Publications of Robert Spengler

Shen, H.; Li, X.; Spengler, R.; Zhou, X.; Zhao, K.: Forest cover and composition on the Loess Plateau during the Middle to Late-Holocene: Integrating wood charcoal analyses. The Holocene 31 (1), 0959683620961486, pp. 38 - 49 (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)

Yang, Q.; Zhou, X.; Spengler III, R. N.; Zhao, K.; Liu, J.; Bao, Y.; Jia, P. W.; Li, X.: Prehistoric agriculture and social structure in the southwestern Tarim Basin: multiproxy analyses at Wupaer. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 14235, pp. 1 - 11 (2020)

Ventresca Miller, A. R.; Spengler III, R. N.; Haruda, A.; Miller, B. K.; Wilkin, S.; Robinson, S.; Roberts, P.; Boivin, N. L.: Ecosystem engineering among ancient pastoralists in Northern Central Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, 168 (2020)

Chen, G.; Zhou, X.; Wang, J.; Ma, J.; Khasannov, M.; Khasanov, N.; Spengler, R. N.; Berdimurodov, A.; Li, X.: Kushan Period rice in the Amu Darya Basin: evidence for prehistoric exchange along the southern Himalaya. Science China Earth Sciences 63 (6), s11430-019-9585-2, pp. 841 - 851 (2020)

Spengler, R. N.: Anthropogenic seed dispersal: rethinking the origins of plant domestication. Trends in Plant Science 25 (4), 2020.01.005, pp. 340 - 348 (2020)

Wilkin, S.; Ventresca Miller, A.; Miller, B. K.; Spengler, R. N.; Taylor, W. T. T.; Fernandes, R.; Hagan, R. W.; Bleasdale, M.; Zech, J.; Ulziibayar, S. et al.; Myagmar, E.; Boivin, N.; Roberts, P.: Economic diversification supported the growth of Mongolia’s Nomadic Empires. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 3916 (2020)

Zhou, X.; Yu, J.; Spengler III, R. N.; Shen, H.; Zhao, K.; Ge, J.; Bao, Y.; Liu, J.; Yang, Q.; Chen, G. et al.; Weiming Jia, P.; Li, X.: 5,200-year-old cereal grains from the eastern Altai Mountains redate the trans-Eurasian crop exchange. Nature Plants 6, pp. 78 - 87 (2020)

Taylor, W. T. T.; Clark, J.; Bayarsaikhan, J.; Tuvshinjargal, T.; Jobe, J. T.; Fitzhugh, W.; Kortum, R.; Spengler, R. N.; Shnaider, S.; Seersholm, F. V. et al.; Hart, I.; Case, N.; Wilkin, S.; Hendy, J.; Thüring, U.; Miller, B.; Ventresca Miller, A. R.; Picin, A.; Vanwezer, N.; Irmer, F.; Brown, S.; Abdykanova, A.; Shultz, D. R.; Pham, V.; Bunce, M.; Douka, K.; Jones, E. L.; Boivin, N.: Early pastoral economies and herding transitions in Eastern Eurasia. Scientific Reports 10, 1001 (2020)

Stephens, L.; Fuller, D.; Boivin, N. L.; Rick, T.; Gauthier, N.; Kay, A.; Marwick, B.; Armstrong, C. G.; Barton, C. M.; Denham, T. et al.; Douglass, K.; Driver, J.; Janz, L.; Roberts, P.; Rogers, J. D.; Heather, T.; Altaweel, M.; Johnson, A. L.; Sampietro Vattuone, M. M.; Aldenderfer, M.; Archila, S.; Artioli, G.; Bale, M. T.; Beach, T.; Borrell, F.; Braje, T.; Buckland, P. I.; Jiménez Cano, N. G.; Capriles, J. M.; Diez Castillo, A.; Cilingiroglu, C.; Negus Cleary, M.; Conolly, J.; Coutros, P. R.; Covey, R. A.; Cremaschi, M.; Crowther, A.; Der, L.; di Lernia, S.; Doershuk, J. F.; Doolittle, W. E.; Edwards, K. J.; Erlandson, J. M.; Evans, D.; Fairbairn, A.; Faulkner, P.; Feinman, G.; Fernandes, R.; Fitzpatrick, S. M.; Fyfe, R.; Garcea, E.; Goldstein, S. T.; Goodman, R. C.; Dalpoim Guedes, J.; Herrmann, J.; Hiscock, P.; Hommel, P.; Horsburgh, K. A.; Hritz, C.; Ives, J. W.; Junno, A.; Kahn, J. G.; Kaufman, B.; Kearns, C.; Kidder, T. R.; Lanoë, F.; Lawrence, D.; Lee, G.-A.; Levin, M. J.; Lindskoug, H. B.; López-Sáez, J. A.; Macrae, S.; Marchant, R.; Marston, J. M.; McClure, S.; McCoy, M. D.; Ventresca Miller, A. R.; Morrison, M.; Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G.; Müller, J.; Nayak, A.; Noerwidi, S.; Peres, T. M.; Peterson, C. E.; Proctor, L.; Randall, A. R.; Renette, S.; Robbins Schug, G.; Ryzewski, K.; Saini, R.; Scheinsohn, V.; Schmidt, P.; Sebillaud, P.; Seitsonen, O.; Simpson, I. A.; Sołtysiak, A.; Speakman, R. J.; Spengler III, R. N.; Steffen, M. L.; Storozum, M. J.; Strickland, K. M.; Thompson, J.; Thurston, T. L.; Ulm, S.; Ustunkaya, M. C.; Welker, M. H.; West, C.; Williams, P. R.; Wright, D. K.; Wright, N.; Zahir, M.; Zerboni, A.; Beaudoin, E.; Munevar Garcia, S.; Powell, J.; Thornton, A.; Kaplan, J. O.; Gaillard, M.-J.; Klein Goldewijk, K.; Ellis, E.: Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science 365 (6456), pp. 897 - 902 (2019)

Spengler, R. N.; Mueller, N. G.: Grazing animals drove domestication of grain crops. Nature Plants 5 (7), pp. 656 - 662 (2019)

Ren, M.; Tang, Z.; Wu, X.; Spengler, R.; Jiang, H.; Yang, Y.; Boivin, N.: The origins of cannabis smoking: chemical residue evidence from the first millennium BCE in the Pamirs. Science Advances 5 (6), eaaw1391 (2019)

Spengler III, R. N.: Origins of the apple: the role of megafaunal mutualism in the domestication of Malus and Rosaceous Trees. Frontiers in Plant Science 10, 617 (2019)

Spengler III, R. N.: Dung burning in the archaeobotanical record of West Asia: where are we now? Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 28 (3), pp. 215 - 217 (2019)

Taylor, W. T. T.; Shnaider, S.; Spengler III, R. N.; Orlando, L.; Abdykanova, A.; Krivoshapkin, A.: Investigating ancient animal economies and exchange in Kyrgyzstan's Alay Valley. Antiquity 93 (367), e2 (2019)

Spengler III, R. N.; Maksudov, F.; Bullion, E.; Merkle, A.; Hermes, T.; Frachetti, M.: Arboreal crops on the medieval Silk Road: Archaeobotanical studies at Tashbulak. PLoS One 13 (8), e0201409 (2018)

Leipe, C.; Müller, S.; Hille, K.; Kato, H.; Kobe, F.; Schmidt, M.; Seyffert, K.; Spengler III, R. N.; Wagner, M.; Weber, A. W. et al.; Tarasov, P. E.: Vegetation change and human impacts on Rebun Island (Northwest Pacific) over the last 6000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 193, pp. 129 - 144 (2018)

Spengler III, R. N.; Miller, N. F.; Neef, R.; Tourtellotte, P. A.; Chang, C.: Linking agriculture and exchange to social developments of the Central Asian Iron Age. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 48, pp. 295 - 308 (2017)

Leipe, C.; Sergusheva, E. A.; Müller, S.; Spengler III, R. N.; Goslar, T.; Kato, H.; Wagner, M.; Weber, A. W.; Tarasov, P. E.: Barley (Hordeum vulgare) in the Okhotsk culture (5th–10th century AD) of northern Japan and the role of cultivated plants in hunter–gatherer economies. PLoS One, e0174397 (2017)

Spengler III, R. N.: Fruit from the sands: the Silk Road origins of the foods we eat. University of California Press, Oakland, CA (2019), 374 pp.