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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The earliest herders of East Asia: Examining Afanasievo entry to Central Mongolia	22
Mitochondrial DNA of domesticated sheep confirms pastoralist component of Afanasievo subsistence economy in the Altai Mountains (3300–2900 cal BC)	20
Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: Combined impacts of the boreal forest, bow-and-arrow, and fishing	17
Post-Neolithic broadening of agriculture in Yunnan, China: Archaeobotanical evidence from Haimenkou	17
Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: Chronology and dietary trends	16
Hoabinhian variability in Mainland Southeast Asia revisited: The lithic assemblage of Moh Khiew Cave, Southwestern Thailand	15
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,	13
The Khmer did not live by rice alone: Archaeobotanical investigations at Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm	12
The emergence of walled towns in prehistoric middle Yangtze River valley: Excavations at the Zoumaling site	10
Spatio-temporal patterns of cemetery use among Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia	9
Neolithization during the 6th millennium BCE in western Central Asia: New evidence from Kaynar Kamar Rockshelter, Hissar Mountains, Southeast Uzbekistan	9
A functional study of denticulate sickles and knives, ground stone tools from the early Neolithic Peiligang culture, China	8
A tale of two hearth sites: Neolithic and intermittent mid to late Holocene occupations in the Jubbah oasis, northern Saudi Arabia	8
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	7
Initial insights into ceramic production and exchange at the early Bronze Age citadel at Shimao, Shaanxi, 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
Feeding the herds: Stable isotope analysis of animal diet and its implication for understanding social organisation in the Indus Civilisation, Northwest India	7
Animals, metal and isotopes: Mikhailo-Ovsyanka I, the Late Bronze Age mining site of the steppe Volga region	7
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	7
Changing settlement patterns and subsistence strategies in Northeast China: Results of the Yueliang regional survey	7
Middle Holocene hunter–gatherer mortuary practices in the Little Sea microregion on Lake Baikal, part II: Late Neolithic	6
Investigating changes in lithic raw material use from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic in Jebel Qalkha, southern Jordan	6
Understanding the transition to agropastoralism in North China: Archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological evidence	6
Cobbles during the final Pleistocene-early Holocene transition: An original lithic assemblage from Maomaodong rockshelter, Guizhou Province, southwest China	6
Making impact: Towards discovering early projectile technology in Island South East Asian archaeology	5

Kinship and migration in prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia: An overview of isotopic evidence	5
The metal age of Thailand and Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage	5
Revisiting the emergence of pastoralism in the Altai Mountains through interactions between local hunter-gatherer and Afanasievo communities	5
Local trend of symbolism at the dawn of the Neolithic: The painted bone plaquettes from PPNA Körtiktepe, Southeast Turkey	5
The Neolithic occupants in the Yanyuan Basin: Excavation of the burials at the Guijiabao site, Sichuan Province, Southwest China	5
Hunting, herding, and people in the rock art of Mongolia: New discoveries in the Gobi-Altai Mountains	5
The newly discovered bronze age site of Koken: Merging micro-regions with major study zones in the high steppes of Kazakhstan	4
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
Resilient herders: A deeply stratified multiperiod habitation site in northwestern Mongolia	4
Asia in the Horn. The Indian Ocean trade in Somaliland	4
A local perspective on China's initial unification: Archaeological survey and historical documents from southeastern Shandong	4
Freshwater reservoir effects in Cis-Baikal: An overview	4
Hunter-gatherers in labyrinth karst: An Early Holocene record from Gunung Sewu, Java	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
Chariots in the Bronze Age of Central Mongolia based on the materials from the Khoid Tamir river valley	3
Pulau Ampat site: A submerged 8th century iron production village in Matano Lake, South Sulawesi, Indonesia	3
Identity and community structure in Neolithic Man Bac, northern Vietnam	3
Occupation of highland Central Asia: New evidence from Kurteke rockshelter, Eastern Pamir	3
Ritual, settlement and land-use practices: Towards a social history of Neolithic though Medieval period Maski, southern India	3
Population dynamics in Taiwan from the Neolithic to early historic periods (5000–100 cal BP): Linking cultural developments and environmental change	3
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)	3
Islamic ancient Termez: An active and long-established ceramic manufacturing centre along the silk road	3
Early Holocene broad-spectrum subsistence at Xinglong in the southeastern Inner Mongolian Plateau, North China	3
Lingjiatan early complex societies and social organization in the Yuxi Valley, China	3
Neolithic fishing in the South Caucasus as seen from Aruchlo I, Georgia	3
Barely scratched the surface: Development and future directions of lithic use-wear analysis in Island Southeast Asia	3
Late Pleistocene handaxes from the Korean Peninsula: New discoveries from the Unjeong District Site Complex (UDSC)	3
The Levantine Early Middle Palaeolithic in retrospect – Reassessing the contribution of Abou-Sif to the understanding of Palaeolithic record	3
Microstratigraphy reveals cycles of occupation and abandonment at the mid Holocene coastal site of Thach Lac, northern-central Vietnam	3
Above ground and underground – An integrated approach of the burial mounds within the Suusamyr plateau, Kyrgyzstan	3
The development of pottery production, specialisation and standardisation in the Late Neolithic and Transitional Chalcolithic periods in the Central Plateau of Iran	3
Ancient mitochondrial DNA analysis of avian bones collected from the 4th century pit burial found in South Korea	2
A new approach in petrographic analysis of Loessic ceramics: Late Shang and Western Zhou bronze casting moulds	2
A fifth-millennium BCE sanctuary at Tol-e Chega Sofla in the northern Persian Gulf	2
A morphological typology for the “Kranzhügel” of the Greater Western Jazira and its impact upon interpretations of Early Bronze Age north-eastern Syria	2
New data on different patterns of obsidian procurement in Georgia (Southern Caucasus) during the Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Age Periods	2
The Neolithic regional settlement of Darestan, Southern Lut Desert, Iran	2
Earthquake-induced deformation at archaeological sites in southeastern Gorny Altai (Siberia, Russia)	2
Building a scientific model for East Asian pastoral origins: A reply to Honeychurch et al.	2
Boar or bear? Rock art of the Shakhty rock-shelter (Eastern Pamir)	2
The Karasai site: The first stratified Mesolithic assemblage in eastern Kazakhstan	2
Ban Pha Tai: The excavation and dating of a buried megalithic jar in Xieng Khouang, Lao PDR	2
The missing deposits of South Sulawesi: New sources of evidence for the Pleistocene/Holocene archaeological transition	2
Turning eastward: New radiocarbon and stable isotopic data for Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers from Fofanovo, Trans-Baikal, Siberia	2
Interactions, communication and tradition: The personal ornaments of Suluin cave (Antalya, Turkey) in late Neolithic context	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
Mongol fleet on the way to Java: First archaeological remains from the Karimata Strait in Indonesia	2
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	2
Identifying seasonal settlement sites and land use continuity in the prehistoric southern Siberian steppe – Zhelvak 5 (Tuva)	2
Nazugum, a new 4000 year old rockshelter site in the Ili Alatau, Tien Shan	2

North Angara Early Holocene hunter–gatherers: Archaeological evidence of the collector strategy	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
Spatial and temporal differences in Late Neolithic Serovo to Early Bronze Age Glazkovo forager diet in Lake Baikal's Little Sea Microregion, Siberia	2
Regional variation in the shift towards microlithization: The development of early microblade technology in North China	2
The human cultures in South-Eastern Caspian region in final Pleistocene – Holocene period	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	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
The Shangluo Corridor and the emerging Bronze Age exchange network of early China	1
Zooarchaeology of ancient Termez (Uzbekistan): From the Greco-Bactrian period to Islamic times	1
Between the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea: Human occupation of the coastal zone of the Western Caspian in the Pleistocene	1
Koskarlı Cave: The first Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene site in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey	1
Before the Holocene humid period: Life-sized camel engravings and early occupations on the southern edge of the Nefud desert	1
Nine types of iron smelting furnaces in southern Siberia in the first millennium AD: A review of archaeological and chronological data	1
A case study on organization of roof-tile production during the Tang Dynasty: Focusing on tile ends with Lotus patterns unearthed from Ximing Temple	1
The earliest directly dated saddle for horse-riding from a mid-1st millennium BCE female burial in Northwest China	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
Diet or mobility? Multi-isotopic (C, N, and Sr) dietary modeling at Shamanka II, Cis-Baikal, Siberia	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
Funerary expressions on imperial frontiers: Burial caves south of the Yangzi River (2nd to 3rd century CE)	1
Skeletal and dental maturation relative to tooth formation in prehistoric hunter-gatherers from Cis-Baikal, Siberia	1
Late iron-smelting production of Angkor Highland, metallurgical site at Buriram Province, northeastern Thailand: A view from luminescence dating	1
Lakhuti-IV – A new site of the early Palaeolithic in Central Asia (Tajikistan)	1
Challenging the Late Neolithic cultural horizon of Southern Arabia: The case of Sharbithat 10 (Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman)	1
Intra-site variability – Analysis, characterization, and cultural affiliation of the Upper Paleolithic sequence of Manot Cave (western Galilee, Israel)	1
The living past: A mural tomb of nomadic elite in the capital Pingcheng of the northern Wei empire (398–494 CE)	1
Early Islam of Lamuri site based on archaeological evidence	1
Initial Upper Paleolithic in North China: New data from Shuidonggou locality 9	1
Stratigraphy and chronology of the palaeolithic industry in Bose Basin, South China: Excavation of Gaolingpo	1
The non-utilitarian objects from the initial upper Paleolithic Ushbulak site in eastern Kazakhstan	1
Unique Theodoxus jordani shell beads from the Middle Chalcolithic site of Tel Tsaf (ca. 5200–4700 cal BC), Jordan Valley, Israel	1
Trade ornaments as indicators of social changes resulting from indirect effects of colonialism in northeastern Taiwan	1
New perspectives on the function of “clapper-bells”: Metal lings in the Early Bronze Age of China	1
Pottery of the steppe piedmonts of the Bactro-Sogdian Borderlands: The case of Iskandar Tepa (mid-2nd–1st c. BC)	1
Paleocryogenesis and erosional landform development in the Baikal region, Siberia, during the second half of the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene	1
Aquatic landscape and the emergence of walled sites in late Neolithic Central Plains of China: Integrating archaeological and geoarchaeological evidence from the Guchengzhai site	1
The younger Dryas layer at Boncuklu Tarla and the beginning of village life in the upper Tigris Basin	1
Berdysyčran-depe: A bronze age site in the lower Tedjen river valley, Turkmenistan	1
Lithic technology, cultural development, and human interaction: Reevaluation of flake tool assemblages in North China during MIS 3	1
Form, structure and long-term Angkorian urbanism: A view from the Kok Phnov site (9th–10th century CE)	1
Obsidian at Kobuleti (Western Georgia): Evidence for early human contact in Western Transcaucasia during the early Holocene	1
Beyond 55° North latitude: Expanding the northern boundary of initial upper Paleolithic dispersal	1
Ceramic collections from the citadel of the Uzundara fortress have been dated as the first third of the 3rd century BCE	1
Chronological analysis of prehistoric freshwater shell mounds in the Yongjiang River Basin, Guangxi, China	1
Architecture and function of salt-producing kilns from the 8th to 18th century in the coastal Sundarbans mangrove forest, Central Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh	1
Doing archaeology outside of the trench: Energizing museum “Diaspora” collections for research	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
Identifying indigenous bast microfibers for archaeological research in East Asia	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
Prasat and Pteah: Habitation within Angkor Wat's temple enclosure	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
The stone industry transformations at the edge of Pleistocene and Holocene: Evidence from the north-western and north-central Caucasus	1
The Middle Paleolithic of Tsagaan Agui Cave in the Gobi Altai region of Mongolia and its Siberian and Central Asian links	1
Items of fun, utility and divination: The knucklebones from Oluz Höyük, north-central Anatolia (Turkey)	1
Recovery of lost archaeological features on the Yalu River through GIS and historical imagery	1