Spengler, Robert N., III, Ilaria de Nigris, Barbara Cerasetti, Marialetizia Carra, Lynne M. Rouse (2018) The breadth of dietary economy in Bronze Age Central Asia: Case study from Adji Kui 1 in the Murghab region of Turkmenistan. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 22: 372-381.
Arboreal crops on the medieval Silk Road: Archaeobotanical studies at Tashbulak
Robert N. Spengler III, Farhod Maksudov, Elissa Bullion, Ann Merkle, Taylor Hermes, Michael Frachetti (2018). PLOS One.
Dung burning in the archaeobotanical record of West Asia: Where are we now?
Spengler, Robert N., III (2018) Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
Vegetation change and human impacts on Rebun Island (Northwest Pacific) over the last 6000 years
Christian Leipe, Stefanie Müller, Konrad Hille, Hirofumi Kato, Franziska Kobe, Mareike Schmidt, Konrad Seyffert, Robert Spengler III, Mayke Wagner, Andrzej W. Weber, Pavel E. Tarasov (2018)
Claudia Chang. Rethinking prehistoric Central Asia: shepherds, farmers, and nomads
Spengler III, Robert N. (2018). Antiquity.
Linking agriculture and exchange to social developments of the Central Asian Iron Age
Robert N. Spengler III, Naomi F. Miller, Reinder Neef, Perry A. Tourtellotte, Claudia Chang
Barley (Hordeum vulgare) in the Okhotsk culture (5th–10th century AD) of northern Japan and the role of cultivated plants in hunter-gatherer economies
Christian Leipe, Elena A. Sergusheva, Stefanie Müller, Robert N. Spengler III, Tomasz Goslar, Hirofumi Kato, Mayke Wagner, Andrzej W. Weber, Pavel E. Tarasov (2017)
Eurasian textiles: Case studies in exchange during the incipient and later Silk Road periods
Paula N. Doumani Dupuy, Robert N. Spengler III, Michael D. Frachetti Quaternary International (2017) 1-12
Introduction and Intensification of Agriculture in Central Eurasia and Adjacent Regions
Robert N. Spengler III, Mayke Wagner, and Pavel Tarasov 2016. Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Introduction and intensification of agriculture in Central Eurasia and adjacent regions’. The Holocene.
The spread of agriculture into northern Central Asia
Robert N. Spengler III, Natalia Ryabogina, Pavel Tarasov, and Mayke Wagner 2016. The spread of agriculture into northern Central Asia: Timing, pathways, and environmental feedbacks. The Holocene. Over the past decade researchers have directed greater focus toward understanding Bronze (3200-800 BC) and Iron Age (800 BC-AD 400) economies of Central Asia. In this article, we synthesize…