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Papers

(The TQCC of Archaeological Research in Asia is 3. 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
Post-Neolithic broadening of agriculture in Yunnan, China: Archaeobotanical evidence from Haimenkou	17
Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: Combined impacts of the boreal forest, bow-and-arrow, and fishing	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 tale of two hearth sites: Neolithic and intermittent mid to late Holocene occupations in the Jubbah oasis, northern Saudi Arabia	8
A functional study of denticulate sickles and knives, ground stone tools from the early Neolithic Peiligang culture, China	8
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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