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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology 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
Climate change and coastal archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: assessing past impacts and future threats	25
The magnificent seven: Marine submerged precontact sites found by systematic geoarchaeology in the Americas	12
Fishhooks, Lures, and Sinkers: Intensive Manufacture of Marine Technology from the Terminal Pleistocene at Makpan Cave, Alor Island, Indonesia	10
The premise and potential of model-based approaches to island archaeology: A response to Terrell	8
The latest Neolithic conquest of “new territories” in the Arabian Sea: The Al-Hallaniyat Archipelago (Kuria Muria, Sultanate of Oman)	6
Calusa socioecological histories and zooarchaeological indicators of environmental change during the Little Ice Age in southwestern Florida, USA	6
Natural and anthropogenic factors impacting northern Morocco’s coastal archaeological heritage: A preliminary assessment	5
The Proyecto Costa Escondida: Historical ecology and the study of past coastal landscapes in the Maya area	5
“This is the way”: Knowledge networks and toolkit specialization in the circumpolar coastal landscapes of western Alaska and Tierra del Fuego	5
Intensive exploitation of marine crabs and sea urchins during the middle holocene in the eastern Arabian peninsula offers new perspectives on ancient maritime adaptations	5
Submerged prehistory in the Americas: Methods, approaches and results	4
Exploring Swahili urbanism through survey of Songo Mnara Island, Tanzania	4
Study of dugout canoes from the coast of La Plata River and the islands of the Paraná Delta, Argentina	4
Insular networks: An exploration of material distribution, insularity and island identity on the edge of Europe in the Shetland Neolithic	4
Complementary spaces in marine littoral exploitation? A comparative study of rock shelter and shell middens occupations from the lower basin of the Deseado River, Argentine Patagonia	4
Marine shell ornaments and the political economy of gendered power in the Mariana Islands	4
Shark fisheries during the second millennium BC in Gramalote, north coast of Peru	4
An archaeomalacological investigation of chitons on the Hane Dune site, Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands	4
Coastal foraging on the West Coast of South Africa in the midst of mid-Holocene climate change	4
Amber wind and porpoise jaw: Resource use at Siliņupe (fourth mill. BC) on the Baltic’s Gulf of Riga Coast	4
Colluvial slope agriculture in context: An extensive agricultural landscape along the slopes of Punalu‘u Valley, O‘ahu Island, Hawai‘i	4
Behavior and intra-skeletal remodeling in an adult male from 1720 BP Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands, eastern Micronesia	4
The legacy of 1300 years of land use in Jamaica	3
Establishing the efficacy of reed-bundle rafts in the paleolithic colonization of the Ryukyu Islands	3
Human settlement and landscape dynamics on the coastline south of the Gironde estuary (SW France): A multi-proxy approach	3

Catch of the day: Abundance and size data of groupers (Epinephelidae) and combers (Serranidae) from Middle to Late Holocene Levantine archaeological contexts	3
New insights into the daily and symbolic use of plants during initial occupations of Formentera (Balearic Islands, Spain)	3
Dry, leeward regions support Colonization Period sites: Stratigraphy, dating, and geomorphological setting of one of the earliest habitations in the Hawaiian Islands	3
Flooded mangrove landscapes hide ancient Maya coastal sites in Belize	3
Terrestrial snails from archaeological sites as proxies for relative sea level on the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA	2
The North Atlantic cod trade: A meta-analysis of the North American and European archaeological records	2
New archaeological discoveries in north-central Timor-Leste indicate sociocultural adaptations to landscape change during the Holocene	2
A pre-European archaeology in Malvinas/Falkland Islands? A review	2
Underwater Neolithic combustion features: A micro-geoarchaeological study in the submerged settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel	2
Rock art and long-distance prehistoric exchange behavior: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea	2
Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: Contextualizing the archaeology of an early Islamic port of trade	2
New information from an old discovery: Geological analysis of a stone adze found on Pohnpei, Micronesia	2
A preliminary consideration of craft production and settlement expansion on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, USA	2
Meat food preferences during the Late Archaic Period at Puerto Marqués, Guerrero, Mexico	2
Mapping the impacts of coastal erosion on the heritage assets of Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island), North Wales, UK	2
Examining prehistoric diet at Tung Wan Tsai, Ma Wan Island, Hong Kong through stable isotope analysis	2
Sailing the deep blue sea: The rock art of Wetang Island, Maluku Barat Daya, Indonesia	2
Contextualizing the influence of climate and culture on bivalve populations: Donax obesulus malacology from the north coast of Peru	2
Investigations at an eroded shell midden reveal direct evidence for fur seal hunting and diverse subsistence strategies on Late Holocene Santa Rosa (Wima) Island, California	1
Inshore or offshore? The Neolithic fishermen of Ra’s al-Hamra (RH-6, RH-5, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman)	1
Staple or delicacy: Sea urchin exploitation over the last 40,000 years at Makpan Cave, Alor Island	1
Agency amongst the entrepôts: Negotiating exchange associations between Motu hiri and Mailu seafaring exchange networks at Hood Bay on Papua New Guinea’s south coast	1
Portus and stationes along the Southwest Iberian Peninsula: Anchorages of the Huelva coast	1
Aotearoa New Zealand’s coastal archaeological heritage: A geostatistical overview of threatened sites	1
The role of the huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) in Patagonian maritime hunter-gatherer strategies: The case of Diego Portales Island and Última Esperanza inland sea (Chile)	1
Colonial rainfed farming strategies in an extremely arid insular environment: Niche construction on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain	1
Watching the horizon: Coastal navigation strategies in the Balearic archipelago during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages	1
Settlement and the exploitation of aquatic resources in the Eastern Lower Papaloapan Basin, Veracruz, Mexico	1
Botanical remains of the last 1800 years from Tarawa, Republic of Kiribati, reveal ancient aroid ( Cyrtosperma merkusii and Colocasia esculenta	1
Use of plants by hunter-gatherers at coastal sites: The case of Cabo San Pablo 2017 (Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina)	1
Native American use of cetaceans in pre-contact Oregon: Biomolecular and taphonomic analyses illuminate human–cetacean relationships	1
Bayesian assessment of northern Alaskan chronological issues: Implications for future research	1
Archaeological research at the Early Pre-Latte Period site of San Roque on Saipan (ca. 1500–1100 BC)	1
Therongorongotablet from Berlin and the time-depth of Easter Island’s writing system	1
Using bone technology and ZooMS to understand indigenous use of marine mammals at Iita, Northwest Greenland	1
The intentional variability of Lapita pottery fabrics	1
Do stormy seas lead to better boats? Exploring the origins of the southern Californian plank canoe through ocean voyage modeling	1
Response to the Comment on “Shark fisheries during the second millennium BC in Gramalote, north coast of Peru” by Víctor F. Vásquez Sánchez, Teresa E. Rosales Tham, J. Netherly, and Tom D. Dillehay	1
The “island laboratory” revisited: Integrating environmental and sociocultural approaches	1
Sourcing Mississippian pottery among the complex maritime cultures of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast	1
The Hālawa dune site, Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Islands: New excavations, redating, and new interpretations	1
Evidence of lithic blade technology in southwest Madagascar	1
Exploring the origins of coastal villages: New discoveries at the Spring Warrior civic-ceremonial center on Florida’s Gulf Coast	1
The Spanish wells: Freshwater lenses and the Florida Keys	1
Sharing ceramic manufacturing processes: A technological and petrographic study on ceramic production and exchange between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico (350–1200 CE)	1