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Department of Archaeology

 

Biography

Paul Lane is the retiring Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa and Mandela Magdalene Memorial Fellow, at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he is the Principal Investigator of the Landscape Historical Ecology and Archaeology of Ancient Pastoralists (LHEAAPS) and the Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments (MAEASaM) projects. He is an anthropologically- and historically- oriented archaeologist with over forty years of research and teaching experience in African archaeology, focusing on the last ca. 6000 years. He was trained in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, completing his BA degree in 1979 and doctoral research on the intersections of space and time among Dogon communities, Mali, West Africa in 1986. He taught archaeology and museum studies at the University of Dar es Salaam (1989-91) and the University of Botswana (1992-97). Both posts entailed development of archaeology curricula suited to meeting the needs of a new generation of African researchers. From 1998 to 2006, he was Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, a regional research institute aimed at undertaking and facilitating research across the humanities and social sciences, before joining the University of York, UK, in 2007 as director of the Marie Curie Excellence Project Historical Ecologies East African Landscapes. From 2013-2018, he was Professor of Global Archaeology at Uppsala University, Sweden, during which time he led a Marie Curie Innovative Training Network on Resilience in East African Landscapes, and a related project on Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change in NW Tanzania. His research focuses on demonstrating the applied relevance of knowledge about the past to meeting contemporary needs with special emphasis on building local capacity through research and knowledge co-production with collaborators drawn from academia and local communities.

Research

I am presently involved in the following research and training projects:

2025-29Principal Investigator, Landscape Historical Ecologies of Ancient African Pastoralists (LHEAAPS) European Research Council Advanced Grant / UKRI Frontier Research for research on the Pastoral Iron Age of Kenya, £1.56 million
2025-27Principal Investigator, Climates of Change Around Lake Chalbi, Kenya: Developing a Deep History of Human-Environment Interactions. Mastercard Foundation and University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund £19,306.
2024-29Principal Investigator Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments, Arcadia Foundation, for mapping and documentation of archaeological sites & monuments in eight sub-Saharan African countries, £5.3 million. Co-Investigators: Professor Stephanie Wynne-Jones, University of York; Professor Kevin MacDonald, University College London; Professor Innocent Pikirayi, University of Pretoria; Professor Anneli Ekblom, Uppsala University; Professor Ibrahima Thiaw, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar; Professor Hilario Madiquida, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo; Dr Kennedy Gitu, British Institute in Easter Africa. Nairobi., Drs Alexander Livingstone-Smith and Dr Nicolas Nikis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels.
2023-25Principal Investigator European Union Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (Dr Kingsley Daraojimba), Social settlement dynamics and environmental processes in pre-colonial Nigeria: growing the Igbo-Ukwu cultural landscape (SosDen) €224,933.

Publication

Journal articles

2026 (Published online)

Muiruri, V., Courtney-Mustaphi, C., Marchant, R., Nkirote M’Mbogori, F., Minya, A. and Lane, PJ., 2026 (Published online). High resolution multi-proxy analyses document Mid to Late-Holocene environmental change in arid Marsabit County, northern Kenya, East Africa The Holocene,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/09596836261432467

2025 (Published online)

Lane, PJ., M’Mbogori, FN., Godana, HW., Kuria, MW., Kanyingi, J., Abduba, K. and Mohamed, AA., 2025 (Published online). Climates of Change in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia: From Scientific Data to Applied Knowledge Heritage, v. 8
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/heritage8090352

2025 (Accepted for publication)

Lane, PJ., 2025 (Accepted for publication). Institutionalizing a “developer pays” Principle for Commercial Archaeology as Part of Changing China-Africa Economic Relations African Archaeological Review,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-025-09616-w

Ochungo, P., Sagna, N., Neema, V., Akintayo, A., Athie, A., Kabiru, A., Ndiaye, A., Michaut, E., Merlo, S. and Lane, P., 2025 (Accepted for publication). Shoreline dynamics and cultural heritage sites in Kenya, Tanzania, and Senegal: integrating remote sensing and archaeological knowledge Journal of Maps, v. 21
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2025.2487454

Mustaphi, CJC., Camara-Brugger, SO., Chellman, NJ., Muñoz, S., Kariuki, RW., Damber, M., Shoemaker, A., Ekblom, A., Munishi, L., Lane, P., Marchant, R. and Heiri, O., 2025 (Accepted for publication). Multiple paleofire proxy metrics from tropical lake sediment and soil in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem Holocene,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/09596836251340882

2025

Courtney Mustaphi, CJ., Camara-Brugger, SO., Ekblom, A., Munishi, L., Kariuki, R., Shoemaker, A., Lane, P. and Marchant, R., 2025. Multiporate Poaceae pollen grains observed in the recent fossil record from the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem and Lake Victoria region Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 333
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105240

Gillson, L., Seddon, A., Mottl, O., Zhang, K., Kirsten, K., Gell, P., Marchant, RA., Schwörer, C., Razanatsoa, E., Lane, PJ., Courtney-Mustaphi, CJ. and Dearing, J., 2025. Exploring the Interface Between Planetary Boundaries and Palaeoecology. Glob Chang Biol, v. 31
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70017

2024 (Published online)

Macamo, S., Raimundo, M., Moffett, A. and Lane, P., 2024 (Published online). Developing Heritage Preservation on Ilha de Moçambique Using a Historic Urban Landscape Approach Heritage, v. 7
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7040095

2024

Scaini, A., Mulligan, J., Berg, H., Brangarí, A., Bukachi, V., Carenzo, S., Chau Thi, D., Courtney-Mustaphi, C., Ekblom, A., Fjelde, H., Fridahl, M., Hansson, A., Hicks, L., Höjer, M., Juma, B., Kain, J-H., Kariuki, RW., Kim, S., Lane, P., Leizeaga, A., Lindborg, R., Livsey, J., Lyon, SW., Marchant, R., McConville, JR., Munishi, L., Nilsson, D., Olang, L., Olin, S., Olsson, L., Rogers, PM., Rousk, J., Sandén, H., Sasaki, N., Shoemaker, A., Smith, B., Thai Huynh Phuong, L., Varela Varela, A., Venkatappa, M., Vico, G., Von Uexkull, N., Wamsler, C., Wondie, M., Zapata, P., Zapata Campos, MJ., Manzoni, S. and Tompsett, A., 2024. Pathways from research to sustainable development: Insights from ten research projects in sustainability and resilience. Ambio, v. 53
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01968-4

Sawchuk, EA., Sirak, KA., Manthi, FK., Ndiema, EK., Ogola, CA., Prendergast, ME., Reich, D., Aluvaala, E., Ayodo, G., Badji, L., Bird, N., Black, W., Fregel, R., Gachihi, N., Gibbon, VE., Gidna, A., Goldstein, ST., Hamad, R., Hassan, HY., Hayes, VM., Hellenthal, G., Kebede, S., Kurewa, A., Kusimba, C., Kyazike, E., Lane, PJ., MacEachern, S., Massilani, D., Mbua, E., Morris, AG., Mutinda, C., M'Mbogori, FN., Reynolds, AW., Tishkoff, S., Vilar, M. and Yimer, G., 2024. Charting a landmark-driven path forward for population genetics and ancient DNA research in Africa. Am J Hum Genet, v. 111
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.05.019

2023 (Accepted for publication)

Vieri, J., Chirikure, S., Lane, P. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2023 (Accepted for publication). Archaeological science, globalisation, and local agency: gold in Great Zimbabwe Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01811-7

2023

Lane, PJ. and Michaut, E., 2023. Material assemblages and percolating pasts in Zigua households, north-eastern Tanzania Journal of Social Archaeology, v. 23
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/14696053231185636

Lane, PJ., 2023. Hearth and home in the Iron Age of eastern Africa: ethnographic models, historical linguistics and archaeological evidence SOUTHERN AFRICAN HUMANITIES, v. 36

2022 (Published online)

Ochungo, P., Khalaf, N., Merlo, S., Beldados, A., M’Mbogori, FN., Tiki, W. and Lane, PJ., 2022 (Published online). Remote Sensing for Biocultural Heritage Preservation in an African Semi-Arid Region: A Case Study of Indigenous Wells in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia Remote Sensing, v. 14
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/rs14020314

Kariuki, RW., Capitani, C., Munishi, LK., Shoemaker, A., Mustaphi, CJC., William, N., Lane, PJ. and Marchant, R., 2022 (Published online). Serengeti’s futures: Exploring land use and land cover change scenarios to craft pathways for meeting conservation and development goals Frontiers in Conservation Science, v. 3
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2022.920143

2022

Muiruri, V., Marchant, R., Rucina, SM., Scott, L. and Lane, PJ., 2022. Late Holocene environmental change and anthropogenic: Ecosystem interaction on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. Ambio, v. 51
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01554-6

M'Mbogori, FN., Kinyua, MG., Ibrae, AG. and Lane, PJ., 2022. Changes to water management and declining pastoral resilience in Marsabit County, northern Kenya: The example of Gabra wells Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, v. 9
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1609

2021 (Published online)

Henderson, J., Breen, C., Esteves, L., La Chimia, A., Lane, P., Macamo, S., Marvin, G. and Wynne-Jones, S., 2021 (Published online). Rising from the Depths Network: A Challenge-Led Research Agenda for Marine Heritage and Sustainable Development in Eastern Africa Heritage, v. 4
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/heritage4030057

2021

Biginagwa, TJ. and Lane, PJ., 2021. Local animal economies during the nineteenth-century caravan trade along the Lower Pangani, northeastern Tanzania: a zooarchaeological perspective Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, v. 56
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2021.1925023

Lane, PJ., 2021. Enhancing archaeology's role in addressing grand challenges needs more reflection on known unknowns Antiquity, v. 95
Doi: http://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.71

Petek-Sargeant, N. and Lane, PJ., 2021. Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology: Conceptual Challenges and an East African Case Study Cambridge Archaeological Journal,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774321000044

Kariuki, RW., Munishi, LK., Courtney-Mustaphi, CJ., Capitani, C., Shoemaker, A., Lane, PJ. and Marchant, R., 2021. Integrating stakeholders' perspectives and spatial modelling to develop scenarios of future land use and land cover change in northern Tanzania. PLoS One, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245516

Morrison, KD., Hammer, E., Boles, O., Madella, M., Whitehouse, N., Gaillard, M-J., Bates, J., Vander Linden, M., Merlo, S., Yao, A., Popova, L., Hill, AC., Antolin, F., Bauer, A., Biagetti, S., Bishop, RR., Buckland, P., Cruz, P., Dreslerová, D., Dusseldorp, G., Ellis, E., Filipovic, D., Foster, T., Hannaford, MJ., Harrison, SP., Hazarika, M., Herold, H., Hilpert, J., Kaplan, JO., Kay, A., Klein Goldewijk, K., Kolář, J., Kyazike, E., Laabs, J., Lancelotti, C., Lane, P., Lawrence, D., Lewis, K., Lombardo, U., Lucarini, G., Arroyo-Kalin, M., Marchant, R., Mayle, F., McClatchie, M., McLeester, M., Mooney, S., Moskal-Del Hoyo, M., Navarrete, V., Ndiema, E., Góes Neves, E., Nowak, M., Out, WA., Petrie, C., Phelps, LN., Pinke, Z., Rostain, S., Russell, T., Sluyter, A., Styring, AK., Tamanaha, E., Thomas, E., Veerasamy, S., Welton, L. and Zanon, M., 2021. Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization. PLoS One, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246662

Robb, AJIII., Macamo, SL., Guissamulo, A. and Lane, P., 2021. OBSERVATIONS FROM SOME NEWLY RECOGNISED COASTAL SHELL MIDDENS AT PRAIA DE CHIZAVANE, GAZA PROVINCE, MOZAMBIQUE SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN, v. 76

2020

2019

Mustaphi, CJC., Capitani, C., Boles, O., Kariuki, R., Newman, R., Munishi, L., Marchant, R. and Lane, P., 2019. Integrating evidence of land use and land cover change for land management policy formulation along the Kenya-Tanzania borderlands Anthropocene, v. 28
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2019.100228

Lane, P., 2019. Desert Archaeology — A Commentary Archaeological Review from Cambridge, v. 34

Ekblom, A., Shoemaker, A., Gillson, L., Lane, P. and Lindholm, KJ., 2019. Conservation through biocultural heritage-Examples from sub-Saharan Africa Land, v. 8
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/land8010005

Lane, PJ., 2019. Material Desires, Ecological Anxieties, and East African Elephant Ivory from a Long Term Perspective ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, v. 24

Boles, OJC., Shoemaker, A., Courtney Mustaphi, CJ., Petek, N., Ekblom, A. and Lane, PJ., 2019. Historical Ecologies of Pastoralist Overgrazing in Kenya: Long-Term Perspectives on Cause and Effect Human Ecology, v. 47
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-019-0072-9

van der Plas, GW., De Cort, G., Petek-Sargeant, N., Wuytack, T., Colombaroli, D., Lane, PJ. and Verschuren, D., 2019. Distinct phases of natural landscape dynamics and intensifying human activity in the central Kenya Rift Valley during the past 1300 years Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 218
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.009

2018

Iles, L., Stump, D., Heckmann, M., Lang, C. and Lane, PJ., 2018. Iron Production in North Pare, Tanzania: Archaeometallurgical and Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Landscape Change African Archaeological Review, v. 35
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-018-9312-4

Marchant, R., Richer, S., Boles, O., Capitani, C., Courtney-Mustaphi, CJ., Lane, P., Prendergast, ME., Stump, D., De Cort, G., Kaplan, JO., Phelps, L., Kay, A., Olago, D., Petek, N., Platts, PJ., Punwong, P., Widgren, M., Wynne-Jones, S., Ferro-Vazquez, C., Benard, J., Boivin, N., Crowther, A., Cuni-Sanchez, A., Deere, NJ., Ekblom, A., Farmer, J., Finch, J., Fuller, D., Gaillard-Lemdahl, M-J., Gillson, L., Githumbi, E., Kabora, T., Kariuki, R., Kinyanjui, R., Kyazike, E., Lang, C., Lejju, J., Morrison, KD., Muiruri, V., Mumbi, C., Muthoni, R., Muzuka, A., Ndiema, E., Nzabandora, CK., Onjala, I., Schrijver, AP., Rucina, S., Shoemaker, A., Thornton-Barnett, S., van der Plas, G., Watson, EE., Williamson, D. and Wright, D., 2018. Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, v. 178
Doi: http://doi.org/10.10164/j.earscirev.2017.12.010

Lane, PJ., 2018. ‘For purposes altogether unscientific’ Current Swedish Archaeology, v. 26

Githumbi, EN., Kariuki, R., Shoemaker, A., Courtney-Mustaphi, CJ., Chuhilla, M., Richer, S., Lane, P. and Marchant, R., 2018. Pollen, people and place: multidisciplinary perspectives on ecosystem change at amboseli, kenya Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 5
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00113

2017

Armstrong, CG., Shoemaker, AC., McKechnie, I., Ekblom, A., Szabó, P., Lane, PJ., McAlvay, AC., Boles, OJ., Walshaw, S., Petek, N., Gibbons, KS., Quintana Morales, E., Anderson, EN., Ibragimow, A., Podruczny, G., Vamosi, JC., Marks-Block, T., LeCompte, JK., Awâsis, S., Nabess, C., Sinclair, P. and Crumley, CL., 2017. Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospects. PLoS One, v. 12
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171883

Petek, N. and Lane, P., 2017. Ethnogenesis and surplus food production: communitas and identity building among nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ilchamus, Lake Baringo, Kenya World Archaeology, v. 49
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2016.1259583

2016 (Accepted for publication)

Coutu, AN., Lee-Thorp, J., Collins, MJ. and Lane, PJ., 2016 (Accepted for publication). Mapping the Elephants of the 19th Century East African Ivory Trade with a Multi-Isotope Approach. PLoS One, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163606

2016

Straight, B., Lane, P., Hilton, C. and Letua, M., 2016. “Dust people”: Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity, and landscape Journal of Eastern African Studies, v. 10
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2016.1138638

2015

Straight, B., Lane, PJ., Hilton, CE. and Letua, M., 2015. ‘It was maendeleo that removed them’: disturbing burials and reciprocal knowledge production in a context of collaborative archaeology Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, v. 21
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12212

Iles, L. and Lane, P., 2015. Iron production in second millennium AD pastoralist contexts on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, v. 50
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2015.1079379

Fleisher, J., Lane, P., LaViolette, A., Horton, M., Pollard, E., Quintana Morales, E., Vernet, T., Christie, A. and Wynne-Jones, S., 2015. When Did the Swahili Become Maritime? Am Anthropol, v. 117
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12171

2014

Mumbi, CT., Marchant, R. and Lane, P., 2014. Vegetation Response to Climate Change and Human Impacts in the Usambara Mountains International Scholarly Research Notices, v. 2014
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1155/2014/240510

Lane, P., 2014. The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN, v. 69

Marchant, R. and Lane, P., 2014. Past perspectives for the future: foundations for sustainable development in East Africa Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 51
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.07.005

2012

Lane, PJ., 2012. Maritime and Shipwreck Archaeology in the Western Indian Ocean and Southern Red Sea: An Overview of Past and Current Research Journal of Maritime Archaeology, v. 7
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-012-9102-0

2011

Lane, PJ., 2011. Future Urban Growth and Archaeological Heritage Management: Some Implications for Research Activity in Africa Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, v. 13
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1179/175355211x13179154165980

Lane, P., 2011. 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. Antiquity, v. 85
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00068186

2010

Prendergast, ME. and Lane, PJ., 2010. Middle Holocene fishing strategies in East Africa: zooarchaeological analysis of Pundo, a Kansyore shell midden in northern Nyanza (Kenya) International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, v. 20
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/oa.1014

2009

Lane, P., 2009. Environmental Narratives and the History of Soil Erosion in Kondoa District, Tanzania: An Archaeological Perspective INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, v. 42

2008

2007

Quinn, R., Forsythe, W., Breen, C., Boland, D., Lane, P. and Omar, AL., 2007. Process-based models for port evolution and wreck site formation at Mombasa, Kenya Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 34
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.11.003

Lane, PJ., 2007. New international frameworks for the protection of underwater cultural heritage in the Western Indian Ocean Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, v. 42
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00672700709480453

Lane, P., Ashley, C., Seitsonen, O., Harvey, P., Mire, S. and Odede, F., 2007. The transition to farming in eastern Africa: new faunal and dating evidence from Wadh Lang'o and Usenge, Kenya Antiquity, v. 81
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00094849

Lane, P., 2007. 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 - Cambridge Archaeological Journal, v. 17
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774307000303

2006

Lane, P., 2006. Household assemblages, lifecycles and the remembrance of things past among the Dogon of Mali SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN, v. 61

Lane, P., Ashley, C. and Oteyo, G., 2006. New Dates for Kansyore and Urewe Wares from Northern Nyanza, Kenya Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, v. 41
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00672700609480438

2006. Comments on Charlotte Damm (2005): Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Oral Traditions: Approaches to the Indigenous Past. Norwegian Archaeological Review 38, 73–87. Norwegian Archaeological Review, v. 39
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00293650600703779

2005 (Published online)

Lane, P., 2005 (Published online). Comment on "Present and Future of the British Schools, Institutes and Societies Abroad" Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/pia.258

2005

Taylor, D., Lane, PJ., Muiruri, V., Ruttledge, A., McKeever, RG., Nolan, T., Kenny, P. and Goodhue, R., 2005. Mid- to late-Holocene vegetation dynamics on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya The Holocene, v. 15
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1191/0959683605hl857ra

2004

Lane, P., 2004. The civilizations of Africa. A history to 1800. ANTHROPOS, v. 99

2003

Lane, P., 2003. 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. Antiquity, v. 77
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00061901

BATIBO, H., IVASKA, A., REID, R., GIBLIN, J., MACDONALD, KC., WILLIS, J., MAPUNDA, BB., BARNES, C. and LANE, P., 2003. Reviews Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, v. 38
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00672700309480372

Lane, P., 2003. 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. Antiquity, v. 77
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00061548

2001

Lane, P., Mapunda, BBB. and Eriksson, M., 2001. Soil erosion, iron smelting and human settlement in the Haubi Basin, north-central Tanzania Antiquity, v. 75
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x0008933x

Breen, C., Forsythe, W., Lane, P., McErlean, T., McConkey, R., Omar, AL., Quinn, R. and Williams, B., 2001. Ulster and the Indian Ocean? Recent maritime archaeological research on the East African coast Antiquity, v. 75
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00089304

Lane, PJ., Salk, JE. and Lyles, MA., 2001. Absorptive capacity, learning, and performance in international joint ventures Strategic Management Journal, v. 22
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/smj.206

2000

Floyd, SW. and Lane, PJ., 2000. Strategizing throughout the Organization: Managing Role Conflict in Strategic Renewal Academy of Management Review, v. 25
Doi: http://doi.org/10.2307/259268

1998

1997

Lane, P., 1997. Snakes and crocodiles: Power and symbolism in ancient Zimbabwe SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN, v. 52

1994

1993

1988

1987

Lane, P., 1987. Space, Text and Gender, by Henrietta L. Moore Archaeological Review from Cambridge, v. 6

1986

Lane, P., 1986. Past practices in the ritual present: Examples from the Welsh Bronze Age Archaeological Review from Cambridge, v. 5

1985

Lane, P., 1985. TAG '84: A review from Cambridge Archaeological Review from Cambridge, v. 4

Lane, P., 1985. Surface archaeology Archaeological Review from Cambridge, v. 4

1982

Lane, P., 1982. Anthropology for Archaeologists, by Bryony Orme; Modern Material Culture: The Archaeology of Us, edited by Richard A. Gould and Michael B. Schiffer Archaeological Review from Cambridge, v. 1

Lane, P. and Mawson, A., 1982. Off-site archaeology Archaeological Review from Cambridge, v. 1

1980

Book chapters

2025

Lane, P., Bailiff, I., Innes, J., Taylor, B. and Schadla-Hall, T., 2025. Chapter 10 - Flixton Island (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119983

Lane, P., Taylor, B., Conneller, C., Cummins, G., Innes, J. and Schadla-Hall, T., 2025. Chapter 13 - Other Vale of Pickering Research Trust field research (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119986

Lane, P., Schadla-Hall, T. and Taylor, B., 2025. References (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119996

Lane, P., Taylor, B., Conneller, C., Cardwell, P., Simpson, R., Smith, G. and Schadla-Hall, T., 2025. Chapter 8 - The smaller Seamer Carr sites and associated test-pit data (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.120003

Lane, P., Taylor, B., Conneller, C., Cardwell, P., Simpson, R., Smith, G. and Schadla-Hall, T., 2025. Chapter 7 - Seamer Carr Sites K, L and N (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.120002

Lane, P., Schadla-Hall, T., Taylor, B., Bailiff, I., Conneller, C., Gale, R., Innes, J. and Thomas, K., 2025. Chapter 3 - Fieldwork and post-excavation programmes and methodologies (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119998

Lane, P., Taylor, B. and Schadla-Hall, T., 2025. Chapter 20 - Conclusions and future directions (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119994

Lane, P., Schadla-Hall, T. and Franks, A., 2025. Chapter 2 - The Vale of Pickering (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119997

Lane, P., Taylor, B., Conneller, C., Cardwell, P., Innes, J., Simpson, R., Smith, G. and Schadla-Hall, T., 2025. Chapter 9 - Sites VP D, VP E and Flixton 9 (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119982

Taylor, B., Conneller, C., Lane, P. and Schadla-Hall, T., 2025. Chapter 19 - Hunter-gatherers in the landscape (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119993

Lane, P., Taylor, B., Conneller, C., Cardwell, P., Franks, A., Simpson, R., Smith, G. and Schadla-Hall, T., 2025. Chapter 6 - Seamer Carr, Site C – East Island (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.120001

Lane, P. and Schadla-Hall, T., 2025. Chapter 1 - Introduction, aims and objectives and history of research on the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic in the Vale of Pickering (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119992

Lane, P., Taylor, B., Bailiff, I., Conneller, C., Cummins, G., Smith, G. and Schadla-Hall, T., 2025. Chapter 12 - Barry’s Island (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119985

Lane, P., Schadla-Hall, T. and Taylor, B., 2025. Appendices (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119995

Lane, P., Taylor, B., Conneller, C., Cummins, G., Gale, R., Thomas, K. and Schadla-Hall, T., 2025. Chapter 11 - No Name Hill (Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119984

2024 (Published online)

M'Mbogori, FN., Abduba, K., Gufu, A., Gakii Kinyua, M., Tiki, W. and Lane, PJ., 2024 (Published online). Using Community Archaeology to Protect Indigenous Wells and Pastoral Biocultural Heritage in Northern Kenya
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197607695.013.38

2022 (Published online)

2022

2021

Lane, P., 2021. Archaeology, hybrid knowledge, and community engagement in Africa: Thoughts on decolonising practice

2019

2018

2017 (Published online)

2017

Anderson, DM. and Lane, PJ., 2017. The unburied victims of Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion: where and when does the violence end?

Anderson, DM. and Lane, PJ., 2017. The unburied victims of Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion: where and when does the violence end?

2016 (Published online)

2016

Lane, PJ., 2016. Entangled Banks and the Domestication of East African Pastoralist Landscapes

Ekblom, A., Lane, P., Radimilahy, C., Rakotoarisoa, J-A., Sinclair, P. and Virah-Sawmy, M., 2016. Migration and Interaction between Madagascar and Eastern Africa, 500 BCE–1000 CE: An Archaeological Perspective
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33822-4_9

2015 (Published online)

2015

Lane, PJ., 2015. Ethnicity, Archaeological Ceramics, and Changing Paradigms in East African Archaeology v. 65

2013

Lane, P., 2013. Nilotes, Eastern Africa: Western Nilotes: Luo v. 1-3

Lane, P., 2013. Production and Exchange, Precolonial v. 1-3

Lane, P., 2013. Nilotes, Eastern Africa: Origins, Pastoralism, Migration v. 1-3

Lane, P., 2013. Iron Age (Later): East Africa: Trade v. 1-3

Lane, P., 2013. Iron Age (Later): East Africa: Salt v. 1-3

Lane, P., 2013. Iron Age (Early) and Development of Farming in Eastern Africa v. 1-3

Lane, P., 2013. Trajectories of pastoralism in Northern and central Kenya: An overview of the archaeological and environmental evidence

2011

2009

2008

2006

2004 (Published online)

2004

Conference proceedings

2025

Sawchuk, E., Chepkorir, C., Sirak, K., Kanyingi, J., Petek-Sargeant, N., Beaudoin, E., Lanyasunya, A., Ogola, C., Ndiema, E., Prendergast, M., Reich, D. and Lane, P., 2025. The bioarchaeology of the Pastoral Iron Age: the view from Naakeidi 1, Samburu County, Kenya AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 186

2015

2007

Hilton, CE., Lane, P. and Straight, B., 2007. Bioarchaeology of prehistoric pastoralists of northern Kenya. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY,

Other publications

2025

Lane, PJ., 2025. Institutionalizing a “developer pays” Principle for Commercial Archaeology as Part of Changing China-Africa Economic Relations v. 43

Books

2025

Lane, P., Schadla-Hall, T. and Taylor, B., 2025. Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: Surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119981

2011

Theses / dissertations

1986

Teaching and Supervisions

Teaching

I coordinate the following course:

Paper A35/ARC33/G34 The Archaeology of Africa

 

I am involved in the teaching of the following courses:

Paper A1 World Archaeology

Paper A10 Archaeological Theory and Practice

Paper G02 Core Archaeology

Paper G06 Medieval Europe in a Global Context

Paper MPhil in World History – Debates in World History

Research supervision

I am happy to supervise students at all levels on a range of topics related to the archaeology and historical ecology of sub-Saharan Africa, and I have both archaeological and ethnographic datasets relating to several of of my previous projects from across the African continent that could form the basis of a BA/BSc or MPhil dissertation project. I am especially interested in supervising students who wish to study for an MPhil or a PhD in the following topics:

  • The historical ecology of ancient African towns
  • The archaeology of ivory on the African continent
  • The Pastoral Neolithic and Pastoral Iron Age of eastern Africa
  • The archaeology of enslavement and slave trading in African settings
  • Issues in African cultural heritage, including among the Diaspora

Other Professional Activities

Editorial Board, World Archaeology

Member of Council, British Institute in Eastern Africa

Fellow Society of Antiquaries of London

Routledge Series Editor, African Archaeology & Heritage

Member, Scientific Steering Committee, IHOPE 

Job Titles

Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa
Paul Lane

General Info

Takes PhD students
Available for consultancy
Research Expertise / Fields of study
Cultural Heritage

Affiliations

Person keywords
Archaeology of sub-Saharan Africa
Landscape Historical Ecology
Transitions to food production in eastern and southern Africa
Archaeology of pastoralism in eastern Africa
Archaeology, colonialism and postcolonialism
Heritage, identity and memorialisation
Organisation of space and time among human societies in the past and present
Maritime archaeology and historical ecology
Subjects
Archaeology
Geographical areas
Africa