| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of the peopling of the Americas | Science Advances | 2016 | 306 |
| 2 | Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty | Nature Communications | 2017 | 210 |
| 3 | Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut | Nature | 2021 | 139 |
| 4 | Social skins | Journal of Social Archaeology | 2001 | 125 |
| 5 | Hominid Humeral Fragment from Early Pleistocene of Northwestern Kenya | Science | 1967 | 119 |
| 6 | Identification of collagen-based materials in cultural heritage | Analyst, The | 2013 | 110 |
| 7 | Status and Power in Classic Maya Society: An Archeological Study | American Anthropologist | 1991 | 103 |
| 8 | Excavations at the Early Neolithic Site at Nea Nikomedeia, Greek Macedonia (1961 season) | Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, London | 1962 | 95 |
| 9 | The Taï Plaque and Calendrical Notation in the Upper Palaeolithic | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | 1991 | 78 |
| 10 | Evolution of the human capacity: The symbolic evidence | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1989 | 74 |
| 11 | Upper Paleolithic Notation and Symbol: Sequential microscopic analyses of Magdalenian engravings document possible cognitive origins of writing | Science | 1972 | 73 |
| 12 | Isotopic ecology and dietary profiles of Liberian chimpanzees | Journal of Human Evolution | 2010 | 67 |
| 13 | Primitive Bone Fracturing: A Method of Research | American Antiquity | 1972 | 66 |
| 14 | The Pleistocene prehistory of the Lake Victoria basin | Quaternary International | 2016 | 65 |
| 15 | Stable isotope paleoecology of Late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age humans from the Lake Victoria basin, Kenya | Journal of Human Evolution | 2015 | 56 |
| 16 | A partial hominoid innominate from the Miocene of Pakistan: Description and preliminary analyses | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 55 |
| 17 | Spatial organization of Middle Paleolithic occupation X in Kebara Cave (Israel): Concentrations of animal bones | Quaternary International | 2012 | 54 |
| 18 | Postmarital Residence and Bilateral Kin Associations among Hunter-Gatherers | Human Nature | 2011 | 53 |
| 19 | Nondestructive sampling of human skeletal remains yields ancient nuclear and mitochondrial DNA | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2012 | 53 |
| 20 | Changing Patterns of Infant Mortality and Maternal Fertility among Pumé Foragers and Horticulturalists | American Anthropologist | 2007 | 51 |
| 21 | Juvenile hominoid cranium from the terminal Miocene of Yunnan, China | Science Bulletin | 2013 | 51 |
| 22 | Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines | Nature | 2021 | 49 |
| 23 | Early reproductive maturity among Pumé foragers: Implications of a pooled energy model to fast life histories | American Journal of Human Biology | 2009 | 46 |
| 24 | Nursing Practices and Lactation Amenorrhoea | Journal of Biosocial Science | 1986 | 43 |
| 25 | A Maya Palace at Holmul, Peten, Guatemala and the Teotihuacan “Entrada”: Evidence from Murals 7 and 9 | Latin American Antiquity | 2009 | 42 |
| 26 | The Fall of the Moche: A Critique of Claims for South America’s First State | Latin American Antiquity | 2012 | 42 |
| 27 | Presentation is Everything: Foodways, Tablewares, and Colonial Identity at Presidio Los Adaes | International Journal of Historical Archaeology | 2012 | 40 |
| 28 | Sites on the landscape: Paleoenvironmental context of late Pleistocene archaeological sites from the Lake Victoria basin, equatorial East Africa | Quaternary International | 2014 | 40 |
| 29 | Hunter–gatherer use of wild plants and domesticates: archaeological implications for mixed economies before agricultural intensification | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2014 | 37 |
| 30 | Aspero, Peru: A Reexamination of the Site and Its Implications | American Antiquity | 1973 | 36 |
| 31 | Juvenile Subsistence Effort, Activity Levels, and Growth Patterns | Human Nature | 2011 | 35 |
| 32 | Siwalik synopsis: A long stratigraphic sequence for the Later Cenozoic of South Asia | Comptes Rendus - Palevol | 2016 | 33 |
| 33 | The intersections of Colonial policy and Colonial practice: Creolization on the eighteenth-century Louisiana/Texas frontier | Historical Archaeology | 2000 | 32 |
| 34 | A mass sacrifice of children and camelids at the Huanchaquito-Las Llamas site, Moche Valley, Peru | PLoS ONE | 2019 | 32 |
| 35 | “IT IS HIS IMAGE WITH PULQUE”: DRINKS, GIFTS, AND POLITICAL NETWORKING IN CLASSIC MAYA TEXTS AND IMAGES | Ancient Mesoamerica | 2016 | 31 |
| 36 | The site of Shuitangba (Yunnan, China) preserves a unique, terminal Miocene fauna | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | 2014 | 30 |
| 37 | The Leporid Datum: a late Miocene biotic marker | Mammal Review | 2014 | 30 |
| 38 | A King's Apotheosis: Iconography, Text, and Politics from a Classic Maya Temple at Holmul | Latin American Antiquity | 2016 | 30 |
| 39 | El Niño resilience farming on the north coast of Peru | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 28 |
| 40 | The Female Image: A ‘Time-factored’ Symbol. A Study in Style and Aspects of Image Use in the Upper Palaeolithic. | Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, London | 1991 | 26 |
| 41 | Introduction and historical context for the archaeology of institutions of reform. part 1: asylums | | 2001 | 26 |
| 42 | Re-evaluating the Mimbres Region Prehispanic Chronometric Record | Kiva, The | 2017 | 26 |
| 43 | Comparative analysis of Middle Stone Age artifacts in Africa (CoMSAfrica) | Evolutionary Anthropology | 2019 | 26 |
| 44 | The Bronze Age khanates of Central Asia | Antiquity | 1994 | 25 |
| 45 | Pb and Sr concentrations and isotopic compositions in prehistoric North American teeth: A methodological study | Chemical Geology | 2016 | 25 |
| 46 | A comprehensive phylogeny of extinct and extant Rhizomyinae (Rodentia): evidence for multiple intercontinental dispersals | Cladistics | 2013 | 24 |
| 47 | New World Prehistory | Science | 1960 | 22 |
| 48 | Prevalence of Carious and Non‐carious Cervical Lesions in Archaeological Populations from North America and Europe | Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry | 2009 | 22 |
| 49 | Biogeographic and Evolutionary Implications of an Extinct Late Pleistocene Impala from the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya | Journal of Mammalian Evolution | 2014 | 22 |
| 50 | Genetic relationships based on discrete dental traits: Basketmaker II and Mimbres | International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | 2008 | 21 |
