| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Who's afraid of the big bad Wolff?: “Wolff's law” and bone functional adaptation | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2006 | 764 |
| 2 | The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance | Nature | 2014 | 669 |
| 3 | Boundary Conditions for Paleolithic Social Systems: A Simulation Approach | American Antiquity | 1974 | 356 |
| 4 | Culture Contact or Colonialism? Challenges in the Archaeology of Native North America | American Antiquity | 2005 | 282 |
| 5 | Biocultural perspectives on stress in prehistoric, historical, and contemporary population research | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1988 | 234 |
| 6 | Early Homo and associated artefacts from Asia | Nature | 1995 | 220 |
| 7 | Stature and body mass estimation from skeletal remains in the European Holocene | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2012 | 219 |
| 8 | Can low-magnification stereomicroscopy reveal diet? | Journal of Human Evolution | 2004 | 218 |
| 9 | Dental senescence in a long-lived primate links infant survival to rainfall | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 199 |
| 10 | Factors affecting the distribution of enamel hypoplasias within the human permanent dentition | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1985 | 194 |
| 11 | On the Pleistocene Antiquity of Monte Verde, Southern Chile | American Antiquity | 1997 | 178 |
| 12 | Paleodemography of the Libben Site, Ottawa County, Ohio | Science | 1977 | 164 |
| 13 | Histological age estimation using rib and clavicle | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1992 | 159 |
| 14 | Agency, practical politics and the archaeology of culture contact | Journal of Social Archaeology | 2001 | 155 |
| 15 | A multivariate dental sexing technique | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1972 | 146 |
| 16 | Invited Forum: Bridging the “Language Gap” | Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | 2015 | 144 |
| 17 | Gradual decline in mobility with the adoption of food production in Europe | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 143 |
| 18 | The chronological distribution of enamel hypoplasias from prehistoric dickson mounds populations | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1984 | 140 |
| 19 | Ethnicity and pain: A biocultural model | Social Science and Medicine | 1987 | 140 |
| 20 | Tetracycline-labeled human bone from ancient Sudanese Nubia (A.D. 350) | Science | 1980 | 137 |
| 21 | The Management of Late Andean Irrigation Systems on the North Coast of Peru | American Antiquity | 1984 | 130 |
| 22 | Frequency and chronological distribution of dental enamel hypoplasia in enslaved African Americans: A test of the weaning hypothesis | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1994 | 129 |
| 23 | Spatial and temporal arrival patterns of Madagascar's vertebrate fauna explained by distance, ocean currents, and ancestor type | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 125 |
| 24 | Biomechanical approach to the reconstruction of activity patterns in Neolithic Western Liguria, Italy | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2006 | 120 |
| 25 | Infant and childhood morbidity and mortality risks in archaeological populations | World Archaeology | 1989 | 118 |
| 26 | Factors influencing the etiology of cribra orbitalia in prehistoric Nubia | Journal of Human Evolution | 1974 | 117 |
| 27 | Histological enamel indicator of childhood stress in prehistoric skeletal samples | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1978 | 113 |
| 28 | Bone chemistry and past behavior: an overview | Journal of Human Evolution | 1985 | 111 |
| 29 | Ecogeographic size variation among the living and subfossil prosimians of Madagascar | American Journal of Primatology | 1990 | 111 |
| 30 | Hunters of the Ice Age: The biology of Upper Paleolithic people | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2008 | 111 |
| 31 | Early Holocene human presence in Madagascar evidenced by exploitation of avian megafauna | Science Advances | 2018 | 110 |
| 32 | Dental topography indicates ecological contraction of lemur communities | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2012 | 108 |
| 33 | “Farewell to paleodemography?” rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated | Journal of Human Evolution | 1983 | 102 |
| 34 | Indian Fires in the Prehistory of New England | Interdisciplinary Contributions To Archaeology | 1988 | 102 |
| 35 | The Identification of Sources of Chert Artifacts | American Antiquity | 1979 | 101 |
| 36 | Childhood Stress and Decreased Longevity in a Prehistoric Population | American Anthropologist | 1988 | 101 |
| 37 | The Feeding Biomechanics and Dietary Ecology of Paranthropus boisei | Anatomical Record | 2015 | 100 |
| 38 | Dental use wear in extinct lemurs: evidence of diet and niche differentiation | Journal of Human Evolution | 2004 | 98 |
| 39 | White Public Space and the Construction of White Privilege in U. S. Health Care: Fresh Concepts and a New Model of Analysis | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1994 | 97 |
| 40 | Rapid human-induced landscape transformation in Madagascar at the end of the first millennium of the Common Era | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2016 | 94 |
| 41 | Human nasal protrusion, latitude, and climate | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1981 | 92 |
| 42 | Himalayan langurs: Temperate colobines | Journal of Human Evolution | 1979 | 88 |
| 43 | Paradox of peramorphic paedomorphosis: Heterochrony and human evolution | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1996 | 87 |
| 44 | Deciduous enamel defects in prehistoric Americans from Dickson Mounds: Prenatal and postnatal stress | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1985 | 86 |
| 45 | Comparative and population mitogenomic analyses of Madagascar's extinct, giant ‘subfossil’ lemurs | Journal of Human Evolution | 2015 | 86 |
| 46 | Morphometrics of compact bone: An example from Sudanese Nubia | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1979 | 85 |
| 47 | Gradual, autocatalytic and punctuational models of hominid brain evolution: A cautionary tale | Journal of Human Evolution | 1981 | 85 |
| 48 | Imperfect Isolation: Factors and Filters Shaping Madagascar’s Extant Vertebrate Fauna | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 84 |
| 49 | Asthma and oxidant stress: nutritional, environmental, and genetic risk factors. | Journal of the American College of Nutrition | 1995 | 79 |
| 50 | Scaling of limb joint surface areas in anthropoid primates and other mammals | Journal of Zoology | 1991 | 77 |
