Wolfgang Alders

Biographic Data

ID4225885
NAMEWolfgang Alders
GIVEN NAMESWolfgang
FAMILY NAMEAlders
SIGNATUREALDERS W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arkansas at Fayetteville
ORCID0000-0002-8656-3765
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Persistence on a Perilous Coast

    Wolfgang Alders, Mikidadi Hassan Musa et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2026

    This paper considers Swahili responses to violence and instability on the eastern African coasts of the Indian Ocean at the onset of colonialism. In Zanzibar, Tanzania, archaeological research suggests a reorientation away from the extraverted, maritime Swahili spatial practices of the precolonial era and toward mobility, refuge, and the intensification of rural inland agricultural lifeways that enabled persistence through chronic coastal slave r…

  • Townlands of the Swahili Coast

    Open AccessWolfgang AldersARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Research2026References: 99

    Urbanism shaped social, ideological, and environmental transformations on the tropical eastern African Swahili Coast from the end of the first millennium AD onward. However, it is unclear how settlement trajectories in this region compare with recently expanded understandings of urbanism within the contexts of tropical ecology globally. To address this question, I consider the biogeographical and sociopolitical conditions of urban growth in the r…

  • Detecting baobab trees (Adansonia digitata) in drone imagery and evaluating their anthropogenic legacy in eastern Africa

    Open AccessWolfgang Alders, Joanne Ty Lim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2025References: 7

  • Archaeology in the Fourth Dimension

    Open AccessWolfgang Alders, Deborah S Davis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Method…2024Cited by: 1References: 36

    For the last seven years, PlanetScope satellites have started near-daily imaging of parts of the Earth’s surface, making high-density multitemporal, multispectral, 3-m pixel imagery accessible to researchers. Multitemporal satellite data enables landscape archaeologists to examine changes in environmental conditions at time scales ranging from daily to decadal. This kind of temporal resolution can accentuate landscape features on the ground by de…

  • Rural Settlement Dynamics in a Rapidly Urbanizing Landscape

    Wolfgang AldersARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2024Cited by: 1References: 39

    In Africa, rapid urbanization covers archaeological sites and limits the utility of traditional archaeological field survey methods. This is not only a crisis for archaeological heritage conservation, but it also distinctly impacts anthropological understandings of African urban trajectories since much evidence for precolonial urbanism lies within areas of rapid expansion. However, high-resolution multitemporal satellite data may facilitate recon…

  • Clientage, debt, and the integrative orientation of non-elites on the East African Swahili coast

    Open AccessWolfgang AldersARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2024Cited by: 1References: 80

  • Open-Access Archaeological Predictive Modeling Using Zonal Statistics

    Open AccessWolfgang AldersARTICLEJournal of Computer Applications…2023References: 16

    This paper presents a case study using zonal statistical analysis for archaeological predictive modeling with open-access software and free geospatial datasets. The method is applied to the rural landscapes of Zanzibar, Tanzania on the Swahili Coast. This study used QGIS (version 3.28) to perform zonal statistical analyses of environmental datasets weighted by settlement classes digitized from a 1907 historical map, to create predictive models fo…

  • The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, from the Eleventh Through Nineteenth Centuries CE

    Open AccessWolfgang AldersARTICLEAfrican Archaeological Review2023Cited by: 4References: 43