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Robert N Spengler III is currently the director of the Paleoethnobotany Laboratories at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Max-Planck-Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte) in Jena. He recently wrapped up his research also a Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World through New York University. Dr. Spengler was also a research fellow in Berlin, Germany, as a Volkswagen and Mellon Foundations Postdoctoral Fellow jointly appointed at the German Institute of Archaeology (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, DAI), in the Eurasia Department and Freie Universität, Berlin. During which time he also retained his affiliation with Washington University in St. Louis in the Anthropology Department where he held a posting as a Research Associate the previous year. He defended his PhD at Washington University in St. Louis in March of 2013.
He is studying the paleoeconomy and ecology of Central Asia from the third millennium B.C. onward and has ongoing research projects in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, China, and Mongolia. While he has used several methods in the archaeobotanical sciences, he primarily analyzes macrobotanical remains. Through this research he has shown that farming was an important part of the economy across eastern Central Asia for at least four millennia and that many important crops spread through this region in prehistory. Through his archaeobotanical studies, he is helping to fill in the last major gaps in the global map of agricultural spread, and showing how important the Silk Road was in the spread of specific crops and technologies. In addition, his data feed into a broader understanding of human adaptations, social development, and the linked nature between agricultural intensification and social complexity.
Dr. Spengler is the author of “Fruits of the Sands: How the Silk Road shaped your dinner table” (2017). The book comprehensively explores archaeobotanical data from the broad region of Central Eurasia, from Western China to the steppe and from the Altai Mountains to the Kopet Dag. Using these data, he explains when and from where certain crops spread into this region and how, from there, they eventually reached the disparate ends of Eurasia. While most historians mark the beginning of the Silk Road as occurring during the second century B.C., archaeological artifacts illustrate just how wide spread the movement of material culture was in these mountain valleys as far back as the late third millennium B.C. Agricultural crops moved through these mountain valleys along with other goods and as a result shaped cuisines around the world. The book traces the story of many familiar grain crops, as well as fruits such as the apple, which originated in Central Asia, in doing so, it lays out the history of many of the foods on your dinner table today.
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Paleoethnobotany, Paleoecology, Paleoeconomy, Central Asia, Mongolia, South Asia
He is studying the paleoeconomy and ecology of Central Asia from the third millennium B.C. onward and has ongoing research projects in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, China, and Mongolia. While he has used several methods in the archaeobotanical sciences, he primarily analyzes macrobotanical remains. Through this research he has shown that farming was an important part of the economy across eastern Central Asia for at least four millennia and that many important crops spread through this region in prehistory. Through his archaeobotanical studies, he is helping to fill in the last major gaps in the global map of agricultural spread, and showing how important the Silk Road was in the spread of specific crops and technologies. In addition, his data feed into a broader understanding of human adaptations, social development, and the linked nature between agricultural intensification and social complexity.
Dr. Spengler is the author of “Fruits of the Sands: How the Silk Road shaped your dinner table” (2017). The book comprehensively explores archaeobotanical data from the broad region of Central Eurasia, from Western China to the steppe and from the Altai Mountains to the Kopet Dag. Using these data, he explains when and from where certain crops spread into this region and how, from there, they eventually reached the disparate ends of Eurasia. While most historians mark the beginning of the Silk Road as occurring during the second century B.C., archaeological artifacts illustrate just how wide spread the movement of material culture was in these mountain valleys as far back as the late third millennium B.C. Agricultural crops moved through these mountain valleys along with other goods and as a result shaped cuisines around the world. The book traces the story of many familiar grain crops, as well as fruits such as the apple, which originated in Central Asia, in doing so, it lays out the history of many of the foods on your dinner table today.
Main Focus
Paleoethnobotany, Paleoecology, Paleoeconomy, Central Asia, Mongolia, South Asia
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Mariya Antonosyan,Patrick Roberts, Narek Aspaturyan, Satenik Mkrtchyan,Mary Lucas,Kseniia Boxleitner, Firas Jabbour,Anahit Hovhannisyan,Agata Cieślik,Lilit Sahakyan,Ara Avagyan,Robert Spengler,
Quaternary Science Reviews (2024): 108559
Basira Mir-Makhamad, Pavel Lurje, Vikentiy Parshuto, Abdurahmon Pulotov, Firuz Aminov, Michael Shenkar, Muminkhon Saidov, Nikita Semenov, Sharof Kurbanov, Sirojiddin Mirzaakhmedov, Khusniddin Rakhmanov,Rita Dal Martello,
PloS oneno. 3 (2024): e0297896-e0297896
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,
Carli Peters,Kristine K Richter, Shevan Wilkin,Sören Stark,Basira Mir-Makhamad,Ricardo Fernandes,Farhod Maksudov,Sirojidin Mirzaakhmedov,Husniddin Rahmonov, Stefanie Schirmer,Kseniia Ashastina,Alisher Begmatov,
Nature communicationsno. 1 (2024): 2697-2697
Daniel Fuks, Frijda Schmidt,Maite I. Garcia-Collado, Margot Besseiche, Neal Payne,Giovanna Bosi,Charlene Bouchaud,Elisabetta Castiglioni,Vladimir Dabrowski,Suembikya Frumin,Dorian Q. Fuller,Roman Hovsepyan,
PLANTS PEOPLE PLANET (2024)
AGRONOMY-BASELno. 4 (2023): 1027-1027
Li Tang, Shevan Wilkin,Kristine Korzow Richter,Madeleine Bleasdale,Ricardo Fernandes,Yuanhong He,Shuai Li,Michael Petraglia,Ashley Scott, Fallen K.Y. Teoh,Yan Tong, Tinlei Tsering,
Science Advancesno. 15 (2023)
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. Kutnyakova,Laure Tonasso-Calviere,Ludovic Orlando,
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN ASIA (2023): 100443-100443
LANDno. 7 (2023): 1406-1406
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