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Papers

(The median citation count of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Human-facilitated dispersal of pawpaw (Asimina triloba [L.] Dunal) at its northern range limits: re-examining the historical and archaeological evidence	38
Palynological evidence for the temporal stability of the plant community in the Yellow River Source Area over the last 7,400 years	23
Survival during the 4.2 ka event by Jomon hunter–gatherers with management and use of plant resources at the Denotame site in central Japan	20
Pre-hispanic Datura ferox L. in the Southern Andes: archaeobotanical evidence from an Inca archaeological site at Salta, Argentina	15
Multi-proxy evidence for woodland clearance in northeast Northumberland (England) during the Iron Age	14
Wild foods, woodland fuels, and cultivation through the Ceramic and Early Historical periods in Araucanía, Southern Chile (400–1850 ce)	12
Late Holocene vegetation dynamics: degree and regional patterns of the Dark Ages woodland regeneration (ad 300–700) in the Netherlands	12
Afromontane forests and human impact after the African Humid Period: wood charcoal from the Sodicho rock shelter, SW Ethiopian highlands	11
Examining climate and composition differences in eastern North American temperate forests using pollen ratios and pollen assemblage cluster analysis	11
Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	11
Microhistological analysis of ancient wild herbivore droppings from the Potrerillos valley, central western Argentina: palaeodiets, vegetation and human activity	11
Inventions, innovations and the origins of spelt wheat	11
Correction: Seeing the fields through the weeds: introducing the WeedEco R package for comparing past and present arable farming systems using functional weed ecology	10
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	10
The importance of wild plant resources in the Neolithic: a case study of the Late Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Grandson-Corcelettes, Les Pins (Switzerland)	9
Food, farming and trade on the Danube frontier: plant remains from Roman Aelia Mursa (Osijek, Croatia)	9
Differences in forest composition following two periods of settlement by pre-Columbian Native Americans	9
Performance of vegetation cover reconstructions using lake and soil pollen samples from the Tibetan Plateau	9
The persistent place at Lubrza: a small paradise for hunter-gatherers? Multi-disciplinary studies of Late Palaeolithic environment and human activity in the Łagów lake district (western Poland)	9
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	8
The first annually resolved analysis of slash-and-burn practices in the boreal Eurasia suggests their strong climatic and socio-economic controls	8
Contribution to Neotoma: Hallwilersee (Switzerland) pollen and diatoms	8
Land cover and use-history of large empty spaces at fortified Iron Age hilltop sites; a case study from La Terrasse, Bibracte oppidum	8
Cultural landscape and plant use at the Phoenician site of Motya (Western Sicily, Italy) inferred from a disposal pit	7
Influence of taxonomic resolution on the value of anthropogenic pollen indicators	7

Stable carbon isotope (δ13C) analysis of archaeobotanical remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı (western Anatolia) to investigate crop management	7
Which pulse is it? Identifying archaeological legumes seeds by means of biometric measurements and geometric morphometrics	7
Introduction to the special issue on ‘Plant use and management during the emergence of farming in Southwest Asia: recent insights and new approaches’	6
Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia	6
Archaeobotany of el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel (Israel): insights into plant exploitation along the Natufian sequence	6
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	6
Pollen richness: a reflection of vegetation diversity or pollen-specific parameters?	6
Reconstruction of the environmental conditions for the past 2,000 years in the Perico River basin (NW Argentina) based on fossil pollen records	6
Modern phytolith assemblages as indicators of vegetation in the southern Caucasus	6
The archaeobotany of Qaratepe, Azerbaijan 2nd–13th century	6
Predynastic and Early Dynastic plant economy in the Nile Delta: archaeobotanical evidence from Tell el-Iswid	5
Correction to: Tracking the history of grapevine cultivation in Georgia by combining geometric morphometrics and ancient DNA	5
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: a comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas	5
Flax use, weeds and manuring in Viking Age Åland: archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis	5
The impact of Lusatian Urnfield and subsequent prehistoric cultures on lake and woodland ecosystems: insights from multi-proxy palaeoecological investigations at Bruszczewo, western Poland	5
Neolithic landscape and firewood use: charcoal analysis of domestic and funerary contexts at La Dehesilla (Andalusia, Spain)	5
A glimpse into the viticulture of Roman Lusitania: morphometric analysis of charred grape pips from Torre dos Namorados, Portugal	5
Correction to: Intensification of agriculture in southwestern Germany between the Bronze Age and Medieval period, based on archaeobotanical data from Baden-Württemberg	5
List of critical referees, Volumes 32–33	5
NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform	5
Palynological evidence from a sub-alpine marsh of enhanced Little Ice Age snowpack in the Marrakech High Atlas, North Africa	4
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II	4
Potential late glacial maximum refugial areas of Alaska-Yukon postglacial migrant plants	4
Documenting a thousand years of environmental and anthropogenic changes on mangroves on the Bangkok coast, the upper Gulf of Thailand	4
Relative pollen productivity estimates for the dominant plant taxa in the Hoh Xil region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	4
Holocene vegetation, fire and land use dynamics at Lake Svityaz, an agriculturally marginal site in northwestern Ukraine	4
Legacies of past human activities on one of the largest old-growth forests in the south-east European mountains	4
8,000 years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy)	4
Auto-fluorescent phytoliths: can we detect past fires in tropical and subtropical contexts?	4
Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan	4
Iron Age plant subsistence in the Inner Congo Basin (DR Congo)	4
Colourful rivers: archaeobotanical remains of dye plants from urban fluvial deposits in the southern Low Countries (Belgium)	3
Woodland management at the Swedish middle Neolithic site of Alvastra? A new perspective	3
The introduction history of Hordeum vulgare var. nudum (naked barley) into Fennoscandia	3
Ancient crop movements from South Asia to the Middle East and the Mediterranean	3
Water and landscape management for 3,000 years in a mid-mountain area: evolution of the Gourgon mires complex (Massif Central, France) under anthropogenic and climate forcing	3
Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)	3
Exploring palaeoecology in the Northern Territory: the Walanjiwurru rockshelter, vegetation dynamics and shifting social landscapes in Marra Country	3
Holocene vegetation dynamics, river valley evolution and human settlement of the upper Kama valley, Ural region, Russia	3
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce	3
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant	3
The potential of REVEALS-based vegetation reconstructions using pollen records from alluvial floodplains	3
The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology	3
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethobotany, České Budějovice 2022	3
New research on crop diversity of the early farmers in southeastern Europe (ca. 6400 − 5700 bce)	2
Saga, settlement and sediments at Helgafell, western Iceland	2
In memoriam Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Beug, 18th January 1932 to 5th March 2022	2
The role of fire in the Medieval and Early Modern landscape of Bad Waldsee within the broader context of the pre-Alpine forelands of south-western Germany	2
Reassessing the origin of lentil cultivation in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Southwest Asia: new evidence from carbon isotope analysis at Gusir Höyük	2
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	2

Exploring prehistoric plant use by molecular analyses of Neolithic grave goods	2
Vegetation dynamics and their response to Holocene climate change derived from multi-proxy records from Wangdongyang peat bog in southeast China	2
Underwater archaeobotany: plant and wood analyses from the Vrouw Maria, a 1771 shipwreck in the Finnish Baltic Sea	2
The first comprehensive archaeobotanical analysis of prehistoric agriculture in Kyrgyzstan	2
New crops in the 1st millennium ce in northern Italy	2
Understanding the plant economy of the westernmost territory of the Roman state through waste: the wet site of O Areal (Vigo, Spain)	2
Subtropical montane vegetation dynamics in response to Holocene climate change in central Taiwan	2
Processing and storage of tree fruits, cereals and pulses at PPNA Sharara, southern Jordan	2
Vegetation changes in the Grote Nete valley (Campine region, Belgium) during the Boreal: a response to the 9.3 ka event?	2
14,500 years of vegetation and land use history in the upper continental montane zone at Lac de Champex (Valais, Switzerland)	2
Sieving the weeds from the grains: an R based package for classifying archaeobotanical samples of cereals and pulses according to crop processing stages	2
Environmental changes in central Mesoamerica in the Archaic and Formative periods	2
Prehistoric firewood gathering on the northeast Tibetan plateau: environmental and cultural determinism	2
Insights into the indigenous-managed landscape in southeast Australia during the Holocene	2
Pre-Aksumite plant husbandry in the Horn of Africa	2
The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	2
Pollen signal of modern vegetation registered in surface soil samples along an elevation gradient from Iztaccíhuatl volcano, central Mexico	2
Testing the potential of pollen assemblages to capture composition, diversity and ecological gradients of surrounding vegetation in two biogeographical regions of southeastern Europe	2
New evidence for food in the Late-Medieval Balkans: archaeobotany of Venetian houses at Butrint in southern Albania	1
Modelling the potential ecological niche of domesticated buckwheat in China: archaeological evidence, environmental constraints and climate change	1
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	1
Food and farming beyond the Alpine lake zone: the archaeobotany of the Copper Age settlements of Lenzing-Burgstall and Ansfelden-Burgwiese in Upper Austria, and an early occurrence of Triticum spelta	1
Multi-proxy analysis of starchy plant consumption: a case study of pottery food crusts from a Late Iron Age settlement at Pada, northeast Estonia	1
Surface-soil sporopollen and their relationship with climatic factors in southern Xinjiang, China: implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction	1
Agriculture and crop dispersal in the western periphery of the Old World: the Amazigh/Berber settling of the Canary Islands (ca. 2nd–15th centuries ce)	1
Advances in phytolith research in archaeology and paleoecology: developments and applications	1
From wild stands to orchards: an archaeobotanical investigation of the olive tree in prehistoric Aegean vegetation	1
Holocene vegetation and flora dynamics of the west Cork/Kerry region, south-western Ireland	1
First identification of plant remains in earthen architecture of Argentina: constructive and domestic archaeological data from early colonial contexts (16th and 17th centuries)	1
Correction: Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	1
Predicting plant water availability from phytolith assemblages: an experimental approach for archaeological reconstructions in drylands	1
Agriculture at the Phoenician site of La Fonteta (Alicante, Spain)	1
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet): evidence from Iron Age Kenya	1
Environmental dynamics of the western European Mediterranean landscape during the Pleistocene to Holocene transition	1
Natural conditions and sociocultural development in the Mid-Kama region (cis-Ural, Russia) over the last ten millennia: insights from the Shabunichi-1 peat core	1
Were prehistoric cereal fields in western Norway manured? Evidence from stable isotope values (δ15N) of charred modern and fossil cereals	1
Transformation of West-Carpathian primeval woodlands into high-altitude grasslands from as early as the Bronze Age	1
Correction: Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	1
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction through phytolith analysis in the Casa de Pedra shell mound archaeological site, São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil	1
Correction: NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform	1
Comparable quantification methodologies in archaeobotany – a work-in-progress and debate	1
Correction: New crops in the 1st millennium ce in northern Italy	1
Sicily and the process of Neolithisation: a review of the archaeobotanical data	1
Grape (Vitis vinifera) use in the early modern Low Countries: a tentative combination of aDNA-analysis and historical sources	1
Late Bronze Age millet farmers at Arnbjerg N: an archaeobotanical analysis and a review of Late Bronze Age millet in Denmark	1
Understanding crop processing and its social meaning in the Xinzhai period (1850–1750 cal bce): a case study on the Xinzhai site, China	1
Correction to: The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	1
Cultivating diversity at the onset of agriculture: insights from the Lower Yangtze in the 10th millennium bp	1
Vitis sp., Vitaceae and viticulture in the Indus Civilization, South Asia ca. 3200–1500 bc: a critical review	1
Food and agriculture in Slavonia, Croatia, during the Late Middle Ages: the archaeobotanical evidence	1
A glimpse into shell mound builders’ diet during mid-to-late Holocene on Marajó island	1
The first comprehensive macroremains analysis of edible plants from Vichama, Peru (1800–1500 bce)	1
Deciphering the environmental background of a roman brick and tile works in Mariana (Pruniccia, Lucciana, Corsica) with geomorphology, palaeoentomology and archaeobotany	1
Landscape of ice and fire – uniquely well-preserved Scots pine trunks reveal forest fires near the retreating Weichselian ice margin	1