| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
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| 2 | The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance | Nature | 2014 | 669 |
| 3 | The Use of Probability Paper for the Graphical Analysis of Polymodal Frequency Distributions | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom | 1949 | 586 |
| 4 | The Lycurgus Cup — A Roman nanotechnology | Gold Bulletin | 2007 | 376 |
| 5 | A Howiesons Poort tradition of engraving ostrich eggshell containers dated to 60,000 years ago at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 348 |
| 6 | Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe | Nature | 2010 | 327 |
| 7 | Technological examination of Neolithic-Bronze Age pottery from central and southeast Europe and from the Near East | Journal of Archaeological Science | 1981 | 317 |
| 8 | LEAD GLAZES IN ANTIQUITY—METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND REASONS FOR USE* | Archaeometry | 1998 | 237 |
| 9 | ESR dates for the hominid burial site of Es Skhul in Israel | Nature | 1989 | 220 |
| 10 | Strontium Isotopes in the Investigation of Early Glass Production: Byzantine and Early Islamic Glass from the Near East* | Archaeometry | 2003 | 210 |
| 11 | Radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin | Nature | 1989 | 206 |
| 12 | mtDNA Analysis of Nile River Valley Populations: A Genetic Corridor or a Barrier to Migration? | American Journal of Human Genetics | 1999 | 194 |
| 13 | The origins of Byzantine glass from Maroni Petrera, Cyprus | Archaeometry | 2002 | 181 |
| 14 | Development of metallurgy in Eurasia | Antiquity | 2009 | 164 |
| 15 | The phylogeny of the chimaeroids | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences | 1965 | 151 |
| 16 | The exceptional near-infrared luminescence properties of cuprorivaite (Egyptian blue) | Chemical Communications | 2009 | 150 |
| 17 | Hominin Footprints from Early Pleistocene Deposits at Happisburgh, UK | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 137 |
| 18 | AMS radiocarbon dating of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic bone in the British Isles: improved reliability using ultrafiltration | Journal of Quaternary Science | 2006 | 135 |
| 19 | Isotope evidence for the intensive use of marine foods by Late Upper Palaeolithic humans | Journal of Human Evolution | 2005 | 118 |
| 20 | The World of the Panhellenion I. Athens and Eleusis | Journal of Roman Studies | 1985 | 114 |
| 21 | The spatially resolved characterisation of Egyptian blue, Han blue and Han purple by photo-induced luminescence digital imaging | Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry | 2009 | 112 |
| 22 | New evidence for complex climate change in MIS 11 from Hoxne, Suffolk, UK | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2008 | 111 |
| 23 | Refuse and the formation of middens | Antiquity | 1997 | 110 |
| 24 | A New Solution to the Atlantic Eel Problem | Nature | 1959 | 108 |
| 25 | A new model of river dynamics, hydroclimatic change and human settlement in the Nile Valley derived from meta-analysis of the Holocene fluvial archive | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2015 | 106 |
| 26 | First molecular identification of a hafting adhesive in the Late Howiesons Poort at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape, South Africa) | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2013 | 101 |
| 27 | Nematode species abundance patterns and their use in the detection of environmental perturbations | Hydrobiologia | 1984 | 100 |
| 28 | The fine structure of the frustule in centric diatoms: A suggested terminology | British Phycological Journal | 1972 | 98 |
| 29 | The “Red Lady” ages gracefully: new ultrafiltration AMS determinations from Paviland | Journal of Human Evolution | 2008 | 98 |
| 30 | Shifting sediment sources in the world's longest river: A strontium isotope record for the Holocene Nile | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2015 | 98 |
| 31 | Aging and yellowing of triterpenoid resin varnishes – Influence of aging conditions and resin composition | Journal of Cultural Heritage | 2009 | 93 |
| 32 | The buoyancy of bathypelagic fishes without a gas-filled swimbladder | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom | 1958 | 92 |
| 33 | The World of the Panhellenion II. Three Dorian Cities | Journal of Roman Studies | 1986 | 88 |
| 34 | On the genetic relationship and clasaification of Meteorites | Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society | 1916 | 87 |
| 35 | Fossil wood charcoal assemblages from Elands Bay Cave, South Africa: implications for Late Quaternary vegetation and climates in the winter-rainfall fynbos biome | Journal of Biogeography | 1999 | 86 |
| 36 | XXXIV.—Preliminary Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ | Annals and Magazine of Natural History | 1886 | 85 |
| 37 | Transforming Beaker Culture in North-West Europe; Processes of Fusion and Fission | Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, London | 2005 | 84 |
| 38 | The Pleistocene Succession in the Lower parts of the Thames Valley | Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, London | 1936 | 82 |
| 39 | Characterization and dating of recent and fossil bone by X-ray diffraction | Journal of Archaeological Science | 1992 | 81 |
| 40 | Notes on the Genuineness of the Constantinian Documents in Eusebius's Life of Constantine and Appendix | Journal of Ecclesiastical History | 1954 | 80 |
| 41 | Ancient injury recidivism: an example from the Kerma period of ancient Nubia | International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | 2002 | 78 |
| 42 | Trauma in the city of Kerma: ancient versus modern injury patterns | International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | 2004 | 76 |
| 43 | The environmental contexts of early human occupation of northwest Europe: The British Lower Palaeolithic record | Quaternary International | 2012 | 76 |
| 44 | Application of the Kubelka—Munk Correction for Self-Absorption of Fluorescence Emission in Carmine Lake Paint Layers | Applied Spectroscopy | 2009 | 75 |
| 45 | Xenophon and the Wall of Media | Journal of Hellenic Studies | 1963 | 72 |
| 46 | The age of Stonehenge | Antiquity | 2007 | 70 |
| 47 | Non-invasive identification of organic materials in wall paintings by fiber optic reflectance infrared spectroscopy: a statistical multivariate approach | Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry | 2009 | 70 |
| 48 | Beaker people in Britain: migration, mobility and diet | Antiquity | 2016 | 70 |
| 49 | Tuberculosis in Dr Granville's mummy: a molecular re-examination of the earliest known Egyptian mummy to be scientifically examined and given a medical diagnosis | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 69 |
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