Publications of Barbara Huber

Huber, B.; Luciani, M.; Abualhassan, A. M.; Giddings Vassão, D.; Fernandes, R.; Devièse, T.: Metabolic profiling reveals first evidence of fumigating drug plant Peganum harmala in Iron Age Arabia. Communications Biology 8, 720 (2025)

Kaiser, E.; Gak, E.; Antipina, E.; Gerling, C.; Huber, B.; Ivashov, M. V.; Lebedeva, E.; Öğüt, B.; Eger, J.: A forest-steppe landscape and the settlement Ksizovo-1 in the Don region during the Middle Bronze Age. Documenta Praehistorica 52, 7 (2025)

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)

Huber, B.; Hammann, S.; Loeben, C. E.; Jha, D.; Giddings Vassão, D.; Larsen, T.; Spengler III, R. N.; Fuller, D. Q.; Roberts, P.; Devièse, T. et al.; Boivin, N. L.: Biomolecular characterization of 3500-year-old ancient Egyptian mummification balms from the Valley of the Kings. Scientific Reports 13 (1), 12477 (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)

Huber, B.; Giddings Vassão, D.; Roberts, P.; Wang, Y.; Larsen, T.: Chemical modification of biomarkers through accelerated degradation: implications for ancient plant identification in archaeo-organic residues. Molecules 27 (10), 3331 (2022)

Huber, B.; Larsen, T.; Spengler III, R. N.; Boivin, N. L.: How to use modern science to reconstruct ancient scents. Nature Human Behaviour, s41562-022-01325-7 (2022)

Huber, B.: Globalizing scents: investigating the trade and use of aromatic plants in the past using biomolecular approaches. Dissertation, 197 pp., Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen (2024)

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)