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

Article	Citations
Towards a Broader Understanding of the Emergence of Iron Technology in Prehistoric Arctic Fennoscandia	46
A Queer Feminist Perspective on the Early Neolithic Urfa Region: The Ecstatic Agency of the Phallus	17
CAJ volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	14
Pioneers in Animate Landscapes: Situating Rock Art in the Colonization Process of Northern Norway	13
CAJ volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	12
CAJ volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	12
Dances with Zigzags in Toro Muerto, Peru: Geometric Petroglyphs as (Possible) Embodiments of Songs	12
Relationality, Immanence, Hierarchy: The Nature and Culture of Being(s) at Göbekli Tepe	11
Commentary: Making Kin Beyond Kinship	11
The Proceduralization of Hominin Knapping Skill: Memorizing Different Lithic Technologies	10
More Error than Minority: Gendered Burial Practices Align with Peptide-based Sex Identification in Early Bronze Age Burials in Central Europe	10
CAJ volume 33 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	9
A Kin-based Trade Partnership Model for Obsidian in the Halafian Interaction Sphere: A View from the Southern Levant Wadi Rabah Culture	8
Reflections on a Counter-Humanist Archaeology: A Commentary on Greer 2023	8
Building Ideas out of Wood. What Ancient Egyptian Funerary ‘Models’ Tell Us about Thought and Communication	8
Death and Depths: Exploring Early Fifth Millennium bce Ritual Performance in Har Sifsof Cave, Upper Galilee (Israel)	7
Bringing Kinship Back into the House	7
CAJ volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	7
Caring beyond Kinship: Exploring Non-biological Relatedness and Childcare in Burial Contexts across Disciplines	7
Toward a Poetics of Maya Art and Writing	6
CAJ volume 32 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	6
The Constructed Desert: A Sacred Cultural Landscape at Har Tzuriaz, Negev, Israel	6
Using Topic Modelling to Reassess Heritage Values from a People-centred Perspective: Applications from the North of England	6
CAJ volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Social Exclusion in Ancient Egypt: A Sociological Approach	6

Insights into Natufian Social Identity: A Case Study from the Graveyard of Hayonim Cave	6
A Natural Choice: Ontologies of Death and Burial between Faiths in Early Medieval Scandinavia	6
Folk Magic and the Haunting of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland	5
Bridlington Boulevard Revisited: New Insights into Pit and Post-hole Cremations in Neolithic Britain	5
Gathering Spaces: Towards an Archaeology of Trans-cultural Community Formation in Ancient Sinope	5
Landscapes of Pre-Hispanic Andean Kinship: Ancestors, Ayllus and Relationality	5
CAJ volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	5
Naturalizing the Normative: Cosmology, Ontogenesis and the Emergence of Ritual Communities in Southern Roman Britain	5
Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain)	5
A Partial Prehistory of the Southwest Silk Road: Archaeometallurgical Networks along the Sub-Himalayan Corridor	5
Reframing the Uruk Expansion: Glocalization and Local Dynamics in the Late Chalcolithic Adhaim-Sirwan Drainage Basin, Iraqi Kurdistan	4
The Archaeology of the ‘Elderly’, ‘Elders’, ‘Fathers’ and ‘Mothers’ in Iron Age Israel: Building 101 at Tel ʿEton as a Case-Study	4
The Mandate for Speculation: Responding to Uncertainty in Archaeological Thinking	4
The River Divides? Imagined Borders and Practised Borderities in the Lower Sirwan River Valley	4
Zoroastrian Cave as Heritage for the Long-Term Preservation of Identity and Social Cohesion of This Minority Community	4
Textiles and Staple Finance in the Near East and the Southern Levant	3
Wealth in Livestock, Wealth-in-People, and Shifting Modes of Production in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Jordan – CORRIGENDUM	3
New Materialism and Posthumanism in Roman Archaeology: When Objects Speak for Others	3
Acheulean Handaxes in Medieval France: An Earlier ‘Modern’ Social History for Palaeolithic Bifaces	3
Kinship Analysis in Specified Contexts: When Interdisciplinary Cooperation is Too Narrow, Results Tend to be Misleading	3
Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean World at the Turn of the First Millenniumce: Networks, Commodities and Cultural Reception	3
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in San Forager Theories of Disease, and Its Implications for Understanding Images of Conflict in Southern African Rock Art	3
An Argaric Tomb for a Carpathian ‘Princess’?	3
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance	3
CAJ volume 33 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
Minds on Fire: Cognitive Aspects of Early Firemaking and the Possible Inventors of Firemaking Kits	2
Visual Patterns of Attention in Prehistoric Central Germany: An Eye-tracking Study on Pottery Styles	2
These Words Are My Own: Archaeological Theory in Dialect	2
‘Everything In Its Right Place’—Selective Depositions in Bronze Age Southwest Sweden	2
How Long Does a Memory Last? Bayesian Chronological Modelling and the Temporal Scope of Commemorative Practices at Aeneolithic Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan	2
Evaluating the Evidence for Lunar Calendars in Upper Palaeolithic Parietal Art	2
Superstitious Beliefs in the Necropolises of the Huelva Coast: Peculiarities of the Premature Death of Children, Outcasts and Women	2
The Use of Balances in Late Andean Prehistory (ad 1200–1650)	2
New Dates for the Emergence of the Megalithic Phenomenon on the Iberian Plateau: The Funerary Practices of Valdelasilla, Toledo (Spain)	2
Times of Execution, Transit and Use of the Palaeolithic Rock Art of the Cave of Altamira (Cantabria, Spain): A Case Study	2
Error or Minority? The Identification of Non-binary Gender in Prehistoric Burials in Central Europe	2
The Maya Ajawtaak and Teotihuacan Hegemony c. 150–600 ce	2
Story-writing Workshops as Archaeological Interventions: Local Perceptions of Galapagos Marine Plastic Litter	2
Hanging over the Void. Uses of Long Ropes and Climbing Rope Ladders in Prehistory as Illustrated in Levantine Rock Art	2
Towards Ontological Alterity in the Nordic Bronze Age? Perspectives from Ornamented Personal Objects	2
Transdisciplinary Theoretical Approaches to Migration Studies in Archaeology	2
Revealing the Earliest Animal Engravings in Scotland: The Dunchraigaig Deer, Kilmartin	2
The Cognitive Processus Behind Neolithic Schematic Rock Art. Archaeological Implications and Research Hypothesis	2
The Artistic Nature of the Chinchorro Mummies and the Archaeology of Grief	2
Reply: Citational Politics and the Future of Posthumanist Archaeologies	2
CAJ volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
Bronze Age Matting from the Heights of Vésztő-Mágor, Hungary	1
Wounded Animals and Where to Find Them. The Symbolism of Hunting in Palaeolithic Art	1
Farewell to Behavioural Modernity? Homo sapiens in the Middle Stone Age	1
Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence	1

‘Vandalizing’ Father Hittite. Karabel, Orientalism and Historiographies	1
What is a ‘Giant’ Handaxe? Ergonomic Thresholds, Functional Impacts and Acheulean Social Signalling Potential	1
Learning About Death and Burial: Mortuary Ritual, Emotion and Communities of Practice in the Ancient Andes	1
Memory Work in Mud, Stone and Wood: Material Knowledges in Turbulent Times in Southern Africa	1
The Wider World of Writing. Networks of People, Practice and Culture Underpinning Writing in Late Bronze Age Ugarit	1
Thinking Through Tradition: Continuity, Architecture, and the Material Grounds of Transformation in the Central Andes and Angkorian Cambodia – ERRATUM	1
The Past Is Not What It Used to Be: Contemporary Myths, Cold War Nostalgia and Abandoned Soviet Nuclear Bases	1
CAJ volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Halimaw na/ng nakalipas: Power, Personhood, and the Tigers of Palawan Island, Philippines	1
Angara Style Rock Art: The Evolution of a Regional Emblematic and Syncretic Style	1
CAJ volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
CAJ volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Sweeping Stone, Cleaning Country: Stone Artefact Mounding at Walanjiwurru 1 Rockshelter, Marra Country, Northern Australia	1
Did Homo erectus Have Language? The Seafaring Inference	1
Ochre and Identity: An Exploration of Perinatal Mortality, Personhood and Social Acknowledgement at Khok Phanom Di, Central Thailand	1
Complexity, Instability and Contradiction: The Impact of Human–Thing Entanglement on the Social Decline of the Hamin Mangha Neolithic Site in China	1
Turning-the-edge, Tranchet, and Social Signalling at Boxgrove	1
Gold and Silver: Relative Values in the Ancient Past	1
The Emperor’s Gift: Power and Legitimacy across the Late Roman Frontier	1
Material and Sensory Experiences of Mesolithic Resinous Substances	1
Historical Dimensions of Rock Art: Perspectives from ‘Peripheries’	1
Comments	1
Traces of Clay: Exploring Slave and Migrant Identities in Medieval Swahili Zanzibar	1
Ancestral Waters: Material Culture, Notion of Transformation and Shamanism in the Stilt Villages in Eastern Amazonia	1
From Typology and Biography to Multiplicity: Bracers as ‘Process Objects’	1
Out of Ruins: Contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Spectacle of Architectural Reuse	1
With or Without You: Human and Manatee Encounters in Precolonial Florida	1