X., Haour, A. & Oelze, V., 30 Dec 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, p. 10891 10891.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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• Textile Weaving (Aṣọ-Òkè) at Ologbin-Adewole Northern Yorubaland, Nigeria

  Abdulmalik, A. A. & Daraojimba, K. C., Mar 2024, In: TEXTILE. 22, 1, p. 102-114 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2023

  A cowrie workshop in the royal palaces of Abomey, Republic of Benin

  Haour, A., Ndah, D. & Christie, A., 2023, In: Nyame Akuma. 99, p. 6-11 6 p.

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• Amantecayotl glyphs revisited: Writing and featherworking in the Florentine Codex

  Zamora Corona, A. R. & Savkic Sebek, S., 29 Jun 2023, In: Miradas. 7, p. 29-54 16 p.

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• Exhibiting the Taboo of Museums of Ethnography

  Debrosse, C., 10 Oct 2023, In: ICOFOM Study Series. 51, 1-2, p. 73-83 11 p.

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• Global connections and connected communities in the African past: Stories from cowrie shells

  Haour, A. & Moffett, A., 6 Sep 2023, In: African Archaeological Review. 40, 3, p. 545-553 9 p.

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• Introdução ao dossiê Antropologia, arqueologia e linguística no Alto Xingu (primeira parte)

  Translated title of the contribution: Introduction to dossier Anthropology, archaeology and linguistics in the Upper XinguBarcelos Neto, A. & Valentini, L., 2023, In: Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas.

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• Introdução ao dossiê Antropologia, arqueologia e linguística no Alto Xingu (segunda parte)

  Translated title of the contribution: Introduction to dossier Anthropology, archaeology and linguistics in the Upper XinguBarcelos Neto, A. & Valentini, L., Nov 2023, In: Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas. 18, 1, e20230037.

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• On the journey to sainthood: Father Damien and the presentation of missionary work in nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi in a Belgian museum

  Jacobs, K., Mar 2023, In: Material Religion. 19, 1, p. 1-33 33 p.

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  1 Citation (Scopus)

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• Public Space: Ivan Argote's playground

  Debrosse, C., 15 Mar 2023, Roots Routes Magazine, 41.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

• Rename/Repair: Sasha Huber's Creative Gesture

  Debrosse, C., 2023, Convergence Magazine, 3, p. 36-47 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• The rise of native lordships at Pashash, A.D. 200–600, North Highlands of Ancash, Peru

  Lau, G. F., Luján Dávila, M., Bongers, J. L. & Chicoine, D., Jan 2023, In: Journal of Field Archaeology. 48, 1, p. 36-54 19 p.

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  3 Citations (Scopus)

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• 2022

  An examination of Recuay kaolin pottery production and exchange through petrography and LA-ICP-MS (100–700 CE; Ancash, Peru)

  Grávalos, M. E., Bria, R. E. & Lau, G. F., Dec 2022, In: Archaeometry. 64, 6, p. 1340-1358 19 p.

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  4 Citations (Scopus)

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• A preliminary report of potsherd pavements in Northern Nigeria: a new light from Zigam hilltop site, Bauchi state, Nigeria

  Abdulmalik, A. A., 28 Dec 2022, In: Nyame Akuma. 98, p. 52-57 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Bottled Ocean 2120: George Nuku, the Ocean, plastic and the role of artists in discussing climate change

  Jacobs, K., Oct 2022, In: World Art. 12, 3, p. 213-238 26 p.

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  1 Citation (Scopus)

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• South Asian Artefactual Histories from the London Missionary Society Museum, 1814-1826

  Wingfield, C., 31 Dec 2022, In: Südasien-Chronik - South Asia Chronicle. 12, p. 91-131 41 p.

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• Stringing together cowrie shells in the African archaeological record with special reference to southern Africa

  Moffett, A. J., Tendai Nyamushosho, R., Bandama, F. & Chirikure, S., Sep 2022, In: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 29, 3, p. 862-901 40 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  4 Citations (Scopus)

  19 Downloads (Pure)

• Survey and excavations in Ilorin, Nigeria: A first archaeological insight

  Owoseni, B. & Haour, A., 2022, In: Nyame Akuma.

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• West African cultural landscape: Settlement distribution, environmental determinism and material interpretation of Zigam hill-top settlement, Nigeria

  Abdulmalik, A. A., 10 Oct 2022, In: Journal of Tourism and Heritage Studies. 11, 2, p. 57-68 12 p.

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• Youth at the ethnography museum: Urban Pathways: Fiji. Youth. Arts. Culture

  Jacobs, K., 20 Mar 2022, In: Journal of Museum Ethnography. 35, p. 63-74 12 p.

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• 2021

  A flauta-jaguar e outros aerofones wauja: uma contribuição xinguana ao instrumentarium zoologica Amazonia

  Translated title of the contribution: The jaguar-flute and other Wauja aerophones: a Xinguano contribution to the instrumentarium zoologica AmazoniaBarcelos Neto, A., 1 Dec 2021, In: Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas. 16, 3, p. 1-19 20 p., e20200127.

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• Animating Idolatry: Making ancestral kin and personhood in ancient Peru

  Lau, G. F., May 2021, In: Religions. 12, 5, 18 p., 287.

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  5 Citations (Scopus)

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• Ceramic and aceramic cultures of north-western Nigeria: A preliminary report of Dutsen Murhu excavation, Birnin-Kudu

  Abdulmalik, A. A. & Disa, H. H., 11 Nov 2021, In: Gombe Journal of General Studies. 5, 1, p. 21-30 10 p.

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• Early urbanization in West Africa: An archaeological evidence from Birnin-Kudu settlement

  Abdulmalik, A. A., Disa, H. H. & Ibrahim, N., 1 Mar 2021, In: African Scholar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 20, 6, p. 1-10 10 p.

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• Expanding the history of past settlements of north-eastern Nigeria: A report of preliminary survey of Zigam settlement in Bauchi State

  Abdulmalik, A. A., Sule, A. S. & Giade, A. A., 3 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Archaeology and Tourism Research. 1, 1, p. 19-31 11 p.

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• Faire parler la panthère – Bribes de Christian Lattier

  Translated title of the contribution: Make the panther speak - Fragments of Christian LattierNyssen, G., 30 Apr 2021, In: Carnet Hypothèse "Festival mondial des arts nègres de Dakar".

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• Llamas and the lordly commitment: an offering context and Recuay camelid imagery at Pashash (ca. 200-600 CE), Ancash, Peru

  Lau, G., Oct 2021, In: Americae.

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• Religion a widget of culture in African societies

  Abdulmalik, A. A. & Musa, A. A., 1 Jun 2021, In: African Scholar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 21, 5, p. 53-62 10 p.

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• Shells and pottery – a preliminary survey of medieval sites along the Red Sea coast of Sudan

  Haour, A., 2021, In: Nyame Akuma. 95

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• Solomon Islands carved coconut used in the practice of teeth blackening

  Debrosse, C., 31 May 2021, In: Oceanic Art Society Journal. 26, 2

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• When plastic becomes sacred, George Nuku’s Bottled Ocean project

  Nyssen, G., 28 Nov 2021, In: Oceanic Art Society Journal. 2, p. 4-7 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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• 2020

  A paleogenomic reconstruction of the deep population history of the Andes

  Nakatsuka, N., Lazaridis, I., Barbieri, C., Skoglund, P., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Posth, C., Harkins-Kinkaid, K., Ferry, M., Harney, E., Michel, M., Stewardson, K., Novak-Forst, J., Capriles, J., Durruty, M. A., Alvarez, K. A., Beresford-Jones, D., Burger, R., Cadwallader, L., Isla, J., & 29 othersFujita, R., Lau, G., Lemuz Aguirre, C., LeBlanc, S., Calla Maldonado, S., Meddens, F., Messineo, P., Culleton, B., Harper, T., Quilter, J., Politis, G., Rademaker, K., Reindel, M., Rivera, M., Salazar, L., Sandoval, J., Santoro, C., Scheifler, N., Standen, V., Barreto, M. I., Flores Espinoza, I., Tomasto-Cagigao, E., Valverde, G., Kennett, D., Krause, J., Haak, W., Llamas, B., Reich, D. & Fehren-Schmitz, L., 28 May 2020, In: Cell. 181, p. 1131-1145.e21 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Crafting power: New perspectives on the political economy of southern Africa, AD 900–1300

  Moffett, A. J. & Hall, S., Sep 2020, In: Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 59, 101180.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Divining value: Cowries, the ancestral realm and the global in southern Africa

  Moffett, A. J. & Hall, S., May 2020, In: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 30, 2, p. 313-326 14 p.

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  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Ethnoichthyology of fishing communities in the Lower Valley of Ouémé in Benin, West Africa

  Djidohokpin, G., Sossoukpè, E., Adandé, R., Voudounnou, J. V., Fiogbé, E. D. & Haour, A., 16 Oct 2020, In: Ethnobiology Letters. 11, 1, p. 137–151 15 p.

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• Integration of ancient DNA with transdisciplinary dataset finds strong support for Inca resettlement in the south Peruvian coast

  Bongers, J., Nakatsuka, N., O'Shea, C., Harper, T., Tantaleán, H., Stanish, C. & Fehren-Schmitz, L., 4 Aug 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117, 31, p. 18359-18368 10 p.

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  19 Citations (Scopus)

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• Pulupulu e warayumia: história e imagética do trocano do Alto Xingu

  Translated title of the contribution: Pulupulu and warayumia: history and imagery of the Upper Xingu giant drumBarcelos Neto, A., 2020, In: Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas. 15, 3, p. 1-25 25 p., e20190092.

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  4 Citations (Scopus)

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• Water, geography, and Aksumite civilization: The Southern Red Sea Archaeological Histories (SRSAH) project survey (2009–2016)

  Harrower, M., Nathan, S., Mazzariello, J., Zerue, K., Dumitru, I., Meresa, Y., Bongers, J., Gebreegziabher, G., Zaitchik, B. & Anderson, M., Mar 2020, In: African Archaeological Review. 37, 1, p. 51-67 17 p.

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  17 Citations (Scopus)

• YouTube: A veritable platform for the promotion and preservation of Africa's heritage

  Abdulmalik, A. A., Baduku, A. S. & Daniel, N. H., 12 Aug 2020, In: Zaria Archaeology Paper (ZAP). 13, 1, p. 125-135 11 p.

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• 2019

  An Inka offering at Yayno (North Highlands, Peru): Objects, subjects and gifts in the ancient Andes

  Lau, G. F., 1 Feb 2019, In: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 29, 1, p. 159-179 21 p.

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  4 Citations (Scopus)

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• A "safe space" to debate colonial legacy: The University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the campaign to return a looted Benin altarpiece to Nigeria

  Zetterstrom-Sharp, J. & Wingfield, C., 2019, In: Museum Worlds: Advances in Research. 7, 1, p. 1-22 22 p.

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  6 Citations (Scopus)

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• Beta Samati: discovery and excavation of an Aksumite town

  Harrower, M. J., Dumitru, I. A., Perlingieri, C., Nathan, S., Zerue, K., Lamont, J. L., Bausi, A., Swerida, J. L., Bongers, J. L., Woldekiros, H. S., Poolman, L. A., Pohl, C. M., Brandt, S. A. & Peterson, E. A., Dec 2019, In: Antiquity. 93, 372, p. 1534-1552 19 p.

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  26 Citations (Scopus)

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• Cataloguing cowries: a standardised strategy to record six key species of cowrie shell from the West African archaeological record

  Christie, A., Grant, A. & Haour, A., Dec 2019, In: African Archaeological Review. 36, 4, p. 479–504 26 p.

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  7 Citations (Scopus)

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• Cowries in the archaeology of West Africa: the present picture

  Haour, A. & Christie, A., 2019, In: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 54, 3, p. 287-321

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  14 Citations (Scopus)

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• 2018

  No Big Brother here: Heterarchy, Shona political succession and the relationship between Great Zimbabwe and Khami, Southern Africa

  Chirikure, S., Mukwende, T., Moffett, A. J., Nyamushosho, R. T., Bandama, F. & House, M., 2018, In: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 28, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  23 Citations (Scopus)