Langlie, BrieAnna S., Natalie G. Mueller, Robert N. Spengler, and Gayle J. Fritz 2014. Agricultural Origins from the Ground Up: Archaeological Perspectives on Plant Domestication. American Journal of Botany 101(10): 000–000. Peer-reviewed.
Category: Articles
Niche Dwelling vs. Niche Construction
Spengler, Robert N., III. 2014. Niche Dwelling vs. Niche Construction: Landscape Modification in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Central Asia. Human Ecology 42, (6): 813-821. Peer-reviewed.
Late Bronze Age agriculture at Tasbas in the Dzhungar Mountains of eastern Kazakhstan
Spengler, Robert N., III, Paula Doumani, and Michael Frachetti 2014. Late Bronze Age agriculture at Tasbas in the Dzhungar Mountains of eastern Kazakhstan. Quaternary International 348: 147-157. Peer-reviewed.
Early agriculture and crop transmission among Bronze Age mobile pastoralists of Central Eurasia
Spengler, R. N., M. D. Frachetti, P. N. Doumani, L. M. Rouse, B. Cerasetti, E. Bullion, A. N. Mar’yashev 2014. Early agriculture and crop transmission among Bronze Age mobile pastoralists of Central Eurasia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 20133382. Peer-reviewed.
Agriculturalists and Pastoralists
Spengler, Robert N., III, Barbara Cerassetti, Margareta Tengberg, Maurizio Cattani, and Lynne M. Rouse. 2014. Agriculturalists and Pastoralists: Bronze Age Economy of the Murghab Delta, Southern Central Asia. Journal of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 23, 805–820. Peer-reviewed.
Moving Agriculture onto the Tibetan Plateau
d’Alpoim Guedes, Jade, Lu Hongliang, Li Yongxian, Wu Xiaohong, Robert N. Spengler III, and Mark S. Aldenderfer. 2014. Moving Agriculture onto the Tibetan Plateau: The Archaeobotanical Evidence. Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Science 6: 255-269. Peer-reviewed.
Introducing Archaeobotany to Central Asia
Spengler, Robert N., III. 2014. Introducing Archaeobotany to Central Asia. In Dissertation Reviews; Asian Archaeology.
Botanical Resource Use in the Bronze and Iron Age of the Central Eurasian Mountain/Steppe Interface
Spengler, Robert N., III. 2013. Botanical Resource Use in the Bronze and Iron Age of the Central Eurasian Mountain/Steppe Interface: Decision Making in Multi-resource Pastoral Economies, Ph.D. Dissertation for the Anthropology Department at Washington University in St. Louis.
Archaeobotanical Results from Sarazm, Tajikistan, an Early Bronze Age Village on the Edge
Spengler, Robert N., III, and George Willcox. 2013. Archaeobotanical Results from Sarazm, Tajikistan, an Early Bronze Age Village on the Edge: Agriculture and Exchange. Journal of Environmental Archaeology 10(3): 211-221. Peer-reviewed.
Ecotopes and Herd Foraging Practices in the Bronze and Iron Age, Steppe and Mountain Ecotone of Central Asia
Spengler, Robert N., III, Michael D. Frachetti, and Gayle J. Fritz. 2013. Ecotopes and Herd Foraging Practices in the Bronze and Iron Age, Steppe and Mountain Ecotone of Central Asia. Journal of Ethnobiology 33(1): 125-147. Peer-reviewed.