Publications of Basira Mir-Makhamad

Mir-Makhamad, B.; Larsen, T.; Giddings Vassão, D.; Spengler III, R. N.; Wang, Y.: Bile acids as biomarkers in carbonized archaeological sediment: Insights from dung burning experiments. PLOS ONE 20 (2), e0312699, pp. 1 - 18 (2025)

Mir Makhamad, B.; Bjorn, R.; Boxleitner, K.; Spengler III, R. N.: The Cotton Road: the history of an exchange commodity in Central Asia. Inner Asia 26 (2), 02602002, pp. 193 - 230 (2024)

Peters, C.; Richter, K. K.; Wilkin, S.; Stark, S.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Fernandes, R.; Maksudov, F.; Mirzaakhmedov, S.; Rahmonov, H.; Schirmer, S. et al.; Ashastina, K.; Begmatov, A.; Frachetti, M.; Kurbanov, S.; Shenkar, M.; Hermes, T.; Kidd, F.; Omelchenko, A.; Huber, B.; Boivin, N. L.; Wang, S.; Lurje, P.; von Baeyer, M.; Dal Martello, R.; Spengler III, R. N.: Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia. Nature Communications 15, 2697 (2024)

Mir-Makhamad, B.; Lurje, P.; Parshuto, V.; Pulotov, A.; Aminov, F.; Shenkar, M.; Saidov, M.; Semenov, N.; Kurbanov, S.; Mirzaakhmedov, S. et al.; Rakhmanov, K.; Dal Martello, R.; Spengler III, R. N.: Agriculture along the upper part of the Middle Zarafshan River during the first millennium AD: a multi-site archaeobotanical analysis. PLOS ONE 19 (3), e0297896 (2024)

Gašpar, A.; Petřík, J.; Fojtík, P.; Tsoupra, A.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Cardoso, A.; Beltrame, M.; Mirão, J.; Schiavon, N.; Kolář, J.: Beyond technology: pottery reveals translocal social relations at a Bell Beaker Monumental Site in Central Europe. European Journal of Archaeology 26 (3), eaa.2022.46, pp. 299 - 319 (2023)

Mir Makhamad, B.; Stark, S.; Mirzaakhmedov, S.; Rahmonov, H.; Spengler III, R. N.: Food globalization in southern Central Asia: archaeobotany at Bukhara between antiquity and the Middle Ages. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 15 (8), 124, pp. 1 - 18 (2023)

Chang, C.; Ivanov, S. S.; Spengler III, R. N.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Tourtellotte, P. A.: Montane Ecoclines in Ancient Central Asia: a preliminary study of Agropastoral Economies in Juuku, Kyrgyzstan. Land 12 (7), 1406 (2023)

Mir-Makhamad, B.; Spengler, R. N.: Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, s00334-023-00924-2 (2023)

Dal Martello, R.; von Baeyer, M.; Hudson, M.; Bjorn, R.; Leipe, C.; Zach, B.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Billings, T.; Muñoz Fernández, I. M.; Huber, B. et al.; Boxleitner, K.; Lu, J.-C.; Chi, K.-A.; Liu, H.-L.; Kistler, L.; Spengler III, R. N.: The domestication and dispersal of large-fruiting Prunus spp.: a metadata analysis of archaeobotanical material. Agronomy 13 (4), 1027 (2023)

Mir Makhamad, B.; Bjorn, R.; Stark, S.; Spengler III, R. N.: Pistachio (Pistacia vera) domestication and dispersal out of Central Asia. Agronomy 12 (8), 1758 (2022)

Chang, C.; Ivanov, S. S.; Tourtellotte, P. A.; Spengler III, R. N.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Kramar, D.: Ancient agricultural and pastoral landscapes on the south side of lake Issyk-Kul: preliminary surveys of the Juuku Valley and Lower Kizil Suu Valley, archaeobotanical results of three stratigraphic profiles, and GIS modeling of Iron Age in Lower Kizil Suu. Land 11 (6), 902 (2022)

Mir Makhamad, B.; Mirzaakhmedov, S.; Rahmonov, H.; Stark, S.; Omel’chenko, A.; Spengler, R. N.: Qarakhanids on the Edge of the Bukhara Oasis: archaeobotany of Medieval Paykend. Economic Botany, s12231-021-09531-6 (2021)

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Spengler, R. N.: Interpreting diachronic size variation in prehistoric Central Asian cereal grains. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 633634 (2021)

Spengler, R. N.; Stark, S.; Zhou, X.; Fuks, D.; Tang, L.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Bjørn, R.; Jiang, H.; Olivieri, L. M.; Begmatov, A. et al.; Boivin, N.: A journey to the west: the ancient dispersal of rice out of East Asia. Rice 14 (1), 83, pp. 1 - 18 (2021)

Mir Makhamad, B.; Parshuto, V.; Lurje, P.; Pulotov, A.; Kurbanov, S.; Spengler III, R. N.: Земледелие в бассейне среднего Зеравшана: предварительный отчёт об археоботанических исследованиях Пенджикента. In: материалы пенджикентской археологической экспедиции: Отчет о полевых работах экспедиции в 2021 г., Vol. XXV, pp. 65 - 74 (Eds. Lurie, P.; Semenov, N. V.). The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (2022)

Spengler III, R. N.; Peters, C.; Richter, K. K.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Stark, S.; Fernandes, R.; Maksudov, F.; Sirojidin, M.; Husniddin, R.; Wilkin, S. et al.; Schirmer, S.; Ashastina, K.; Begmatov, A.; Frachetti, M.; Hermes, T.; Kidd, F.; Omelchenko, A.; Huber, B.; Boivin, N. L.; Wang, S.; Lurje, P.; von Baeyer, M.; Dal Martello, R.: When did the chicken cross the road: archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia. Research Square, 1340382/v1 (2022)