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Papers

(The median citation count of World Archaeology is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
Reconsidering domestication from a process archaeology perspective	43
Terminal Pleistocene emergence of maritime interaction networks across Wallacea	16
‘We hunt to share’: social dynamics and very large mammal butchery during the Oldowan–Acheulean transition	13
The wind that shakes the barley: the role of East Asian cuisines on barley grain size	12
Making hands and tools: steps to a process archaeology of mind	12
Process archaeology	11
Continuity and variability in prehistoric fishing practices by Homo sapiens in Island Southeast Asia: new ichthyofaunal data from Asitau Kuru, Timor-Leste	11
Alternatives to colonization and marginal identities in New Kingdom colonial Nubia (1550–1070 BCE)	11
The fluid city, urbanism as process	10
Pluralising power: ceramics and social differentiation in Bronze Age central Eurasia	7
A confluence of communities: households and land use at the junction of the Upper Usumacinta and Lacantún Rivers, Chiapas, Mexico	6
Archaeology, process and time: beyond history versus memory	6
Anarchy, institutional flexibility, and containment of authority at Poverty Point (USA)	6
A synthetic model of Palaeolithic seafaring in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan	6
Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea	6
Hunter-gatherer carbohydrate consumption: plant roots and rhizomes as staple foods in Mesolithic Europe	6
Balancing the scales: archaeological approaches to social inequality	6
Subaltern assemblages. The archaeology of marginal places and identities	6
The Acheulean is a temporally cohesive tradition	6
Submerged Palaeolandscapes of the Southern Hemisphere (SPLOSH) – What is emerging from the Southern Hemisphere	5
Centralisation and decentralisation processes and pottery production at Arslantepe (SE Anatolia) during the 4^th and early 3^rd millennium BCE	5
Let’s catch octopus for dinner: ancient inventions of octopus lures in the Mariana Islands of the remote tropical pacific	4
Re-evaluating terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene settlement patterns with Chirp subbottom data from around California’s Northern Channel Islands	4
The process of complex societies: dynamic models beyond site-size hierarchies	4
The archaeology of a marginal neighborhood in Tehran, Iran: garbage, class, and identity	4

Negritos in Taiwan and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia: new discovery from the Xiaoma Caves	4
Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey	4
Social agency and prestige technology: serial production of gold appliqués in the early Iron Age north-west China and the Eurasian steppes	4
Here be dragons: the untapped archaeological potential of São Tomé and Príncipe	4
Digging up concrescences: a hermeneutics for process archaeology	4
Warrior graves reconsidered: metal, power and identity in Copper Age Italy	4
Fragments of an anarchic society: Kura-Araxes territorialization in the third millennium BC town at Tel Bet Yerah	4
Conglomerate infrastructures: ordinary sites used for extraordinary regimes of power	4
The altitude of the depths: use of inland water archaeology for the reconstruction of inundated cultural landscapes in Lake Titicaca	3
Extensive, low-density Vietnamese urban settlements - 10th to 19th century CE: redefining ancestry and organization in a Southeast Asian urban tradition	3
Reflections on archaeology and inequality. A foreword	3
Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise	3
Food as affirmative biopolitics at the border: liminality, eating practices, and migration in the Mediterranean	3
Margins are central: identity and indigenous resistance to colonial globalization in Guam	3
Counter-infrastructure in the US–Mexico borderlands: some archaeological perspectives	2
Charismatic megafauna, regional identity, and invasive species: what role does environmental archaeology play in contemporary conservation efforts?	2
Understanding Chinese archaeology by statistical analysis of papers published by Chinese researchers in Chinese and World core journals during the past century (1920–2020)	2
Theory and methods of settlement archaeology – the Chinese contribution	2
Unequal housing in Pompeii: using house size to measure inequality	2
You can’t perform the same ritual twice: minds, materials, automobiles, and the emergence of form	2
The exceptional environmental setting of the North Plaza, Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, USA	2
Drowning the Pompeii premise: frozen moments, single events, and the character of submerged archaeological sites	2
Longquan celadon: a quantitative archaeological analysis of a pan-Indian Ocean industry of the 12 ^th to 15 ^th centuries	2
Flows of clay and site ontologies: towards a realist archaeology of congealment and emergence	2
Trickle down innovation? Creativity and innovation at the margins	2
Materialising inequalities in past, present and future	2
Examining frequency and directionality of Palaeolithic sea-crossing over the Korea/Tsushima Strait: a synthesis	2
Peopling island rainforests: global trends from the Early Pleistocene to the Late Holocene	2
Rethinking foreign influences on stone-carved tombs in early China	2
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence?: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times	2
Living on the margin: an archaeology of a Swedish Roma camp	1
Inka special occasion food	1
Archaeology and social justice in island worlds	1
Submerged inland landscapes of the Aucilla basin, Northwest Florida, USA: populating the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene landscape	1
Fit for purpose: investigating adaptations in late Pleistocene lithic technology to an island environment at Buang Merabak, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	1
Towards a Jōmon food database: construction, analysis and implications for Hokkaido and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan	1
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations	1
Privileged or dispossessed? Intersectional marginality in a forgotten working-class neighborhood in Finland	1
Techno-aesthetic ceramic traditions and the effective communication of power on the North Coast of Peru	1
Hominin adaptations in the Lesser Sunda Islands: exploring the vertebrate record to investigate fauna diversity before, during and after the Last Glacial Maximum	1
Changing to remain the same: everyday animal use at ancient Jecosh, north-central Peru	1
The status of women in Neolithic & pre-Imperial China: How bioarchaeological evidence informs ongoing debate	1
Urban archaeology in Kaifeng, a capital city of dynastic China: progress and insights	1
Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes: pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range	1
No gentry but grave-makers: inequality beyond property accumulation at Neolithic Çatalhöyük	1
Collectors, class and conflict at the lower palaeolithic discovery at Stoke Newington, 1878-1884	1
Making dolia and dolium makers	1
Illegal archaeological excavation crime in Jordanian law	1
Finding the remains of classical Bagan’s peri-urban support population: using ethnoarchaeological data to enhance archaeological excavation and interpretation	1
Archaeology in a fragile environment: archaeology of the lower Yangtze Shanghai region	1

Recognising inequality: ableism in Egyptological approaches to disability and bodily differences	1
Submerged landscape evolution of the Beagle Channel: context of the first record of underwater archaeological evidence	1
The organics revolution: new narratives and how we can achieve them	1
Hydraulic technology as means of Christian colonisation. Watermills and channels in the Lower Ebro (Catalonia)	1