Antiquity

Papers
(The TQCC of Antiquity is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Agricultural terraces in the Mediterranean: medieval intensification revealed by OSL profiling and dating35
The dark side of the Empire: Roman expansionism between object agency and predatory regime32
Succeeding CORONA: declassified HEXAGON intelligence imagery for archaeological and historical research32
Ancient DNA, kinship and relational identities in Bronze Age Britain31
Why archaeology's relevance to global challenges has not been recognised28
Emblems and spaces of power during the Argaric Bronze Age at La Almoloya, Murcia26
A great wave: the Storegga tsunami and the end of Doggerland?25
Maritime endangered archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa: the MarEA project20
First encounters in the north: cultural diversity and gene flow in Early Mesolithic Scandinavia20
Early agropastoral settlement and cultural change in central Tibet in the first millennium BC: excavations at Bangga17
‘COVID waste’ and social media as method: an archaeology of personal protective equipment and its contribution to policy17
The return of the Beaker folk? Rethinking migration and population change in British prehistory17
The potential impact of rising sea levels on China's coastal cultural heritage: a GIS risk assessment16
The integration of millet into the diet of Central Asian populations in the third millennium BC16
Cooking in caves: Palaeolithic carbonised plant food remains from Franchthi and Shanidar15
Objectscapes: a manifesto for investigating the impacts of object flows on past societies15
The coming tsunami of digital artefacts15
The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales15
The mustatils: cult and monumentality in Neolithic north-western Arabia14
Mutable objects, places and chronologies14
Redefining the timing and circumstances of the chicken's introduction to Europe and north-west Africa14
Material cosmopolitanism: the entrepot of Harlaa as an Islamic gateway to eastern Ethiopia14
Hidden in plain sight: the archaeological landscape of Mithaka Country, south-west Queensland13
Connectivity and funerary change in early medieval Europe13
Understanding early horse transport in eastern Eurasia through analysis of equine dentition13
Reopening graves in the early Middle Ages: from local practice to European phenomenon12
Hallucinogens, alcohol and shifting leadership strategies in the ancient Peruvian Andes12
The last meal of Tollund Man: new analyses of his gut content12
The battle of Vossenack Ridge: exploring interdisciplinary approaches for the detection of U.S. Army field positions on a Second World War battlefield12
The archaeology of complexity and cosmopolitanism in medieval Ethiopia: an introduction11
A systematic approach for studying the persistence of settlements in the past11
Sika deer in Bronze Age Guanzhong: sustainable wildlife exploitation in ancient China?11
Early Neolithic salt production at Street House, Loftus, north-east England11
The use of local fibres for textiles at Neolithic Çatalhöyük11
The Iron Age in the Plastic Age: Anthropocene signatures at Castell Henllys11
Early imperialism in the Andes: Wari colonisation of Nasca10
Sequins from the sea: Nautilus shell bead technology at Makpan, Alor Island, Indonesia10
Made for exchange: the Russian Karelian lithic industry and hunter-fisher-gatherer exchange networks in prehistoric north-eastern Europe10
Community negotiation and pasture partitioning at the Trypillia settlement of Maidanetske10
Keeping time at Stonehenge10
Beyond exotic goods: Wari elites and regional interaction in the Andes during the Middle Horizon (AD 600–1000)10
New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe10
Making archaeology relevant to global challenges: a Global South perspective10
Holocene resource exploitation along the Nile: diet and subsistence strategies of Mesolithic and Neolithic societies at Khor Shambat 1, Sudan10
Much ado about nothing: assessing the impact of the 4.2 kya event on human subsistence patterns in northern Mesopotamia using stable isotope analysis9
Anthropogenic heathlands: disturbance ecologies and the social organisation of past super-resilient landscapes9
Hunter-fisher-gatherer pottery production and use at the Neolithic shell-midden of Riņņukalns, Latvia9
The heritage of the Second World War: bombing in the forests and wetlands of the Koźle Basin9
The Sayburç reliefs: a narrative scene from the Neolithic9
An archaeology of ‘Death Valley’, Poland9
The spatial organisation of Soba: a medieval capital on the Blue Nile8
New AMS dates for Machu Picchu: results and implications8
Re-viewing Pompeian domestic space through combined virtual reality-based eye tracking and 3D GIS8
A method for space archaeology research: the International Space Station Archaeological Project8
Water and soil management strategies and the introduction of wheat and barley to northern China: an isotopic analysis of cultivation on the Loess Plateau8
The six recipes of Zhou: a new perspective on Jin (金) and Xi (锡)8
Caravanserai middens on desert roads: a new perspective on the Nabataean–Roman trade network across the Negev8
Of time and tide: the complex impacts of climate change on coastal and underwater cultural heritage8
Tracking turtles in the past: zooarchaeological evidence for human-turtle interactions in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean8
Ecological networks and archaeology8
The earliest Chinese ceramics in Europe?8
Dense urbanism and economic multi-centrism at third-millennium BC Lagash8
The Early Iron Age collective tomb LCG-1 at Dibbā al-Bayah, Oman: long-distance exchange and cross-cultural interaction8
The rock-cut churches of Lalibela and the cave church of Washa Mika'el: troglodytism and the Christianisation of the Ethiopian Highlands8
Citizen science archaeological finds on the Semantic Web: the FindSampo framework7
The Beixin Culture: archaeobotanical evidence for a population dispersal of Neolithic hunter-gatherer-cultivators in northern China7
Textiles, basketry and cordage from the Early Neolithic settlement of La Marmotta, Lazio7
Household salt production by the Late Classic Maya: underwater excavations at Ta'ab Nuk Na7
Birds and bovids: new parietal engravings at the Romanelli Cave, Apulia7
Beyond Inca roads: archaeological mobilities from the high Andes to the Pacific in southern Peru7
Climate change and the loss of archaeological sites and landscapes: a global perspective7
The geoglyph sites of Acre, Brazil: 10 000-year-old land-use practices and climate change in Amazonia7
False dilemmas? Or what COVID-19 can teach us about material theory, responsibility and ‘hard power’7
Gjellestad: a newly discovered ‘central place’ in south-east Norway7
Reconstructing an ancient mining landscape: a multidisciplinary approach to copper mining at Skouriotissa, Cyprus7
Radiocarbon-dating an early minting site: the emergence of standardised coinage in China7
Relational bodies: affordances, substances and embodiment in Chinchorro funerary practices c. 7000–3250 BP7
Subsistence and health in Middle Neolithic (9000–7000 BP) southern China: new evidence from the Dingsishan site6
The Anthropocene, hyperobjects and the archaeology of the future past6
Expedient and efficient: an Early Mesolithic composite implement from Krzyż Wielkopolski6
A Teotihuacan complex at the Classic Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala6
Conflicted landscapes: The Kall Trail. Monitoring transformations of a Second World War heritage site using UAV-lidar remote sensing and ground truthing6
Re-evaluating Pleistocene–Holocene occupation of cave sites in north-west Thailand: new radiocarbon and luminescence dating6
Pre-Hispanic anthropogenic wetlands in the upper Ica drainage, south-central Andes: dating and context6
Fishing, fish consumption, urbanism and migrants at Tel Bet Yerah, 3200–2700 BC6
Remote sensing and ground survey of archaeological damage and destruction at Nineveh during the ISIS occupation6
‘Problematic stuff’: death, memory and the interpretation of cached objects6
The early adoption of East Asian crops in West Asia: rice and broomcorn millet in northern Iran6
Combining sedentism and mobility in the Palaeolithic–Neolithic transition of northern China: the site of Shuidonggou locality 126
Scotland's first farmers: new insights into early farming practices in North-west Europe5
Archaeology of the Waiat mysteries on Woeydhul Island in Western Torres Strait5
Prehistoric agricultural decision making in the western Himalayas: ecological and social variables5
Making aDNA useful for kinship analysis5
Shelter in an extreme environment: the Pleistocene occupation of Tsagaan Agui Cave in the Gobi Desert5
Bilet and the wider world: new insights into the archaeology of Islam in Tigray5
The Phoenician diaspora in the westernmost Mediterranean: recent discoveries5
Early to Middle Bronze Age agricultural terraces in north-east England: morphology, dating and cultural implications5
Party like a Sumerian: reinterpreting the ‘sceptres’ from the Maikop kurgan5
Hunter-gatherer metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of Northern Fennoscandia5
Grinding-stone features from the Pastoral Neolithic at Luxmanda, Tanzania5
Archaeologies of the digital5
EVOSHEEP: the makeup of sheep breeds in the ancient Near East5
Large-scale, collaborative imagery survey in archaeology: the Geospatial Platform for Andean Culture, History and Archaeology (GeoPACHA)5
Preceramic riverside hunter-gatherers and the arrival of Neolithic farmers in northern Luzon5
Neolithic rondels in Central Europe and their builders: an analysis of multi-rondel sites5
Landscape archaeology of Roman gold mining in Lusitania: the ‘Aurifer Tagus’ project5
Networked medieval strongholds in Garhwal Himalaya, India5
How do archaeologists write about racism? Computational text analysis of 41 years of Society for American Archaeology annual meeting abstracts4
Re-balancing the Romans4
Seeing in the dark: Roman imperialism and material culture4
Harassment, assault, bullying and intimidation (HABI) in archaeology: a Europe-wide survey4
Routes to relevance in archaeology4
Patterns of dietary diversity in Holocene north-west South America: new insights from Bayesian stable isotope mixing models4
The forgotten Eastern Front: dealing with the social and archaeological legacies of the Battle of the Rawka and Bzura Rivers (1914–1915), central Poland4
Mythical rings? Waun Mawn and Stonehenge Stage 14
Archaeology, relevance and science4
The re-emergence ofnganaparru(water buffalo) into the culture, landscape and rock art of western Arnhem Land4
Convergence at Poverty Point: a revised chronology of the Late Archaic Lower Mississippi Valley4
An archaeology of digital things: social, political, polemical4
The Mogou Bioarchaeology Project: exploring health in the Chinese Bronze Age4
In the bosom of the Earth: a new megalithic monument at the Antequera World Heritage Site4
Tropical island adaptations in Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum: evidence from Palawan4
Art in the bark: Indigenous carved boab trees (Adansonia gregorii) in north-west Australia4
Early Neolithic occupation of the lowlands of south-western Iran: new evidence from Tapeh Mahtaj4
New discoveries at the Sanxingdui Bronze Age site in south-west China4
Pots on mats: mat-impressed salt-extraction pottery at Chalcolithic Provadia-Solnitsata, Bulgaria4
Sding Chung: an early multi-burial cave site on the Tibetan Plateau4
Neolithic pathways in East Asia: early sedentism on the Mongolian Plateau4
The Sutton Hoo lyre and the music of the Silk Road: a new find of the fourth century AD reveals the Germanic lyre's missing eastern connections4
Transformative copper metallurgy in Chalcolithic Cyprus: a reappraisal4
New perspectives on the Late Pleistocene peopling of the Tibetan Plateau: the core-and-flake industry from the Tongtian River valley4
Volcanic climate forcing, extreme cold and the Neolithic Transition in the northern US Southwest4
Burnt jade sacrifices in the Chinese Neolithic: the Liangzhu cemetery at Sidun4
The Maldives Heritage Survey4
Palaeolithic archaeology in the conglomerate caves of north-eastern Iberia4
Enhancing archaeology's role in addressing grand challenges needs more reflection on known unknowns4
Ways of death: cremation and belief in first-millennium AD Ireland4
Lower and Middle Palaeolithic evidence from the North Aegean coastline of Çanakkale, Turkey4
Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the ‘missing link’ from Tel Lachish4
What haven't we found? Recognising the value of negative evidence in archaeology3
Re-thinking the ‘Green Revolution’ in the Mediterranean world3
The tools of war: conflict and the destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage3
Complicating an early state: a social network analysis of agents in Wari art (c.AD 700–850)3
An early medieval granary in Kłodnica, eastern Poland, and the largest deposit of grain legumes in Europe3
The future of archaeology is (still) community collaboration3
Life and death in early colonial Campeche: new insights from ancient DNA3
The flow of ideas: shared symbolism during the Neolithic emergence in Southwest Asia: WF16 and Göbekli Tepe3
New burial rites at the end of the Linearbandkeramik in south-west Slovakia3
The mirror, the magus and more: reflections on John Dee's obsidian mirror3
New radiocarbon dates from Jebel Moya (Sudan): 2500 years of burial activity3
A lost campaign? New evidence of Roman temporary camps in northern Arabia3
Nothing else to think?3
Wetland archaeology and the impact of climate change3
Kinship practices in Early Iron Age South-east Europe: genetic and isotopic analysis of burials from the Dolge njive barrow cemetery, Dolenjska, Slovenia3
The earliest water buffalo in the Caucasus: shifting animals and people in the medieval Islamic world3
The cosmopolitan borderland: western Ethiopiac. AD 600–18003
Mapping Karakorum, the capital of the Mongol Empire3
A pre-Hispanic religious landscape on the arid Andean altiplano of Bolivia3
A rock art tradition of life-sized, naturalistic engravings of camels in Northern Arabia: new insights on the mobility of Neolithic populations in the Nafud Desert3
Discovering ancient cave art using 3D photogrammetry: pre-contact Native American mud glyphs from 19thUnnamed Cave, Alabama3
Power, asymmetries and how to view the Roman world3
Mortuary behaviour and cultural practices in pre-colonial West Central Africa: new data from the Iroungou burial cave, Gabon3
Community practice and religion at an Early Islamic cemetery in highland Central Asia3
When the well runs dry: climatic instability and the abandonment of early Hellenistic Berenike3
Empire and stable isotopes: assessing the impact of Inka expansion on local diet in the southern Puna, Argentina3
Materials in movement: gold and stone in process in the Upton Lovell G2a burial3
The interaction of distant technologies: bridging Central Europe using a techno-typological comparison of spindle whorls3
Walled in: borderlands, frontiers and the future of archaeology3
Climate change adaptation policy and planning for cultural heritage in low- and middle-income countries3
Marea: a swan song of ancient urban planning3
Kinship: politics and practice3
Protohistoric metal-urn cremation burials (1400–100 BC): a pan-European phenomenon3
The introduction of the European fallow deer to the northern provinces of the Roman Empire: a multi-proxy approach to the Herstal skeleton (Belgium)3
Assembling the dead: human vertebrae-on-posts in the Chincha Valley, Peru3
New evidence for mountain Palaeolithic human occupation in the western Tian Shan piedmonts, eastern Uzbekistan3
Bogs, bones and bodies: the deposition of human remains in northern European mires (9000 BC–AD 1900)3
Sources of early Islamic silver: lead isotope analysis of dirhams3
Early settlement construction in Southeast Asia: lime mortar floor sequences at Loc Giang, southern Vietnam3
Real but unrealised: object transformations and political economy in East and southern Africa, AD 750–12503
The world's oldest-known promontory fort: Amnya and the acceleration of hunter-gatherer diversity in Siberia 8000 years ago3
Reimagining urban success: rhythms of activity at Gabii, 800 BC–AD 6003
How Waun Mawn stone circle was designed and built, and when the Bluestones arrived at Stonehenge: a response to Darvill3
Lost in temporal translation: a visual and visitor-based evaluation of prehistory displays3
Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi3
Contrasting the use of space in post-Roman Exeter: geoarchaeology of dark earth and medieval deposits below Exeter Cathedral3
Masters and apprentices at the Chapel of Hatshepsut: towards an archaeology of ancient Egyptian reliefs2
Early urban occupation in the Tarim Basin: recent fieldwork results from the fortified site of Kuiyukexiehai'er (Koyuk Shahri)2
New tools for studying Finnish archaeology and Uralic languages2
Timber imports to Norse Greenland: lifeline or luxury?2
From local to long-distance: Neolithic and Bronze Age ceramic networks in north-western China2
Lost and found: Viking Age human bones and textiles from Bjerringhøj, Denmark2
Ancestral commons: the deep-time emergence of Bronze Age pastoral mobility2
LiDAR and conflict archaeology: the Battle of the Bulge (1944–1945)2
Textile production and craft specialisation at Tianluoshan in the lower Yangzi Valley2
Making posthumanist kin in the past2
Sounds of Etruria: aural characteristics of the Tomba dell'Orco, Tarquinia2
What is a village? Agroscapes, collective action and medieval villages in northern Iberia2
Monumental snake engravings of the Orinoco River2
Mobile craftspeople and orientalising transculturation in seventh-century BC Iberia2
Next Generation Lab puts Denmark's past in the hands of its future2
The history of the domestic cat in Central Europe2
Migration in Bronze Age southern China: multidisciplinary investigations of elite Chu burials in Jingzhou2
An archaeology of conversion? Evidence from Adulis for early Christianity and religious transition in the Horn of Africa2
The illicit trade in antiquities is not the world's third-largest illicit trade: a critical evaluation of a factoid2
Elite chariots and early horse transport at the Bronze Age burial site of Shijia2
Chocolate flint: new perspectives on its deposits, mining, use and distribution by prehistoric communities in Central Europe2
Tracking Pleistocene occupation on the Eastern Iranian Plateau: preliminary results2
Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity2
Digital archaeology and ‘D’ transforms?2
Dating Mediterranean shipwrecks: the Mazotos ship, radiocarbon dating and the need for independent chronological anchors2
Documenting a maritime mercantile community through surface survey: Porto Rafti Bay in the post-collapse Aegean2
Streets and houses of Roman Alexandria revisited2
Antarctica as a ‘natural laboratory’ for the critical assessment of the archaeological validity of early stone tool sites2
Metal hoards in a ritual space? The Atlantic Middle Bronze Age site of Kerouarn, Prat (Côtes-d'Armor, France)2
The spread of agriculture in south-eastern Europe: new data from North Macedonia2
Beyond the bluestones: links between distant monuments in Late Neolithic Britain and Ireland2
A wall or a road? A remote sensing-based investigation of fortifications on Rome's eastern frontier2
Diversity in Socioecological Niches in the Andes (DISENIA): an isotope-based project2
Metsamor: the Early Iron Age/Urartian settlement in the Aras Valley, Armenia2
The Jarigole mortuary tradition reconsidered2
Social complexity and core-periphery relationships in an Andean Formative ceremonial centre: domestic occupation at Chavín de Huántar2
Exploring human possibilities2
Weight regulation in British and Irish Bronze Age gold objects: a reanalysis and reinterpretation2
A Bronze Age salt production technique from Transylvania and western Ukraine2
Hučivá Cave: a Magdalenian hunting camp in the Tatra Mountains2
Social networks as risk-mitigation strategies in south-west Madagascar2
Geophysical survey locates an elusive Tlingit fort in south-east Alaska2
Fell points from Merín Lagoon, Uruguay: new data and their relevance to the peopling of south-eastern South America2
The sacred pool of Ba'al: a reinterpretation of the ‘Kothon’ at Motya2
New evidence for Middle Bronze Age chronology from the Syro-Anatolian frontier2
Political and cultural complexity in north-west China during the Western Zhou Period (1045–771 BC): new evidence from Yaoheyuan2
Eyes of the machine: AI-assisted satellite archaeological survey in the Andes2
Detecting and mapping the ‘ephemeral’: magnetometric survey of a Pastoral Neolithic settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania2
Intestinal parasite infection and sanitation in medieval Leiden, the Low Countries2
Interlinking research: the Big Exchange project2
Making wine in earthenware vessels: a comparative approach to Roman vinification2
The Epipalaeolithic–Neolithic transition in north-eastern Iran: zooarchaeological evidence from the southern shores of the Caspian Sea2
Manufacture and use: bone and tooth objects from the Late Bronze Age ‘shaman's grave’ at Przeczyce, Poland2
Survival kit for the afterlife or instruction manual for prehistorians? Staging artefact production in Middle Neolithic cemetery Kadruka 23, Upper Nubia, Sudan2
Between earth and water: a wooden snake figurine from the Neolithic site of Järvensuo 12
Iconographic evidence of hybridisation between Camelus bactrianus and Camelus dromedarius at second-century AD Hatra, Iraq2
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