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Papers

(The TQCC of Cambridge Archaeological Journal 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
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
Commentary: Making Kin Beyond Kinship	11
Relationality, Immanence, Hierarchy: The Nature and Culture of Being(s) at Göbekli Tepe	11
More Error than Minority: Gendered Burial Practices Align with Peptide-based Sex Identification in Early Bronze Age Burials in Central Europe	10
The Proceduralization of Hominin Knapping Skill: Memorizing Different Lithic Technologies	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
Zoroastrian Cave as Heritage for the Long-Term Preservation of Identity and Social Cohesion of This Minority Community	4
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
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance	3
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
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