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Papers

(The median citation count of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The importance of wild plant resources in the Neolithic: a case study of the Late Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Grandson-Corcelettes, Les Pins (Switzerland)	25
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	21
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	20
If it was not climate change… palynological investigations in the Eurasian Steppe (southern Trans-Urals, Russia) since the Bronze Age	16
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	15
Introduction to the special issue on ‘Plant use and management during the emergence of farming in Southwest Asia: recent insights and new approaches’	15
Flax use, weeds and manuring in Viking Age Åland: archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis	14
Vegetation history of the Holocene from a maar lake in Guanajuato state, México	12
The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology	12
List of critical referees, Volumes 32–33	12
Intensive pastoralism facilitated the rise of the Tang Dynasty in China	12
Exploring palaeoecology in the Northern Territory: the Walanjiwurru rockshelter, vegetation dynamics and shifting social landscapes in Marra Country	10
Correction: New crops in the 1st millennium ce in northern Italy	10
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce	10
Holocene vegetation dynamics, river valley evolution and human settlement of the upper Kama valley, Ural region, Russia	10
Relative pollen productivity estimates for the dominant plant taxa in the Hoh Xil region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	10
Landscape of ice and fire – uniquely well-preserved Scots pine trunks reveal forest fires near the retreating Weichselian ice margin	10
Exploring prehistoric plant use by molecular analyses of Neolithic grave goods	9
Modern pollen spectra from the east European forest steppe reflect land use patterns rather than a climatic gradient	8
Correction: Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	8
Re-thinking the preservation biases impacting the Neolithic plant record in the Iberian Peninsula: insights from La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)	8
Correction to: The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	8
Tracking medieval and early modern expansion of livestock farming in Sweden’s boreal forest: two high-resolution studies of pollen, coprophilous fungi and charcoal from Hälsingland and Jämtland	8
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	7
Correction: Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	7

Climate and agricultural history from the Petén Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya lowlands of southern Mexico	7
Recognizing Prunus persica (peach) and allied Rosaceae by the morphological characteristics of their fruitstones	7
“It’s all just barley and figs!” Identifying patterns of plant waste accumulation in House 169, Elephantine Island, Egypt (1750–1650 bc) using machine learning	7
Plants and early hunter-gatherers at Taguatagua 3: Microfossil evidence from stone tools at a late Pleistocene lake shore site in central Chile	7
Plant use at Funnel Beaker sites: combined macro- and microremains analysis at the Early Neolithic site of Frydenlund, Denmark (ca. 3600 bce)	7
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)	7
Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	7
New perspectives on plant-use at neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria: an integrated phytolith and spherulite study	7
The disappearance of Capparis spinosa (the cultivated caper) from the southern Levant	6
First identification of plant remains in earthen architecture of Argentina: constructive and domestic archaeological data from early colonial contexts (16th and 17th centuries)	6
A tale of new crops in the arid Arabian Peninsula oasis from antiquity to the early Islamic period	6
The impact of Lusatian Urnfield and subsequent prehistoric cultures on lake and woodland ecosystems: insights from multi-proxy palaeoecological investigations at Bruszczewo, western Poland	6
Stable carbon isotope (δ13C) analysis of archaeobotanical remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı (western Anatolia) to investigate crop management	6
Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)	6
Palynological pairing of archaeological rock shelter and swamp deposits on the Arnhem Plateau: Holocene ecological changes at Nawarla Gabarnmang and Swamp 7, Northern Territory	6
New evidence for food in the Late-Medieval Balkans: archaeobotany of Venetian houses at Butrint in southern Albania	6
A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)	6
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	6
Colourful rivers: archaeobotanical remains of dye plants from urban fluvial deposits in the southern Low Countries (Belgium)	6
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: a comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas	6
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant	6
Advances in phytolith research in archaeology and paleoecology: developments and applications	6
Holocene vegetation change at Grosssee, eastern Swiss Alps: effects of climate and human impact	6
Archaeobotanical evidence and ethnobotanical interpretation of plants used as coffin pillow fillings in burials in Poland (17th-18/19th centuries)	6
Which pulse is it? Identifying archaeological legumes seeds by means of biometric measurements and geometric morphometrics	6
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II	6
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	5
Comparison of image acquisition techniques and morphometric methods to distinguish between Vitis vinifera subspecies and cultivars	5
Morphometrics shed new light on the first archaeobotanical evidence for the cultivation and breeding of Vicia faba var. equina (horse bean) and var. major (broad bean) in medieval southern Italy	5
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction through phytolith analysis in the Casa de Pedra shell mound archaeological site, São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil	5
Late Holocene hemp (Cannabis sativa) retting in NE Hungary and the Holocene spread of hemp cultivation in eastern-central Europe	5
Plant macrofossils as indicators of vegetation and climate change in the Northern Black Forest of Germany during the last millennium - with focus on the Little Ice Age	5
The first comprehensive macroremains analysis of edible plants from Vichama, Peru (1800–1500 bce)	5
Development of crop growing from the late Yangshao to early Longshan period in the Zhengluo region of central China: phytolith evidence from the Shuanghuaishu site	5
Correction: Pollen signal of modern vegetation registered in surface soil samples along an elevation gradient from Iztaccíhuatl volcano, central Mexico	4
Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia	4
Hunter-gatherer farming during the first millennium bce in inland, boreal landscapes: new pollen analytical and archaeological evidence from Dalarna, central Sweden	4
Isotopic insights into quinoa agriculture at an Andean hillfort town (cal ad 1250–1450)	4
Correction: Genomic analysis of emmer wheat shows a complex history with two distinct domestic groups and evidence of differential hybridization with wild emmer from the western Fertile Crescent	4
Microbotanical signatures of kreb: differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses	4
Agricultural development in the southeastern Baltic region from the late Bronze Age to the medieval period: a case study of Kernavė, southeast Lithuania	4
Botanical composition of meadows and pastures and their role in the functioning of early medieval semi-artificial lake islands in Ziemia Lubuska (Lubusz land), western Poland	4
Pre-Hispanic use of edible Geoffroea decorticans fruits in central Argentina - first approximations based on an integrated morphoanatomical and archaeobotanical approach	4
Identification of archaeological macrobotanical geophytes from the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia: studying the early long-lived focus on tubers in early Andean agriculture	4
Mosses recognized as glacial relicts from their postglacial distribution in Poland	4
Shielings and their surroundings: the palaeoenvironment of two shielings in Svarfaðardalur, northern Iceland	4
From field to fortress: botanical evidence of agriculture during the Crusader occupation of Caesarea	4
Vegetation dynamics and land-use change at the Neolithic lakeshore settlement site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia	4
Archaeobotanical evidence for a domesticated tree legume 500 years ago in Northwest Argentina: morphological and metrical evidence from Neltuma chilensis processed for food	4
Surviving on the edge: the role of medieval and modern age charcoal production in the stand composition of colline beech woodlands in NE Hungary (EC Europe)	4

A new tool for formalised vegetation reconstruction from (sub)fossil records – the FEVER Index	4
Sieving the weeds from the grains: an R based package for classifying archaeobotanical samples of cereals and pulses according to crop processing stages	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
Processing and storage of tree fruits, cereals and pulses at PPNA Sharara, southern Jordan	3
Transformation of West-Carpathian primeval woodlands into high-altitude grasslands from as early as the Bronze Age	3
Inventions, innovations and the origins of spelt wheat	3
Examining climate and composition differences in eastern North American temperate forests using pollen ratios and pollen assemblage cluster analysis	3
Neolithic landscape and firewood use: charcoal analysis of domestic and funerary contexts at La Dehesilla (Andalusia, Spain)	3
Revealing Coix lacryma-jobi var. lacryma-jobi (Job’s tears) in Han Dynasty burials with evidence from phytolith identification	3
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	3
Vegetation changes in the Grote Nete valley (Campine region, Belgium) during the Boreal: a response to the 9.3 ka event?	3
The first annually resolved analysis of slash-and-burn practices in the boreal Eurasia suggests their strong climatic and socio-economic controls	3
Wild foods, woodland fuels, and cultivation through the Ceramic and Early Historical periods in Araucanía, Southern Chile (400–1850 ce)	3
The introduction history of Hordeum vulgare var. nudum (naked barley) into Fennoscandia	3
Potential late glacial maximum refugial areas of Alaska-Yukon postglacial migrant plants	3
Grape (Vitis vinifera) use in the early modern Low Countries: a tentative combination of aDNA-analysis and historical sources	3
Saga, settlement and sediments at Helgafell, western Iceland	3
Plant ways in Middle Bronze Age Anatolia—an archaeological interpretation of phytoliths and other plant remains from Zincirli Höyük, Türkiye	3
Afromontane forests and human impact after the African Humid Period: wood charcoal from the Sodicho rock shelter, SW Ethiopian highlands	3
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	2
Environmental dynamics of the western European Mediterranean landscape during the Pleistocene to Holocene transition	2
Beyond rice: persistent wetland plant use in the northwestern Tai Lake region during the 7th millennium bp	2
The late Holocene introduction of Juglans regia (walnut) to Cyprus	2
Insights into the indigenous-managed landscape in southeast Australia during the Holocene	2
Comparable quantification methodologies in archaeobotany – a work-in-progress and debate	2
New research on crop diversity of the early farmers in southeastern Europe (ca. 6400 − 5700 bce)	2
Contributions to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen record from St. Ottilien, southern Bavaria (Germany)	2
Wood fuel consumption in the city of Barcelona in the medieval and early modern periods. An overview based on archaeological wood charcoal analysis	2
Seeing the fields through the weeds: introducing the WeedEco R package for comparing past and present arable farming systems using functional weed ecology	2
Late Bronze Age millet farmers at Arnbjerg N: an archaeobotanical analysis and a review of Late Bronze Age millet in Denmark	2
Modern vegetation and its pollen spectra in the Cantabrian mountains, northern Iberian Peninsula, compared with fossil pollen records	2
Modern phytolith assemblages as indicators of vegetation in the southern Caucasus	2
Reconstruction of the environmental conditions for the past 2,000 years in the Perico River basin (NW Argentina) based on fossil pollen records	2
Environmental changes in central Mesoamerica in the Archaic and Formative periods	2
Pre-Aksumite plant husbandry in the Horn of Africa	2
Subtropical montane vegetation dynamics in response to Holocene climate change in central Taiwan	2
Archaeobotanical and isotope studies evidence crop cultivation already during the Early Iron Age in the boreal forests of the cis-Urals (Kama river basin)	2
Correction: NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform	2
Grain impressions in ceramic vessels illustrate the extent of 1st millennium bc agriculture across the northern Central Asian steppe	2
Past grapes, present insights: an investigation of grape use in Roman north-eastern Iberia using geometric modern morphometrics (GMM)	2
Were prehistoric cereal fields in western Norway manured? Evidence from stable isotope values (δ15N) of charred modern and fossil cereals	2
Cultivating diversity at the onset of agriculture: insights from the Lower Yangtze in the 10th millennium bp	2
Coprophilous fungal spores in modern lowland agropastoral ecosystems of Eastern-Central Europe reflect herbivore grazing pressure	2
Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia	2
Pollen signal of modern vegetation registered in surface soil samples along an elevation gradient from Iztaccíhuatl volcano, central Mexico	2
From wild stands to orchards: an archaeobotanical investigation of the olive tree in prehistoric Aegean vegetation	2
A tale of two agricultural revolutions: crop introductions in the long 1st millennium ce southern Levant	2
Performance of vegetation cover reconstructions using lake and soil pollen samples from the Tibetan Plateau	2
Combined archaeobotanical and linguistic evidence does not support the early domestication of Brassica rapa varieties	2
Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: a case study of Ashkelon	2
Natural treeless areas in the Krkonoše mountains: insights from two decades of pollen monitoring	2