Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Anthropological Archaeology is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Excising culture history from contemporary archaeology33
An institutional approach for archaeology30
The transition to a barley-dominant cultivation system in Tibet: First millennium BC archaeobotanical evidence from Bangga27
Ancient Maya water management, agriculture, and society in the area of Chactún, Campeche, Mexico24
Top-down and bottom-up water management: A diachronic model of changing water management strategies at Angkor, Cambodia21
Gardens on the coast: Considerations on food production by Brazilian shellmound builders21
Pastoralism, climate change, and the transformation of the Indus Civilization in Gujarat: Faunal analyses and biogenic isotopes20
Communal drinking rituals and social formations in the Yellow River valley of Neolithic China19
The importance of large prey animals during the Pleistocene and the implications of their extinction on the use of dietary ethnographic analogies18
Beyond arrows on a map: The dynamics of Homo sapiens dispersal and occupation of Arabia during Marine Isotope Stage 517
Landscape management and polyculture in the ancient gardens and fields at Joya de Cerén, El Salvador16
New excavations in the MNK Skull site, and the last appearance of the Oldowan and Homo habilis at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania16
Domesticated landscapes of the neotropics: Isotope signatures of human-animal relationships in pre-Columbian Panama16
Wealth-on-the-hoof and the low-power state: Caprines as capital in early Mesopotamia15
Carnivores in the everyday life of Gravettian hunters-gatherers in Central Europe15
The origin and use of shell bead money in California15
Earliest archaeological evidence for domesticated reindeer economy among the Sámi of Northeastern Fennoscandia AD 1300 onwards13
Hunting dogs down under? On the Aboriginal use of tame dingoes in dietary game acquisition and its relevance to Australian prehistory13
The social dynamics of settling down12
Walnuts, salmon and sika deer: Exploring the evolution and diversification of Jōmon “culinary” traditions in prehistoric Hokkaidō12
Episodic complexity and the emergence of a coastal kingdom: Climate, cooperation, and coercion in Southwest Florida12
Resilience and vulnerability to climate change in the Greek Dark Ages12
Being-with other predators: Cultural negotiations of Neanderthal-carnivore relationships in Late Pleistocene Europe12
Consuming Kero: Molle Beer and Wari social identity in Andean Peru12
Investigating pre-Hispanic scarlet macaw origins through radiogenic strontium isotope analysis at Paquimé in Chihuahua, Mexico12
Taking the high ground: A model for lowland Maya settlement patterns11
Literal niche construction: Built environments of hunter-gatherers and hunting architecture11
The Paleolithic of the Iranian Plateau: Hominin occupation history and implications for human dispersals across southern Asia11
Radiocarbon data may support a Malthus-Boserup model of hunter-gatherer population expansion11
Friend or foe? Large canid remains from Pavlovian sites and their archaeozoological context11
Post-marital residence patterns in LBK: Comparison of different models10
Between land and water: Hydraulic engineering in the Tlalixcoyan basin, Veracruz, Mexico10
North and South in the ancient Central Andes: Contextualizing the archaeological record with evidence from linguistics and molecular anthropology10
Malthusian cycles among semi-sedentary Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers: The socio-economic and demographic history of Housepit 54, Bridge River site, British Columbia10
Rethinking the emergence of bone grease procurement10
Salt as a commodity or money in the Classic Maya economy10
Violence among the first horticulturists in the atacama desert (1000 BCE – 600 CE)10
Social signatures in standardized ceramic production – A 3-D approach to ethnographic data9
Residential patterns of Mexica human sacrifices at Mexico-Tenochtitlan and Mexico-Tlatelolco: Evidence from phosphate oxygen isotopes9
Environment, climate and people: Exploring human responses to climate change9
Pottery, practice, and place: A communities of practice approach to commoner interaction in the Late to Terminal Classic Belize River Valley9
Migration, violence, and the “other”: A biogeochemical approach to identity-based violence in the Epiclassic Basin of Mexico9
A zooarchaeological history of the Neolithic occupations at Franchthi Cave and paralia in southern Greece9
Hunter-gatherer children in the past: An archaeological review9
From local to regional and back again: Social transformation in a Coast Salish settlement, 1500–1000 BP9
Red beer consumption and elite utensils: The emergence of competitive feasting in the Yangshao culture, North China9
Population collapse or human resilience in response to the 9.3 and 8.2 ka cooling events: A multi-proxy analysis of Mesolithic occupation in the Scheldt basin (Belgium)8
Long-term economic change: Craft extensification in the Mesoamerican cotton textile industry8
Endowment, investment, and the transforming coast: Long-term human-environment interactions and territorial proprietorship in the Prince Rupert Harbour, Canada8
Wealth inequality, social stratification, and the built environment in Late Prehispanic Highland Mexico: A comparative analysis with special emphasis on Tlaxcallan8
Diachronic trends in occupation intensity of the Epipaleolithic site of Neve David (Mount Carmel, Israel): A lithic perspective8
A place for archaeology in the study of money, finance, and debt8
Multi-centric, Marsh-based Urbanism at the early Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba, Iraq)8
The evolution of agro-urbanism: A case study from Angkor, Cambodia8
Alcohol, ancestors, and the house: Exploring ritual use of beer at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso7
Land use, climate change and ‘boom-bust’ sequences in agricultural landscapes: Interdisciplinary perspectives from the Peloponnese (Greece)7
Mapping the middle ground between foragers and farmers7
Sex/gender system and social hierarchization in Bell Beaker burials from Iberia7
Urbanization in the eastern seaboard (Haidai) area of northern China: Perspectives from the late Neolithic site of Liangchengzhen7
Is there Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Western Tian Shan? Example of an open-air site Katta Sai 2 (Uzbekistan)7
Pottery technology as a revealer of cultural and symbolic shifts: Funerary and ritual practices in the Sion ‘Petit-Chasseur’ megalithic necropolis (3100–1600 BC, Western Switzerland)7
Predynastic beer production, distribution, and consumption at Hierakonpolis, Egypt7
Debt and inequality: Comparing the “means of specification” in the early cities of Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization7
Isotopic proveniencing at Classic Copan and in the southern periphery of the Maya Area: A new perspective on multi-ethnic society7
“Proposing a toast” from the first urban center in the north Loess Plateau, China: Alcoholic beverages at Shimao7
Pitted ware culture: Isotopic evidence for contact between Sweden and Denmark across the Kattegat in the Middle Neolithic, ca. 3000 BC7
Expedient lithic technology in complex sedentary societies: Use-wear, flake size, and edge angle on debitage from two ancient Maya sites7
Domestic dogs and wild canids on the Northwest Coast of North America: Animal husbandry in a region without agriculture?7
Cultural transmission and perception of vessel shapes among Hebron potters7
Lithic technological organization of the “Elmenteitan” early herders in southern Kenya: Implications for mobility, exchange, and climatic resilience7
The organization of production for Inka Polychrome pottery from Pachacamac, Peru7
Archives of human-dog relationships: Genetic and stable isotope analysis of Arctic fur clothing7
The collapse of Teotihuacan and the regeneration of Epiclassic societies: a Bayesian approach7
Life, death, and the destruction of architecture: Hunter-gatherer mortuary behaviors in prehistoric Jordan6
Ancient DNA studies: Use of ethnonyms and collaborative research in South America6
Looking into Upper Paleolithic gear: The potential of an integrated techno-economic approach6
Human remains, context, and place of origin for the Salme, Estonia, boat burials6
Influential landscapes: Temporal trends in the agricultural use of rejolladas at Tahcabo, Yucatán, Mexico6
Crafting power: New perspectives on the political economy of southern Africa, AD 900–13006
Revelatory locales: The ritual reuse of a Late Archaic shell ring in South Carolina6
Human adaptation to Holocene environments: Perspectives and promise from China6
Past maize consumption correlates with population change in Central Western Argentina6
Household garden plant agency in the creation of Classic Maya social identities6
Assembling the early expansionary state: Wari and the southern Peruvian coast6
Diet, economy, and culinary practices at the height of precolonial Swahili urbanism6
Inebriation and the early state: Beer and the politics of affect in Mesopotamia6
Space making and home making in the world’s first villages: Reconsidering the circular to rectangular architectural transition in the Central Anatolian Neolithic6
Rethinking the Estero Island Site: A possible satellite village of Mound Key6
Did the use of bone flakes precede the use of knapped stone flakes in hominin meat processing and could this be detectable archaeologically?6
The heterarchical life and spatial analyses of the historical Buddhist temples in the Chiang Saen Basin, Northern Thailand5
Basketry, cordage, and perishable artifact manufacture at Bonneville Estates Rockshelter: Diachronic technological variation5
Javelin use among Ethiopia’s last indigenous hunters: Variability and further constraints on tip cross-sectional geometry5
Collaboration, not competition: A geoarchaeological approach to the social context of the earliest pottery5
Spatial structure among the geometric earthworks of western Amazonia (Acre, Brazil)5
Growing up Gravettian: Bioarchaeological perspectives on adolescence in the European Mid-Upper Paleolithic5
The grandeur of death – Monuments, societies, and diets in middle Neolithic Paris Basin5
Burying the Dead during the Maya Postclassic period: Saxe, Binford and Goldstein’s continued relevance to mortuary analysis5
Assessing the prehispanic settlement of the Lerma Valley during the first millennium: Survey in the floodplain of Tres Mezquites, Michoacán, Mexico5
Chicha and food for the Inka feasts: Their materiality in state production contexts in southern Tawantinsuyu5
Heterarchical political ecology: Commoner and elite (meta)physical access to water at the ancient Maya city of Aventura, Belize5
Mediterranean polyculture revisited: Olive, grape and subsistence strategies at Palaikastro, East Crete, between the Late Neolithic and Late Bronze Age5
Understanding multi-sited early village communities of the American Southeast through categorical identities and relational connections5
Knotty financiers: A comparative take on finance, value, and inequality5
An agent-based model for exploring the combined effects of social and demographic changes on the concentration and hierarchy of rural settlement patterns in North-Western Europe during the Middle Ages5
Let’s get fiscal: The social relations of finance and technological change in Aztec and Colonial Mexico5
From adaptation to niche construction: Weather as a winter site selection factor in northern Mongolia, the Quebec Lower North Shore, and the southern Urals5
The bow and arrow in South America5
A constitutional approach to cacao money5
On the monumentality of ditches4
Terminal Classic residential histories, migration, and foreigners at the Maya site of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala4
Women, residential patterns and early social complexity. From theory to practice in Copper Age Iberia4
Middle Preclassic Nixtun-Ch'ich': A lowland Maya primate/ritual city4
Libation ritual and the performance of kingship in early China4
Intentional dental modification in Panamá: New support for a late introduction of African origin4
Symbolism in action: Techno-typology, function, and human-artefact dynamics in figured/non-figured bone plaques from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Boncuklu Tarla, Turkey4
The bow and arrow, population, environment, and seeds: Intensification in southwest Wyoming4
The Agro-pastoralism debate in Central Eurasia: Arguments in favor of a nuanced perspective on socio-economy in archaeological context4
Thoughts on Neolithic fishing-based economies in coastal Eastern Arabia4
The flavors archaeobotany forgot4
Traction in Neolithic Çatalhöyük? Palaeopathological analysis of cattle and aurochs remains from the East and West Mounds4
When edges become centered: The ceramic social geography of early pottery communities of the American Southeast4
Cultural macroevolution in the middle to late Holocene Arctic of east Siberia and north America4
Trash reconsidered: A relational approach to deposition in the Pueblo Southwest4
Ritual dispositions, enclosures, and the passing of time: A biographical perspective on the Winchester Farm earthwork in Central Kentucky, USA4
Moving in and moving out: Explaining final Pleistocene-Early Holocene hunter-gatherer population dynamics on the Korean Peninsula4
Household lake exploitation and aquatic lifeways in postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico4
Economy, sharing strategies and community structure in the early Neolithic village of Chahai, Northeast China4
Early postglacial hunter-gatherers show environmentally driven “false logistic” growth in a low productivity environment4
Coastal foraging and transgressive sea levels during the terminal Pleistocene: Insights from the central west coast of South Africa4
The ways of an empire: Continuity and change of route landscapes across the Taurus during the Hittite Period (ca. 1650–1200 BCE)4
Potting practices and social integration in the southern Andes during the late intermediate period: The case of Yavi-Chicha pottery4
A taste for the unusual. Green, flat pebbles used by late Neanderthals4
Geophyte field processing, storage, and women’s decision-making in hunter-gatherer societies: An archaeological case study from western North America4
“A pleasurable job”… Communities of women ceramicists and the long path of Paulistaware in São Paulo3
Deposition analysis and the hidden life of Bronze Age houses3
From Hangovers to Hierarchies: Beer production and use during the Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant – New evidence from Tel Tsaf and Peqi‘in Cave3
Rethinking agency in hiri exchange relationships on Papua New Guinea’s south coast: Oral traditions and archaeology3
Revisiting ‘Settlement’: A case study of terminology and Early Bronze Age southeast Arabia3
Early pastoral communities in the mountains of Sicily. Prehistoric evidence from Vallone Inferno (Scillato) in the palaeoenvironmental framework of the Madonie mountain range3
Hunting and feasting in the pre-Columbian Andes: Exploring the nature and scale of early ceremonial aggregations in Tulan Ravine (5300 to 2400 yr cal. BP) through the circulation of obsidian artefacts3
Reassessing an inferred Iroquoian village removal sequence in the Mohawk River Basin, New York, USA3
Board games and social life in Iron Age southern Africa3
Landscape, typologies, and the social meaning of castles3
Keeping count: On interpreting record keeping in prehistory3
Between the patio group and the plaza: Round platforms as stages for supra-household rituals in early Maya society3
The city as dissipative structure: The flow of agricultural production in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia3
Fishing for “lucky stones”: Symbolic uses of otoliths in Brazilian shell sites3
Life in three scenarios: Plant controversies between Jamamadi gardens and Hi-Merimã patauá palm orchards (Middle Purus River, Amazonas, Brazil)3
When dogs and people were buried together3
Let's start with something Small: An evaluation of social learning and scaling practices in Great Lakes potting communities during the Late Woodland3
The scale of social labor investments and social practices behind the construction of megalithic stele monuments in south Ethiopia3
Temporality of fishery taskscapes on the north-central Gulf of Mexico coast (USA) during the Middle/Late Woodland period (AD 325–1040)3
Fermented maize beverages as ritual offerings: Investigating elite drinking during Classic Maya period at Copan, Honduras3
Tenancy, finance, and access to commercial goods: Interpreting impoverished assemblages in Skagafjörður, Iceland, CE 1300–19003
Aesthetics or function in heat-treating? The influence of colour preference in lithic preparation on the Maritime Peninsula, Eastern Canada3
Prosperity and prestige: Archaeological realities of unfree laborers under Inka imperialism3
Landscape bundling of ceremonial Earthworks: Incorporating ethnohistoric and contemporary Indigenous ontologies to revive Great Lakes archaeological legacy datasets3
Beer, ritual, and identity: Ethnoarchaeological and archaeological study in Konso, southern Ethiopia3
Archaeology sits in places3
The Pueblo Bonito mounds: Formation history, architectural context and representational fields3
Painting personhood: Red pigment practices in southern Peru3
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