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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform	27
Dung in the dumps: what we can learn from multi-proxy studies of archaeological dung pellets	24
Pollen and plant diversity relationships in a Mediterranean montane area	20
8,000 years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy)	20
The first comprehensive archaeobotanical analysis of prehistoric agriculture in Kyrgyzstan	19
Microbotanical signatures of kreb: differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses	11
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet): evidence from Iron Age Kenya	11
At the origins of Pompeii: the plant landscape of the Sarno River floodplain from the first millennium bc to the ad 79 eruption	11
Vegetation dynamics and their response to Holocene climate change derived from multi-proxy records from Wangdongyang peat bog in southeast China	10
Palynological evidence for the temporal stability of the plant community in the Yellow River Source Area over the last 7,400 years	10
Getting to the root of the problem: new evidence for the use of plant root foods in Mesolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence in Europe	10
Pollen richness: a reflection of vegetation diversity or pollen-specific parameters?	9
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)	9
Cultural landscape and plant use at the Phoenician site of Motya (Western Sicily, Italy) inferred from a disposal pit	9
Intensification of agriculture in southwestern Germany between the Bronze Age and Medieval period, based on archaeobotanical data from Baden-Württemberg	9
Plants used in basketry production during the Early Neolithic in the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula	9
New insights into agriculture in northwestern France from the Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age: a weed ecological approach	9
Pre-Aksumite plant husbandry in the Horn of Africa	8
The potential of REVEALS-based vegetation reconstructions using pollen records from alluvial floodplains	8
Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia	8
Prehistoric firewood gathering on the northeast Tibetan plateau: environmental and cultural determinism	8
Influence of taxonomic resolution on the value of anthropogenic pollen indicators	8
Underwater archaeobotany: plant and wood analyses from the Vrouw Maria, a 1771 shipwreck in the Finnish Baltic Sea	8
Performance of vegetation cover reconstructions using lake and soil pollen samples from the Tibetan Plateau	8
14,500 years of vegetation and land use history in the upper continental montane zone at Lac de Champex (Valais, Switzerland)	7

Iron Age plant subsistence in the Inner Congo Basin (DR Congo)	7
Palaeoethnobotanical analysis of plant remains discovered in the graveyard of the Haihun Marquis, Nanchang, China	7
Identification of archaeobotanical Pistacia L. fruit remains: implications for our knowledge on past distribution and use in prehistoric Cyprus	7
The history of Abies pinsapo during the Holocene in southern Spain, based on pedoanthracological analysis	7
Testing the potential of pollen assemblages to capture composition, diversity and ecological gradients of surrounding vegetation in two biogeographical regions of southeastern Europe	7
Human-woodland interactions during the Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite periods in northeastern Tigray, Ethiopia: insights from the wood charcoal analyses from Mezber and Ona Adi	7
Changes in vegetation and human-environment interactions during the Holocene in the Lake Pueyrredón area (Southern Patagonia)	6
Holocene vegetation, fire and land use dynamics at Lake Svityaz, an agriculturally marginal site in northwestern Ukraine	6
Understanding crop processing and its social meaning in the Xinzhai period (1850–1750 cal bce): a case study on the Xinzhai site, China	6
Legacies of past human activities on one of the largest old-growth forests in the south-east European mountains	6
Starchy food residue on a potsherd from a late Holocene hunter-gatherer site in Argentine Patagonia: towards the visibility of wild underground storage organs	6
Food in a colonial setting: the flora assemblage of a short-lived Seleucid-founded site in the Near East	6
A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)	5
Agricultural resources in the Bronze Age city of Tel Lachish	5
Differences in forest composition following two periods of settlement by pre-Columbian Native Americans	5
Paleoethnobotanical identification criteria for bulbs of the North American Northwest	5
Modelling the potential ecological niche of domesticated buckwheat in China: archaeological evidence, environmental constraints and climate change	5
Food, farming and trade on the Danube frontier: plant remains from Roman Aelia Mursa (Osijek, Croatia)	5
Plant use and rites at burnt offering sites in the Eastern Alps during the Bronze and Iron Ages	5
Landscape and environmental conditions for the late Holocene in the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition (Argentina): a phytolith analysis of the El Tigre archaeological site	5
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	5
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	4
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	4
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	4
Modern phytolith assemblages as indicators of vegetation in the southern Caucasus	4
Four millennia of vegetation and environmental history above the Hyrcanian forest, northern Iran	4
Should Bromus secalinus (rye brome) be considered a crop?: Analysis of Bromus rich assemblages from protohistoric and historic sites in northern France and textual references	4
Vegetation history of the Maharlou Lake basin (SW Iran) with special reference to the Achaemenid period (550–330 bc)	4
The history of settlement and agrarian land use in a boreal forest in Värmland, Sweden, new evidence from pollen analysis	4
Integrating charcoal morphology and stable carbon isotope analysis to identify non-grass elongate charcoal in tropical savannas	4
Understanding the plant economy of the westernmost territory of the Roman state through waste: the wet site of O Areal (Vigo, Spain)	4
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant	4
A glimpse into the viticulture of Roman Lusitania: morphometric analysis of charred grape pips from Torre dos Namorados, Portugal	4
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	3
WOODAN: an online database of archaeological wooden objects	3
Vitis sp., Vitaceae and viticulture in the Indus Civilization, South Asia ca. 3200–1500 bc: a critical review	3
Insights into the indigenous-managed landscape in southeast Australia during the Holocene	3
Life on a hilltop: vegetation history, plant husbandry and pastoralism at the dawn of Bergamo-Bergomum (northern Italy, 15th to 7th century bc)	3
Hellenistic agricultural economies at Ashkelon, Southern Levant	3
Identification of the Triticoid-type grains (Poaceae) from archaeobotanical assemblages in southwest Asia as Heteranthelium piliferum (Banks & Sol.) Hochst.	3
Subtropical montane vegetation dynamics in response to Holocene climate change in central Taiwan	3
Woodland management at the Swedish middle Neolithic site of Alvastra? A new perspective	3
Studies on archaeological olive fruitstones from the Archaic and Punic periods (7th–3rd century bc) of Sardinia, Italy	3
The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	3
Vegetation changes in the Grote Nete valley (Campine region, Belgium) during the Boreal: a response to the 9.3 ka event?	3
Documenting a thousand years of environmental and anthropogenic changes on mangroves on the Bangkok coast, the upper Gulf of Thailand	3
Palynological evidence from a sub-alpine marsh of enhanced Little Ice Age snowpack in the Marrakech High Atlas, North Africa	2
Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan	2
Vegetation dynamics and land-use change at the Neolithic lakeshore settlement site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia	2
Potential palaeoflora of Last Glacial Maximum Eastern Beringia, northwest North America	2

Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia	2
A meta-analysis of the presence of crop plants in the Dutch and German terp area between 700 bc and ad 1600	2
Correction: NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform	2
Landscape of ice and fire – uniquely well-preserved Scots pine trunks reveal forest fires near the retreating Weichselian ice margin	2
Holocene vegetation dynamics, river valley evolution and human settlement of the upper Kama valley, Ural region, Russia	2
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)	2
Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: a case study of Ashkelon	2
Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram of Rokytecká slať mire, Bohemian Forest/Šumava (Czech Republic)	2
Linguistic evidence supports a long antiquity of cultivation of barley and buckwheat over that of millet and rice in Eastern Bhutan	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
Transformation of West-Carpathian primeval woodlands into high-altitude grasslands from as early as the Bronze Age	2
The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology	2
Archaeobotany of el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel (Israel): insights into plant exploitation along the Natufian sequence	2
Phytolith assemblages reflect variability in human land use and the modern environment	2
Archaeobotanical and palaeoenvironmental analyses from the easternmost Early Neolithic sites at Kamyane-Zavallia (Ukraine) and Nicolaevca V (Moldova)	2
Comparison of image acquisition techniques and morphometric methods to distinguish between Vitis vinifera subspecies and cultivars	2
Identification and exploitation of wild rye (Secale spp.) during the early Neolithic in the Middle Euphrates valley	2
Food and agriculture in Slavonia, Croatia, during the Late Middle Ages: the archaeobotanical evidence	2
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II	1
Correction to: Tracking the history of grapevine cultivation in Georgia by combining geometric morphometrics and ancient DNA	1
Inventions, innovations and the origins of spelt wheat	1
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	1
Possible climatically driven, later prehistoric woodland decline on Ben Lomond, central Scotland	1
Development of olive cultivation at the site of Sikyon, Greece: evidence from the charred olive remains from the late Classical/early Hellenistic to the Roman period	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
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
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	1
Exploring palaeoecology in the Northern Territory: the Walanjiwurru rockshelter, vegetation dynamics and shifting social landscapes in Marra Country	1
Potential late glacial maximum refugial areas of Alaska-Yukon postglacial migrant plants	1
Wild foods, woodland fuels, and cultivation through the Ceramic and Early Historical periods in Araucanía, Southern Chile (400–1850 ce)	1
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	1
Towards quantifying changes in forest cover in the Araucaria forest-grassland mosaic in southern Brazil	1
Seeing the fields through the weeds: introducing the WeedEco R package for comparing past and present arable farming systems using functional weed ecology	1
Unlocking the wealth of Dutch pollen data for future research and education	1
A brief history of plants in north-eastern France: 6,000 years of crop introduction in the Plain of Troyes, Champagne	1
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	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
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce	1
New research on crop diversity of the early farmers in southeastern Europe (ca. 6400 − 5700 bce)	1
Land cover and use-history of large empty spaces at fortified Iron Age hilltop sites; a case study from La Terrasse, Bibracte oppidum	1
Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	1
Plants from distant places: the 1st millennium ce archaeobotanical record from Iberia	1
Hunter-gatherer farming during the first millennium bce in inland, boreal landscapes: new pollen analytical and archaeological evidence from Dalarna, central Sweden	1
Pre-Hispanic terrace agricultural practices and long-distance transfer of plant taxa in the southern-central Peruvian Andes revealed by phytolith and pollen analysis	1
Burial rush matting: integrated analysis of a twilled mat fragment from the Thracian Kitova tumulus (South-East Bulgaria)	1
PALAEOASSOCIA as a methodological tool for phytosociological analyses is further developed	1
Sicily and the process of Neolithisation: a review of the archaeobotanical data	1
Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)	1