Publications

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M.E. Belcher, D. Williams, and N.G. Mueller. (2023)“Turning over a new leaf: Experimental investigations into the role of developmental plasticity in the domestication of goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri) in eastern North America.” American Antiquity

N.G. Mueller, E.T. Horton, M.E. Belcher, and L. Kistler. (2023) “The taming of the weed: developmental plasticity facilitated plant domestication.” Plos One 18(4): e0284136

N.G. Mueller. (2022) “The Broad-Spectrum Revolution at 50: Increasing dietary diversity reflects the heterogeneity of domesticated landscapes.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 68.

N.G. Mueller and A. Flachs. (2022) “Domestication, crop breeding, and genetic modification are fundamentally different processes: implications for seed sovereignty and agrobiodiversity.” Agriculture and Human Values. 39 (1):455-472.

N.G. Mueller, S.T. Goldstein, D.A. Odeny, and N. Boivin. (2022) “Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet): evidence from Iron Age Kenya.” Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 31(3), 279-290.

Mueller, N.G., R.N. Spengler, A. Glenn, and K. Lama. (2021) “Bison, anthropogenic fire, and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America.” The Anthropocene Review. 8(2):141-158.

Mueller, N.G. A.White, and P. Szilagyi.(2019) “Experimental cultivation of eastern North America’s lost crops: Preliminary insights into agricultural practice and yield potential.” Journal of Ethnobiology.

Spengler, R.N., and N.G. Mueller. “Grazing animals drive domestication of grain crops.” Nature: Plants. 5:656-662.

Spengler, R.N., and N.G. Mueller. (2019) “Grazing animals drive domestication of grain crops.” Nature: Plants. 5:656-662. 5:656-662.

Mueller, N.G. 2018. “Documenting the evolution of agrobiodiversity in the archaeological record: Landraces of a newly described domesticate in North America.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 26(1):313:343.

Mueller, N.G. 2018. “The Earliest Occurrence of a Newly Described Domesticate in Eastern North America: Adena/Hopewell communities and Agricultural Innovation.”Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 49 (39-50).

Mueller, N.G., Gayle J. Fritz, Paul Patton, Stephen Carmody, and Elizabeth Horton. 2017. “Growing Lost Crops: New Directions in the Study of Eastern North America’s Original Agricultural System.” Nature: Plants. 3 (1-5).

Mueller, N.G. 2017. “An Extinct Domesticated Subspecies of Erect Knotweed in Eastern North America: Polygonum erectum L. subsp. watsoniae (Polygonaceae).” Novon 25(2).

Mueller, N.G. 2017. “Documenting Domestication in a Lost Crop (Polygonum Erectum L.): Evolutionary Bet-Hedgers Under Cultivation.” Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 26(3):313-327.

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Mueller, N.G. 2017. “Evolutionary Bet-Hedgers Under Cultivation: Investigating the Domestication of Erect Knotweed (Polygonum erectum L.) using Growth Experiments.” Human Ecology 45(2):189-203.

Mueller, N.G. 2017. “Carbonization, Differential Preservation, and Sampling Biases in Domestication Studies: An Erect Knotweed (Polygonum erectum L.) Case Study. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 13 (303-311).

Mueller, N.G. and G.J. Fritz. 2016. “Women as Symbols and Actors in the Mississippi Valley: Evidence from Female Flint-Clay Statues and Effigy Vessels.” In Native American Landscapes: An Engendered Perspective, ed. Cheryl Claassen. Pp. 109-150. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN.

Langlie, B.S., N.G. Mueller, R.N. Spengler III, and G.J. Fritz. 2014. “Agricultural Origins from the Ground Up: Archaeological Perspectives on Plant Domestication.” American Journal of Botany, 101(10):1601-1617.

Mueller, N.G. 2013. Mound Centers and Seed Security: A Comparative Analysis of Botanical Assemblages from the Lower Illinois Valley. Springer: New York, NY.