Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management47
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents45
Tales of Multifunctionality: a Systematic Quantitative Literature Review of Boomerangs Used as Retouchers in Australian Aboriginal Cultures32
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition29
Revealing Evolutionary Patterns Behind Homogeneity: the Case of the Palaeolithic Assemblages from Notarchirico (Southern Italy)25
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization: Fragmentation and Missing Data24
Rock Art Painting Taphonomy: the Role of Environmental and Technological Factors23
‘A Complex Past’: Theory and Applications20
Searching for the Individual: Characterising Knowledge Transfer and Skill in Prehistoric Personal Ornament Making19
A New Approach to the Quantitative Analysis of Bone Surface Modifications: the Bowser Road Mastodon and Implications for the Data to Understand Human-Megafauna Interactions in North America18
Three-Dimensional Proxies to Dental Wear Characterization in a Known Age-at-Death Skeletal Collection17
Making Rock Art: Correspondences, Rhythms, and Temporalities15
Weathering Stages of Proboscidean Bones: Relevance for Zooarchaeological Analysis15
Scaling in Pompeii: Preliminary Evidence for the Occurrence of Scaling Phenomena Within an Ancient Built Environment13
Locating Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherer Camps in the Carpathian Basin13
Archaeology and Kastom: Island Historicities and Transforming Religious Traditions in Southern Vanuatu12
The Effect of Plant Food Treatment on Stable Isotopes and Their Relevance for Archaeological Studies: A Methodological Pilot Study12
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models12
The Archaeology of Awe: Monumental Architecture, Communal Ritual, and Community Formation at Poverty Point, USA11
Identifying the Impact of Soil Ingestion on Dental Microwear Textures Using a Wild Boar Experimental Model11
Broken Worlds: Towards an Archaeology of the Shatter Zone11
Archaeology in the Fourth Dimension: Studying Landscapes with Multitemporal PlanetScope Satellite Data11
Stringing Together Cowrie Shells in the African Archaeological Record with Special Reference to Southern Africa10
Correction to: (Sea)ways of Perception: an Integrated Maritime‑Terrestrial Approach to Modelling Prehistoric Seafaring9
Correction to: Paleo Storage, Paleo Surplus, and Paleo Inequality in the Périgord9
A Burning Platform? Critical Reflections on the Impact of Research on the Developing Bioarchaeology of Cremation9
Traditions of Equality: The Archaeology of Egalitarianism and Egalitarian Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa (First and Second Millennium CE)9
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Ecological Changes, Social Behaviour and Human Intergroup Tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP8
Wealth and Well-being in an Ancient Maya Community8
The Effect of Raw Material on the Identification of Knapping Skill: a Case Study from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania8
War Clubs in Southern California: an Interdisciplinary Study of Blunt Force Weapons and Their Impact8
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica8
Constraining the Likely Technological Niches of Late Middle Pleistocene Hominins with Homo naledi as Case Study8
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: on the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores7
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites7
Bronze Age Stone Anchors as Material Metaphors: Applying Conceptual Blending Theory to Investigate Their Symbolic Value7
Determining the Postmortem Timing of Sharp Force Damage and the Pre-burning Condition of Burnt Bone7
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles7
Defining and Characterising Clusters in Palaeolithic Sites: a Review of Methods and Constraints7
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective7
To Err Is Human: Knapping Expertise and Technological Variability at the Middle Palaeolithic Site of Nesher Ramla, Israel7
Four-Field Co-evolutionary Model for Human Cognition: Variation in the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic6
A Study of the Centuries-Long Reliance on Local Ceramics in Jerash Through Full Quantification and Simulation6
New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Kinematic Perspectives6
Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven6
Discrimination of Cereal Residue Adsorbed by Pottery Based on Metabolomics5
He i‘a make ka ‘opihi: Optimal Foraging Theory, Food Choice, and the Fish of Death5
Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)5
Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory5
Investigating Isotopic Niche Space: Using rKIN for Stable Isotope Studies in Archaeology5
Exploratory Network Reconstruction with Sparse Archaeological Data and XTENT5
Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement5
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia5
A Review of Methods to Analyze Archaeological Lime Production: Investigating Raw Materials Selection and Firing Conditions4
Life Around the Elephant in Space and Time: an Integrated Approach to Study the Human-Elephant Interactions at the Late Lower Paleolithic Site of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (Rome, Italy)4
From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production4
Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction4
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed4
Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea4
Ancient Conflagration: a Reconstruction of a Middle Formative Fire at the Chiripa Mound, Bolivia4
Ritual Closure: Rites De Passage and Apotropaic Magic in an Animate World4
Digital Navigator on the Seas of the Selden Map of China: Sequential Least-Cost Path Analysis Using Dynamic Wind Data4
Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification: Malthusian and Boserupian Dynamics4
Original Design and Allometric Variation in Kirk Points of the Central Ohio Archaeological Digitization Survey4
The Importance of Energetics in Archaeological Least Cost Analysis4
Comparative Analysis of Three Analytical Methodologies for Polychrome Design: Ceramic Typology, Design Elements/Styles, and Design Symmetries on Chihuahuan Polychromes3
Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid): a Diachronic Approach Using Biological and Archaeological Variables3
A Simple Method for Quantifying Compositional Correspondence Between Zooarchaeological Assemblages Using Paired Similarity Indices3
A History of Graphing Zooarchaeological Data (Taxonomic Heterogeneity, Demography and Mortality, Seasonality, Bone Survivorship, Butchering, etc.): Toward the Design of Effective and Efficient Zooarch3
The Technological Behaviours of Homo antecessor: Core Management and Reduction Intensity at Gran Dolina-TD6.2 (Atapuerca, Spain)3
The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre3
A Lithic Provisioning Model as a Proxy for Landscape Mobility in the Southern and Middle Kalahari3
An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past3
Itinerant Assemblages and Material Networks: the Application of Assemblage Theory to Networks in Archaeology3
From Novices to Experts: Skill Development and Knowledge Transmission in Prehistory3
Household Inequality, Community Formation, and Land Tenure in Classic Period Lowland Maya Society3
Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions3
Experimental Data from Lacaune and Merino Sheep Provide New Methodological and Theoretical Grounds to Investigate Autumn Lambing in Past Husbandries3
The Knossian Kamares Style as Transgenerational Memory3
Quantifying Edge Sharpness on Stone Flakes: Comparing Mechanical and Micro-Geometric Definitions Across Multiple Raw Materials from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)3
Quantifying Spatial Complexity of Settlement Plans Through Fractal Analysis3
Rethinking Wear Rate Analysis: a New Dentin Exposure Proxy and its Applications to Ancient Chinese Populations2
Confronting Taphonomic Challenges from Excavation Through Curation of Human Remains2
Chipped-Stone Crescents from the Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene of Far Western North America and the Transverse Projectile Point Hypothesis2
“Taphonomic Trajectories: Funerary Taphonomy and Preservation at the Medieval Site of Largo Cândido dos Reis, Portugal”2
James Matthew Skibo, 1960–2023: a Personal Remembrance2
Tracking Occupational Intensity Using Archaeo-faunal Data: Case Studies from the Late Pleistocene in the Southern Cape of South Africa2
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models—Best Practices for Data Acquisition2
The Taphonomy of Status: The Creation of Group Identity and Social Inequality in Medieval Croatia2
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art2
The Archaeology of Cannibalism: a Review of the Taphonomic Traits Associated with Survival and Ritualistic Cannibalism2
Projectiles Under a New Angle: a Ballistic Analysis Provides an Important Building Block to Grasp Paleolithic Weapon Technology2
The Effects of Time-Averaging on Archaeological Networks2
Deciphering the Public: An Integrated Analysis of Outdoor Spaces in the Neolithic Settlement of Kleitos 1 in Greece2
A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production2
Using Radiocarbon Dates and Tool Design Principles to Assess the Role of Composite Slotted Bone Tool Technology at the Intersection of Adaptation and Culture-History2
Rethinking Occupation Intensity during the Levantine Middle Epipalaeolithic: The use of Space and Site Formation Processes at the Geometric Kebaran site of Neve David, Israel2
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