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Papers

(The median citation count of African Archaeological Review 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Giuseppina Mutri: Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya)	20
The Tichitt Culture and the Malian Lakes Region	16
John W. Arthur: Beer: A Global Journey Through the Past and Present	16
Farming with Hand and Hoe over the Last Millennia: Traditional Terracing and the Agricultural Economy in Konso Zone, Southern Ethiopia	12
Assimilations and Replacements of Early and Middle Holocene Ceramic Productions Across Spatial and Temporal Boundaries in Northern Sudan	10
A Window into the Nubian Diet: A Case Study of Food Crop Storage in the Kingdom of Dongola (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries CE), Northern Sudan	9
Households in Transition: Persistence and Change of Dwellings in the City of Old Dongola (Sudan, 14th–17th Century)	8
Investigating the MIS2 Microlithic Assemblage of Umbeli Belli Rockshelter and Its Place Within the Chrono-cultural Sequence of the LSA Along the East Coast of Southern Africa	8
Alice Stevenson: Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum	8
Hunting by Farmers in the Central Lowveld of South Africa: The Late Iron Age Fauna from Mluwati	8
Deciphering Middle Stone Age Technological Behaviors: An Analysis of the Lithic Technology from Level VI-B at Mumba, Tanzania	7
Rethinking the Capsian: Lithic Variability Among Holocene Maghreb Hunter-Gatherers	7
Commentary on Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers	6
Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers	6
Lithic Techno-economics and OSL Chronology of the Later Stone Age at Chessungalane, Save River Valley, Mozambique	6
Geospatial Science	6
The Future of Human Origins and Modern Behavior in Africa	5
African Farmers, Not Stone Age Foragers: Reassessment of Human Remains from the Mumbwa Caves, Zambia	5
Phillip L. de Barros: La Métallurgie du Fer en Pays Bassar (Nord-Togo) Depuis 2400 Ans. Tome I: L’Âge du Fer Ancien (de 400 avant J.-C. à 130 après J.-C.)	5
“All the world's a stage…”: A Valedictory Note	5
Mark William Hauser and Julia John Haines: The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean	5
Correction: Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History	4
Andrea Manzo: Ancient Egypt in its African Context: Economic Networks, Social and Cultural Interactions	4
Wild Food: Plants, Fish and Small Animals on the Menu for Early Holocene Populations at al-Khiday, Central Sudan	4
John Kinehan: Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert	4

First Archaeological Excavations Along the Atlantic Ocean Coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Iron Age Sites at Muanda	4
When Communities Gather Around Their Past: Advancing Equitable Futures Through Collaborative Ethnoarchaeological Research in Ghana	4
Science, Not Black Magic: Metal and Glass Production in Africa	4
On the Validity of the Capsian and Iberomaurusian Entities (Northwest African Later Stone Age)	4
Institutionalizing a “developer pays” Principle for Commercial Archaeology as Part of Changing China-Africa Economic Relations	4
Preserving Heritage Amid War: A Protocol for Recording and Disseminating the Tomb of Djehutyhotep at the Sudan National Museum	4
New Insights on the Palaeo-archaeological Potential of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal	3
Past and Present Evidence of Loss and Replacements in African Pottery Traditions	3
Ethnoarchaeology	3
Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage Management in Kenya: The Impact of Changing Governance and Financing Landscapes on Developer-Led Archaeology	3
Africa’s Cultural Crossroads: Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Syncretism in Western Uganda from Western Kansyore, Transitional Urewe, and Bigo-Period Burials	3
How African Pasts Can Inspire Alternative Responses to Climate Change: a Creative Writing Experiment	3
A Review of the Turkwel Tradition: Cultural Variability and Social Change in the First Millennium CE East Africa	3
Expanding Space and Time at Igbo-Ukwu: Insights from Recent Fieldwork	3
Training and Collaboration in African Archaeology	3
Archaeology and Development: Pre-construction Archaeology in Benin, Nigeria	3
Results of Preparatory Surveys on the Tagant Escarpment, Mauritania	3
Durability, Context, and Pragmatics in Linguistic Histories	3
Replacement in Progress: Ethnoarchaeological Insights on Disappearing Pottery in Favour of Metal, Glass, and Plastic Containers in Lower Casamance, Senegal (Twentieth–Twenty-first Century AD)	3
Those Igbo-Ukwu Glass Beads: Morphology, Chemistry, Provenance, and Trade	2
Lotfi Belhouchet: Du Capsien Chasseur au Capsien Pasteur. Pour un Modèle Régional de Néolithisation	2
The Future of Heritage Management and Development in Africa	2
Evolution of an Early and Long-Lasting Iron Smelting Technique at Didé West 1, Falémé Valley, Eastern Senegal	2
Genetics and Archaeology	2
Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History	2
A Day on the Nile: Living in a Town in Nubia	2
The Territory of Ancient Tipasa, Algeria: Archaeological Survey, Material Culture, and Connectivity in Central Maghreb	2
Cemeteries, Rock Art and Other Ritual Monuments of the Tangier Peninsula, Northwestern Africa, in Wider Trans-Regional Perspective (c. 3000–500 BC)	2
Archaeology and Development: Post-Conflict Rebuilding of the Archaeology and Heritage Sector in Sudan	2
Connecting the Dots: Ceramics and the Creation of Foundational Narratives in East African Archaeology	2
Earth, Water, Air, and Fire – Thinking about Farming and Farmscapes	2
Techniques, Tools and Boundaries: The Impressed Corded Ware and the White Nile Mesolithic	2
David Phillipson: A Pan-African Archaeologist	2
David Phillipson: An Illustrious Synthesizer of African Archaeology	2
Mtepe: Documentation and Analysis of a Sewn-Boat Reconstruction from Zanzibar, Tanzania	2
On Hunting and Meat-eating by Middle Stone Age Hominins at Loiyangalani Site in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania	1
Homo heidelbergensis and The Origins of The Middle Stone Age: The Kabwe (Broken Hill) Lithic Assemblage	1
Glass Beads from Songo Mnara, Tanzania: Chemical Composition and Evidence for Local Bead Manufacture	1
Igbo-Ukwu Textiles: AMS Dating and Fiber Analysis	1
Large Tool Production Sequences in FLK West (Lower Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): Conceptualizing Form and Use During the Earliest Acheulean	1
Feasting in the Late Swahili: Zooarchaeological Remains from the Friday Mosque Complex at Mtwapa, Kenya	1
School Learning Enriched by Doing: An Apprenticing Model	1
Bored Discs of Stone and Rain Control in Kaingo Game Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
Sex Estimation in the Egyptian Old Kingdom Population (c. 2700–2180 BCE) using Logistic Regression	1
Developer-Led Archaeology: Insights and Challenges	1
Introduction: Forum on Archaeology and Development in Africa	1
The Walls of Benin Reconsidered: Interpreting West African Linear Earthworks Using A. J. H. Goodwin’s Unpublished Excavation Data	1
Pikunda-Munda: Disappearance of Pottery Production in the Western Congo Basin at the End of the Early Iron Age	1
From “Studying Prehistory” to “Making History” to “Co-creating Heritage”: Reflections on a Journey	1
Communities and the Dead in Africa and Ancient Ethiopia (50–800 CE)	1

Impaled and Displayed: Human Skull Manipulation and Mortuary Practices in the Prehispanic Canary Islands	1
Cultivating Complexity: Thirteenth Century AD Crop Systems and Wild Plant Utilization, South Africa	1
Storytelling in Archaeology and the Quest for a Pedagogy of Renewal	1
The Age and Graphic Attributes of the First Potteries of the Western Sahara	1
Isotopic Evidence for Socio-economic Dynamics Within the Capital of the Kingdom of Alwa, Sudan	1
New Luminescence and Radiocarbon Dates for Kanem-Borno Fired-Brick Elite Sites in Kanem, Chad: Bayesian Chronological Modelling of Settlement Construction	1
My Meals Are in the Pots: Making Pots and Meals in Wollega, Southwest Ethiopia	1
We Need Social Archaeology to Understand Resilience and Build Usable Pasts	1
In Consideration of a Post-Professional Archaeology: Reflections on David W. Phillipson’s Research and Career	1
Reimagining the Role of African Universities in the Context of Archaeology and Development	1
David Phillipson’s Contribution to the Archaeology of the Northern Horn of Africa	1
Some Thoughts on Glass in African Archaeology: An Introduction	1
Taphonomy Patterns at Ratho Kroonkop, a Rain-Control Site in the Limpopo Valley, South Africa	1
Aspects of Zulu Ceramic Traditions in the Upper and Lower uThukela Basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	1
Correction to: The 4.2 ka BP Climate Event in Egypt: Integration of Archaeological, Geoarchaeological, and Bioarchaeological Evidence	1
Helina S. Woldekiros: The Boundaries of Ancient Trade: Kings, Commoners, and the Aksumite Salt Trade of Ethiopia	1
Developer-Led Archaeology in Ethiopia: Reflection on the Field	1
Preliminary Analysis of Ceramic Styles in Fier, Lankan, and Daffo, Southern Jos Plateau, Central Nigeria	1
Africa and Its Global Connections	1