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Papers

(The TQCC of World Archaeology is 4. 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
Making hands and tools: steps to a process archaeology of mind	12
The wind that shakes the barley: the role of East Asian cuisines on barley grain size	12
Alternatives to colonization and marginal identities in New Kingdom colonial Nubia (1550–1070 BCE)	11
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
The fluid city, urbanism as process	10
Pluralising power: ceramics and social differentiation in Bronze Age central Eurasia	7
The Acheulean is a temporally cohesive tradition	6
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
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
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
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