Fruits of Eurasia: Domestication and Dispersal

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Peer reviewed articles (7)

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
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.649394

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
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-020-00798-8

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
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.01.005

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
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-021-09528-4

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
DOI: 10.1086/714245

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
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-020-01268-y

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
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.633634