Publications of Robert N. Spengler III

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.: Nature's greatest success: how plants evolved to exploit humanity. University of California Press, Oakland, California (2025), 512 pp.

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.

Cerasetti, B.; Arciero, R.; Billings, T.; Cattani, M.; D'Ippolito, L.; Forni, L.; Luneau, E.; Olson, K. G.; Potenza, A. C.; Rouse, L. M. et al.; Spengler III, R. N.: 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)

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)

Cerasetti, B.; Arciero, R.; Carra , M.; Curci, A.; Mazzorin, J. D. G.; Forni , L.; Luneau, E.; Rouse, L. M.; Spengler III, R. N.: 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)

Spengler III, R. N.: Paleoethnobotany. In: The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, pp. 1 - 5 (Ed. López-Varela, S.). Wiley Blackwell, Malden, MA (2018)

Spengler III, R. N.; Mutalibjon, K.; Maksudov, F.; Wang, J.; Nasibillo, K.: Evolution of oasis agriculture since the Bronze Age in the Surhan-Darya Basin. In: The history of the Fergana valley in new researches, Vol. 18, 1, pp. 155 - 170. The history of the Fergana valley in new researches. (2021)

von Baeyer, M.; Tranbarger, T. J.; Spengler III, R. N.: Loss of reproductive organ separation zones as adaptation to Anthropogenic Seed-Dispersal-Based Mutualism, Annual Plant Reviews online 5, pp. 345 - 382 (2022)

Spengler III, R. N.: Claudia Chang. Rethinking prehistoric Central Asia: shepherds, farmers, and nomads. 2018. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 978-1-138-73708-2 £105. Antiquity 92 (363), pp. 827 - 828 (2018)

Billings, T.; Scott, E.; Cocozza, C.; Hixon, S.; Boivin, N. L.; Roberts, P.; Spengler III, R. N.; Fernandes, R.: The North American repository for archaeological isotopes. (2025)

Shen, H.; Spengler III, R. N.; Zhou, X.; Betts, A.; Jia, P. W.; Zhao, K.; Li, X.: Seeing the wood for the trees: active human-environmental interactions in arid northwest China. (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)