Publications of Robert N. Spengler III
All genres
Journal Article (52)
41.
Journal Article
6, pp. 78 - 87 (2020)
5,200-year-old cereal grains from the eastern Altai Mountains redate the trans-Eurasian crop exchange. Nature Plants 42.
Journal Article
10, 1001 (2020)
Early pastoral economies and herding transitions in Eastern Eurasia. Scientific Reports 43.
Journal Article
365 (6456), pp. 897 - 902 (2019)
Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science 44.
Journal Article
5 (7), pp. 656 - 662 (2019)
Grazing animals drove domestication of grain crops. Nature Plants 45.
Journal Article
5 (6), eaaw1391 (2019)
The origins of cannabis smoking: chemical residue evidence from the first millennium BCE in the Pamirs. Science Advances 46.
Journal Article
10, 617 (2019)
Origins of the Apple: The Role of Megafaunal Mutualism in the Domestication of Malus and Rosaceous Trees. Frontiers in Plant Science 47.
Journal Article
28 (3), pp. 215 - 217 (2019)
Dung burning in the archaeobotanical record of West Asia: where are we now? Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 48.
Journal Article
93 (367), e2 (2019)
Investigating ancient animal economies and exchange in Kyrgyzstan's Alay Valley. Antiquity 49.
Journal Article
13 (8), e0201409 (2018)
Arboreal crops on the medieval Silk Road: Archaeobotanical studies at Tashbulak. PLoS One 50.
Journal Article
193, pp. 129 - 144 (2018)
Vegetation change and human impacts on Rebun Island (Northwest Pacific) over the last 6000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 51.
Journal Article
48, pp. 295 - 308 (2017)
Linking agriculture and exchange to social developments of the Central Asian Iron Age. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 52.
Journal Article
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)
Book (1)
53.
Book
Fruit from the sands: the Silk Road origins of the foods we eat. University of California Press, Oakland, CA (2019), 374 pp.
Book Chapter (3)
54.
Book Chapter
The rise and decline of the desert cities: The last stages of the BMAC at Togolok 1 (Southern Turkmenistan). In: Cultures in Contact: Central Asia as focus of trade, cultural exchange and knowledge transmission, pp. 89 - 116 (Eds. Baumer, C.; Novák, M.; Rutishauser, S.). Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden (2022)
55.
Book Chapter
Bronze and Iron Age urbanization in Turkmenistan: Preliminary results from the excavation of Togolok 1 on the Murghab alluvial fan. In: Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids: Learnings and conclusions from new archaeological investigations and discoveries ; Proceedings of the First International Congress on Central Asian Archaeology held at the University of Bern, 4–6 February 2016, pp. 63 - 72 (Eds. Baumer, C.; Novák, M.). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden (2019)
56.
Book Chapter
Paleoethnobotany. In: The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, pp. 1 - 5 (Ed. López-Varela, S.). Wiley Blackwell, Malden, MA (2018)
Conference Paper (1)
57.
Conference Paper
18, 1, pp. 155 - 170. The history of the Fergana valley in new researches. (2021)
Evolution of oasis agriculture since the Bronze Age in the Surhan-Darya Basin. In: The history of the Fergana valley in new researches, Vol. Other (1)
58.
Other
Loss of reproductive organ separation zones as adaptation to Anthropogenic Seed-Dispersal-Based Mutualism, Annual Plant Reviews online 5, pp. 345 - 382 (2022)
Book Review (1)
59.
Book Review
92 (363), pp. 827 - 828 (2018)
Claudia Chang. Rethinking prehistoric Central Asia: shepherds, farmers, and nomads. 2018. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 978-1-138-73708-2 £105. Antiquity Preprint (2)
60.
Preprint
Seeing the wood for the trees: active human-environmental interactions in arid northwest China. (2023)