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Papers

(The median citation count of Archaeological Research in Asia 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying resilient women through bioarchaeology: Perspectives from two contemporaneous Inner Asian studies dating to the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age transition	26
Middle holocene burial and cultural dynamics at the liang sumpang Karoro 1 site, Maros, Indonesia	10
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
Between the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea: Human occupation of the coastal zone of the Western Caspian in the Pleistocene	8
The lithic assemblages of Idan I and VII: New insights on the beginning of the Epipaleolithic in the Southern Levant	8
Use of the potter's wheel at Shimao, Shaanxi, China	7
Chadiping: A pig iron production site of the Ming Dynasty in Southeast Chongqing, China	7
The prehistoric Bilat Cave shell assemblages in Mindoro Island, Central Philippines: A coastal environment and lifeways study	7
Formidable fortress: Historical cliff-top settlement and the role of Kisar Island in the Indo-Malaya trade network	6
A new approach in petrographic analysis of Loessic ceramics: Late Shang and Western Zhou bronze casting moulds	6
Recent research on the stone jars of Northeast India: Evidence from East Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya	6
Identifying indigenous bast microfibers for archaeological research in East Asia	6
Application of elemental and mineralogical analysis of ceramics from the Late Bronze Age settlement of Dongal (Central Kazakhstan) in search of nonlocal wares	5
Shaking up the Neolithic - Tracing seismic impact at Neolithic Göbekli Tepe/Southeast-Türkiye	5
Occupation of highland Central Asia: New evidence from Kurteke rockshelter, Eastern Pamir	5
Intra-site variability – Analysis, characterization, and cultural affiliation of the Upper Paleolithic sequence of Manot Cave (western Galilee, Israel)	5
Why so early? Radiocarbon dating of the Vladimirovka mine and the emergence of metallurgy in the Altai Mountains	5
Bronze Age wool textile and fur items from northern Eurasia: Identification of the fiber origin and differentiation between domestic animal species	5
Rice farming, fishing and the Neolithic expansion into Southeast Asia	5
Evidence for human-environment interactions as the driver for the abandonment of long-term Neolithic occupation at the Wansan site (NE Taiwan) around the 7th century BCE	5
Properties of Roman structural mortars in the province of Asia (Turkey)	5
Aesthetics and technology: gold and silver ornaments from the Qin First Emperor's bronze chariots	5
Examining the Dalma culture in the northern Zagros of Iran: Insights from the excavation of the Belachak site	5
The origins of pottery technology and its connection with house-building technology in the Zagros Mountains (Western Asia)	5

Editorial Board	4
Early bronze artefacts of Qujialing Culture (4500 BP) in the middle Yangtze River Valley of China	4
Natufian architecture 12,000 years ago: Analyzing ‘building stones’ at Nahal Ein Gev II	4
Items of fun, utility and divination: The knucklebones from Oluz Höyük, north-central Anatolia (Turkey)	4
Results of repeated study of the frozen tomb of the Fifth Pazyryk Barrow in the Altai Mountains (Russia): 70 years after first excavations	4
Intensive use of Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau during the middle Holocene: New excavation of a base camp, Dongguotan site	4
Editorial Board	4
Fetal vessel burials dated to 6500 years ago at the Chaparabad archaeological site, Northwestern Iran	4
Bukhara and its neighborhood. Reassessing the cultural links of the oasis from new ceramic evidence	4
Complex hunter-gatherers and first farmers in southern China	3
Early coastal lifeways and spatial utilization at the Xiying Shell Midden, Fujian, China (7400 BP): Recent findings from the 2022–2025 excavations	3
Understanding settlement construction and chronology at Đền Đồi, Nghệ An province, Central Vietnam	3
Editorial Board	3
A materiality approach to moveable containers in the Indus tradition	3
Initial Upper Paleolithic in North China: New data from Shuidonggou locality 9	3
Bioarchaeological contributions to the reconstruction of past societies on the Mongolian Steppe	3
Material characterization of solders used in bronze vessels from the Lu state (c. 560–370 BCE) reveals the diachronic change of soldering techniques	3
Provenance study of sequan porcelain bowls from two shipwrecks near Nanri Island, Fujian, China	2
Emergence of carnelian/agate beads in the Gan-Qing region, Northwest China: New evidence from the western Hexi Corridor	2
Lady in wool and silk: 2000-year-old fashion from the Niya River oasis in the southern Tarim Basin, China	2
Environmental background of subsistence changes from the Middle Neolithic to the Bronze Age in northern Shandong, China: Geoscientific evidence from the Dingjiazhuang profile	2
Chronology and ecology of early islanders in the Philippines: The Mindoro Archaeology Project	2
The stone industry transformations at the edge of Pleistocene and Holocene: Evidence from the north-western and north-central Caucasus	2
Prasat and Pteah: Habitation within Angkor Wat's temple enclosure	2
Editorial Board	2
Newly found rock painting sites in the upper Atrak Valley, Northern Khorasan, North- eastern Iran	2
Shell tool technology and new insights into techno-cultural strategies during the Neolithic in Eastern Arabia. An initial case study from Umm al-Quwain (United Arab Emirates)	2
Cultural exchange and technical artistry: Gold ornaments found in pre-imperial Qin Tomb at Ta’erpo, Shaanxi	2
Marine fishes for Nobiliary interment during the Eastern Zhou period: Zooarchaeological evidence from Jiwanggu Tomb No. 1, Shandong, China	2
Ceramics of the Merv Oasis – The other side	2
Ceramic collections from the citadel of the Uzundara fortress have been dated as the first third of the 3rd century BCE	2
Residents of stilted houses and their burials in eastern China, 5500 BP: Excavation of the Gujiazhuang site on the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay	2
Mobilizing architectural formal analysis for stratigraphic decision-making	2
Animal use in Han dynasty cities: Zooarchaeological evidence from Yishengci, Nanyang (China)	2
Disjunction, or continuity: Re-identifying the “Kushan” and “post-Kushan” periods at Kausambi	2
Reassessing archaeological evidence for the Gandhāra still reconstruction and ‘Ancient Indian’ distillation hypothesis	2
Chemical variations of clays and pottery within a relatively small spatial extent: Initial insights from modern pottery-making in Central China	2
The Sintashta-Petrovka settlement organization during the Late Bronze Age in the steppes of the southern Urals: A case of the Kamennyi Ambar settlement	2
Coexistence of bloomery iron and cast iron in a Qin state cemetery dating to the mid Warring States period	2
Animal stable isotope data from Dzhetyasar and Oguz culture sites of the lower Syr Darya in Kazakhstan	2
Đầu Rằm: A nephrite ring manufacturing settlement in the northern Red River Delta	2
Beyond 55° North latitude: Expanding the northern boundary of initial upper Paleolithic dispersal	2
The pictographs of Chel-Dokhtaroon in the Southern Zagros Mountains, Fars, Central Southern Iran	2
Rice, lamb and tuna. Food processing and acquiring strategies in the medieval harbour city of Qalhât (Oman): Bioarchaeological evidence from the twin houses' building (B94)	2
Kurgans: Funerary evidence of nomadic communities with insights from Iran	2
Editorial Board	2
Early Medieval coarse wares from northern Bactria-Tokharistan. Archaeological and archaeometric characterization	2
The breeding and functions of dogs in the Western Zhou dynasty of China: Evidence from sacrificed dogs at Hengshui cemetery	2
Late iron-smelting production of Angkor Highland, metallurgical site at Buriram Province, northeastern Thailand: A view from luminescence dating	2
A new type of Early Iron Age stela from Tuva (Inner Asia)	1

The missing deposits of South Sulawesi: New sources of evidence for the Pleistocene/Holocene archaeological transition	1
The earliest loaded iron bomb excavated from the Baidicheng fort site, Chongqing, China	1
Above ground and underground – An integrated approach of the burial mounds within the Suusamyr plateau, Kyrgyzstan	1
Sherds of societies: Quantitative and petrographic analysis of Neolithic ceramics in Northeast China	1
Ancient pottery in Central Asia. Archaeological and archaeometric approaches. Introduction to the special issue	1
Cobbles during the final Pleistocene-early Holocene transition: An original lithic assemblage from Maomaodong rockshelter, Guizhou Province, southwest China	1
Human figurines in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition of the South Caucasus: New evidence from the Damjili cave, Azerbaijan	1
An elite grave of the pre-Mongol period, from Dornod Province, Mongolia	1
A Natufian demographic cycle at el-Wad Terrace, Israel: The rise and fall of the architectural compound	1
Hunter-gatherer-builders: 70 years of research at the Natufian hamlet of Eynan-Mallaha (upper Jordan Valley, Israel)	1
Living environment of late Neanderthals in NW Altai: Evidences from Verkhnyaya Sibiryachikha and Okladnikov caves	1
Preserving collectivity through continuity	1
Patterns of spread and adoption of millet agriculture along the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau: Archaeobotanical evidence from Houzidong, Southwest China (4200–4000 cal. BP)	1
Horse equipment of medieval nomads of the Kazakh Altai (based on materials from the Tuyetas burial ground)	1
The Tel Tsaf decoration: Contextualizing a Chalcolithic pottery phenomenon on a regional scale	1
Editorial Board	1
Hunter-gatherers in labyrinth karst: An Early Holocene record from Gunung Sewu, Java	1
Shifting crop choices in a transition zone: Macrobotanical insights from Shandong, Eastern China (5000–2200 cal. BP)	1
Identifying seasonal settlement sites and land use continuity in the prehistoric southern Siberian steppe – Zhelvak 5 (Tuva)	1
Cattle traction in the Xiongnu empire: Zooarchaeological evidence from the Mongolian steppe	1
Unveiling the function of long-spouted ceramics at Sialk, Iran: Insights from organic residue analysis	1
New data on Neanderthal behavior in the Altai region, Russia	1
Diet, sex and social status during the late Shang period (1250–1046 BCE) in eastern China: Isotopic analysis of the Liujiazhuang site, Jinan, China	1
Russet-coated painted ware pottery: The potential chronological, social, and economic significance of a poorly-understood south Indian ceramic type	1
Editorial Board	1
On the principal human activity (fishing) and preliminary environmental data from the Neolithic Chorokhi Valley (Georgia)	1
Interpreting archaeological mortuary jar traditions in the Philippines: Forms, lids, and regional connections in Island Southeast Asia	1
The change of crop structure and its influencing factors in the Late Neolithic Nanyang Basin: New macrobotanical evidence from the Maotang site, central China	1
Funerary practices in the Royal Garden Area of the northern Wei capital: An analysis of the Qianjing cemetery in Datong, China	1
Late Pleistocene handaxes from the Korean Peninsula: New discoveries from the Unjeong District Site Complex (UDSC)	1
The earliest meteoritic iron artefact of the Chinese Bronze Age discovered at Sanxingdui, Southwest China	1
Regional variation in the shift towards microlithization: The development of early microblade technology in North China	1
Relooking at the Archaeology of Neem ka Thana tehsil, Rajasthan, India	1
Preliminary site report of a stone jar burial in the Lao People's Democratic Republic	1
Further insight into the shape variability of handaxes from Indonesia	1
Hardship in the Western regions: Children vulnerability during bronze-iron ages in the Turpan Basin, northwestern China (1000–100 BCE)	1
Persian rider figurines from the Hatay Archaeology Museum: The relationship between cultural identity and sacredness	1
Editorial: Emergence and dispersal of modern humans: New discoveries and progress in Asian Paleolithic studies	1
Megalithic structure from Burabay: Gold mining and cult communities of the Late Bronze Age of Northern Kazakhstan	1
The new chronology and material culture of a second millennium BC neolithic site in the heartland of the Tibetan Plateau: Qugong re-excavated	1
Unicorns and seals: New multivariate approaches to exploring patterned stylistic variation in the Indus Civilization	1
Technological choices and functional adaptations of late Neolithic pottery from Pingtan Island in southeastern China: Evidence from petrological analysis of ceramic artifacts at the Guishan site	1
Early evidence of Austronesian occupation in the Maros-Pangkep karsts of South Sulawesi, Indonesia	1
Recovery of lost archaeological features on the Yalu River through GIS and historical imagery	1
Nazugum, a new 4000 year old rockshelter site in the Ili Alatau, Tien Shan	1
The castles of Dailam: Fortresses of power provision for the noble residences of northern Iran	1
The Middle Paleolithic of Tsagaan Agui Cave in the Gobi Altai region of Mongolia and its Siberian and Central Asian links	1
A computational perspective on the dynamics of early architecture	1
Isotopic evidence of millet consumption in the Liangshan region of southwestern China during the Neolithic	1
The Longwangshan cemetery and the change in funerary practices in middle Yangzi during the late Neolithic Age, China	1
Editorial Board	1
Early beginnings: Naissance of architecture in the Levant – Special issue in honor of Anna Belfer-Cohen	1
Architecture in Kharaysin from the late PPNA to the middle PPNB	1