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List of works by Robert Nicholas Spengler

5,200-year-old cereal grains from the eastern Altai Mountains redate the trans-Eurasian crop exchange

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

A Journey to the West: The Ancient Dispersal of Rice Out of East Asia

scientific article published on 25 September 2021

Agricultural origins from the ground up: archaeological approaches to plant domestication

scientific article

Arboreal crops on the medieval Silk Road: Archaeobotanical studies at Tashbulak

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia

scientific article published in 2024

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Author Correction: Early Pastoral Economies and Herding Transitions in Eastern Eurasia

scientific article published on 06 March 2020

Barley (Hordeum vulgare) in the Okhotsk culture (5th-10th century AD) of northern Japan and the role of cultivated plants in hunter-gatherer economies

scientific article

Correction: Arboreal crops on the medieval Silk Road: Archaeobotanical studies at Tashbulak

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions

scientific article

Early Pastoral Economies and Herding Transitions in Eastern Eurasia

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Early agriculture and crop transmission among Bronze Age mobile pastoralists of Central Eurasia

scientific article published on 2 April 2014

Economic Diversification Supported the Growth of Mongolia's Nomadic Empires

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Grazing animals drove domestication of grain crops

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Insularity and early domestication: anthropogenic ecosystems as habitat islands

scientific article published in 2022

Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Introduction and intensification of agriculture in Central Eurasia and adjacent regions’

Linking agriculture and exchange to social developments of the Central Asian Iron Age

article

Niche Construction Theory in Archaeology: A Critical Review

scientific article published in 2021

Origins of the Apple: The Role of Megafaunal Mutualism in the Domestication of Malus and Rosaceous Trees.

scientific article

Pistachio (Pistachio vera) Domestication and Dispersal Out of Central Asia

scientific article published in 2022

The Domestication and Dispersal of Large-Fruiting Prunus spp.: A Metadata Analysis of Archaeobotanical Material

scientific article published in 2023

The origins of cannabis smoking: Chemical residue evidence from the first millennium BCE in the Pamirs.

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

The spread of agriculture into northern Central Asia: Timing, pathways, and environmental feedbacks

article

Vegetation change and human impacts on Rebun Island (Northwest Pacific) over the last 6000 years

scholarly article

When Did the Chicken Cross the Road: Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia

scientific article published on 14 February 2022