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  1. High resolution multi-proxy analyses document Mid to Late-Holocene environmental change in arid Marsabit County, northern Kenya, East Africa

    Article • The Holocene, April 2026, SAGE Publications

    Professor Paul Lane

  2. Institutionalizing a “developer pays” Principle for Commercial Archaeology as Part of Changing China-Africa Economic Relations

    Article • African Archaeological Review, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul Lane

  3. Exploring the Interface Between Planetary Boundaries and Palaeoecology

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2025, Wiley

    Professor Paul Lane

  4. Developing Heritage Preservation on Ilha de Moçambique Using a Historic Urban Landscape Approach

    Article • Heritage, March 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Paul Lane

  5. Pathways from research to sustainable development: Insights from ten research projects in sustainability and resilience

    Article • AMBIO, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul Lane, Professor Patrik Zapata

  6. Archaeological science, globalisation, and local agency: gold in Great Zimbabwe

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul Lane

  7. Material assemblages and percolating pasts in Zigua households, north-eastern Tanzania

    Article • Journal of Social Archaeology, August 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Paul Lane

  8. Serengeti’s futures: Exploring land use and land cover change scenarios to craft pathways for meeting conservation and development goals

    Article • Frontiers in Conservation Science, September 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Paul Lane

  9. Changes to water management and declining pastoral resilience in Marsabit County, northern Kenya: The example of Gabra wells

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, September 2022, Wiley

    Professor Paul Lane

  10. Remote Sensing for Biocultural Heritage Preservation in an African Semi-Arid Region: A Case Study of Indigenous Wells in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia

    Article • Remote Sensing, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Paul Lane

  11. Weather Landscapes and Archaeology: Material Weathering Practices and Tangible Climates

    Article • Archéologie société et environnement, January 2022, ISTE OpenScience

    Professor Paul Lane

  12. Harvesting the winds, harvesting the rain: an introduction to the issue on Inhabiting tropical worlds

    Article • World Archaeology, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  13. Enhancing archaeology's role in addressing grand challenges needs more reflection on known unknowns

    Article • Antiquity, July 2021, Antiquity Publications

    Professor Paul Lane

  14. Rising from the Depths Network: A Challenge-Led Research Agenda for Marine Heritage and Sustainable Development in Eastern Africa

    Article • Heritage, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Paul Lane

  15. Late Holocene environmental change and anthropogenic: Ecosystem interaction on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya

    Article • AMBIO, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul Lane

  16. Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization

    Article • PLOS One, April 2021, PLOS

    Dr Andrea Kay, Professor Paul Lane

  17. Local animal economies during the nineteenth-century caravan trade along the Lower Pangani, northeastern Tanzania: a zooarchaeological perspective

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  18. Integrating stakeholders’ perspectives and spatial modelling to develop scenarios of future land use and land cover change in northern Tanzania

    Article • PLOS One, February 2021, PLOS

    Professor Paul Lane

  19. Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology: Conceptual Challenges and an East African Case Study

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, February 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul Lane

  20. African Archaeologists Honored at the Fourth Shanghai Archaeology Forum, December 2019

    Article • African Archaeological Review, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul Lane

  21. Integrating evidence of land use and land cover change for land management policy formulation along the Kenya-Tanzania borderlands

    Article • Anthropocene, December 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Paul Lane

  22. Distinct phases of natural landscape dynamics and intensifying human activity in the central Kenya Rift Valley during the past 1300 years

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, August 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Paul Lane

  23. Historical Ecologies of Pastoralist Overgrazing in Kenya: Long-Term Perspectives on Cause and Effect

    Article • Human Ecology, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul Lane

  24. Conservation through Biocultural Heritage—Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • Land, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Paul Lane

  25. Iron Production in North Pare, Tanzania: Archaeometallurgical and Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Landscape Change

    Article • African Archaeological Review, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul Lane

  26. Vulnerability, risk, resilience: an introduction

    Article • World Archaeology, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  27. Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Andrea Kay, Professor Paul Lane

  28. Pollen, People and Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Ecosystem Change at Amboseli, Kenya

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, January 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Paul Lane

  29. Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospects

    Article • PLOS One, February 2017, PLOS

    Professor Paul Lane

  30. Archaeologies of “Us” and “Them”

    Article • February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  31. Ethnogenesis and surplus food production: communitas and identity building among nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ilchamus, Lake Baringo, Kenya

    Article • World Archaeology, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  32. Editorial

    Article • World Archaeology, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  33. Mapping the Elephants of the 19th Century East African Ivory Trade with a Multi-Isotope Approach

    Article • PLOS One, October 2016, PLOS

    Professor Paul Lane

  34. The Green, Green Grass of Home: an archaeo-ecological approach to pastoralist settlement in central Kenya

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  35. NEW DIRECTIONS FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN EASTERN AFRICA?

    Article • The Journal of African History, June 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul Lane

  36. “Dust people”: Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity, and landscape

    Article • Journal of Eastern African Studies, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  37. Ethnoarchaeology: A Conceptual and Practical Bridging of the Intangible and Tangible Cultural Heritage Divide

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul Lane

  38. Migration and Interaction between Madagascar and Eastern Africa, 500 BCE–1000 CE: An Archaeological Perspective

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul Lane

  39. Editorial:Azaniaat Fifty

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  40. Archaeology in the age of the Anthropocene: A critical assessment of its scope and societal contributions

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  41. Iron production in second millennium AD pastoralist contexts on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  42. Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory

    Article • June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  43. ‘It wasmaendeleothat removed them’: disturbing burials and reciprocal knowledge production in a context of collaborative archaeology

    Article • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, May 2015, Wiley

    Professor Paul Lane

  44. Introduction: archaeological ivories in a global perspective

    Article • World Archaeology, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  45. When Did the Swahili Become Maritime?

    Article • American Anthropologist, January 2015, Wiley

    Professor Paul Lane

  46. Past perspectives for the future: foundations for sustainable development in East Africa

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, November 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Paul Lane

  47. Commentary: the only way is ethics

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  48. Maritime and Shipwreck Archaeology in the Western Indian Ocean and Southern Red Sea: An Overview of Past and Current Research

    Article • Journal of Maritime Archaeology, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Paul Lane

  49. Introduction: Slavery, Social Revolutions and Enduring Memories

    Article • November 2011, British Academy

    Professor Paul Lane

  50. Slavery and Slave Trading in Eastern Africa: Exploring the Intersections of Historical Sources and Archaeological Evidence

    Article • November 2011, British Academy

    Professor Paul Lane

  51. Slavery in Africa

    Article • November 2011, British Academy

    Professor Paul Lane

  52. Future Urban Growth and Archaeological Heritage Management: Some Implications for Research Activity in Africa

    Article • Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  53. Colin Breen & Daniel Rhodes. Archaeology and international development in Africa. 160 pages, 14 illustrations, 5 tables. 2010. London: Duckworth; 978-0-7156-3905-4 paperback £12.99.

    Article • Antiquity, May 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul Lane

  54. Possibilities for a postcolonial archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa: indigenous and usable pasts

    Article • World Archaeology, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  55. Developing Landscape Historical Ecologies in Eastern Africa: An Outline of Current Research and Potential Future Directions

    Article • African Studies, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  56. The Archaeology and History of Slavery in South Sudan in the Nineteenth Century

    Article • December 2009, British Academy

    Professor Paul Lane

  57. Yet more out of Africa and from people ‘without history’ - Pamela R. Willoughby. The evolution of modern humans in Africa: a comprehensive guide. xxii+440 pages, 45 illustrations, 6 tables. 2007. Lanham (MD): AltaMira; 978-0-7591-0118-0 ha...

    Article • Antiquity, March 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul Lane

  58. AFRICA, HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

    Article • January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Paul Lane

  59. Middle Holocene fishing strategies in East Africa: zooarchaeological analysis of Pundo, a Kansyore shell midden in northern Nyanza (Kenya)

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, January 2008, Wiley

    Professor Paul Lane

  60. Process-based models for port evolution and wreck site formation at Mombasa, Kenya

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, September 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Paul Lane

  61. The Archaeology of Time, by Gavin Lucas, 2005. London: Routledge; ISBN 0-415-31197-7 hardback £55 & US$95; ISBN 0-415-31198-5 paperback £14.99 & US$25.95; ix+150 pp., 20 figs., 2 tables

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, May 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul Lane

  62. The transition to farming in eastern Africa: new faunal and dating evidence from Wadh Lang'o and Usenge, Kenya

    Article • Antiquity, March 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul Lane

  63. New international frameworks for the protection of underwater cultural heritage in the Western Indian Ocean

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  64. Comments on Charlotte Damm (2005): Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Oral Traditions: Approaches to the Indigenous Past.Norwegian Archaeological Review 38, 73–87.

    Article • Norwegian Archaeological Review, June 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  65. New Dates for Kansyore and Urewe Wares from Northern Nyanza, Kenya

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  66. Doctor, doctor

    Article • Veterinary Record, November 2005, Wiley

    Professor Paul Lane

  67. Mid- to late-Holocene vegetation dynamics on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya

    Article • The Holocene, September 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor Paul Lane

  68. Public Archaeology

    Article • August 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  69. Archaeological approaches to East Africa’s changing seascapes

    Article • World Archaeology, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  70. The ‘moving frontier’ and the transition to food production in Kenya

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  71. Innocent Pikirayi. The Zimbabwe culture: origins and decline of southern Zambezian states. xxx+305 pages, 52 figures, 25 maps, 3 tables. 2001 Walnut Creek (CA): Altamira; 0-7591-0090-X hardback $65, 0-7591-0091-8 paperback $24.95.

    Article • Antiquity, December 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul Lane

  72. Richard Bradly. The Past Prehistoric Societies. xiv+171 pages, 54 figures, 10 tables. 2002. London and New York: Routledge; 0-415-27627-6 hardback, 0-415-27628-4 paperback.

    Article • Antiquity, March 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul Lane

  73. African archaeology today

    Article • Antiquity, December 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul Lane

  74. Soil erosion, iron smelting and human settlement in the Haubi Basin, north-central Tanzania

    Article • Antiquity, December 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul Lane

  75. Ulster and the Indian Ocean? Recent maritime archaeological research on the East African coast

    Article • Antiquity, December 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul Lane

  76. Book Reviews - Warren R. Perry. Landscape transformations and the archaeology of impact: social disruption and state formation in southern Africa. xv+180 pages, 23 figures, 1 table. 1999. New York (NY): Kluwer Academic Plenum; 0-306-459558...

    Article • Antiquity, December 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Paul Lane

  77. Tswana architecture and responses to colonialism

    Article • World Archaeology, February 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  78. The Use and Abuse of Ethnography in the Study of the Southern African Iron Age

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  79. Contributors

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  80. Tongwe Fort

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, January 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Paul Lane

  81. Present to Past: Ethnoarchaeology

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Paul Lane