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Papers

(The median citation count of Cambridge Archaeological Journal 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
What Difference Does Posthumanism Make?	25
The Elephant in the Handaxe: Lower Palaeolithic Ontologies and Representations	19
Cyprus, Sardinia and Sicily: A Maritime Perspective on Interaction, Connectivity and Imagination in Mediterranean Prehistory	19
The Evolution of Complementary Cognition: Humans Cooperatively Adapt and Evolve through a System of Collective Cognitive Search	18
Tales from the Supplementary Information: Ancestry Change in Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age Britain Was Gradual with Varied Kinship Organization	14
An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar	13
Ethics, Not Objects	11
Staying Egalitarian and the Origins of Agriculture in the Middle East	10
Posthumanism, New Humanism and Beyond	10
Posthumanism in Archaeology: An Introduction	9
Can We Decolonize the Ancient Past? Bridging Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory in Sudanese and Nubian Archaeology	9
Affirmation and Action: A Posthumanist Feminist Agenda for Archaeology	8
Indigenous Theory is Theory: Whakapapa for Archaeologists	8
Posthuman Potentials: Considering Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology	8
A Relational Marxist Critique of Posthumanism in Archaeology	8
Beyond Tools and Function: The Selection of Materials and the Ontology of Hunter-Gatherers. Ethnographic Evidences and Implications for Palaeolithic Archaeology	7
Prehistoric Pendants as Instigators of Sound and Body Movements: A Traceological Case Study from Northeast Europe, c. 8200 cal. bp	7
Small Signals: Comprehending the Australian Microlithic as Public Signalling	7
Iron Age Mnemonics: A Biographical Approach to Dwelling in Later Prehistoric Britain	6
Memory Scrapers: Readymade Concepts and Techniques as Reflected in Collecting and Recycling Patinated Lower Palaeolithic Items at Qesem Cave, Israel	6
Seeing Children in Prehistory: A View from Bronze Age Ireland	6
The Predicament of Ontology	5
Taking the Wrong Turn? Re-examining the Potential for Practice Approaches in Archaeology	5
Is Acheulean Handaxe Shape the Result of Imposed ‘Mental Templates’ or Emergent in Manufacture? Dissolving the Dichotomy through Exploring ‘Communities of Practice’ at Boxgrove, UK	5
‘Contact’ Rock Art and the Hybrid Economy Model: Interpreting Introduced Subject Matter from Marra Country, Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia	5

Earthen Architecture as a Community of Practice: A Case Study of Neolithic Earthen Production in the Eastern Mediterranean	5
Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology: Conceptual Challenges and an East African Case Study	5
Crafting Idiosyncrasies. Early Social Complexity, Ivory and Identity-Making in Copper Age Iberia	5
Finding symmetry? Archaeology, Objects, and Posthumanism	5
Filling the Void: Rock-art Continuity Over the Pleistocene–Holocene Boundary in Eastern Iberia	4
Naturalistic Parrots, Stylized Birds of Prey: Visual Symbolism of the Human–Animal Relationship in Pre-Hispanic Ceramic Art of the Paraná River Lowlands, South America	4
Subaltern Debris: Archaeology and Marginalized Communities	4
Large Predator Hunting and Its Interpretation: Leopards, Bears and Lions in the Archaeological Record of the Southern Levant	4
Neolithization and Population Replacement in Britain: An Alternative View	4
Reflections on Posthuman Ethics. Grievability and the More-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia	4
Material and Sensory Experiences of Mesolithic Resinous Substances	4
Material Scientists: Learning the Importance of Colour and Brightness from Lithic Practitioners	4
The Metalworker as Social Agent: Alongue duréeApproach from Northwestern Iberia Atlantic Façade (Ninth–First Centuriesbce)	4
Error or Minority? The Identification of Non-binary Gender in Prehistoric Burials in Central Europe	3
Using Topic Modelling to Reassess Heritage Values from a People-centred Perspective: Applications from the North of England	3
Becoming Through Milling: Challenging Linear Economic Narratives in Medieval England	3
Bodily Entanglements: Gender, Archaeological Sciences and the More-than-ness of Archaeological Bodies	3
Connecting Architectures across the Landscape: A Visibility and Network Analysis in the Island of Mallorca during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age	3
Dung on the Wall. Ontology and Relationality in Qurna: The Case of TT123	3
‘They are all dead that I could ask’: Indigenous Innovation and the Micropolitics of the Field in Twentieth-century Southern Africa	3
Changes in Raw Material Selection and Use at 400,000 Years bp: A Novel, Symbolic Relationship between Humans and Their World. Discussing Technological, Social and Cognitive Arguments	3
Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain)	3
Viewing the World through Cosmovision at Late Preclassic Noh K'uh in Chiapas, Mexico	3
Minds on Fire: Cognitive Aspects of Early Firemaking and the Possible Inventors of Firemaking Kits	3
Ayllus, Ancestors and the (Un)Making of the Wari State	3
Agents of Death: Reassessing Social Agency and Gendered Narratives of Human Sacrifice in the Viking Age	3
What Can A [Feminist] Body Do? Immanent and Emergent Capacities of Bodies at Chinchorro and Wor Barrow	3
Tending the ‘Contested’ Castle Garden: Sowing Seeds of Feminist Thought	3
Towards a Spatial Archaeology of Crafting Landscapes	3
Photographic Insights from Engaged Archaeology: Yucatan and Beyond	3
Aggregation, status competition and levelling mechanisms in prehistoric Chulmun, Korea	3
Cultural Metallurgy—A Key Factor in the Transition from the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age in the Southern Levant	3
Rock Art and (Re)Production of Narratives: A Cassowary Bone Dagger Stencil Perspective from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea	3
‘I Have Done Hundreds of Rock Paintings’: On the Ongoing Rock Art Tradition among Samburu, Northern Kenya	3
Thinking Through Monuments: Levantine Monuments as Technologies of Community-Scale Motivated Social Cognition	3
Learning About Death and Burial: Mortuary Ritual, Emotion and Communities of Practice in the Ancient Andes	2
Revisiting the Chinese Room: Looking for Agency in a World Packed with Archaeological Things	2
What Makes a Mound? Earth-Sourced Materials in Late Iron Age Burial Mounds	2
The Political Economy of Livestock in Early States	2
Wealth in Livestock, Wealth in People, and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Jordan	2
The Presence of Absence: Why Does the Post-contact Rock Art of Torres Strait (Northeastern Australia) Not Include Paintings of European Ships?	2
Colour and Directional Symbolism in Ancestral Pueblo Radial Offerings from Chaco Canyon	2
Everyday Knowledge and Apothecary Craft: Pharmacopoeias of Ancient Northwestern Honduras	2
Gymea and the Fishing Technologies of the New South Wales Coast, Australia	2
Technology, Use and Reuse of Gold during the Middle Period: The Case of Casa Parroquial, Atacama Desert, Chile	2
Socializing the Materiality of Earthen Structures: TheChaîne Opératoireof Construction Practices at the Neolithic Site of Kleitos 2, Greece	2
Decapitated Heads as Elite Visual Culture in Late Shang China	2
Finding Difference in Emotional Communities: New Feminisms of Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Centuryceand Sixth Millenniumbce	2
Singa Transitional: Rock-artSaywasMarking Boundaries of Identity and Socializing Landscape in Huánuco, Peru	2
Making a Mark: Process, Pattern and Change in the British and Irish Neolithic	2

Making Sense of the Transformation of Religious Practices: A Critical Long-term Perspective from Pre- and Proto-historic Japan	2
Soay Sheep: The Back-story	2
An Archaeology of Traces	1
The Proceduralization of Hominin Knapping Skill: Memorizing Different Lithic Technologies	1
Evaluating the Evidence for Lunar Calendars in Upper Palaeolithic Parietal Art	1
Exotica, Fashion and Immortality: The New Use of Gold in Han Dynasty China (206bce–ce220)	1
Hanging over the Void. Uses of Long Ropes and Climbing Rope Ladders in Prehistory as Illustrated in Levantine Rock Art	1
Out of Ruins: Contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Spectacle of Architectural Reuse	1
Life and Death of the Macrolithic Tools from the Third-millennium cal. bc Necropolis of La Orden-Seminario in Southwest Spain	1
Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean World at the Turn of the First Millenniumce: Networks, Commodities and Cultural Reception	1
A Nuclear Generator of Clouds: Accidents and Radioactive Contamination Identified on Declassified Satellite Photographs in the Mayak Chemical Combine, Southern Urals	1
Understanding Archaeological Tells: Circulating Memories and Engaging with Ancestors through Material Attachments	1
Not All That Glitters is Gold? Rock Crystal in the Early British Neolithic at Dorstone Hill, Herefordshire, and the Wider British and Irish Context	1
To Unite and Divide: Canals,Tinku, Liquids and Time in the Moche World	1
Turning Art into Hammers: A Complex Biography of Palaeolithic Portable Art from Coímbre Cave (Asturias, Spain)	1
Revealing the Earliest Animal Engravings in Scotland: The Dunchraigaig Deer, Kilmartin	1
Commensalism, Imaginaries and Early Urbanism: A Mezcala Sculpture in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico	1
Acheulean Handaxes in Medieval France: An Earlier ‘Modern’ Social History for Palaeolithic Bifaces	1
Extraordinary Back-to-Back Human and Animal Figures in the Art of Western Arnhem Land, Australia: One of the World's Largest Assemblages	1
Humans Making History through Continuities and Discontinuities in Art	1
A Partial Prehistory of the Southwest Silk Road: Archaeometallurgical Networks along the Sub-Himalayan Corridor	1
The Constructed Desert: A Sacred Cultural Landscape at Har Tzuriaz, Negev, Israel	1
Insights into Natufian Social Identity: A Case Study from the Graveyard of Hayonim Cave	1
Ancestral Waters: Material Culture, Notion of Transformation and Shamanism in the Stilt Villages in Eastern Amazonia	1