Fruits of Eurasia: Domestication and Dispersal

Project Information

FEDD

Grant agreement ID: 851102

DOI 10.3030/851102

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

Coordinated by

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
Germany

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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