Selected Publications
Marshall, F. 2020 Cats as predators and early domesticates in ancient human landscapes. Commentary Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. doi/10.1073/pnas.2011993117.
Grillo, K.M., J. Dunne, F. Marshall, M.E. Prendergast, E. Casanova, A.O. Gidna, A. Janzen, Karega-Munene, J. Keute, A.Z.P. Mabulla, P. Robertshaw, T. Gillard, C. Walton-Doyle, H.L.Whelton, K. Ryan, R. Evershed. 2020 Molecular and isotopic evidence for milk, meat and plants in prehistoric eastern African herder food systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. doi/10.1073/pnas.1920309117.
Hu, S., Hu Y., Yang, J., Yang M., Wei, P., Hou, Y. and F. Marshall. 2020 From pack animals to polo: Donkeys from the ninth century Tang Tomb of an elite lady in Xi’an, China. Antiquity doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.6.
Marshall F., Reid R. E. B., Goldstein S., Storozum M., Wreschnig A., Hu L., Kiura P. Shahack Gross R. and S. H. Ambrose 2018 Ancient herders enriched and restructured African grasslands. Nature 561(7723):387-390. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0456-9
Weissbrod, L., Marshall F.B, Valla, F.R. Kahalaily, H., Bar-Oz, G., Auggray, J.-C., Vigne, J.-D., Cucchi, T. 2017. Origins of house mice in ecological niches created by settled hunter-gatherers in the Levant 15,000 y ago. PNAS Doi/10.1073/pnas.1619137114
Chritz, K.L., Marshall F., Esperenza Zagal, M, Kirewa, F. and T. E. Cerling. 2015 Environments and trypanosomiasis risks for early herders in the later Holocene of the Lake Victoria basin, Kenya. PNAS Doi/10.1073/pnas.1423953112
Marshall F.B., Dobney, K., Denham T and J.M. Capriles. 2014 Evaluating the roles of directed breeding and gene flow in animal domestication. PNAS 111(17) 6153-6158. doi/10.1073/pnas.1312984110
Hu, Y., S. Hu, W. Wang, X. Wu, F. Marshall, X. Chen, L.Hou and C. Wang. 2013 Earliest evidence for commensal processes of cat domestication. PNAS 111(1)116120. doi:10.1073/pnas.1311439110
Marshall, F. and C. Asa. 2013 A Study of African Wild Ass Behavior Provides Insights into Conservation Issues, Domestication processes and Archaeological Interpretation. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 20(3):479-494.
Marshall, F., Grillo, K. and L. Arco. 2011 Prehistoric Pastoralists and Social Responses to Climatic Risk in East Africa. In Sustainable Lifeways: Cultural Persistence in an Ever-changing Environment. Chapter Two. N. Miller, K. Moore and K. Ryan Eds. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Series, Penn Press, Philadelphia.
Kimura, B., F. Marshall, S. Chen, S. Rosenbom, P.D. Moehlman, N. Tuross, R. Sabin, J. Peters, B. Barich H. Yohannes, F. Kebede, R. Teclai, R., A. Beja-Pereira, and C. Mulligan. 2010 Ancient DNA from Nubian and Somali wild ass provides insights into African wild ass phylogeny and donkey domestication. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.0708.
Rossel, Stine, Fiona Marshall, Joris Peters, Tom Pilgram, Matthew D. Adams and David O’Connor. 2008 Domestication of the Donkey: New Data on Timing, Processes and Indicators. PNAS 105:3715-3720.
Dale, D., Marshall F. and T. Pilgram. 2004 Delayed-Return Hunter-Gatherers in Africa ? Historic Perspectives from the Okiek and Archaeological Perspectives from the Kansyore. In Hunters and Gatherers in Theory and Archaeology. G. Crothers Ed. Chapter 15, pp. 340-375. Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper 31, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. [pdf]
Shahack-Gross, R., Marshall , F. and S. Weiner. 2003 Geo-Ethnoarchaeology of Pastoral Sites: The Identification of Livestock Enclosures in Abandoned Maasai Settlements. The Journal of Archaeological Science 30:439-459. [pdf]
Marshall, F. and L. Hildebrand. 2002 Cattle before Crops: the Origins and Spread of Food Production in Africa. Journal of World Prehistory 16: 99-143. [pdf]