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Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Giuseppina Mutri: Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya)	14
John W. Arthur: Beer: A Global Journey Through the Past and Present	12
Dola Angèle Aguigah: Archéologie et Architecture Traditionelle en Afrique de l’Ouest	11
The Tichitt Culture and the Malian Lakes Region	11
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	10
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	10
Assimilations and Replacements of Early and Middle Holocene Ceramic Productions Across Spatial and Temporal Boundaries in Northern Sudan	10
Alice Stevenson: Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum	10
Geospatial Science	9
Deciphering Middle Stone Age Technological Behaviors: An Analysis of the Lithic Technology from Level VI-B at Mumba, Tanzania	9
Households in Transition: Persistence and Change of Dwellings in the City of Old Dongola (Sudan, 14th–17th Century)	7
Rethinking the Capsian: Lithic Variability Among Holocene Maghreb Hunter-Gatherers	6
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
African Farmers, Not Stone Age Foragers: Reassessment of Human Remains from the Mumbwa Caves, Zambia	6
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
Wild Food: Plants, Fish and Small Animals on the Menu for Early Holocene Populations at al-Khiday, Central Sudan	5
The Future of Human Origins and Modern Behavior in Africa	5
Mark William Hauser and Julia John Haines: The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean	5
“All the world's a stage…”: A Valedictory Note	5
Savino di Lernia and Marina Gallinaro (Eds.): Archaeology of Africa. Potential and Perspectives on Laboratory & Fieldwork Research	4
Science, Not Black Magic: Metal and Glass Production in Africa	4
Institutionalizing a “developer pays” Principle for Commercial Archaeology as Part of Changing China-Africa Economic Relations	4
On the Validity of the Capsian and Iberomaurusian Entities (Northwest African Later Stone Age)	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
Andrea Manzo: Ancient Egypt in its African Context: Economic Networks, Social and Cultural Interactions	3
Correction: Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History	3
Wood Charcoal from Border Cave’s Member 1RGBS: Evidence for the Environment and Plant Use During MIS 5	3
Durability, Context, and Pragmatics in Linguistic Histories	3
John Kinehan: Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert	3
Ethnoarchaeology	3
Expanding Space and Time at Igbo-Ukwu: Insights from Recent Fieldwork	3
First Archaeological Excavations Along the Atlantic Ocean Coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Iron Age Sites at Muanda	3
Training and Collaboration in African Archaeology	3
Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage Management in Kenya: The Impact of Changing Governance and Financing Landscapes on Developer-Led Archaeology	2
Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the Timing of Social and Subsistence Transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa	2
The Territory of Ancient Tipasa, Algeria: Archaeological Survey, Material Culture, and Connectivity in Central Maghreb	2
How African Pasts Can Inspire Alternative Responses to Climate Change: a Creative Writing Experiment	2
The Future of Heritage Management and Development in Africa	2
Lotfi Belhouchet: Du Capsien Chasseur au Capsien Pasteur. Pour un Modèle Régional de Néolithisation	2
“A Survey of Surveys” Revisited: Current Approaches to Landscape and Surface Archaeology in Southern Africa	2
Earth, Water, Air, and Fire – Thinking about Farming and Farmscapes	2
The Many Meanings of “Integration”: Some Thoughts on Relating Rock Art and Excavated Archaeology in South Africa	2
A Newly Discovered Acheulean Assemblage in the Mbulu Plateau, Northern Tanzania	2
Interdisciplinary Research into the Legacy of the Medieval Metropolis of Soba in a Modern Khartoum Suburb	1
Glass Beads from Songo Mnara, Tanzania: Chemical Composition and Evidence for Local Bead Manufacture	1
The Oudierin Drainage Archaeological Project: New Perspectives on the Saloum Delta Shell Middens (Senegal)	1
School Learning Enriched by Doing: An Apprenticing Model	1
Helina S. Woldekiros: The Boundaries of Ancient Trade: Kings, Commoners, and the Aksumite Salt Trade of Ethiopia	1
Leire Olabarria: Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt: Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue	1
Re-assessing Middle Nubian cultural constructs through ceramic petrography	1
Connecting the Dots: Ceramics and the Creation of Foundational Narratives in East African Archaeology	1
David Phillipson: An Illustrious Synthesizer of African Archaeology	1
Communities and the Dead in Africa and Ancient Ethiopia (50–800 CE)	1
Some Thoughts on Glass in African Archaeology: An Introduction	1
Taking Stock of Foodplants Growing in the Cradle of Humankind Fossil Hominin Site, South Africa	1
Pikunda-Munda: Disappearance of Pottery Production in the Western Congo Basin at the End of the Early Iron Age	1
New Luminescence and Radiocarbon Dates for Kanem-Borno Fired-Brick Elite Sites in Kanem, Chad: Bayesian Chronological Modelling of Settlement Construction	1
Storytelling in Archaeology and the Quest for a Pedagogy of Renewal	1
The Role of Different Raw Materials in Lithic Technology and Settlement Patterns During the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa	1
Isotopic Evidence for Socio-economic Dynamics Within the Capital of the Kingdom of Alwa, Sudan	1
Aspects of Zulu Ceramic Traditions in the Upper and Lower uThukela Basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	1
Lisa K. Sabbahy: Kingship, Power, and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt: From the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom	1
A Day on the Nile: Living in a Town in Nubia	1
Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History	1
Correction to: The 4.2 ka BP Climate Event in Egypt: Integration of Archaeological, Geoarchaeological, and Bioarchaeological Evidence	1
Reimagining the Role of African Universities in the Context of Archaeology and Development	1
Preliminary Analysis of Ceramic Styles in Fier, Lankan, and Daffo, Southern Jos Plateau, Central Nigeria	1
Developer-Led Archaeology in Ethiopia: Reflection on the Field	1
The Age and Graphic Attributes of the First Potteries of the Western Sahara	1
Igbo-Ukwu Textiles: AMS Dating and Fiber Analysis	1
Mtepe: Documentation and Analysis of a Sewn-Boat Reconstruction from Zanzibar, Tanzania	1
Genetics and Archaeology	1
Archaeology and Development: Post-Conflict Rebuilding of the Archaeology and Heritage Sector in Sudan	1

David Phillipson: A Pan-African Archaeologist