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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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	26
Introduction to the special issue on ‘Plant use and management during the emergence of farming in Southwest Asia: recent insights and new approaches’	22
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	20
Flax use, weeds and manuring in Viking Age Åland: archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis	16
The importance of wild plant resources in the Neolithic: a case study of the Late Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Grandson-Corcelettes, Les Pins (Switzerland)	16
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	15
If it was not climate change… palynological investigations in the Eurasian Steppe (southern Trans-Urals, Russia) since the Bronze Age	14
List of critical referees, Volumes 32–33	13
The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology	12
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce	12
Vegetation history of the Holocene from a maar lake in Guanajuato state, México	11
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
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
Intensive pastoralism facilitated the rise of the Tang Dynasty in China	10
Landscape of ice and fire – uniquely well-preserved Scots pine trunks reveal forest fires near the retreating Weichselian ice margin	10
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
Exploring prehistoric plant use by molecular analyses of Neolithic grave goods	9
Correction to: The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	8
Water on fire: experimental approaches towards detecting (or ruling out) presence of liquid during formation of cereal based amorphous charred objects	8
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	8
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

“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
Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	7
A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)	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
Plants and early hunter-gatherers at Taguatagua 3: Microfossil evidence from stone tools at a late Pleistocene lake shore site in central Chile	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
Climate and agricultural history from the Petén Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya lowlands of southern Mexico	7
New perspectives on plant-use at neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria: an integrated phytolith and spherulite study	7
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
A tale of new crops in the arid Arabian Peninsula oasis from antiquity to the early Islamic period	6
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	6
Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the nature of cereal agriculture at 8th- and 9th-century ad Sedgeford, East Anglia, UK	6
The disappearance of Capparis spinosa (the cultivated caper) from 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
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
Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)	6
Colourful rivers: archaeobotanical remains of dye plants from urban fluvial deposits in the southern Low Countries (Belgium)	6
Holocene vegetation change at Grosssee, eastern Swiss Alps: effects of climate and human impact	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
From field to find: an ethnographic study of crop straw use and its archaeological implications	5
Advances in phytolith research in archaeology and paleoecology: developments and applications	5
Late Holocene hemp (Cannabis sativa) retting in NE Hungary and the Holocene spread of hemp cultivation in eastern-central Europe	5
Comparison of image acquisition techniques and morphometric methods to distinguish between Vitis vinifera subspecies and cultivars	5
First identification of plant remains in earthen architecture of Argentina: constructive and domestic archaeological data from early colonial contexts (16th and 17th centuries)	5
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction through phytolith analysis in the Casa de Pedra shell mound archaeological site, São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil	5
A new tool for formalised vegetation reconstruction from (sub)fossil records – the FEVER Index	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
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	5
New evidence for food in the Late-Medieval Balkans: archaeobotany of Venetian houses at Butrint in southern Albania	5
The first comprehensive macroremains analysis of edible plants from Vichama, Peru (1800–1500 bce)	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
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
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
Archaeobotanical evidence for a domesticated tree legume 500 years ago in Northwest Argentina: morphological and metrical evidence from Neltuma chilensis processed for food	4
The first annually resolved analysis of slash-and-burn practices in the boreal Eurasia suggests their strong climatic and socio-economic controls	4
From field to fortress: botanical evidence of agriculture during the Crusader occupation of Caesarea	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
Correction: Pollen signal of modern vegetation registered in surface soil samples along an elevation gradient from Iztaccíhuatl volcano, central Mexico	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
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
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
Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia	4

Pre-Hispanic use of edible Geoffroea decorticans fruits in central Argentina - first approximations based on an integrated morphoanatomical and archaeobotanical approach	4
Vegetation dynamics and land-use change at the Neolithic lakeshore settlement site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia	4
Microbotanical signatures of kreb: differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses	4
Afromontane forests and human impact after the African Humid Period: wood charcoal from the Sodicho rock shelter, SW Ethiopian highlands	3
Wild foods, woodland fuels, and cultivation through the Ceramic and Early Historical periods in Araucanía, Southern Chile (400–1850 ce)	3
Neolithic landscape and firewood use: charcoal analysis of domestic and funerary contexts at La Dehesilla (Andalusia, Spain)	3
Processing and storage of tree fruits, cereals and pulses at PPNA Sharara, southern Jordan	3
Plant ways in Middle Bronze Age Anatolia—an archaeological interpretation of phytoliths and other plant remains from Zincirli Höyük, Türkiye	3
Grape (Vitis vinifera) use in the early modern Low Countries: a tentative combination of aDNA-analysis and historical sources	3
Identification of archaeological macrobotanical geophytes from the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia: studying the early long-lived focus on tubers in early Andean agriculture	3
Examining climate and composition differences in eastern North American temperate forests using pollen ratios and pollen assemblage cluster analysis	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
Four millennia of rich fen vegetation composition and haymaking in boreal outfields at Nordmøre (Møre og Romsdal), Norway	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
Revealing Coix lacryma-jobi var. lacryma-jobi (Job’s tears) in Han Dynasty burials with evidence from phytolith identification	3
Inventions, innovations and the origins of spelt wheat	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
Saga, settlement and sediments at Helgafell, western Iceland	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
Late Bronze Age millet farmers at Arnbjerg N: an archaeobotanical analysis and a review of Late Bronze Age millet in Denmark	3
Holocene vegetation history at Wet Sleddale, Cumbria, UK, including fine-resolution pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses at and about the Elm Decline	3
Transformation of West-Carpathian primeval woodlands into high-altitude grasslands from as early as the Bronze Age	3
A tale of two agricultural revolutions: crop introductions in the long 1st millennium ce southern Levant	2
Beyond rice: persistent wetland plant use in the northwestern Tai Lake region during the 7th millennium bp	2
Modern phytolith assemblages as indicators of vegetation in the southern Caucasus	2
Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: a case study of Ashkelon	2
Environmental dynamics of the western European Mediterranean landscape during the Pleistocene to Holocene transition	2
Modern vegetation and its pollen spectra in the Cantabrian mountains, northern Iberian Peninsula, compared with fossil pollen records	2
Contributions to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen record from St. Ottilien, southern Bavaria (Germany)	2
Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia	2
Insights into the indigenous-managed landscape in southeast Australia during the Holocene	2
From wild stands to orchards: an archaeobotanical investigation of the olive tree in prehistoric Aegean vegetation	2
Environmental changes in central Mesoamerica in the Archaic and Formative periods	2
New research on crop diversity of the early farmers in southeastern Europe (ca. 6400 − 5700 bce)	2
Pollen signal of modern vegetation registered in surface soil samples along an elevation gradient from Iztaccíhuatl volcano, central Mexico	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
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
Natural treeless areas in the Krkonoše mountains: insights from two decades of pollen monitoring	2
Performance of vegetation cover reconstructions using lake and soil pollen samples from the Tibetan Plateau	2
Correction: NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform	2
Pre-Aksumite plant husbandry in the Horn of Africa	2
Ecological flexibility: phytolith evidence for wetland-based mixed subsistence at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic megasite of Beisamoun, Israel	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
Wood fuel consumption in the city of Barcelona in the medieval and early modern periods. An overview based on archaeological wood charcoal analysis	2
Grain impressions in ceramic vessels illustrate the extent of 1st millennium bc agriculture across the northern Central Asian steppe	2
Combined archaeobotanical and linguistic evidence does not support the early domestication of Brassica rapa varieties	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
Coprophilous fungal spores in modern lowland agropastoral ecosystems of Eastern-Central Europe reflect herbivore grazing pressure	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
The late Holocene introduction of Juglans regia (walnut) to Cyprus	2
Comparable quantification methodologies in archaeobotany – a work-in-progress and debate	2
Subtropical montane vegetation dynamics in response to Holocene climate change in central Taiwan	2