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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Holocene vegetation and climate history in Baikal Siberia reconstructed from pollen records and its implications for archaeology	26
Millet agriculture dispersed from Northeast China to the Russian Far East: Integrating archaeology, genetics, and linguistics	21
The earliest herders of East Asia: Examining Afanasievo entry to Central Mongolia	20
Bridging the time gap in the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia and Southwest China	19
Late Pleistocene hominin settlement patterns and population dynamics in the Zagros Mountains: Kermanshah region	18
New evidence of early Iron Age to Medieval settlements from the southern fringe of Thar Desert (western Great Rann of Kachchh), India: Implications to climate-culture co-evolution	17
Mitochondrial DNA of domesticated sheep confirms pastoralist component of Afanasievo subsistence economy in the Altai Mountains (3300–2900 cal BC)	17
Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: Combined impacts of the boreal forest, bow-and-arrow, and fishing	16
Post-Neolithic broadening of agriculture in Yunnan, China: Archaeobotanical evidence from Haimenkou	13
Resource processing, early pottery and the emergence of Kitoi culture in Cis-Baikal: Insights from lipid residue analysis of an Early Neolithic ceramic assemblage from the Gorelyi Les habitation site,	12
Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: Chronology and dietary trends	12
Hoabinhian variability in Mainland Southeast Asia revisited: The lithic assemblage of Moh Khiew Cave, Southwestern Thailand	12
The Khmer did not live by rice alone: Archaeobotanical investigations at Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm	11
Environmental risk buffering in Chinese Neolithic villages: Impacts on community structure in the Central Plains and the Western Liao Valley	10
The impact of Ming and Qing dynasty maritime bans on trade ceramics recovered from coastal settlements in northern Sumatra, Indonesia	10
Evidence of increasing functional differentiation in pottery use among Late Holocene maritime foragers in northern Japan	10
The emergence of walled towns in prehistoric middle Yangtze River valley: Excavations at the Zoumaling site	8
Hand stencil discoveries at Lene Hara Cave hint at Pleistocene age for the earliest painted art in Timor-Leste	8
Feeding the herds: Stable isotope analysis of animal diet and its implication for understanding social organisation in the Indus Civilisation, Northwest India	7
Spatio-temporal patterns of cemetery use among Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia	7
A functional study of denticulate sickles and knives, ground stone tools from the early Neolithic Peiligang culture, China	7
Middle Paleolithic technological diversity during MIS 3 in the Western Tian Shan piedmonts: Example of the Katta Sai 1 open -air loess site	7
Kitchen gardens, wild forage and tree fruits: A hypothesis on the role of the Zaid season in the indus civilisation (c.3200-1300 BCE)	6
A tale of two hearth sites: Neolithic and intermittent mid to late Holocene occupations in the Jubbah oasis, northern Saudi Arabia	6
Middle Holocene hunter–gatherer mortuary practices in the Little Sea microregion on Lake Baikal, part II: Late Neolithic	6

Animal sacrifice in burial: Materials from China during the Shang and Western Zhou period	5
Understanding the transition to agropastoralism in North China: Archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological evidence	5
Kinship and migration in prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia: An overview of isotopic evidence	5
Excavating tailing piles at Kakal Spur (Kerem Ben Zimra) locality in the Nahal Dishon prehistoric flint extraction and reduction complex, northern Galilee, Israel	5
New data and perspectives on the early stages of the Neolithic in the Middle Kura River Valley (South Caucasus). The 2017–2019 excavations at Kiçik Tepe, Western Azerbaijan	5
Changing settlement patterns and subsistence strategies in Northeast China: Results of the Yueliang regional survey	5
Investigating changes in lithic raw material use from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic in Jebel Qalkha, southern Jordan	5
Animals, metal and isotopes: Mikhailo-Ovsyanka I, the Late Bronze Age mining site of the steppe Volga region	5
Mammoth ivory paleoart objects from the upper Paleolithic assemblage of Ust-Kova (eastern Siberia): A technological approach	5
The metal age of Thailand and Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage	5
Cobbles during the final Pleistocene-early Holocene transition: An original lithic assemblage from Maomaodong rockshelter, Guizhou Province, southwest China	5
Neolithization during the 6th millennium BCE in western Central Asia: New evidence from Kaynar Kamar Rockshelter, Hissar Mountains, Southeast Uzbekistan	5
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	4
Plant remains recovered from the Houtaomuga site in Jilin Province, Northeast China: A focus on Phase I (12,900–11,000 cal. BP) and Phase II (8,000–7,000cal. BP)	4
Initial insights into ceramic production and exchange at the early Bronze Age citadel at Shimao, Shaanxi, China	4
The newly discovered bronze age site of Koken: Merging micro-regions with major study zones in the high steppes of Kazakhstan	4
Making impact: Towards discovering early projectile technology in Island South East Asian archaeology	4
Revisiting the emergence of pastoralism in the Altai Mountains through interactions between local hunter-gatherer and Afanasievo communities	4
Reconstruction of the Shimao citadel gate: Planning and construction of Huangchengtai gate during the 2nd millennium BCE, China	4
Hunting, herding, and people in the rock art of Mongolia: New discoveries in the Gobi-Altai Mountains	4
Asia in the Horn. The Indian Ocean trade in Somaliland	4
Chronological and regional variation in developmental stress and behavior of Early and Late Neolithic Cis-Baikal hunter-gatherer juveniles: Insights from diaphyseal cross-sectional geometry	4
The Neolithic occupants in the Yanyuan Basin: Excavation of the burials at the Guijiabao site, Sichuan Province, Southwest China	4
Recent methodological approaches to regional settlement pattern survey in the Eurasian steppes	4
Ritual, settlement and land-use practices: Towards a social history of Neolithic though Medieval period Maski, southern India	3
The variable histories of reindeer scapulae on the Iamal Peninsula of Arctic Siberia	3
Islamic ancient Termez: An active and long-established ceramic manufacturing centre along the silk road	3
Occupation of highland Central Asia: New evidence from Kurteke rockshelter, Eastern Pamir	3
Symbolic bead exchange and polity interaction in Mahan civilization (c. 100 BCE–300 CE), South Korea	3
Climate control since 6 ka and human impact on landscapes near Starorechenskoye fortress (Russian South Far East): From Bohai farmers to modern agrocomplexes	3
Pulau Ampat site: A submerged 8th century iron production village in Matano Lake, South Sulawesi, Indonesia	3
Recent research on the Western Zhou period: Introduction to the 2019 essays	3
Freshwater reservoir effects in Cis-Baikal: An overview	3
Microstratigraphy reveals cycles of occupation and abandonment at the mid Holocene coastal site of Thach Lac, northern-central Vietnam	3
Stable isotope and radiocarbon analyses of livestock from the Mongol Empire site of Avraga, Mongolia	2
An archaeological perspective of the Western Zhou domain	2
Turning eastward: New radiocarbon and stable isotopic data for Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers from Fofanovo, Trans-Baikal, Siberia	2
The human cultures in South-Eastern Caspian region in final Pleistocene – Holocene period	2
The typology, production and adornment of Gandharan beads during the mid-3rd century BCE – 1st century CE: Preliminary results from Barikot, Swat, Pakistan	2
Nazugum, a new 4000 year old rockshelter site in the Ili Alatau, Tien Shan	2
The missing deposits of South Sulawesi: New sources of evidence for the Pleistocene/Holocene archaeological transition	2
Ru Diep and the Quynh Van culture of central Vietnam	2
Late Pleistocene handaxes from the Korean Peninsula: New discoveries from the Unjeong District Site Complex (UDSC)	2
Chariots in the Bronze Age of Central Mongolia based on the materials from the Khoid Tamir river valley	2
Building a scientific model for East Asian pastoral origins: A reply to Honeychurch et al.	2
Lingjiatan early complex societies and social organization in the Yuxi Valley, China	2
Neolithic fishing in the South Caucasus as seen from Aruchlo I, Georgia	2
Late Neolithic to Early-Mid Bronze Age semi-precious stone bead production and consumption at Oakaie and Nyaung’gan in central-northern Myanmar	2
Local trend of symbolism at the dawn of the Neolithic: The painted bone plaquettes from PPNA Körtiktepe, Southeast Turkey	2
Spatial and temporal differences in Late Neolithic Serovo to Early Bronze Age Glazkovo forager diet in Lake Baikal's Little Sea Microregion, Siberia	2

The Neolithic regional settlement of Darestan, Southern Lut Desert, Iran	2
Mongol fleet on the way to Java: First archaeological remains from the Karimata Strait in Indonesia	2
A local perspective on China's initial unification: Archaeological survey and historical documents from southeastern Shandong	2
Ban Pha Tai: The excavation and dating of a buried megalithic jar in Xieng Khouang, Lao PDR	2
Diet or mobility? Multi-isotopic (C, N, and Sr) dietary modeling at Shamanka II, Cis-Baikal, Siberia	1
Images of camels on a mammoth tusk from West Siberia	1
The non-utilitarian objects from the initial upper Paleolithic Ushbulak site in eastern Kazakhstan	1
Sedimentation and environmental dynamics of the Tunka rift valley (Baikal region) in the Late Pleistocene-Holocene based on the analysis of lithological and rock magnetic properties of the deposits fr	1
Identifying seasonal settlement sites and land use continuity in the prehistoric southern Siberian steppe – Zhelvak 5 (Tuva)	1
Barely scratched the surface: Development and future directions of lithic use-wear analysis in Island Southeast Asia	1
Items of fun, utility and divination: The knucklebones from Oluz Höyük, north-central Anatolia (Turkey)	1
The Levantine Early Middle Palaeolithic in retrospect – Reassessing the contribution of Abou-Sif to the understanding of Palaeolithic record	1
Early Holocene broad-spectrum subsistence at Xinglong in the southeastern Inner Mongolian Plateau, North China	1
The living past: A mural tomb of nomadic elite in the capital Pingcheng of the northern Wei empire (398–494 CE)	1
Stratigraphy and chronology of the palaeolithic industry in Bose Basin, South China: Excavation of Gaolingpo	1
Early Islam of Lamuri site based on archaeological evidence	1
Identity and community structure in Neolithic Man Bac, northern Vietnam	1
Insights into Lake Baikal's ancient populations based on genetic evidence from the Early Neolithic Shamanka II and Early Bronze Age Kurma XI cemeteries	1
The Karasai site: The first stratified Mesolithic assemblage in eastern Kazakhstan	1
North Angara Early Holocene hunter–gatherers: Archaeological evidence of the collector strategy	1
The development of pottery production, specialisation and standardisation in the Late Neolithic and Transitional Chalcolithic periods in the Central Plateau of Iran	1
Fish net and line fibers in the Indus Civilization (c.3200–1300 BCE): Exploring the possible materials that Indus fisherfolk may have used as part of their fishing strategies	1
The Middle Paleolithic of Tsagaan Agui Cave in the Gobi Altai region of Mongolia and its Siberian and Central Asian links	1
A fifth-millennium BCE sanctuary at Tol-e Chega Sofla in the northern Persian Gulf	1
Population dynamics in Taiwan from the Neolithic to early historic periods (5000–100 cal BP): Linking cultural developments and environmental change	1
The Sintashta-Petrovka settlement organization during the Late Bronze Age in the steppes of the southern Urals: A case of the Kamennyi Ambar settlement	1
Interactions, communication and tradition: The personal ornaments of Suluin cave (Antalya, Turkey) in late Neolithic context	1
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	1
Diachronic change in the Shang dynasty ritual package	1
Zooarchaeology of ancient Termez (Uzbekistan): From the Greco-Bactrian period to Islamic times	1
Doing archaeology outside of the trench: Energizing museum “Diaspora” collections for research	1
Boar or bear? Rock art of the Shakhty rock-shelter (Eastern Pamir)	1
A new approach in petrographic analysis of Loessic ceramics: Late Shang and Western Zhou bronze casting moulds	1
Trade ornaments as indicators of social changes resulting from indirect effects of colonialism in northeastern Taiwan	1
Prasat and Pteah: Habitation within Angkor Wat's temple enclosure	1
Evidence of wildfire versus anthropogenic combustion features: Spatial and macro-charcoal analyses of the final middle Paleolithic horizon at Orkhon 7, central Mongolia	1
Recovery of lost archaeological features on the Yalu River through GIS and historical imagery	1
New perspectives on the function of “clapper-bells”: Metal lings in the Early Bronze Age of China	1
The younger Dryas layer at Boncuklu Tarla and the beginning of village life in the upper Tigris Basin	1
Lithic technology, cultural development, and human interaction: Reevaluation of flake tool assemblages in North China during MIS 3	1
Funerary expressions on imperial frontiers: Burial caves south of the Yangzi River (2nd to 3rd century CE)	1
Challenging the Late Neolithic cultural horizon of Southern Arabia: The case of Sharbithat 10 (Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman)	1
Form, structure and long-term Angkorian urbanism: A view from the Kok Phnov site (9th–10th century CE)	1
Ibex in context: A new insight into the meaning of the ibex depiction in the rock art of Iran based on new findings from Mount Eüji-iti in Central Western Iran	1
Unraveling manifold identities in the early nomadic rock art of East Siberia	1
The Artaxiad capital of ceramic: Exploring the changing local pottery production and exchange at Artaxata (Armenia) from the 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE	1
Koskarlı Cave: The first Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene site in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey	1
Above ground and underground – An integrated approach of the burial mounds within the Suusamyr plateau, Kyrgyzstan	1
New radiocarbon dates from prehistoric Non Nok Tha, Don Kok Pho and Don Pa Daeng, upper Nam Phong watershed, Khon Kaen Province, Northeast Thailand	1
Resilient herders: A deeply stratified multiperiod habitation site in northwestern Mongolia	1