Publications

2024

• Wilkin, Shevan, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Ankhsanaa Ganbold, Аnkhbayar Batsuuri, Ishtseren Lochin, Daisuke Nakamura, Eregzen Gelegdorj, Alicia Ventresca-Miller, Bryan K. Miller. Cauldrons of Bronze Age nomads reveals 2,700-year-old yak milk and the deep antiquity of food preparation techniques. (Nature: Scientific Reports)
• Lynne M. Rouse, Paula N. Doumani Dupuy, Aida Abdykanova, Elizabeth Baker Brite, Taylor R. Hermes, Fiona Kidd, Elise Luneau, Bryan K. Miller, Miljana Radivojević, Svetlana Shnaider, Kubatbek Tabaldyev, Alicia Ventresca-Miller, Joshua Wright. [Re]Integrating a Dispersed Agenda: Advancing Archaeological Research in Central Eurasia. (Antiquity)
• Smithers, R., Ventresca-Miller, A. and Fernandes, R. North Central Asia isotopic database for archaeological samples. (Data in Brief)

2023

• Сосорбарамын Хүрэлсүх, Жамсранжавын Баярсайхан, Гэлэгдоржийн Эрэгзэн, Алиша Вентреска-Миллер, Жулиа Кларк, Брайн Миллер, Чинболдын Баяндэлгэр6, Равданбатын Эрдэнэцэцэг. Доод Цахир уулын Монголын эзэнт гүрний үеийн оршуулгын газар (The cemetery of the Mongol Empire in Dood Tsakhir Mountain). (Studia Archaeologica)
• Ventresca-Miller, Alicia R., S. Wilkin, R. Smithers, K. Larson, R. Spengler, A. Haruda, N. Kradin, B. Bazarov, D. Miyagashev, Ts. Odbaatar, Ts. Turbat, E. Zhambaltarova, P. Konovalov, J. Bayarsaikhan, A. Hein, P. Hommel, B. Nash, A. Nayak, N. Vanwezer, B. Miller, R. Fernandes, N. Boivin, P. Roberts. Adaptability of millets and landscapes: Ancient cultivation in North-Central Asia. (Agronomy)
• Wilkin, Shevan, Alicia Ventresca-Miller, Nicole Boivin, Antonella Pegergnana, Natalia Shishlina, Viktor Trifonov, and Peter Hommel. Curated cauldrons: Preserved proteins from early copper alloy vessels illuminate feasting practices in the Caucasian steppe. (iScience)
• Ventresca Miller, A., S. Wilkin, J. Bayarsaikhan, A. Ramsøe, J. Clark, B. Byambadorj, S. Vanderwarf, N. Vanwezer, A. Haruda, R. Fernandes, B. Miller, N. Boivin. Permafrost preservation reveals first proteomic evidence for yak milk consumption. (Nature: Communications Biology)
• Lee, J., B. K. Miller, J. Bayarsaikhan, E. Johannesson, A. R. Ventresca Miller, C. Warinner, C. Jeong. Genetic population structure of the Xiongnu Empire at imperial and local scales. (Science Advances)

2022

• Ventresca Miller, A., S. Wilkin, J. Hendy, Ts. Turbat, D. Batsukh, N. Bayarkhuu, P.-H. Giscard, J. Bemmann, J. Bayarsaikhan, B. Miller, J. Clark, P. Nanni, P. Roberts, N. Boivin. The spread of herds and horses into the Altai: How livestock and dairying drove social complexity in Mongolia. (Plos one)
• Bullion, Elissa, Zhuldyz Tashmanbetova and Alicia Ventresca Miller. Bioarchaeology in Central Asia: Growing from Legacies to Enhance Future Research. (Asian Perspectives)

2021

• Clark, Julia, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Alicia Ventresca Miller, Sandra Vanderwarf, Isaac Hart, Gino Caspari, William Timothy Treal Taylor. Mongolia’s Frozen Heritage: A Summary of the Archaeology of the Cultural Cryosphere. (Journal of Glacial Archaeology)
• Hoggarth, J.A., S. Batty, V. Bondura, E. Creamer, C.E. Ebert, K. Green-Mink, C.L. Kieffer, H. Miller, C.V. Ngonadi, S.E. Pilaar Birch, C. Pritchard, K. Vacca, T.B. Watkins, E. Zavodny, A. R. Ventresca Miller. Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women and Early Career Archaeologists. (Heritage)
• Shevan Wilkin, Alicia Ventresca Miller, Ricardo Fernandes, Robert Spengler, William OA Taylor, Dorcas R. Brown, David Reich, Douglas Kennett, Laura Kunz, Claudia Fortes, Aleksandra Kitova, Nina Morgunova, Pavel Kuznetsov, Andrey Epimakhov, Alan Outram, Egor Kitov, Aleksandr Khokhlov, David Anthony, Nicole Boivin. Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions. (Nature)
• Spengler, R. N. III, Ventresca Miller, A. R., T. Schmaus, G. Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė, B. K. Miller, S. Wilkin, T. Taylor, Y. Li, P. Roberts, N. Boivin. An Imagined Past? Nomadic Narratives in Central Eurasian Archaeology. (Current Anthropology)
• Kradin, N.N., Khubanova A.M., Bazarov B.A., Miyagaschev D.A.*, Khubanov V.B., Konovalov P.B., Klementiev A.M., Posokhov V.F., Ventresca Miller, A. R.. Iron Age Societies of Western Transbaikalia: Reconstruction of Diet and Lifeways. (Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports)
• Wordsworth, Paul, Ashleigh F. Haruda, Alicia R. Ventresca Miller, Samantha Brown. The earliest water buffalo in the Caucasus: shifting animals and people in the medieval Islamic world. (Antiquity)
• Ventresca Miller, A., J. Johnson, S. Makhortykh, C. Gerling, L. Litvinova, S. Andrukh, G. Toschev, J. Zech, P. LeRoux, C. Makarewicz, N. Boivin, P. Roberts. Re-evaluating Scythian lifeways: Isotopic analysis of diet and mobility in Iron Age Ukraine. (PLOS ONE)

2020

• Choongwon Jeong, Ke Wang, Shevan Wilkin, William Timothy Treal Taylor, Bryan K.
  Miller, Tömörbaatar Tüvshinjargal, Sodnon Ölziibayar, Raphaela Stahl, Chelsea Chiovelli, Jan H. Bemmann, Sarah Nagel, Matthias Meyer, Florian Knolle, Nikolay Kradin, Bilikto A. Bazarov, Denis A. Miyagashev, Prokopiy B. Konovalov, Elena Zhambaltarova, Alicia Ventresca Miller, Wolfgang Haak, Stephan Schiffels, Nicole Boivin, Erdene Myagmar, Jessica Hendy, Christina Warinner. A dynamic 6,000-year genetic history of Eurasia’s Eastern Steppe. (Cell)
• Itahashi, Yu, Elina Ananyevskaya, Minoru Yoneda, Alicia R. Ventresca Miller, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute. Dietary diversity of Bronze–Iron Age populations of Kazakhstan quantitatively estimated through the compound-specific nitrogen analysis of amino acids. (Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports)
• Haruda, A., Ventresca Miller, A., Paijmans, J. L. A., Barlow, A., Tazhekeev, A., Bilalov, S., Hesse, Y., Prieck, M., King, T., Thomas, R., Härke, H., Arzhantseva, I. The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road. (Scientific Reports)
• Ventresca Miller, A., A. Haruda, B. Miller, R. Spengler, S. Wilkin, P. Roberts, P.
  Roberts, N. Boivin. Ecosystem Engineering Among Ancient Pastoralists in Northern Central Asia. (Frontiers in Earth Science)
• Ventresca Miller, A., A. Haruda, V. Varfolomeev, A. Goryachev, and C. Makarewicz.
  Close management of sheep in ancient Central Asia: evidence for foddering, transhumance, and extended lambing seasons during the Bronze and Iron Ages. (STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research)
• Wilkin, S., Ventresca Miller, A., Bryan Miller, Robert Spengler, William Taylor,
  Ricardo Fernandes, Richard W. Hagan, Madeleine Bleasdale, Jana Zech, S. Ulziibayar, Erdene Myagmar, Nicole Boivin, Patrick Roberts. Economic Diversification Supported the Growth of Mongolia’s Nomadic Empires. (Scientific Reports)
• Wilkin, S., Ventresca Miller, A., W. Taylor, B. K. Miller, R. Hagan, F. Irmer, M.
  Bleasdale, A. Scott, S. Gankhuyag, C. Trachsel, J. Grossmann, M. Horton, E.
  Myagmar, N. Boivin, C. Warinner, J. Hendy. Dairy pastoralism sustained eastern Eurasian steppe populations for 5,000 years. (Nature Ecology and Evolution)
• W. Taylor, J. Clark, J. Bayarsaikhan, T. Tüvshinjargal, J. Thompson Jobe, W. Fitzhugh, R. Kortum , R. Spengler, S. Shnaider, F. Seersholm, I. Hart, N. Case, S. Wilkin, J. Hendy, U. Thuering, B. Miller, A. Ventresca Miller, A. Picin, N. Vanwezer, F. Irmer, S. Brown, A. Abdykanova, D. Shultz, V. Pham, K. Douka, E. Jones, N. Boivin. Early Pastoral Economies and Herding Transitions in Eastern Eurasia. (Scientific Reports).

2019

• Stephens, L. et al. (Ventresca Miller, A.). Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. (Science)
• Ventresca Miller, A., J. Johnson S. Makhortykh, L. Litvinova, T. Taylor, R. Rolle, and
  C. Makarewicz. Mobility and diet in the Iron Age Pontic Forest-Steppe: A multi-isotopic study of Urban populations at Bel’sk. (Archaeometry)
• Ventresca Miller, A. and C. Makarewicz. Intensification in pastoralist cereal use coincides with the expansion of trans-regional networks in the Eurasian steppe. (Nature: Scientific Reports).
• Ventresca Miller, A., T. M. Bragina, Y. A. Abil, M. M. Ruleva, and C. Makarewicz.
  Pasture usage by ancient pastoralists in the northern Kazakh steppe informed by carbon and nitrogen isoscapes of contemporary floral biomes. (Archaeological and
  Anthropological Sciences)

2018

• Ventresca Miller, A., R. Fernandes, A. Janzen, A. Nayak, J. Swift, J. Zech, N. Boivin and P.
  Roberts. Sampling and pretreatment of tooth enamel carbonate for stable carbon and oxygen isotope analysis.
  (Journal of Visualization Experiments)
• Judd, M. A., J. Walker, A. Ventresca Miller, D. Razhev, A. Epimakhov, and B. Hanks.
  Life in the fast lane: Settled pastoralism in the Central Eurasian Steppe during the Middle Bronze Age. (American Journal of Human Biology).
• Hanks, B., Ventresca Miller, A., A. Epimakhov, M. Judd, D. Rajev, and K. Privat.
  Bronze Age diet and economy: New stable isotope data from the Central Eurasian steppes (2100-1700 BC). (Journal of Archaeological Science)
• Ventresca Miller, A., C. Schuh, E. R. Usmanova, A. Logvin, I. Shevnina, and C.
  Makarewicz. Pastoralist mobility in Bronze Age landscapes of Northern Kazakhstan: ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr and δ¹⁸O analyses of human dentition from Bestamak and Lisakovsk.
  (Environmental Archaeology, 23(4): 352-366)

2017

• Ventresca Miller, A., B. Hanks, M. Judd, A. Epimakhov, and D. Razhev. Weaning
  practices among pastoralists: New evidence of infant feeding patterns from Bronze Age
  Eurasia. (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162(3): 409-422)

2014

• Ventresca Miller, A., E. R. Usmanova, I. Shevnina, A. Logvin, and A. Kolbina.
  Dental health, diet, and social transformations in the Bronze Age: Comparative analysis of pastoral populations in northern Kazakhstan. Special Issue, The Bridging Eurasia
  Research Initiative: Modes of mobility and sustainability in the palaeoenvironmental
  and archaeological archives from Eurasia. (Quaternary International 348:130-146).
• Ventresca Miller, A., E. R. Usmanova, V. N. Logvin, I. Shevnina, S. Kalieva, A.
  Logvin, A. Kolbina, A. Simonich, K. Privat, K. Haas, and M. Rosenmeier. Subsistence
  and social change in central Eurasia: stable isotope analysis of populations spanning the
  Bronze Age transition. (Journal of Archaeological Science 42:525-538)