| Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use L Stephens, D Fuller, N Boivin, T Rick, N Gauthier, A Kay, B Marwick, ... Science 365 (6456), 897-902, 2019 | 561 | 2019 |
| Early agriculture and crop transmission among Bronze Age mobile pastoralists of Central Eurasia R Spengler, M Frachetti, P Doumani, L Rouse, B Cerasetti, E Bullion, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1783), 20133382, 2014 | 326 | 2014 |
| Earliest direct evidence for broomcorn millet and wheat in the central Eurasian steppe region MD Frachetti, RN Spengler, GJ Fritz, AN Mar'yashev Antiquity 84 (326), 993-1010, 2010 | 281 | 2010 |
| Millet cultivation across Eurasia: Origins, spread, and the influence of seasonal climate NF Miller, RN Spengler, M Frachetti The Holocene 26 (10), 1566-1575, 2016 | 206 | 2016 |
| 5,200-year-old cereal grains from the eastern Altai Mountains redate the trans-Eurasian crop exchange X Zhou, J Yu, RN Spengler, H Shen, K Zhao, J Ge, Y Bao, J Liu, Q Yang, ... Nature plants 6 (2), 78-87, 2020 | 201 | 2020 |
| Moving agriculture onto the Tibetan plateau: the archaeobotanical evidence J d’Alpoim Guedes, H Lu, Y Li, RN Spengler, X Wu, MS Aldenderfer Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 6, 255-269, 2014 | 198 | 2014 |
| The origins of cannabis smoking: Chemical residue evidence from the first millennium BCE in the Pamirs M Ren, Z Tang, X Wu, R Spengler, H Jiang, Y Yang, N Boivin Science advances 5 (6), eaaw1391, 2019 | 183 | 2019 |
| Agriculture in the central Asian bronze age RN Spengler Journal of World Prehistory 28, 215-253, 2015 | 174 | 2015 |
| Burial ritual, agriculture, and craft production among Bronze Age pastoralists at Tasbas (Kazakhstan) PN Doumani, MD Frachetti, R Beardmore, TM Schmaus, RN Spengler III, ... Archaeological Research in Asia 1, 17-32, 2015 | 147 | 2015 |
| Origins of the Apple: The Role of Megafaunal Mutualism in the Domestication of Malus and Rosaceous Trees RN Spengler Frontiers in plant science 10, 617, 2019 | 135 | 2019 |
| Fruit from the sands: the Silk Road origins of the foods we eat RN Spengler University of California Press, 2020 | 126 | 2020 |
| Agricultural production in the Central Asian mountains: Tuzusai, Kazakhstan (410–150 b.c.) RN Spengler, C Chang, PA Tourtellotte Journal of Field Archaeology 38 (1), 68-85, 2013 | 121 | 2013 |
| Dairying enabled early bronze age yamnaya steppe expansions S Wilkin, A Ventresca Miller, R Fernandes, R Spengler, WTT Taylor, ... Nature 598 (7882), 629-633, 2021 | 116 | 2021 |
| Archaeobotanical results from Sarazm, Tajikistan, an Early Bronze Age Settlement on the edge: Agriculture and exchange RN Spengler, G Willcox Environmental Archaeology 18 (3), 211-221, 2013 | 113 | 2013 |
| Ecotopes and herd foraging practices in the steppe/mountain ecotone of Central Asia during the Bronze and Iron Ages RN Spengler III, MD Frachetti, GJ Fritz Journal of Ethnobiology 33 (1), 125-147, 2013 | 101 | 2013 |
| Late bronze age agriculture at Tasbas in the Dzhungar mountains of eastern Kazakhstan RN Spengler III, MD Frachetti, PN Doumani Quaternary International 348, 147-157, 2014 | 98 | 2014 |
| Megadrought and cultural exchange along the proto-silk road L Tan, G Dong, Z An, RL Edwards, H Li, D Li, R Spengler, Y Cai, H Cheng, ... Science bulletin 66 (6), 603-611, 2021 | 85 | 2021 |
| Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia WTT Taylor, M Pruvost, C Posth, W Rendu, MT Krajcarz, A Abdykanova, ... Nature Human Behaviour 5 (9), 1169-1179, 2021 | 84 | 2021 |
| The spread of agriculture into northern Central Asia: Timing, pathways, and environmental feedbacks RN Spengler III, N Ryabogina, PE Tarasov, M Wagner The Holocene 26 (10), 1527-1540, 2016 | 84 | 2016 |
| Dung burning in the archaeobotanical record of West Asia: where are we now? RN Spengler Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 28, 215-227, 2019 | 79 | 2019 |
