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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Between the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea: Human occupation of the coastal zone of the Western Caspian in the Pleistocene	28
Editorial Board	9
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Use of the potter's wheel at Shimao, Shaanxi, China	8
Chadiping: A pig iron production site of the Ming Dynasty in Southeast Chongqing, China	8
Identifying resilient women through bioarchaeology: Perspectives from two contemporaneous Inner Asian studies dating to the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age transition	8
The lithic assemblages of Idan I and VII: New insights on the beginning of the Epipaleolithic in the Southern Levant	7
Middle holocene burial and cultural dynamics at the liang sumpang Karoro 1 site, Maros, Indonesia	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
The prehistoric Bilat Cave shell assemblages in Mindoro Island, Central Philippines: A coastal environment and lifeways study	6
Identifying indigenous bast microfibers for archaeological research in East Asia	6
Occupation of highland Central Asia: New evidence from Kurteke rockshelter, Eastern Pamir	6
Making clothes, dressing the deceased: Analysis of 2nd century AD silk clothing from the child mummy of Burgast (Altai Mountains, Mongolia)	6
Intra-site variability – Analysis, characterization, and cultural affiliation of the Upper Paleolithic sequence of Manot Cave (western Galilee, Israel)	6
Examining the Dalma culture in the northern Zagros of Iran: Insights from the excavation of the Belachak site	5
Shaking up the Neolithic - Tracing seismic impact at Neolithic Göbekli Tepe/Southeast-Türkiye	5
Items of fun, utility and divination: The knucklebones from Oluz Höyük, north-central Anatolia (Turkey)	5
Results of repeated study of the frozen tomb of the Fifth Pazyryk Barrow in the Altai Mountains (Russia): 70 years after first excavations	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
Bronze Age wool textile and fur items from northern Eurasia: Identification of the fiber origin and differentiation between domestic animal species	5
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Application of elemental and mineralogical analysis of ceramics from the Late Bronze Age settlement of Dongal (Central Kazakhstan) in search of nonlocal wares	5
The origins of pottery technology and its connection with house-building technology in the Zagros Mountains (Western Asia)	5

Properties of Roman structural mortars in the province of Asia (Turkey)	5
Editorial Board	5
Bukhara and its neighborhood. Reassessing the cultural links of the oasis from new ceramic evidence	4
Parental investment as social agency and catalyst to complexity	4
Initial Upper Paleolithic in North China: New data from Shuidonggou locality 9	4
Natufian architecture 12,000 years ago: Analyzing ‘building stones’ at Nahal Ein Gev II	4
Complex hunter-gatherers and first farmers in southern China	4
Newly found rock painting sites in the Upper Atrak Valley, Northern Khorasan, North-eastern Iran	3
Intensive use of Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau during the middle Holocene: New excavation of a base camp, Dongguotan site	3
Disjunction, or continuity: Re-identifying the “Kushan” and “post-Kushan” periods at Kausambi	3
A materiality approach to moveable containers in the Indus tradition	3
Chronology and ecology of early islanders in the Philippines: The Mindoro Archaeology Project	3
Mobilizing architectural formal analysis for stratigraphic decision-making	3
Understanding settlement construction and chronology at Đền Đồi, Nghệ An province, Central Vietnam	3
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)	3
Diet or mobility? Multi-isotopic (C, N, and Sr) dietary modeling at Shamanka II, Cis-Baikal, Siberia	3
Early Medieval coarse wares from northern Bactria-Tokharistan. Archaeological and archaeometric characterization	3
Prasat and Pteah: Habitation within Angkor Wat's temple enclosure	3
Kurgans: Funerary evidence of nomadic communities with insights from Iran	3
Animal use in Han dynasty cities: Zooarchaeological evidence from Yishengci, Nanyang (China)	3
The stone industry transformations at the edge of Pleistocene and Holocene: Evidence from the north-western and north-central Caucasus	3
Residents of stilted houses and their burials in eastern China, 5500 BP: Excavation of the Gujiazhuang site on the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay	3
Reassessing archaeological evidence for the Gandhāra still reconstruction and ‘Ancient Indian’ distillation hypothesis	2
Ceramics of the Merv Oasis – The other side	2
The invention of twill tapestry points to Central Asia: Archaeological record of multiple textile techniques used to make the woollen outfit of a ca. 3000-year-old horse rider from Turfan, China	2
The Middle Paleolithic of Tsagaan Agui Cave in the Gobi Altai region of Mongolia and its Siberian and Central Asian links	2
Coexistence of bloomery iron and cast iron in a Qin state cemetery dating to the mid Warring States period	2
Cultural exchange and technical artistry: Gold ornaments found in pre-imperial Qin Tomb at Ta’erpo, Shaanxi	2
Đầu Rằm: A nephrite ring manufacturing settlement in the northern Red River Delta	2
Lady in wool and silk: 2000-year-old fashion from the Niya River oasis in the southern Tarim Basin, China	2
The pictographs of Chel-Dokhtaroon in the Southern Zagros Mountains, Fars, Central Southern Iran	2
Beyond 55° North latitude: Expanding the northern boundary of initial upper Paleolithic dispersal	2
Late iron-smelting production of Angkor Highland, metallurgical site at Buriram Province, northeastern Thailand: A view from luminescence dating	2
Hunter-gatherer-builders: 70 years of research at the Natufian hamlet of Eynan-Mallaha (upper Jordan Valley, Israel)	2
Berdysyčran-depe: A bronze age site in the lower Tedjen river valley, Turkmenistan	2
A computational perspective on the dynamics of early architecture	2
Late Pleistocene handaxes from the Korean Peninsula: New discoveries from the Unjeong District Site Complex (UDSC)	2
Editorial Board	2
Chemical variations of clays and pottery within a relatively small spatial extent: Initial insights from modern pottery-making in Central China	2
Animal stable isotope data from Dzhetyasar and Oguz culture sites of the lower Syr Darya in Kazakhstan	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
Ceramic collections from the citadel of the Uzundara fortress have been dated as the first third of the 3rd century BCE	2
The change of crop structure and its influencing factors in the Late Neolithic Nanyang Basin: New macrobotanical evidence from the Maotang site, central China	2
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)	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
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
Newly found rock painting sites in the upper Atrak Valley, Northern Khorasan, North- eastern Iran	2
Unicorns and seals: New multivariate approaches to exploring patterned stylistic variation in the Indus Civilization	1
Above ground and underground – An integrated approach of the burial mounds within the Suusamyr plateau, Kyrgyzstan	1

Interpreting archaeological mortuary jar traditions in the Philippines: Forms, lids, and regional connections in Island Southeast Asia	1
Horse equipment of medieval nomads of the Kazakh Altai (based on materials from the Tuyetas burial ground)	1
Corrigendum to Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: Combined impacts of the boreal forest, bow-and-arrow, and fishing, Archaeological Research in Asia Volume 24 (2020) 1002	1
Living environment of late Neanderthals in NW Altai: Evidences from Verkhnyaya Sibiryachikha and Okladnikov caves	1
Megalithic structure from Burabay: Gold mining and cult communities of the Late Bronze Age of Northern Kazakhstan	1
Unveiling the function of long-spouted ceramics at Sialk, Iran: Insights from organic residue analysis	1
Human figurines in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition of the South Caucasus: New evidence from the Damjili cave, Azerbaijan	1
Mongol fleet on the way to Java: First archaeological remains from the Karimata Strait in Indonesia	1
Technological characteristics of the ceramics of the Botai culture in relation to the Eneolithic cultures of northern Kazakhstan	1
Ancient pottery in Central Asia. Archaeological and archaeometric approaches. Introduction to the special issue	1
The Longwangshan cemetery and the change in funerary practices in middle Yangzi during the late Neolithic Age, China	1
Relooking at the Archaeology of Neem ka Thana tehsil, Rajasthan, India	1
Isotopic evidence of millet consumption in the Liangshan region of southwestern China during the Neolithic	1
New data on Neanderthal behavior in the Altai region, Russia	1
Recovery of lost archaeological features on the Yalu River through GIS and historical imagery	1
A new type of Early Iron Age stela from Tuva (Inner Asia)	1
Identifying seasonal settlement sites and land use continuity in the prehistoric southern Siberian steppe – Zhelvak 5 (Tuva)	1
Regional variation in the shift towards microlithization: The development of early microblade technology in North China	1
A non-Egyptian «Egyptian» stone vessel from Ras Al Jinz RJ-2, Sultanate of Oman: Critical review of an entrenched hypothesis	1
Sherds of societies: Quantitative and petrographic analysis of Neolithic ceramics in Northeast China	1
The missing deposits of South Sulawesi: New sources of evidence for the Pleistocene/Holocene archaeological transition	1
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Architecture in Kharaysin from the late PPNA to the middle PPNB	1
Russet-coated painted ware pottery: The potential chronological, social, and economic significance of a poorly-understood south Indian ceramic type	1
Preliminary site report of a stone jar burial in the Lao People's Democratic Republic	1
Hardship in the Western regions: Children vulnerability during bronze-iron ages in the Turpan Basin, northwestern China (1000–100 BCE)	1
The Tel Tsaf decoration: Contextualizing a Chalcolithic pottery phenomenon on a regional scale	1
A Natufian demographic cycle at el-Wad Terrace, Israel: The rise and fall of the architectural compound	1
Early Islam of Lamuri site based on archaeological evidence	1
Cobbles during the final Pleistocene-early Holocene transition: An original lithic assemblage from Maomaodong rockshelter, Guizhou Province, southwest China	1
The castles of Dailam: Fortresses of power provision for the noble residences of northern Iran	1
Investigating changes in lithic raw material use from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic in Jebel Qalkha, southern Jordan	1
Preserving collectivity through continuity	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
Nazugum, a new 4000 year old rockshelter site in the Ili Alatau, Tien Shan	1
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The earliest loaded iron bomb excavated from the Baidicheng fort site, Chongqing, China	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
Early evidence of Austronesian occupation in the Maros-Pangkep karsts of South Sulawesi, Indonesia	1
Hunter-gatherers in labyrinth karst: An Early Holocene record from Gunung Sewu, Java	1
An elite grave of the pre-Mongol period, from Dornod Province, Mongolia	1
Editorial: Emergence and dispersal of modern humans: New discoveries and progress in Asian Paleolithic studies	1
Corrigendum to “Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: Chronology and dietary trends” [Archaeological Research in Asia 25 (2021) 100234]	1