Domestication and Anthropogenic Evolution Publications

Bezić, A.; Filipović, D.: When is Archaeology?: A flotation machine, an art exhibition and the (un)sievable realm of possibilities. Journal of contemporary archaeology 12 (1), 31080 (2026)

Chen, F.; Jin, L.; Bourgeois, J.; Zuo, X.; Van de Voorde, T.; Gheyle, W.; Balz, T.; Caspari, G.: Ancient burial mounds detection in the Altai Mountains with high-resolution satellite images. Remote Sensing 18 (2), 185 (2026)

Kempf, M.; Depaermentier, M. L. C.; Spengler III, R. N.; Frachetti, M. D.; Chen, F.; Luterbacher, J.; Xoplaki , E.; Büntgen, U.: Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China. Communications Earth & Environment 6, 1003 (2025)

Boxleitner, K.; Spengler III, R. N.; Alekseitseva, V.; Chargynov, T.; Abdykanova, A.; Sayfuloev, N.; Shnaider, S.: Archaeobotanical investigations at high-elevation sites of the Pamir Mountains and Fergana Foothills. iScience 29 (1), 114349 (2025)

Ayayee, P.; Cluster, G.; Clayton, J.; Price, J.; Ramer-Tait, A.; Larsen, T.: Assessing gut microbial provisioning of essential amino acids to host in a murine model with reconstituted gut microbiomes. Communications Biology 8, 1604 (2025)

Brancaleoni, G.; Shnaider, S. V.; Blinnikov, M.; Boxleitner, K.; Mentzer, S. M.; Alekseitseva, V.; Zhilich, S. V.; Chargynov, T.; Alisher kyzy, S.; Parkhomchuk, E. V. et al.; Spengler III, R. N.; Viola, B.; Krivoshapkin, A. I.; Krajcarz, M. T.: Inner Asian agropastoralism within the Mongol Empire: multi-proxy investigations at Sel'Ungur Cave, Kyrgyzstan. Geoarchaeology: an international journal 40 (6), e70032, pp. 1 - 24 (2025)

Tarasov, P. E.; Kobe, F.; Leipe, C.; Shchetnikov, A. A.; Bezrukova, E. V.; Habermann, L.-H.; Hoelzmann, P.; Nykamp, M.; Gliwa, J.; Krikunova, A. I. et al.; Kostrova, S. S.; Long, T.; Wagner, M.: Environmental and cultural transformations in the Lake Baikal Region reflect hemispheric-scale changes in temperature and atmospheric circulation over the past 8800 years. Global and Planetary Change 256, 105157 (2025)

Sadykov, T.; Blochin, J.; Khavrin, S.; Caspari, G.: Expanding the corpus of the earliest Scythian animal-style artefacts. Antiquity, 10214 (2025)

Zhoua, X.; Spengler III, R. N.; Sayfullaeve, B.; Mutalibjonf, K.; Mab, J.; Liua, J.; Shena, H.; Zhaoa, K.; Chena, G.; Wanga, J. et al.; Stidhama, T. A.; Xuh, H.; Zhangh, G.; Yanga, Q.; Houa, Y.; Maa, J.; Kambarovb, N.; Jiangc, H.; Maksudove, F.; Goldsteini, S.; Wangb, J.; Fullerj, D. Q.; Lia, X.: 9,000-year-old barley consumption in the foothills of central Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (36), 242409312 (2025)

Leipe, C.; Sergusheva, E. A.; Robbeets, M.; Wertmann, P.; Kradin, N. N.; Wagner, M.; Tarasov, P. E.: Timing and cultural-environmental context of the spread of barley to and within northern East Asia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 67, 105372 (2025)

Leipe, C.; Handfried, D.; Long, T.; Heinrich, I.; Hoelzmann, P.; Mingram, J.; Tjallingii, R.; Vrijmoed, J. C.; Wagner, M.; Tarasov, P. E.: Microfacies analysis and varve-based chronology reveal a variable 14C reservoir effect in Lake Shira, northern Inner Asia, over the past 2500 years. Quaternary science advances 19, 100299 (2025)

Caspari, G.; Deter-Wolf, A.; Riday, D.; Vavulin, M.; Pankova, S.: High-resolution near-infrared data reveal Pazyryk tattooing methods. Antiquity, 10150 (2025)

Endo, E.; Kaliyeva, Z.; Utubayev, Z.; Kasenova, A. D.; Suyundikova, M.; Onggaruly, A.; Spengler III, R. N.; Shoda, S.: Grain impressions in ceramic vessels illustrate the extent of 1st millennium bc agriculture across the northern Central Asian steppe. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, s00334-025-01058-3 (2025)

Li, H.; Li, Y.; Liu, Z.; Wang, Z.; Shi, H.; Wang, X.; Spengler III, R. N.; Jia, X.: Irrigated farming among mountain Agropastoralists: an archaeobotanical investigation at Mohuchahangoukou (mid-first millennium ad), Southern Tian Shan foothills, Xinjiang, China. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 32, 55 (2025)

Runge, A. K. W.; Niemann, J.; Germonpré, M.; Drucker, D. G.; Bocherens, H.; Boxleitner, K.; Ramos-Madrigal, J.; Linderholm, A.; Stanton, D. W.G.; Kandyba, A. et al.; Brecko, J.; Van den Broeck, M.; Losey, R.; Räikkönen, J.; Sablin, M.; Stagegaard, J.; Gopalakrishnan, S.; Fedorov, S.; Sinding, M.-H. S.; Gilbert, M. T. P.; Wales, N.: Multifaceted analysis reveals diet and kinship of Late Pleistocene ‘Tumat Puppies’. Quaternary Research, 10 (2025)

Peters, C.; Oertle, A.; Gillespie, R.; Boivin, N.; Douka, K.: Collagen peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species. Frontiers in mammal science 4, 1564287 (2025)

Robbeets, M.; Leipe, C.: Climate change and the spread of the Transeurasian languages. Quaternary environments and humans 3 (2), 100071, pp. 1 - 18 (2025)

Schubert, A.; Lauterbach, S.; Leipe, C.; Kobe, F.; Brauer, A.; Tarasov, P. E.: Reflections of Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age environments, land use and pile dwelling activities in a new palynological record from the varved sediments of Lake Mondsee, Austria. Quaternary environments and humans 3 (2), 100076, pp. 1 - 16 (2025)

Wang, Q.; Zhai, D.; Peng, A.; Schmitz, O.; Jiang, P.; Fang, X.; Wang, M.; Frenzel, P.: Adapted to the dry: ostracod communities in agricultural landscapes of eastern Yunnan, China. Aquatic Ecology 59 (2), s10452-025-10179-w, pp. 541 - 559 (2025)

Caspari, G.: Reflections on water: funerary practice and symbolism at the Bronze Age site of Xiaohe. Asian archaeology, s41826-025-00105-2 (2025)