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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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	29
Introduction to the special issue on ‘Plant use and management during the emergence of farming in Southwest Asia: recent insights and new approaches’	23
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	23
The importance of wild plant resources in the Neolithic: a case study of the Late Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Grandson-Corcelettes, Les Pins (Switzerland)	20
Flax use, weeds and manuring in Viking Age Åland: archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis	16
If it was not climate change… palynological investigations in the Eurasian Steppe (southern Trans-Urals, Russia) since the Bronze Age	16
Evidence for plant resource utilisation from the Southern Dynasties period (5th–6th century ce) in South China: a study of macrobotanical remains from the administrative office of Yuezhou Ancient City	15
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	14
List of critical referees, Volumes 32–33	14
Vegetation history of the Holocene from a maar lake in Guanajuato state, México	13
Relative pollen productivity estimates for the dominant plant taxa in the Hoh Xil region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	13
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce	12
Exploring palaeoecology in the Northern Territory: the Walanjiwurru rockshelter, vegetation dynamics and shifting social landscapes in Marra Country	12
Exploring the Celtic plant economy in a regional context: archaeobotanical assemblages from pit deposits at the oppidum of Altenburg-Rheinau, southwestern Germany	11
The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology	11
Holocene vegetation dynamics, river valley evolution and human settlement of the upper Kama valley, Ural region, Russia	10
Intensive pastoralism facilitated the rise of the Tang Dynasty in China	10
Phytolith evidence for plant use at the mid-Holocene Porto da Mina coastal shell mound, Brazilian Amazon	10
Water on fire: experimental approaches towards detecting (or ruling out) presence of liquid during formation of cereal based amorphous charred objects	9
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	9
Landscape of ice and fire – uniquely well-preserved Scots pine trunks reveal forest fires near the retreating Weichselian ice margin	9
Exploring prehistoric plant use by molecular analyses of Neolithic grave goods	9
Correction: New crops in the 1st millennium ce in northern Italy	9
Correction to: The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	9
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	8

Correction: Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	8
Modern pollen spectra from the east European forest steppe reflect land use patterns rather than a climatic gradient	8
Re-thinking the preservation biases impacting the Neolithic plant record in the Iberian Peninsula: insights from La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)	8
Disentangling plant management practices in Neolithic southwest Asia: a functional ecological perspective on habitat productivity and vegetation density	8
“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	8
Archaeobotanical data from a Baran settlement (4,300–3,400 yrs bp) in the Ghaggar basin (northwestern India) reveals continuity of the Indus crop package after the Meghalayan stage drought	7
Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	7
A tale of new crops in the arid Arabian Peninsula oasis from antiquity to the early Islamic period	7
Holocene vegetation change at Grosssee, eastern Swiss Alps: effects of climate and human impact	7
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II	7
Which pulse is it? Identifying archaeological legumes seeds by means of biometric measurements and geometric morphometrics	7
Stable carbon isotope (δ13C) analysis of archaeobotanical remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı (western Anatolia) to investigate crop management	7
Recognizing Prunus persica (peach) and allied Rosaceae by the morphological characteristics of their fruitstones	7
Correction: Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	7
Post-harvest practices of archaeological common beans from La Estancia (Catamarca, Argentina): an experimental approach	7
Climate and agricultural history from the Petén Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya lowlands of southern Mexico	7
The disappearance of Capparis spinosa (the cultivated caper) from the southern Levant	7
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	7
The impact of Lusatian Urnfield and subsequent prehistoric cultures on lake and woodland ecosystems: insights from multi-proxy palaeoecological investigations at Bruszczewo, western Poland	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
A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)	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
Archaeobotanical evidence and ethnobotanical interpretation of plants used as coffin pillow fillings in burials in Poland (17th-18/19th centuries)	7
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: a comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas	7
Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)	7
Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the nature of cereal agriculture at 8th- and 9th-century ad Sedgeford, East Anglia, UK	7
New perspectives on plant-use at neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria: an integrated phytolith and spherulite study	7
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant	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
Advances in phytolith research in archaeology and paleoecology: developments and applications	6
From field to find: an ethnographic study of crop straw use and its archaeological implications	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
Colourful rivers: archaeobotanical remains of dye plants from urban fluvial deposits in the southern Low Countries (Belgium)	6
The first comprehensive macroremains analysis of edible plants from Vichama, Peru (1800–1500 bce)	5
A new tool for formalised vegetation reconstruction from (sub)fossil records – the FEVER Index	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
Late Holocene hemp (Cannabis sativa) retting in NE Hungary and the Holocene spread of hemp cultivation in eastern-central Europe	5
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	5
Archaeobotanical storytelling in a landscape of the mind: community engagement and education at Neolithic Boncuklu Höyük, Türkiye	5
Dasypyrum villosum (mosquito grass) in archaeobotanical assemblages from the Balkans and east-central Europe reveals aspects of human plant- and land use	5
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction through phytolith analysis in the Casa de Pedra shell mound archaeological site, São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil	5
New evidence for food in the Late-Medieval Balkans: archaeobotany of Venetian houses at Butrint in southern Albania	5
Evolution of plant exploitation strategies of Early and Late Natufian hunter-gatherers at Shubayqa 1 (14,600–11,500 cal bp), Black Desert of Jordan	4
Hunter-gatherer farming during the first millennium bce in inland, boreal landscapes: new pollen analytical and archaeological evidence from Dalarna, central Sweden	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
Vegetation dynamics and land-use change at the Neolithic lakeshore settlement site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia	4
Mosses recognized as glacial relicts from their postglacial distribution in Poland	4
Plant economy and woodland use in the Roman province Moesia Inferior during the 2nd to 3rd century ce: archaeobotanical perspectives from Tash Bair, Site 2 (northern Bulgaria) and its wider region	4
Shielings and their surroundings: the palaeoenvironment of two shielings in Svarfaðardalur, northern Iceland	4

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	4
Correction: Beyond rice: persistent wetland plant use in the northwestern Tai Lake region during the 7th millennium bp	4
Pre-Hispanic use of edible Geoffroea decorticans fruits in central Argentina - first approximations based on an integrated morphoanatomical and archaeobotanical approach	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
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
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	4
Comparison of image acquisition techniques and morphometric methods to distinguish between Vitis vinifera subspecies and cultivars	4
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
Isotopic insights into quinoa agriculture at an Andean hillfort town (cal ad 1250–1450)	4
The first annually resolved analysis of slash-and-burn practices in the boreal Eurasia suggests their strong climatic and socio-economic controls	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
From field to fortress: botanical evidence of agriculture during the Crusader occupation of Caesarea	4
Inventions, innovations and the origins of spelt wheat	3
Correction: Autogenic and climatic drivers of vegetation succession in a thermokarst lake-margin peatland, northern Greater Khingan Mountains	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
Saga, settlement and sediments at Helgafell, western Iceland	3
Four millennia of rich fen vegetation composition and haymaking in boreal outfields at Nordmøre (Møre og Romsdal), Norway	3
Environmental dynamics of the western European Mediterranean landscape during the Pleistocene to Holocene transition	3
Processing and storage of tree fruits, cereals and pulses at PPNA Sharara, southern Jordan	3
Wild foods, woodland fuels, and cultivation through the Ceramic and Early Historical periods in Araucanía, Southern Chile (400–1850 ce)	3
Identification of archaeological macrobotanical geophytes from the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia: studying the early long-lived focus on tubers in early Andean agriculture	3
Neolithic landscape and firewood use: charcoal analysis of domestic and funerary contexts at La Dehesilla (Andalusia, Spain)	3
Afromontane forests and human impact after the African Humid Period: wood charcoal from the Sodicho rock shelter, SW Ethiopian highlands	3
Plant ways in Middle Bronze Age Anatolia—an archaeological interpretation of phytoliths and other plant remains from Zincirli Höyük, Türkiye	3
Coprophilous fungal spores in modern lowland agropastoral ecosystems of Eastern-Central Europe reflect herbivore grazing pressure	3
Grape (Vitis vinifera) use in the early modern Low Countries: a tentative combination of aDNA-analysis and historical sources	3
Revealing Coix lacryma-jobi var. lacryma-jobi (Job’s tears) in Han Dynasty burials with evidence from phytolith identification	3
Examining climate and composition differences in eastern North American temperate forests using pollen ratios and pollen assemblage cluster analysis	3
Sieving the weeds from the grains: an R based package for classifying archaeobotanical samples of cereals and pulses according to crop processing stages	3
The introduction history of Hordeum vulgare var. nudum (naked barley) into Fennoscandia	3
Vegetation changes in the Grote Nete valley (Campine region, Belgium) during the Boreal: a response to the 9.3 ka event?	3
Modern vegetation and its pollen spectra in the Cantabrian mountains, northern Iberian Peninsula, compared with fossil pollen records	3
Transformation of West-Carpathian primeval woodlands into high-altitude grasslands from as early as the Bronze Age	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
Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: a case study of Ashkelon	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
Cultivating diversity at the onset of agriculture: insights from the Lower Yangtze in the 10th millennium bp	2
Past grapes, present insights: an investigation of grape use in Roman north-eastern Iberia using geometric modern morphometrics (GMM)	2
Fire, climate and human drivers of Holocene vegetation changes at the hemiboreal forest ecotone: evidence from the Western Dvina–Lovat watershed area (East European Plain)	2
Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia	2
Rooted together: fostering connection through archaeobotany	2
Beyond rice: persistent wetland plant use in the northwestern Tai Lake region during the 7th millennium bp	2
Rise and fall of a Celtic central place: vegetation and landscape dynamics in the surrounding of Heuneburg, southwestern Germany	2
Combined archaeobotanical and linguistic evidence does not support the early domestication of Brassica rapa varieties	2
Holocene vegetation history at Wet Sleddale, Cumbria, UK, including fine-resolution pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses at and about the Elm Decline	2
Were prehistoric cereal fields in western Norway manured? Evidence from stable isotope values (δ15N) of charred modern and fossil cereals	2
Performance of vegetation cover reconstructions using lake and soil pollen samples from the Tibetan Plateau	2
Ecological flexibility: phytolith evidence for wetland-based mixed subsistence at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic megasite of Beisamoun, Israel	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
Ethics in archaeobotany: identifying current issues and initiating a declaration of principles	2
Grain impressions in ceramic vessels illustrate the extent of 1st millennium bc agriculture across the northern Central Asian steppe	2
Natural treeless areas in the Krkonoše mountains: insights from two decades of pollen monitoring	2
Late Bronze Age millet farmers at Arnbjerg N: an archaeobotanical analysis and a review of Late Bronze Age millet in Denmark	2
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
Seeing the fields through the weeds: introducing the WeedEco R package for comparing past and present arable farming systems using functional weed ecology	2
Modern phytolith assemblages as indicators of vegetation in the southern Caucasus	2
A tale of two agricultural revolutions: crop introductions in the long 1st millennium ce southern Levant	2
Contributions to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen record from St. Ottilien, southern Bavaria (Germany)	2