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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Archaeology and a case of genocide: the ‘indigenous prisons’ of Minas Gerais, Brazil	16
Practice beyond category: archaeologies of labor	14
Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey	13
Inundated cultural landscapes: an introduction	12
Harvesting the winds, harvesting the rain: an introduction to the issue on Inhabiting tropical worlds	11
Unequal housing in Pompeii: using house size to measure inequality	7
Hominin adaptations in the Lesser Sunda Islands: exploring the vertebrate record to investigate fauna diversity before, during and after the Last Glacial Maximum	7
Landscape, upland-lowland, community, and economy of the mekong river (6th-8th century CE): case studies from the Pre-Angkorian centers of Thala Borivat and Sambor	6
Fame and recognition in historic and contemporary graffiti: examples from New York City (US), Richmond Castle and Bristol (UK)	6
Trickle down innovation? Creativity and innovation at the margins	6
Illegal archaeological excavation crime in Jordanian law	6
‘To make the emigrant a better colonist’: transforming women in the Female Immigration Depot, Hyde Park Barracks	6
‘We hunt to share’: social dynamics and very large mammal butchery during the Oldowan–Acheulean transition	6
Warrior graves reconsidered: metal, power and identity in Copper Age Italy	6
Inka special occasion food	5
The organization of Chinese ceramic production from the Tang to the Ming periods: archaeological evidence from ceramic workshops	5
Techno-aesthetic ceramic traditions and the effective communication of power on the North Coast of Peru	4
Debates and emerging issues in 2022	4
Living on the margin: an archaeology of a Swedish Roma camp	4
Collectors, class and conflict at the lower palaeolithic discovery at Stoke Newington, 1878-1884	4
Making dolia and dolium makers	4
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence?: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times	4
Centralisation and decentralisation processes and pottery production at Arslantepe (SE Anatolia) during the 4^th and early 3^rd millennium BCE	4
Hydraulic technology as means of Christian colonisation. Watermills and channels in the Lower Ebro (Catalonia)	4
Labor, gender, and intercultural diplomacy: the emergence of Madame Montour as a professional interpreter in colonial North America	4

Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France	4
Ottoman archaeology between the Self and the Other : archaeological ethnography and the transborder research potential of the SW Balkans	3
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?	3
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th–20th centuries)	3
Materializations of variable power strategies and inequalities in Polynesia	3
Correction	3
Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise	3
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)	3
Re-evaluating terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene settlement patterns with Chirp subbottom data from around California’s Northern Channel Islands	2
Extensive, low-density Vietnamese urban settlements - 10th to 19th century CE: redefining ancestry and organization in a Southeast Asian urban tradition	2
Entanglements, ontologies, and grinding stones at the medieval site of Handoga (Djibouti)	2
Negritos in Taiwan and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia: new discovery from the Xiaoma Caves	2
Theory and methods of settlement archaeology – the Chinese contribution	2
Submerged Palaeolandscapes of the Southern Hemisphere (SPLOSH) – What is emerging from the Southern Hemisphere	2
A special source: making porphyritic andesite axeheads at the Eagle’s Nest, Lambay, Ireland in the Early Neolithic	2
Contemporary regimes of disappearance and the unequal treatment of human remains	2
Privileged or dispossessed? Intersectional marginality in a forgotten working-class neighborhood in Finland	2
Islands and hominin adaptation	2
Scale, depth, multi-disciplinarity, and global integration: Chinese archaeology at 100 years	2
Alternatives to colonization and marginal identities in New Kingdom colonial Nubia (1550–1070 BCE)	2
Wandering Islands¹: towards an archaeology of garbage-based settlements	2
Islands of fertility: a multispecies ethnography of human-termite interactions and their implications for human ecology and the archaeology of gender in the tropics	1
No gentry but grave-makers: inequality beyond property accumulation at Neolithic Çatalhöyük	1
Editorial	1
The Acheulean is a temporally cohesive tradition	1
Community archaeology and climate change	1
Object metamorphosis in colonial contexts: maintaining diversity through global commodities in New Kingdom Nubia (1550–1070 BCE)	1
Archaeo-media: breaking the binary and building agency in archaeological news reporting	1
Migration flows and concrete walls: an archaeological perspective on early migrant detention facilities. The C.P.T “Regina Pacis” (Italy, Puglia)	1
Rethinking foreign influences on stone-carved tombs in early China	1
Global commodities: cosmology and value	1
Climate change and the taphonomic signature of Neolithic mounds: the Kur River Basin over five decades of satellite imagery coverage	1
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations	1
Peopling island rainforests: global trends from the Early Pleistocene to the Late Holocene	1
Let’s catch octopus for dinner: ancient inventions of octopus lures in the Mariana Islands of the remote tropical pacific	1
Understanding Chinese archaeology by statistical analysis of papers published by Chinese researchers in Chinese and World core journals during the past century (1920–2020)	1
Trees to remember: culturally modified boab trees in the face of climate change	1
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity	1
Anarchy, institutional flexibility, and containment of authority at Poverty Point (USA)	1
Margins are central: identity and indigenous resistance to colonial globalization in Guam	1
Projectile points, dangers and Amerindian ontologies at eastern Catamarca (Argentina) during the first millennium CE	1
Reflections on archaeology and inequality. A foreword	1
Microhistories of an invisible punishment. For an archaeology of sexual exploitation in Spain	1
Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea	1
Archaeobotany in an era of change and challenge: potential and fragility of macro- and micro-remains	1
The organics revolution: new narratives and how we can achieve them	1
Assessing the risks of northeastern African archaeological heritage and their relationship to human–environmental processes: a Bayesian network approach	1
Glass beads in a Dillybag: a cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia	1
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE	1
Hunter-gatherer carbohydrate consumption: plant roots and rhizomes as staple foods in Mesolithic Europe	1

Altered logics of production and exchange during the colonial encounter: historical changes in obsidian source acquisition in the Admiralty Islands