Publications of Robert N. Spengler III

Journal Article (56)

2022
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Chang, C.; Ivanov, S. S.; Tourtellotte, P. A.; Spengler III, R. N.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Kramar, D.: Ancient agricultural and pastoral landscapes on the south side of lake Issyk-Kul: preliminary surveys of the Juuku Valley and Lower Kizil Suu Valley, archaeobotanical results of three stratigraphic profiles, and GIS modeling of Iron Age in Lower Kizil Suu. Land 11 (6), 902 (2022)
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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)
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Stark, S.; Kidd, F. J.; Mirzaakhmedov, J. K.; Wang, S.; Spengler III, R. N.; Mirzaakhmedov, S. J.; Silvia, Z.; Pozzi, S.; Rakhmonov, H.; Sligar, M. et al.; Sultanova, M.: The Uzbek-American expedition in Bukhara: preliminary report on the third season (2017). Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies 60 (2), 05786967.2020.1769495, pp. 149 - 199 (2022)
2021
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Shnaider, S.; Ashastina, K.; Alisher kyzy, S.; Sayfullaev , N.; Zakabluk, G.; Chernonosov, A.; Spengler III, R. N.; Zotkina, L.: The Results of the Complex Study of the Kurteke Site (Eastern Pamir). Theory and practice of archaeological research 33 (4), pp. 284 - 296 (2021)
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Mir Makhamad, B.; Mirzaakhmedov, S.; Rahmonov, H.; Stark, S.; Omel’chenko, A.; Spengler, R. N.: Qarakhanids on the Edge of the Bukhara Oasis: archaeobotany of Medieval Paykend. Economic Botany, s12231-021-09531-6 (2021)
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Spengler, R. N.: Niche construction theory in Archaeology: a critical review. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 28 (3), s10816-021-09528-4, pp. 925 - 955 (2021)
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Mueller, N. G.; Spengler III, R. N.; Glenn, A.; Lama, K.: Bison, anthropogenic fire, and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America. The Anthropocene Review 8 (2), 2053019620961119, pp. 141 - 158 (2021)
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Spengler, R. N.; Tang, L.; Nayak, A.; Boivin, N.; Olivieri, L. M.: The southern Central Asian mountains as an ancient agricultural mixing zone: new archaeobotanical data from Barikot in the Swat valley of Pakistan. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 30, s00334-020-00798-8, pp. 463 - 476 (2021)
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Spengler, R. N.; Ventresca Miller, A. R.; Schmaus, T.; Matuzevičiūtė, G. M.; Miller, B. K.; Wilkin, S.; Taylor, W. T. T.; Li, Y.; Roberts, P.; Boivin, N.: An imagined past?: Nomadic narratives in Central Asian archaeology. Current Anthropology 62 (3), 714245, pp. 251 - 286 (2021)
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Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Spengler, R. N.: Interpreting diachronic size variation in prehistoric Central Asian cereal grains. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 633634 (2021)
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Taylor, W. T. T.; Pruvost, M.; Posth, C.; Rendu, W.; Krajcarz, M. T.; Abdykanova, A.; Brancaleoni, G.; Spengler, R.; Hermes, T.; Schiavinato, S. et al.; Hodgins, G.; Stahl, R.; Min, J.; Alisher kyzy, S.; Fedorowicz, S.; Orlando, L.; Douka, K.; Krivoshapkin, A.; Jeong, C.; Warinner, C.; Shnaider, S.: Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia. Nature Human Behaviour, s41562-021-01083-y (2021)
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Tan, L.; Dong, G.; An, Z.; Lawrence Edwards, R.; Li, H.; Li, D.; Spengler, R.; Cai, Y.; Cheng, H.; Lan, J. et al.; Orozbaev, R.; Liu, R.; Chen, J.; Xu, H.; Chen, F.: Megadrought and cultural exchange along the proto-silk road. Science Bulletin 66 (6), 2020.10.011, pp. 603 - 611 (2021)
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Spengler, R. N.; Petraglia, M.; Roberts, P.; Ashastina, K.; Kistler, L.; Mueller, N. G.; Boivin, N.: Exaptation traits for megafaunal Mutualisms as a factor in plant domestication. Frontiers in Plant Science 12, 649394 (2021)
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Tang, L.; Lu, H.; Song, J.; Wangdue, S.; Chen, X.; Zhang, Z.; Liu, X.; Boivin, N.; Spengler, R. N.: The transition to a barley-dominant cultivation system in Tibet: First millennium BC archaeobotanical evidence from Bangga. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 61, 101242, pp. 1 - 11 (2021)
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Xinying, Z.; Lin, Z.; Spengler III, R. N.; Keliang, Z.; Junchi, L.; Xing, X.; Yige, B.; Dodson, J.; Hai, X.; Xiaoqiang, L.: Water management and wheat yields in ancient China: Carbon isotope discrimination of archaeological wheat grains. The Holocene 31 (2), 0959683620970249, pp. 285 - 293 (2021)
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Shen, H.; Li, X.; Spengler, R.; Zhou, X.; Zhao, K.: Forest cover and composition on the Loess Plateau during the Middle to Late-Holocene: Integrating wood charcoal analyses. The Holocene 31 (1), 0959683620961486, pp. 38 - 49 (2021)
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Spengler, R. N.; Stark, S.; Zhou, X.; Fuks, D.; Tang, L.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Bjørn, R.; Jiang, H.; Olivieri, L. M.; Begmatov, A. et al.; Boivin, N.: A journey to the west: the ancient dispersal of rice out of East Asia. Rice 14 (1), 83, pp. 1 - 18 (2021)
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Wilkin, S.; Ventresca Miller, A.; Fernandes, R.; Spengler, R.; Taylor, W. T. T.; Brown, D. R.; Reich, D.; Kennett, D. J.; Culleton, B. J.; Kunz, L. et al.; Fortes, C.; Kitova, A.; Kuznetsov, P.; Epimakhov, A.; Zaibert, V. F.; Outram, A. K.; Kitov, E.; Khokhlov, A.; Anthony, D.; Boivin, N.: Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions. Nature 598, s41586-021-03798-4, pp. 629 - 633 (2021)
2020
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Yang, Q.; Zhou, X.; Spengler III, R. N.; Zhao, K.; Liu, J.; Bao, Y.; Jia, P. W.; Li, X.: Prehistoric agriculture and social structure in the southwestern Tarim Basin: multiproxy analyses at Wupaer. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 14235, pp. 1 - 11 (2020)
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Ventresca Miller, A. R.; Spengler III, R. N.; Haruda, A.; Miller, B. K.; Wilkin, S.; Robinson, S.; Roberts, P.; Boivin, N. L.: Ecosystem engineering among ancient pastoralists in Northern Central Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, 168 (2020)
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