Spengler, Robert N. III, Soren Stark, Xinying Zhou, Daniel Fuks, Li Tang, Basira Mir‑Makhamad, Rasmus Bjørn, Hongen Jiang, Luca M. Olivieri, Alisher Begmatov, and Nicole Boivin (2021) A Journey to the West: The Ancient Dispersal of Rice Out of East Asia. Rice.
Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions
Wilkin, Shevan, Alicia Ventresca Miller, Ricardo Fernandes, Robert Spengler, William T.-T. Taylor, Dorcas R. Brown, David Reich, Douglas J. Kennett, Brendan J. Culleton, Laura Kunz, Claudia Fortes, Aleksandra Kitova, Pavel Kuznetsov, Andrey Epimakhov, Victor F. Zaibert, Alan K. Outram, Egor Kitov, Aleksandr Khokhlov, David Anthony, and Nicole Boivin (2021) Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya…
Exaptation Traits for Megafaunal Mutualisms as Factors in Plant Domestication
Spengler, Robert N., III, Michael Petraglia, Patrick Roberts, Kseniia Ashastina, Logan Kistler, Natalie G. Mueller, and Nicole Boivin (2021) Exaptation Traits for Megafaunal Mutualisms as Factors in Plant Domestication. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12:649394.
Niche Construction Theory: A critical review. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Spengler, Robert N., III (2021) Niche Construction Theory: A critical review. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 28:925-955.
Interpreting Diachronic Size Variation in Prehistoric Central Asian Cereal Grains
Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G., B. Mir-Makhamad, and R. N. Spengler III (2021) Interpreting Diachronic Size Variation in Prehistoric Central Asian Cereal Grains. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9:633634.
Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia
Taylor, William T. T., Mélanie Pruvost, Cosimo Posth, William Rendu, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Aida Abdykanova, Greta Brancaleoni, Robert Spengler, Taylor Hermes, Stéphanie Schiavinato, Gregory Hodgins, Raphaela Stahl, Jina Min, Saltanat Alisher kyzy, Stanisław Fedorowicz, Ludovic Orlando, Katerina Douka, Andrey Krivoshapkin, Choongwon Jeong, Christina Warinner, and Svetlana Shnaider (2021) Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep…
An Imagined Past? Nomadic Narratives in Central Asian Archaeology. Current Anthropology
Spengler, Robert N. III, William Taylor, Alicia Ventresca Miller, Bryan Miller, Shevan Wilkin, Tekla Schmause, Patrick Roberts, and Nicole Boivin (2021) An Imagined Past? Nomadic Narratives in Central Asian Archaeology. Current Anthropology. 62(3): 251-286.
The Southern Central Asian Mountains as an Ancient Agricultural Mixing Zone: New archaeobotanical date from Barikot in the Swat Valley of Pakistan
Spengler, Robert N., III, Li Tang, Ayushi Nayak, Nicole Boivin, and Luca Maria Olivieri (2021) The Southern Central Asian Mountains as an Ancient Agricultural Mixing Zone: New archaeobotanical date from Barikot in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
Megadrought and Cultural Exchange along the Proto-Silk Road
Tan, Liangcheng, Guanghui Dong, Zhisheng An, R. Lawrence Edwards, Haiming Li, Dong Li, Robert Spengler, Yanjun Cai, Jiang Lan, Rustam Orozbaev, Ruiliang Liu, Jianhui Chen, Hai Xu, and Fahu Chen (2021) Megadrought and Cultural Exchange along the Proto-Silk Road. Science Bulletin 66:603-611.
Early Pastoral Economies and Herding Transitions in Eastern Eurasia
Taylor, William, Julia Clark, Jamsramjav Bayarsaikhan, Tumuurbaatar Turshinjargal, Jessica Thompson Jobe, William Fitzhugh, Richard Kortum, Robert N. Spengler III, Svetlana Shnaider, Frederik Seersholm, Isaac Hart, Nicolas Case, Shevan Wilkin, Jessica Hendy, Ulrike Thuering, Bryan Miller, Alicia Ventresca Miller, Andrea Picia, Nils Vanwezer, Franziska Irmer, Samantha Brown, Aida Abdykanova, Daniel Shultz, Victoria Pham, Michael Bunee, Katerina…
Central Eurasian Archaeobotany 