Fruits of Eurasia: Domestication and Dispersal

Project Information

FEDD

Grant agreement ID: 851102

DOI

10.3030/851102

Project closed

EC signature date 11 October 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 375,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 375,00

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MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (37)

Revisiting the Tianwen Yellow Pumice (TYP) Eruption of Changbaishan Volcano: Tephra Correlation, Eruption Timing and Its Climatostratigraphical Context

Author(s): Xuan‐Yu Chen, Yi‐Gang Xu, Pavel E. Tarasov, Christian Leipe, Ji‐Hoon Kim, Shuang Yan, Myong‐Ho Park, Jong‐Hwa Chun, Cong Chen, Peng‐Li He, Simon P. E. Blockley
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Issue 129, 2024, ISSN 2169-9313
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2023jb028563

Morphometric approaches to Cannabis evolution and differentiation from archaeological sites: interpreting the archaeobotanical evidence from bronze age Haimenkou, Yunnan

Author(s): Rita Dal Martello, Rui Min, Chris J. Stevens, Ling Qin, Dorian Q. Fuller
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Issue 33, 2024, Page(s) 503-518, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-023-00966-6

Exaptation Traits for Megafaunal Mutualisms as a Factor in Plant Domestication

Author(s): Robert N. Spengler, Michael Petraglia, Patrick Roberts, Kseniia Ashastina, Logan Kistler, Natalie G. Mueller, Nicole Boivin
Published in: Frontiers in Plant Science, Issue 12, 2021, ISSN 1664-462X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.649394

Morphotype broadening of the grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) from Oxus civilization 4000 BP, Central Asia

Author(s): Guanhan Chen, Xinying Zhou, Mutalibjon Khasannov, Robert N. Spengler, Jian Ma, Tukhtash Annaev, Nasibillo Kambarov, Farhod Maksudov, Jianxin Wang, Akhmadali Askarov, Xiaoqiang Li
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-19644-0

The southern Central Asian mountains as an ancient agricultural mixing zone: new archaeobotanical data from Barikot in the Swat valley of Pakistan

Author(s): Robert N. Spengler, Li Tang, Ayushi Nayak, Nicole Boivin, Luca Maria Olivieri
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Issue 30/4, 2021, Page(s) 463-476, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-020-00798-8

Bile acids as biomarkers in carbonized archaeological sediment: Insights from dung burning experiments

Author(s): Basira Mir-Makhamad, Thomas Larsen, Daniel Giddings Vassao, Robert Spengler, Yiming V. Wang
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) e0312699, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0312699

Agriculture in the Karakum: An archaeobotanical analysis from Togolok 1, southern Turkmenistan (ca. 2300–1700 B.C.)

Author(s): Traci N. Billings, Barbara Cerasetti, Luca Forni, Roberto Arciero, Rita Dal Martello, Marialetizia Carra, Lynne M. Rouse, Nicole Boivin, Robert N. Spengler
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 10, 2022, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.995490

Anthropogenic Seed Dispersal: Rethinking the Origins of Plant Domestication

Author(s): Robert N. Spengler
Published in: Trends in Plant Science, Issue 25/4, 2020, Page(s) 340-348, ISSN 1360-1385
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.01.005

Seeking consensus on the domestication concept

Author(s): Robert N. Spengler, Li Tang, Marta Dal Corso, Rosalind Emma Gillis, Hugo Rafael Oliveira, Basira Mir Makhamad
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 380, 2025, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0188

Niche Construction Theory in Archaeology: A Critical Review

Author(s): Robert N. Spengler
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2021, ISSN 1072-5369
Publisher: Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-021-09528-4

Ancient Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes on the South Side of Lake Issyk-Kul: Preliminary Surveys of the Juuku Valley and Lower Kizil Suu Valley, Archaeobotanical Results of Three Stratigraphic Pr

Author(s): Claudia . Chang, Sergeo Sergievich Ivanov, Perry Alan Tourtellotte, Robert N. Spengler III, Basira Mir-Makhamad, David Kramar
Published in: Land, 2022, ISSN 2073-445X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202205.0219.v1

Human activities, early farming and natural environment in the north-western Kanto Plain (Central Japan) during the Final Jomon–Early Kofun period (990 cal BCE–330 cal CE) inferred from palyno

Author(s): Christian Leipe, Franziska Kobe, Anna Schubert, Eiko Endo, Maya Yasui, Hirotaka Koshitsuka, Michiko Ono, Pavel E. Tarasov, Mayke Wagner
Published in: Quaternary Environments and Humans, Issue 2, 2024, Page(s) 100030, ISSN 2950-2365
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100030

Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia

Author(s): Carli Peters, Kristine K. Richter, Shevan Wilkin, Sören Stark, Basira Mir-Makhamad, Ricardo Fernandes, Farhod Maksudov, Sirojidin Mirzaakhmedov, Husniddin Rahmonov, Stefanie Schirmer, Kseniia Ashasti
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46093-2

Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia

Author(s): Basira Mir-Makhamad, Robert N. Spengler
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2023, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-023-00924-2

Timing and cultural-environmental context of the spread of barley to and within northern East Asia

Author(s): Christian Leipe, Elena A. Sergusheva, Martine Robbeets, Patrick Wertmann, Nikolay N. Kradin, Mayke Wagner, Pavel E. Tarasov
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 67, 2025, Page(s) 105372, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105372

Population dynamics in Taiwan from the Neolithic to early historic periods (5000–100 cal BP): Linking cultural developments and environmental change

Author(s): Christian Leipe, Jou-chun Lu, Ko-an Chi
Published in: Archaeological Research in Asia, Issue 36, 2025, Page(s) 100482, ISSN 2352-2267
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2023.100482

The origins of multi-cropping agriculture in Southwestern China: Archaeobotanical insights from third to first millennium B.C. Yunnan

Author(s): Rita Dal Martello
Published in: Asian Archaeology, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2520-8101
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s41826-022-00052-2

Post-Neolithic broadening of agriculture in Yunnan, China: Archaeobotanical evidence from Haimenkou

Author(s): Xue, Y., Dal Martello, R., Qin, L., Stevens, C. J., Min, R., & Fuller, D. Q.
Published in: Archaeological Research in Asia, 2022, ISSN 2352-2267
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2022.100364

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

Author(s): Robert N. Spengler; Sören Stark; Xinying Zhou; Daniel Fuks; Daniel Fuks; Li Tang; Basira Mir-Makhamad; Rasmus Bjørn; Hongen Jiang; Luca M. Olivieri; Alisher Begmatov; Nicole Boivin
Published in: Rice, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1939-8433
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.17863/cam.75996

Occupation of highland Central Asia: New evidence from Kurteke rockshelter, Eastern Pamir

Author(s): Svetlana Shnaider, Snezhana V. Zhilich, Lidia V. Zotkina, Kseniia A. Boxleitner, William T.T. Taylor, Nuritdin Sayfullaev, Vladimir V. Koval, Svetlana V. Baranova, Alexander A. Chernonosov, Lyubov A.
Published in: Archaeological Research in Asia, Issue 34, 2025, Page(s) 100443, ISSN 2352-2267
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2023.100443

Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution

Author(s): Robert N. Spengler, Frank Kienast, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin, David R. Begun, Kseniia Ashastina, Michael Petraglia
Published in: Biological Theory, Issue 18, 2023, Page(s) 134-151, ISSN 1555-5542
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00413-1

Qarakhanids on the Edge of the Bukhara Oasis: Archaeobotany of medieval Paykend

Author(s): Mir-Makhamad, Basira, Sirojidin Mirzaakhmedov, Husniddin Rahmonov, Andrey Omel’chenko, Sören Stark, and Robert N. Spengler III
Published in: Economic Botany, 2022, ISSN 1874-9364
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-021-09531-6

Climate change and the spread of the Transeurasian languages

Author(s): Martine Robbeets, Christian Leipe
Published in: Quaternary Environments and Humans, Issue 3, 2025, Page(s) 100071, ISSN 2950-2365
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.qeh.2025.100071

An Imagined Past?

Author(s): Robert N. Spengler, Alicia Ventresca Miller, Tekla Schmaus, Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė, Bryan K. Miller, Shevan Wilkin, William Timothy Treal Taylor, Yuqi Li, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin
Published in: Current Anthropology, Issue 62/3, 2021, Page(s) 251-286, ISSN 0011-3204
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/714245

Prehistoric agricultural decision making in the western Himalayas: ecological and social variables

Author(s): Li Tang; Hongliang Lu; Xinzhou Chen; Hailun Xu; Nicole Boivin; Michael Storozum; Feng Yang; Shuai Li; Xinyi Liu; Robert N. Spengler
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2022.80

Two-season agriculture and irrigated rice during the Dian: radiocarbon dates and archaeobotanical remains from Dayingzhuang, Yunnan, Southwest China

Author(s): Rita Dal Martello, Xiaorui Li, Dorian Q. Fuller
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 13/4, 2021, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-020-01268-y

Ancient Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes on the South Side of Lake Issyk-Kul: Long-Term Diachronic Analysis of Changing Patterns of Land Use, Climate Change, and Ritual Use in the Juuku and Kizil

Author(s): Claudia Chang, Sergei S. Ivanov, Perry A. Tourtellotte, Robert N. Spengler, Basira Mir-Makhamad, David Kramar
Published in: Land, Issue 11, 2025, Page(s) 902, ISSN 2073-445X
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/land11060902

Agriculture along the upper part of the Middle Zarafshan River during the first millennium AD: A multi-site archaeobotanical analysis

Author(s): Basira Mir-Makhamad, Pavel Lurje, Vikentiy Parshuto, Abdurahmon Pulotov, Firuz Aminov, Michael Shenkar, Muminkhon Saidov, Nikita Semenov, Sharof Kurbanov, Sirojiddin Mirzaakhmedov, Khusniddin Rakhmano
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) e0297896, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297896

Interpreting Diachronic Size Variation in Prehistoric Central Asian Cereal Grains

Author(s): Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Basira Mir-Makhamad, Robert N. Spengler
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 9, 2021, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.633634

A biomolecular perspective on mobile pastoralism and its role in wider socioeconomic connections in the Chalcolithic South Caucasus

Author(s): Mariya Antonosyan, Gwendoline Maurer, Satenik Mkrtchyan, Kseniia Boxleitner, Mariam Saribekyan, Anahit Hovhannisyan, Laura Furquim, Freg Stokes, Ruben Davtyan, Arsen Bobokhyan, Karen Azatyan, Jana Ilg
Published in: iScience, Issue 28, 2025, Page(s) 112544, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112544

Food production and agricultural systems on the southwestern frontier of the Han Empire: archaeobotanical remains from the 2016 excavation of Hebosuo, Yunnan

Author(s): Wei Yang, Zhilong Jiang, Alice Yao, Rita Dal Martello, Jieming Jiang, Huomin Xie, Xuexiang Chen
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 15, 2023, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01766-9

Biomolecular evidence for changing millet reliance in Late Bronze Age central Germany

Author(s): Eleftheria Orfanou, Barbara Zach, Adam B. Rohrlach, Florian N. Schneider, Enrico Paust, Mary Lucas, Taylor Hermes, Jana Ilgner, Erin Scott, Peter Ettel, Wolfgang Haak, Robert Spengler, Patrick Roberts
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-54824-0

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

Author(s): Rita Dal Martello, Madelynn von Baeyer, Mark Hudson, Rasmus G. Bjorn, Christian Leipe, Barbara Zach, Basira Mir-Makhamad, Traci N. Billings, Irene M. Muñoz Fernández, Barbara Huber, Kseniia Boxleitn
Published in: Agronomy, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) 1027, ISSN 2073-4395
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy13041027

Food globalization in southern Central Asia: archaeobotany at Bukhara between antiquity and the Middle Ages

Author(s): Basira Mir-Makhamad, Sören Stark, Sirojidin Mirzaakhmedov, Husniddin Rahmonov, Robert N. Spengler
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 15, 2023, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01827-z

Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue

Author(s): Rosalind Emma Gillis, Marta Dal Corso, Hugo Rafael Oliveira, Robert N. Spengler
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 380, 2025, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0187

Pistachio (Pistacia vera) domestication and dispersal out of Central Asia

Author(s): Mir Makhamad, B., Bjorn, R., Stark, S., & Spengler III, R. N.
Published in: Agronomy, 2022, ISSN 2073-4395
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy12081758

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

Author(s): Robert Spengler, Carli Peters, Kristine Richter, Basira Mir-Makhamad, Sören Stark, Ricardo Fernandes, Farhad Maksudov, Mirzaakhmedov Sirojidin, Rahmonov Husniddin, Shevan Wilkin, Stefanie Schirmer, K
Published in: Nature Communications, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1340382/v1