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Papers

(The TQCC of Archaeological Research in Asia is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying resilient women through bioarchaeology: Perspectives from two contemporaneous Inner Asian studies dating to the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age transition	27
Editorial Board	12
Between the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea: Human occupation of the coastal zone of the Western Caspian in the Pleistocene	10
Editorial Board	10
Use of the potter's wheel at Shimao, Shaanxi, China	9
Chadiping: A pig iron production site of the Ming Dynasty in Southeast Chongqing, China	9
Middle holocene burial and cultural dynamics at the liang sumpang Karoro 1 site, Maros, Indonesia	8
The lithic assemblages of Idan I and VII: New insights on the beginning of the Epipaleolithic in the Southern Levant	8
Formidable fortress: Historical cliff-top settlement and the role of Kisar Island in the Indo-Malaya trade network	7
The prehistoric Bilat Cave shell assemblages in Mindoro Island, Central Philippines: A coastal environment and lifeways study	7
Recent research on the stone jars of Northeast India: Evidence from East Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya	6
Examining the Dalma culture in the northern Zagros of Iran: Insights from the excavation of the Belachak site	6
A new approach in petrographic analysis of Loessic ceramics: Late Shang and Western Zhou bronze casting moulds	6
Identifying indigenous bast microfibers for archaeological research in East Asia	6
Shaking up the Neolithic - Tracing seismic impact at Neolithic Göbekli Tepe/Southeast-Türkiye	6
Making clothes, dressing the deceased: Analysis of 2nd century AD silk clothing from the child mummy of Burgast (Altai Mountains, Mongolia)	6
Occupation of highland Central Asia: New evidence from Kurteke rockshelter, Eastern Pamir	6
Intra-site variability – Analysis, characterization, and cultural affiliation of the Upper Paleolithic sequence of Manot Cave (western Galilee, Israel)	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
The origins of pottery technology and its connection with house-building technology in the Zagros Mountains (Western Asia)	5
Editorial Board	5
Properties of Roman structural mortars in the province of Asia (Turkey)	5
Chariots in the Bronze Age of Central Mongolia based on the materials from the Khoid Tamir river valley	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

Bukhara and its neighborhood. Reassessing the cultural links of the oasis from new ceramic evidence	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
Items of fun, utility and divination: The knucklebones from Oluz Höyük, north-central Anatolia (Turkey)	4
Complex hunter-gatherers and first farmers in southern China	4
Parental investment as social agency and catalyst to complexity	4
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	4
Intensive use of Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau during the middle Holocene: New excavation of a base camp, Dongguotan site	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
Editorial Board	4
Prasat and Pteah: Habitation within Angkor Wat's temple enclosure	3
Animal use in Han dynasty cities: Zooarchaeological evidence from Yishengci, Nanyang (China)	3
Kurgans: Funerary evidence of nomadic communities with insights from Iran	3
Ceramics of the Merv Oasis – The other side	3
Newly found rock painting sites in the Upper Atrak Valley, Northern Khorasan, North-eastern Iran	3
Mobilizing architectural formal analysis for stratigraphic decision-making	3
Diet or mobility? Multi-isotopic (C, N, and Sr) dietary modeling at Shamanka II, Cis-Baikal, Siberia	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
Ceramic collections from the citadel of the Uzundara fortress have been dated as the first third of the 3rd century BCE	3
Animal stable isotope data from Dzhetyasar and Oguz culture sites of the lower Syr Darya in Kazakhstan	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
Disjunction, or continuity: Re-identifying the “Kushan” and “post-Kushan” periods at Kausambi	3
The stone industry transformations at the edge of Pleistocene and Holocene: Evidence from the north-western and north-central Caucasus	3
A materiality approach to moveable containers in the Indus tradition	3
Early Medieval coarse wares from northern Bactria-Tokharistan. Archaeological and archaeometric characterization	3
Chronology and ecology of early islanders in the Philippines: The Mindoro Archaeology Project	3
Beyond 55° North latitude: Expanding the northern boundary of initial upper Paleolithic dispersal	3
Reassessing archaeological evidence for the Gandhāra still reconstruction and ‘Ancient Indian’ distillation hypothesis	2
Newly found rock painting sites in the upper Atrak Valley, Northern Khorasan, North- eastern Iran	2
The pictographs of Chel-Dokhtaroon in the Southern Zagros Mountains, Fars, Central Southern Iran	2
Late Pleistocene handaxes from the Korean Peninsula: New discoveries from the Unjeong District Site Complex (UDSC)	2
Cultural exchange and technical artistry: Gold ornaments found in pre-imperial Qin Tomb at Ta’erpo, Shaanxi	2
The Middle Paleolithic of Tsagaan Agui Cave in the Gobi Altai region of Mongolia and its Siberian and Central Asian links	2
A computational perspective on the dynamics of early architecture	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
Editorial Board	2
Đầu Rằm: A nephrite ring manufacturing settlement in the northern Red River Delta	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
Berdysyčran-depe: A bronze age site in the lower Tedjen river valley, Turkmenistan	2
Hunter-gatherer-builders: 70 years of research at the Natufian hamlet of Eynan-Mallaha (upper Jordan Valley, Israel)	2
Living environment of late Neanderthals in NW Altai: Evidences from Verkhnyaya Sibiryachikha and Okladnikov caves	2
Provenance study of sequan porcelain bowls from two shipwrecks near Nanri Island, Fujian, 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
Emergence of carnelian/agate beads in the Gan-Qing region, Northwest China: New evidence from the western Hexi Corridor	2
Chemical variations of clays and pottery within a relatively small spatial extent: Initial insights from modern pottery-making in Central China	2
Lady in wool and silk: 2000-year-old fashion from the Niya River oasis in the southern Tarim Basin, China	2
Coexistence of bloomery iron and cast iron in a Qin state cemetery dating to the mid Warring States period	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
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

Late iron-smelting production of Angkor Highland, metallurgical site at Buriram Province, northeastern Thailand: A view from luminescence dating