Wolfgang Alders

Wolfgang Alders

Visiting Research Scholar at New York University. PhD, Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 2022

Press

Sun, Rachel. “WSU Anthropologists Work With Kalispel Tribe To Learn About Traditional Foods.” Northwest Public Broadcasting. December 2, 2021

Brown, Sydney. “What would you eat 500 years ago in the Pacific Northwest?” The Spokesman Review. November 25, 2021

Hunter, AnneMarie. “Through the Camas Plant, Archaeologist Bridges the Past, Present, and Future.” Washington State University Foundation. November 1, 2021

Publications

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Journal Articles

In Press Alders W., Musa, H. M.; Vuai, A.; Ali, A.; Juma, K. O.; Ubwa, A. H.; Manzi, Z. M.; Muhammed, H.; Suleiman, H. Raiding, refuge, and mobility on the eastern African Swahili Coast. Current Anthropology.

In Press Haji, F.; Haji, K. S.; Ally, A.; Alders, W.; Othman, B.; Mussa, M.; Kasala, A.; Hamad, H. F.; Khamis, A. A. Archaeological investigations at Pungume, a small island off the coast of southern Unguja in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Nyame Akuma.

2024 Alders, W. Rural settlement dynamics in a rapidly urbanizing landscape: insights from satellite remote sensing and archaeological field surveys in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The Journal of Field Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2024.2402962

2024 Alders, W., Davis, D.; Haines, J. Archaeology in the fourth dimension: studying landscapes with multitemporal PlanetScope satellite data. The Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-024-09644-x

2024 Alders W. Clientage, debt, and the integrative orientation of non-elites on the East African Swahili coast. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101553

2023 Alders W. Open-access archaeological predictive modeling using zonal statistics: a case study from Zanzibar, Tanzania. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology 6(1): 117-142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.107

2023 Alders W. The archaeology of social transformation in rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, eleventh to nineteenth centuries CE. 40(4): 741-760. African Archaeological Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-023-09523-y

2020 Alders W. Preliminary results of a 2019 survey in inland Zanzibar, Tanzania. Nyame Akuma 94: 38-45.

2016 Alders W. Archaeological survey and landscape history at Gede, Kenya. Nyame Akuma 85: 33-43.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS

(in prep) Dumitru, I.A., Kristiansen, S.M., Lupien R., Olsen, J., Alders, W., Romanowska, I., Sindbæk, S.M., Raja, R. Global climate event coincides with extreme drought and migrations in 6th – 7th centuries CE eastern Africa. (in prep for Science).

(in prep) Alders, W.; Lim, J.; Brunner, L. Testing associations between Baobab tree distributions and ancient settlements on offshore islands in eastern Africa. (in prep for Journal of Archaeological Science).

(in prep) Alders, W. An ecological model for eastern African coastal urbanism. (in prep for World Archaeology).

Dissertation

Alders, W. (2022). Uneven Ground: The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Berkeley: Department of Anthropology Dissertation, UC Berkeley. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3n46k1w9

Wolfgang Alders, 2024