Publications of Robert N. Spengler III

Dal Martello, R.; Wang, Y.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Spengler III, R. N.; Fuller, D. Q.: Contrasting diachronic regional trends in cereal grain evolution across Eurasia: a metadata analysis of linear morphometrics from the ninth millennium BCE to today. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 380 (1926), 20240193 (2025)

Antonosyan, M.; Maurer, G.; Mkrtchyan, S.; Boxleitner, K.; Saribekyan, M.; Hovhannisyan, A.; Furquim, L.; Stokes, F. J.; Davtyan, R.; Bobokhyan, A. et al.; Azatyan, K.; Ilgner, J.; Reinhold, S.; Frahm, E.; Spengler III, R. N.; Roberts, P.; Amano, N.; Yepiskoposyan, L.: A biomolecular perspective on mobile pastoralism and its role in wider socioeconomic connections in the Chalcolithic South Caucasus. iScience, 112544 (2025)

Gillis, R. E.; Dal Corso, M.; Oliveira, H. R.; Spengler III, R. N.: Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 380 (1926), 20240187, pp. 1 - 7 (2025)

Spengler III, R. N.; Tang, L.; Dal Corso, M.; Gillis, R. E.; Oliveira, H. R.; Makhamad, B. M.: Seeking consensus on the domestication concept. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 380 (1926), 20240188, pp. 1 - 15 (2025)

Scerri, E. M. L.; Blinkhorn, J.; Groucutt, H. S.; Stewart, M.; Candy, I.; Allué, E.; Burguet-Coca, A.; Currás, A.; Carleton, W. C.; Lindauer, S. et al.; Spengler, R.; Boxleitner, K.; Asciak, G.; Colucci, M.; Gauci, R.; Hatton, A. G.; Kutowsky, J.; Maier, A.; Mata-González, M.; Mifsud, N.; Niang, K.; Roberts, P.; de Giorgio, J.; Xerri, R.; Vella, N. C.: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands. Nature, s41586-025-08780-y (2025)

Mir-Makhamad, B.; Larsen, T.; Giddings Vassão, D.; Spengler III, R. N.; Wang, Y.: Bile acids as biomarkers in carbonized archaeological sediment: Insights from dung burning experiments. PLOS ONE 20 (2), e0312699, pp. 1 - 18 (2025)

Mir Makhamad, B.; Bjorn, R.; Boxleitner, K.; Spengler III, R. N.: The Cotton Road: the history of an exchange commodity in Central Asia. Inner Asia 26 (2), 02602002, pp. 193 - 230 (2024)

Li, K.; Qin, X.; Plunkett, G.; Presslee, S.; Spengler, R.; Xu, B.; Wu, Y.; Tian, X.; Wei, D.; Wang, C. et al.; Shao, H.; Mu, G.; Jia, H.; Li, W.; Feng, J.; Liu, J.: Multi-proxy investigations of Bronze Age diet and environment in the hyper-arid eastern Tarim Basin (Lop Nur), northwest China. Journal of Archaeological Science 171, 106089, pp. 1 - 10 (2024)

Antonosyan, M.; Roberts, P.; Aspaturyan, N.; Mkrtchyan, S.; Lucas, M.; Boxleitner, K.; Jabbour, F.; Hovhannisyan, A.; Cieślik, A.; Sahakyan, L. et al.; Avagyan, A.; Spengler, R.; Kandel, A. W.; Petraglia, M.; Boivin, N.; Yepiskoposyan, L.; Amano, N.: Multiproxy evidence for environmental stability in the lesser caucasus during the late pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 330, 108559, pp. 1 - 22 (2024)

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)

Mir-Makhamad, B.; Lurje, P.; Parshuto, V.; Pulotov, A.; Aminov, F.; Shenkar, M.; Saidov, M.; Semenov, N.; Kurbanov, S.; Mirzaakhmedov, S. et al.; Rakhmanov, K.; Dal Martello, R.; Spengler III, R. N.: Agriculture along the upper part of the Middle Zarafshan River during the first millennium AD: a multi-site archaeobotanical analysis. PLOS ONE 19 (3), e0297896 (2024)

Orfanou, E.; Zach, B.; Rohrlach, A. B.; Schneider, F. N.; Paust, E.; Lucas, M.; Hermes, T.; Ilgner, J.; Scott, E.; Ettel, P. et al.; Haak, W.; Spengler, R.; Roberts, P.: Biomolecular evidence for changing millet reliance in Late Bronze Age central Germany. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 4382 (2024)

Fuks, D.; Schmidt, F.; García-Collado, M. I.; Besseiche, M.; Payne, N.; Bosi, G.; Bouchaud, C.; Castiglioni, E.; Dabrowski, V.; Frumin, S. et al.; Fuller, D. Q.; Hovsepyan, R.; Muthukumaran, S.; Peña-Chocarro, L.; Jordá, G. P.; Ros, J.; Rottoli, M.; Ryan, P.; Spengler, R.; Stevens, C. J.; Valamoti, S. M.; Weiss, E.; Alexander, M.; Gros-Balthazard, M.: Orphan crops of archaeology-based crop history research. Plants, people, planet, 3.10468 (2024)

Ventresca Miller, A. R.; Wilkin, S.; Smithers, R.; Larson, K.; Spengler, R.; Haruda, A.; Kradin, N.; Bazarov, B.; Miyagashev, D.; Odbaatar, T. et al.; Turbat, T.; Zhambaltarova, E.; Konovalov, P.; Bayarsaikhan, J.; Hein, A.; Hommel, P.; Nash, B.; Nayak, A.; Vanwezer, N.; Miller, B. K.; Fernandes, R.; Boivin, N.; Roberts, P.: Adaptability of millets and landscapes: ancient cultivation in North-Central Asia. Agronomy 13 (11), 2848 (2023)

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)

Mir Makhamad, B.; Stark, S.; Mirzaakhmedov, S.; Rahmonov, H.; Spengler III, R. N.: Food globalization in southern Central Asia: archaeobotany at Bukhara between antiquity and the Middle Ages. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 15 (8), 124, pp. 1 - 18 (2023)

Chang, C.; Ivanov, S. S.; Spengler III, R. N.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Tourtellotte, P. A.: Montane Ecoclines in Ancient Central Asia: a preliminary study of Agropastoral Economies in Juuku, Kyrgyzstan. Land 12 (7), 1406 (2023)

Shnaider, S.; Zhilich, S. V.; Zotkina, L. V.; Boxleitner, K.; Taylor, W. T.T.; Sayfullaev, N.; Koval, V. V.; Baranova, S. V.; Chernonosov, A. A.; Kutnyakova, L. A. et al.; Tonasso-Calvière, L.; Orlando, L.; Spengler, R.: Occupation of highland Central Asia: new evidence from Kurteke rockshelter, Eastern Pamir. Archaeological Research in Asia 34, 100443, pp. 1 - 11 (2023)

Spengler III, R. N.; Kienast, F.; Roberts, P.; Boivin, N. L.; Begun, D. R.; Ashastina, K.; Petraglia, M.: Bearing fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit evolution. Biological theory 18 (2), s13752-022-00413-1, pp. 134 - 151 (2023)

Mir-Makhamad, B.; Spengler, R. N.: Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, s00334-023-00924-2 (2023)