| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty | Nature Communications | 2017 | 210 |
| 2 | How Could Language Have Evolved? | PLoS Biology | 2014 | 177 |
| 3 | Body mass estimates of hominin fossils and the evolution of human body size | Journal of Human Evolution | 2015 | 167 |
| 4 | Inscribing the Body | Annual Review of Anthropology | 2004 | 147 |
| 5 | A closer look at Neanderthal postcanine dental morphology: The mandibular dentition | The Anatomical Record | 2002 | 145 |
| 6 | Madagascar's Lemurs: Cryptic diversity or taxonomic inflation? | Evolutionary Anthropology | 2007 | 130 |
| 7 | Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 121 |
| 8 | Human origins: Out of Africa | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 116 |
| 9 | The Feeding Biomechanics and Dietary Ecology of Paranthropus boisei | Anatomical Record | 2015 | 100 |
| 10 | Territorial expansion and primary state formation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 95 |
| 11 | Archaeology and Oral Tradition: The Scientific Importance of Dialogue | American Antiquity | 2002 | 92 |
| 12 | The evolution of mammalian brain size | Science Advances | 2021 | 84 |
| 13 | Partial Genetic Turnover in Neandertals: Continuity in the East and Population Replacement in the West | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2012 | 82 |
| 14 | Footprints reveal direct evidence of group behavior and locomotion in Homo erectus | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 82 |
| 15 | The Sambungmacan 3Homo erectuscalvaria: A comparative morphometric and morphological analysis | The Anatomical Record | 2001 | 79 |
| 16 | Processes of State Formation in the Inca Heartland (Cuzco, Peru) | American Anthropologist | 2002 | 78 |
| 17 | Laetoli footprints reveal bipedal gait biomechanics different from those of modern humans and chimpanzees | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2016 | 74 |
| 18 | Fossil evidence for the origin of Homo sapiens | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2010 | 72 |
| 19 | Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution | Current Biology | 2020 | 72 |
| 20 | Primary State Formation in Mesoamerica | Annual Review of Anthropology | 2004 | 71 |
| 21 | Early procurement of scarlet macaws and the emergence of social complexity in Chaco Canyon, NM | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 70 |
| 22 | Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 68 |
| 23 | Maya Calendar Reform? Evidence from Orientations of Specialized Architectural Assemblages | Latin American Antiquity | 2003 | 63 |
| 24 | Do "Language Rights" Serve Indigenous Interests? Some Hopi and Other Queries | American Anthropologist | 2003 | 61 |
| 25 | Evolution of M1 crown size and cusp proportions in the genus Homo | Journal of Anatomy | 2009 | 60 |
| 26 | How many more? Sample size determination in studies of morphological integration and evolvability | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 59 |
| 27 | Chiefdoms at the threshold: The competitive origins of the primary state | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology | 2012 | 56 |
| 28 | Roosting Ecology of Amazonian Bats: Evidence for Guild Structure in Hyperdiverse Mammalian Communities | American Museum Novitates | 2016 | 56 |
| 29 | Making the Market: Specialty Coffee, Generational Pitches, and Papua New Guinea | Antipode | 2010 | 52 |
| 30 | War and early state formation in Oaxaca, Mexico | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2003 | 51 |
| 31 | Auditory ossicles from southwest Asian Mousterian sites | Journal of Human Evolution | 2008 | 50 |
| 32 | Cultural transmission in the ancient Near East: twenty squares and fifty-eight holes | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2013 | 49 |
| 33 | New fossil hominid calvaria from Indonesia-Sambungmacan 3 | The Anatomical Record | 2001 | 48 |
| 34 | On the Logic of Archaeological Inference: Early Formative Pottery and the Evolution of Mesoamerican Societies | Latin American Antiquity | 2006 | 48 |
| 35 | The evolution of body size and shape in the human career | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2016 | 48 |
| 36 | The Concept of Cathemerality: History and Definition | Folia Primatologica | 2006 | 47 |
| 37 | Human evolution and cognition | Theory in Biosciences | 2010 | 47 |
| 38 | Biomechanical Implications of Intraspecific Shape Variation in Chimpanzee Crania: Moving Toward an Integration of Geometric Morphometrics and Finite Element Analysis | Anatomical Record | 2015 | 47 |
| 39 | Redating Fell's Cave, Chile and the Chronological Placement of the Fishtail Projectile Point | American Antiquity | 2015 | 43 |
| 40 | Origin of the Malagasy Strepsirhine Primates | | 2006 | 43 |
| 41 | Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 3: Marsupials (Didelphimorphia) | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History | 2019 | 43 |
| 42 | Human feeding biomechanics: performance, variation, and functional constraints | PeerJ | 2016 | 43 |
| 43 | Recommended Readings | Childhood | 2002 | 37 |
| 44 | Expansionary dynamics of the nascent Monte Albán state | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology | 2010 | 36 |
| 45 | Language: UG or Not to Be, That Is the Question | PLoS Biology | 2015 | 35 |
| 46 | Surface analysis of stone and bone tools | Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties | 2016 | 35 |
| 47 | Hominin track assemblages from Okote Member deposits near Ileret, Kenya, and their implications for understanding fossil hominin paleobiology at 1.5 Ma | Journal of Human Evolution | 2017 | 35 |
| 48 | What happened in the origin of human consciousness? | The Anatomical Record | 2004 | 34 |
| 49 | Facilitating Interaction: Board Games as Social Lubricants in the Ancient Near East | Oxford Journal of Archaeology | 2016 | 33 |
| 50 | A processual study of Inka state formation | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology | 2003 | 30 |
