DAE Publications

Sadykov, T.; Blochin, J.; Khavrin, S.; Caspari, G.: Expanding the corpus of the earliest Scythian animal-style artefacts. Antiquity, 10214 (2025)

Zhoua, X.; Spengler III, R. N.; Sayfullaeve, B.; Mutalibjonf, K.; Mab, J.; Liua, J.; Shena, H.; Zhaoa, K.; Chena, G.; Wanga, J. et al.; Stidhama, T. A.; Xuh, H.; Zhangh, G.; Yanga, Q.; Houa, Y.; Maa, J.; Kambarovb, N.; Jiangc, H.; Maksudove, F.; Goldsteini, S.; Wangb, J.; Fullerj, D. Q.; Lia, X.: 9,000-year-old barley consumption in the foothills of central Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (36), 242409312 (2025)

Leipe, C.; Sergusheva, E. A.; Robbeets, M.; Wertmann, P.; Kradin, N. N.; Wagner, M.; Tarasov, P. E.: Timing and cultural-environmental context of the spread of barley to and within northern East Asia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 67, 105372 (2025)

Leipe, C.; Handfried, D.; Long, T.; Heinrich, I.; Hoelzmann, P.; Mingram, J.; Tjallingii, R.; Vrijmoed, J. C.; Wagner, M.; Tarasov, P. E.: Microfacies analysis and varve-based chronology reveal a variable 14C reservoir effect in Lake Shira, northern Inner Asia, over the past 2500 years. Quaternary science advances 19, 100299 (2025)

Caspari, G.; Deter-Wolf, A.; Riday, D.; Vavulin, M.; Pankova, S.: High-resolution near-infrared data reveal Pazyryk tattooing methods. Antiquity, 10150 (2025)

Endo, E.; Kaliyeva, Z.; Utubayev, Z.; Kasenova, A. D.; Suyundikova, M.; Onggaruly, A.; Spengler III, R. N.; Shoda, S.: Grain impressions in ceramic vessels illustrate the extent of 1st millennium bc agriculture across the northern Central Asian steppe. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, s00334-025-01058-3 (2025)

Li, H.; Li, Y.; Liu, Z.; Wang, Z.; Shi, H.; Wang, X.; Spengler III, R. N.; Jia, X.: Irrigated farming among mountain Agropastoralists: an archaeobotanical investigation at Mohuchahangoukou (mid-first millennium ad), Southern Tian Shan foothills, Xinjiang, China. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 32, 55 (2025)

Runge, A. K. W.; Niemann, J.; Germonpré, M.; Drucker, D. G.; Bocherens, H.; Boxleitner, K.; Ramos-Madrigal, J.; Linderholm, A.; Stanton, D. W.G.; Kandyba, A. et al.; Brecko, J.; Van den Broeck, M.; Losey, R.; Räikkönen, J.; Sablin, M.; Stagegaard, J.; Gopalakrishnan, S.; Fedorov, S.; Sinding, M.-H. S.; Gilbert, M. T. P.; Wales, N.: Multifaceted analysis reveals diet and kinship of Late Pleistocene ‘Tumat Puppies’. Quaternary Research, 10 (2025)

Peters, C.; Oertle, A.; Gillespie, R.; Boivin, N.; Douka, K.: Collagen peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species. Frontiers in mammal science 4, 1564287 (2025)

Robbeets, M.; Leipe, C.: Climate change and the spread of the Transeurasian languages. Quaternary environments and humans 3 (2), 100071, pp. 1 - 18 (2025)

Schubert, A.; Lauterbach, S.; Leipe, C.; Kobe, F.; Brauer, A.; Tarasov, P. E.: Reflections of Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age environments, land use and pile dwelling activities in a new palynological record from the varved sediments of Lake Mondsee, Austria. Quaternary environments and humans 3 (2), 100076, pp. 1 - 16 (2025)

Wang, Q.; Zhai, D.; Peng, A.; Schmitz, O.; Jiang, P.; Fang, X.; Wang, M.; Frenzel, P.: Adapted to the dry: ostracod communities in agricultural landscapes of eastern Yunnan, China. Aquatic Ecology 59 (2), s10452-025-10179-w, pp. 541 - 559 (2025)

Caspari, G.: Reflections on water: funerary practice and symbolism at the Bronze Age site of Xiaohe. Asian archaeology, s41826-025-00105-2 (2025)

Dal Martello, R.; Wang, Y.; Mir Makhamad, B.; Spengler III, R. N.; Fuller, D. Q.: Contrasting diachronic regional trends in cereal grain evolution across Eurasia: a metadata analysis of linear morphometrics from the ninth millennium BCE to today. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 380 (1926), 20240193 (2025)

Antonosyan, M.; Maurer, G.; Mkrtchyan, S.; Boxleitner, K.; Saribekyan, M.; Hovhannisyan, A.; Furquim, L.; Stokes, F. J.; Davtyan, R.; Bobokhyan, A. et al.; Azatyan, K.; Ilgner, J.; Reinhold, S.; Frahm, E.; Spengler III, R. N.; Roberts, P.; Amano, N.; Yepiskoposyan, L.: A biomolecular perspective on mobile pastoralism and its role in wider socioeconomic connections in the Chalcolithic South Caucasus. iScience, 112544 (2025)

Caspari, G.; Zimmermann, D.; Lösch, S.; Szidat, S.; Kaelin, O.; Keller, I.; Wille, R.; Milella, M.: Establishing provenance and provenience of human remains in swiss museum collections. Journal of cultural heritage 73, 028, pp. 543 - 548 (2025)

Gillis, R. E.; Dal Corso, M.; Oliveira, H. R.; Spengler III, R. N.: Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 380 (1926), 20240187, pp. 1 - 7 (2025)

Scerri, E. M. L.; Blinkhorn, J.; Groucutt, H. S.; Stewart, M.; Candy, I.; Allué, E.; Burguet-Coca, A.; Currás, A.; Carleton, W. C.; Lindauer, S. et al.; Spengler, R.; Boxleitner, K.; Asciak, G.; Colucci, M.; Gauci, R.; Hatton, A. G.; Kutowsky, J.; Maier, A.; Mata-González, M.; Mifsud, N.; Niang, K.; Roberts, P.; de Giorgio, J.; Xerri, R.; Vella, N. C.: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands. Nature 641, s41586-025-08780-y, pp. 137 - 143 (2025)

Spengler III, R. N.; Tang, L.; Dal Corso, M.; Gillis, R. E.; Oliveira, H. R.; Makhamad, B. M.: Seeking consensus on the domestication concept. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 380 (1926), 20240188, pp. 1 - 15 (2025)

Gildeeva Schmitz, O.; Alivernini, M.; Yasuhara, M.; Frenzel, P.: Ostracoda (Crustacea) as indicators of anthropogenic impacts – A review. Earth-Science Reviews, 105049, pp. 1 - 23 (2025)