DAE Publications

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)

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)

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)

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, s41586-025-08780-y (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)

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 (2025)

Oleszczak, Ł.; Chugunov, K.; Michalczewski, K.; Pieńkos, I.; Gruszczyński, J.; Lewek, K.; Agapitova, N. A.; Caspari, G.: Insights into Early Iron Age social structure in the eastern steppes: excavation results of the Chinge-Tey Western Chain Kurgan 1. Journal of Field Archaeology, 2453780 (2025)

Zhong, L.; Larsen, T.; Lu, J.-Z.; Scheu, S.; Pollierer, M. M.: High litter quality enhances plant energy channeling by soil macro-detritivores and lowers their trophic position. Ecology 106 (2), e70004 (2025)

Murton, J. B.; Opel, T.; Toms, P.; Wood, J.; Boxleitner, K.; Savvinov, G.; Danilov, P.; Boeskorov, V.; Goslar, T.; Rogers, G. et al.; Lupachev, A.; Tikhonravova, Y.: Preliminary paleoenvironmental analysis and luminescence dating of upper Middle Pleistocene permafrost deposits of the Ulakhan Sular Formation, Adycha River, east Siberia. Quaternary Research, 36 (2025)

Mir-Makhamad, B.; Larsen, T.; Giddings Vassão, D.; Spengler III, R. N.; Wang, Y.: Bile acids as biomarkers in carbonized archaeological sediment: Insights from dung burning experiments. PLOS ONE 20 (2), e0312699, pp. 1 - 18 (2025)

Vane, K.; Cobain, M. R. D.; Larsen, T.: The power and pitfalls of amino acid carbon stable isotopes for tracing the use and fate of basal resources in food webs. Ecological Monographs 95 (1), e1647, pp. 1 - 41 (2025)

Cocozza, C.; Harris, A.; Formichella, G.; Pedrucci, G.; Rossi, P. F.; D’Alessio, A.; Amoretti, V.; Zuchtriegel, G.; O’Reilly, M.; Mantile, N. et al.; Panella, S.; Tafuri, M. A.; Altieri, S.; di Cicco, M. R.; Fernandes, R.; Lubritto, C.: High-resolution isotopic data link settlement complexification to infant diets within the Roman Empire. PNAS Nexus 4 (1), pgae566 (2025)

Sadykov, T.; Blochin, J.; Taylor, W.; Fomicheva, D.; Kasparov, A.; Khavrin, S.; Malyutina, A.; Szidat, S.; Caspari, G.: A spectral cavalcade: Early Iron Age horse sacrifice at a royal tomb in southern Siberia. Antiquity 98 (402), 145 , pp. 1538 - 1557 (2024)

Mir Makhamad, B.; Bjorn, R.; Boxleitner, K.; Spengler III, R. N.: The Cotton Road: the history of an exchange commodity in Central Asia. Inner Asia 26 (2), 02602002, pp. 193 - 230 (2024)

Li, K.; Qin, X.; Plunkett, G.; Presslee, S.; Spengler, R.; Xu, B.; Wu, Y.; Tian, X.; Wei, D.; Wang, C. et al.; Shao, H.; Mu, G.; Jia, H.; Li, W.; Feng, J.; Liu, J.: Multi-proxy investigations of Bronze Age diet and environment in the hyper-arid eastern Tarim Basin (Lop Nur), northwest China. Journal of Archaeological Science 171, 106089, pp. 1 - 10 (2024)

Ritchey, M. M.; Tang, L.; Vaiglova, P.; Lu, H.; Sun, Y.; Frachetti, M. D.; Liu, X.: Into thin air: prehistoric intensive crop management in high altitude western Tibet. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 3, 1398209 (2024)