| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance | Nature | 2014 | 669 |
| 2 | Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory | Nature Communications | 2014 | 542 |
| 3 | The ‘human revolution’ in lowland tropical Southeast Asia: the antiquity and behavior of anatomically modern humans at Niah Cave (Sarawak, Borneo) | Journal of Human Evolution | 2007 | 390 |
| 4 | Early Levallois technology and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Southern Caucasus | Science | 2014 | 171 |
| 5 | Ancient Rome: A genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean | Science | 2019 | 164 |
| 6 | Widespread exploitation of the honeybee by early Neolithic farmers | Nature | 2015 | 145 |
| 7 | Tracing the genetic origin of Europe's first farmers reveals insights into their social organization | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2015 | 127 |
| 8 | Neolithic agriculture on the European western frontier: the boom and bust of early farming in Ireland | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2014 | 123 |
| 9 | Fragmentation, Personhood and the Social Construction of Technology in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | 2006 | 119 |
| 10 | Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America | Nature | 2019 | 118 |
| 11 | The spread of steppe and Iranian-related ancestry in the islands of the western Mediterranean | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2020 | 95 |
| 12 | Terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene occupation and an early cremation burial at Ille Cave, Palawan, Philippines | Antiquity | 2008 | 87 |
| 13 | Lower limb skeletal biomechanics track long-term decline in mobility across ∼6150 years of agriculture in Central Europe | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2014 | 64 |
| 14 | Vein quartz in lithic traditions: an analysis based on experimental archaeology | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2011 | 62 |
| 15 | Mitochondrial DNA diversity and evolution of the Pleistocene cave bear complex | Quaternary International | 2014 | 60 |
| 16 | Palaeozoology of Palawan Island, Philippines | Quaternary International | 2011 | 50 |
| 17 | The potential role of humans in structuring the wooded landscapes of Mesolithic Ireland: a review of data and discussion of approaches | Vegetation History and Archaeobotany | 2014 | 48 |
| 18 | Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs | Nature | 2022 | 48 |
| 19 | Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization | PLoS ONE | 2021 | 47 |
| 20 | Historical context and chronology of Bronze Age land enclosure on Dartmoor, UK | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2008 | 44 |
| 21 | The Changing Face of Neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland: A Big Data Approach to the Settlement and Burial Records | Journal of World Prehistory | 2016 | 44 |
| 22 | The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant | Scientific Reports | 2017 | 42 |
| 23 | Bone growth, limb proportions and non-specific stress in archaeological populations from Croatia | Annals of Human Biology | 2014 | 41 |
| 24 | Lacustrine evidence of early-Holocene environmental change in northern Iceland: a multiproxy palaeoecology and stable isotope study | Holocene | 2010 | 37 |
| 25 | Human auditory ossicles as an alternative optimal source of ancient DNA | Genome Research | 2020 | 37 |
| 26 | Early medieval farming and food production: a review of the archaeobotanical evidence from archaeological excavations in Ireland | Vegetation History and Archaeobotany | 2015 | 36 |
| 27 | New chronology for the Middle Palaeolithic of the southern Caucasus suggests early demise of Neanderthals in this region | Journal of Human Evolution | 2012 | 34 |
| 28 | Linking cultural and environmental change in Peruvian prehistory: Geomorphological survey of the Samaca Basin, Lower Ica Valley, Peru | Catena | 2009 | 33 |
| 29 | The first evidence for the past presence of the tiger Panthera tigris (L.) on the island of Palawan, Philippines: Extinction in an island population | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 2008 | 32 |
| 30 | Animal Scavenging and Scattering and the Implications for Documenting the Deaths of Undocumented Border Crossers in the Sonoran Desert, | Journal of Forensic Sciences | 2015 | 31 |
| 31 | Ancient DNA, kinship and relational identities in Bronze Age Britain | Antiquity | 2021 | 30 |
| 32 | Craniometric analysis of European Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic samples supports discontinuity at the Last Glacial Maximum | Nature Communications | 2014 | 29 |
| 33 | Prehistoric Pinus woodland dynamics in an upland landscape in northern Scotland: the roles of climate change and human impact | Vegetation History and Archaeobotany | 2008 | 27 |
| 34 | For Gods or men? A reappraisal of the function of European Bronze Age shields | Antiquity | 2009 | 27 |
| 35 | Divergence in Male and Female Manipulative Behaviors with the Intensification of Metallurgy in Central Europe | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 27 |
| 36 | Declining tibial curvature parallels ∼6150 years of decreasing mobility in central european agriculturalists | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2015 | 27 |
| 37 | Satsurblia: New Insights of Human Response and Survival across the Last Glacial Maximum in the Southern Caucasus | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 26 |
| 38 | Genetic Evidence of African Slavery at the Beginning of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade | Scientific Reports | 2014 | 24 |
| 39 | Preliminary soil micromorphology studies of landscape and occupation history at Tabon Cave, Palawan, Philippines | Geoarchaeology - an International Journal | 2007 | 23 |
| 40 | Regional differences in health, diet and weaning patterns amongst the first Neolithic farmers of central Europe | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 23 |
| 41 | Late Quaternary Sea-Level Changes and the Palaeohistory of Palawan Island, Philippines | Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology | 2015 | 22 |
| 42 | Early Life Conditions and Physiological Stress following the Transition to Farming in Central/Southeast Europe: Skeletal Growth Impairment and 6000 Years of Gradual Recovery | PLoS ONE | 2016 | 22 |
| 43 | Newgrange – a view from the platform | Antiquity | 2006 | 21 |
| 44 | Environmental indifference? A critique of environmentally deterministic theories of peatland archaeological site construction in Ireland | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2013 | 20 |
| 45 | Persistent Neanderthal occupation of the open-air site of ‘Ein Qashish, Israel | PLoS ONE | 2019 | 20 |
| 46 | IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING VEIN QUARTZ ARTEFACTS: AN EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED AT THE WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS, 2008 | Archaeometry | 2011 | 19 |
| 47 | A survey of free-ranging deer in Ireland for serological evidence of exposure to bovine viral diarrhoea virus, bovine herpes virus-1, bluetongue virus and Schmallenberg virus | Irish Veterinary Journal | 2017 | 19 |
| 48 | Violence at Verteba Cave, Ukraine: New insights into the Late Neolithic intergroup conflict | International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | 2018 | 19 |
| 49 | Death is not the end: radiocarbon and histo-taphonomic evidence for the curation and excarnation of human remains in Bronze Age Britain | Antiquity | 2020 | 19 |
| 50 | 5000 years of dietary variations of prehistoric farmers in the Great Hungarian Plain | PLoS ONE | 2018 | 18 |
