Ventresca Miller, Alicia R., Robert N. Spengler III, Ashleigh Haruda, Bryan Miller, Shevan Wilkin, Sarah Robinson, Patrick Roberts, and Nicole Boivin (2020) Ecosystem Engineering Among Ancient Pastoralists in Northern Central Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science. 8:168.
Bison, anthropogenic fire, and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America
Mueller, Natalie G. Robert N Spengler III, Ashley Glenn, and Kunsang Lama (2020) Bison, anthropogenic fire, and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America, The Anthropocene Review. October 2020.
The Uzbek-American Expedition in Bukhara
Stark, Sören, Fiona J. Kidd, Jamal K. Mirzaakhmedov, Shujing Wang, Robert N. Spengler III, Siroj J. Mirzaakhmedov, Zachary Silvia, Silvia Pozzi, Husniddin Rakhmonov, Megan Sligar, and Munira Sultanova (2020) The Uzbek-American Expedition in Bukhara. Preliminary Report on the Third Season (2017). Iran. Online First.
Water Management and Wheat Yields in Ancient China
Zhou, Xinying; Zhu, Lin; Spengler, Robert; Zhao, Keliang; Liu, Junchi; Xu, Xing; Bao, Yige; Dodson, John ; Xu, Hai; Li, Xiaoqiang (2020) Water Management and Wheat Yields in Ancient China: Carbon isotope discrimination of archaeological wheat grains. The Holocene. Online First.
Forest cover and composition on the Loess Plateau during the Middle to Late Holocene
Shen, Hui, Xiaoquiang Li, Robert N. Spengler III, Xinying Zhou, and Keliang Zhao (2020) Forest cover and composition on the Loess Plateau during the Middle to Late Holocene: Integrating wood charcoal analyses. The Holocene. Online First.
The transition to a barley-dominant cultivation system in Tibet
Li Tang, Hongliang Lu, Jixiang Song, Sharge Wangdue, Xinzhou Chen, Zhengwei Zhang, Xinyi Liu, Nicole Boivin, Robert N. Spengler (2020) The transition to a barley-dominant cultivation system in Tibet: First millennium BC archaeobotanical evidence from Bangga. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 61: 101242.
Ancient Cannabis Smoking in Western China
Spengler, Robert (2020) High in the Pamir Mountains: Ancient Cannabis Smoking in Western China. The Science Breaker. Online only.
Economic Diversification Supported the Growth of Mongolia’s Nomadic Empires
Wilkin, Shevan Alicia Ventresca Miller, Bryan K. Miller, Robert N. Spengler III, William T. T. Taylor, Ricardo Fernandes, Richard W. Hagan, Madeleine Bleasdale, Jana Zech, S. Ulziibayar, Erdene Myagmar, Nicole Boivin, and Patrick Roberts (2020) Economic Diversification Supported the Growth of Mongolia’s Nomadic Empires, Scientific Reports. 10: 3916.
5,200-year-old cereal grains from the eastern Altai Mountains redate the trans-Eurasian crop exchange
Zhou, Xinying, Jianjun Yu, Robert Nicholas Spengler, Hui Shen, Keliang Zhao, Junyi Ge, Yige Bao, Junchi Liu, Qingjiang Yang, Guanhan Chen, Peter Weiming Jia, and Xiaoqiang Li (2020) 5,200-year-old cereal grains from the eastern Altai Mountains redate the trans-Eurasian crop exchange, Nature Plants 6: 78–87.
Rethinking the Origins of Plant Domestication
Spengler, Robert N., III (2020) Anthropogenic Seed Dispersal: Rethinking the Origins of Plant Domestication. Trends in Plant Science. Online First.
Central Eurasian Archaeobotany 