| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Fire in the Earth System | Science | 2009 | 2,330 |
| 2 | Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 594 |
| 3 | Dental evidence for ontogenetic differences between modern humans and Neanderthals | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 299 |
| 4 | The agricultural revolution as environmental catastrophe: Implications for health and lifestyle in the Holocene | Quaternary International | 2006 | 259 |
| 5 | Forecasting global biodiversity threats associated with human population growth | Biological Conservation | 2004 | 240 |
| 6 | Isotopic Evidence for Dietary Variability in the Early Hominin Paranthropus robustus | Science | 2006 | 206 |
| 7 | Factors affecting individual participation in group-level aggression among non-human primates | Behaviour | 2007 | 165 |
| 8 | Prehistoric Human Use of Fire, the Eastern Agricultural Complex, and Appalachian Oak-Chestnut Forests: Paleoecology of Cliff Palace Pond, Kentucky | American Antiquity | 1998 | 163 |
| 9 | Bioarchaeology: The Lives and Lifestyles of Past People | Journal of Archaeological Research | 2002 | 154 |
| 10 | Extinction of a West African Red Colobus Monkey | Conservation Biology | 2000 | 152 |
| 11 | Hard-Object Feeding in Sooty Mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) and Interpretation of Early Hominin Feeding Ecology | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 152 |
| 12 | The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas | Science | 2018 | 140 |
| 13 | A community–level evaluation of the impact of prey behavioural and ecological characteristics on predator diet composition | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2004 | 129 |
| 14 | Earth Stewardship of rangelands: coping with ecological, economic, and political marginality | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2013 | 128 |
| 15 | Animal Source Foods and Human Health during Evolution | Journal of Nutrition | 2003 | 123 |
| 16 | Particularism and the retreat from theory in the archaeology of agricultural origins | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 120 |
| 17 | Prevalence and the duration of linear enamel hypoplasia: a comparative study of Neandertals and Inuit foragers*1 | Journal of Human Evolution | 2004 | 119 |
| 18 | Anterior tooth growth periods in Neandertals were comparable to those of modern humans | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 119 |
| 19 | Evaluating Mobility, Monumentality, and Feasting at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring Complex | American Antiquity | 2011 | 105 |
| 20 | Sex and age differences in the diet and ingestive behaviors of sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) in the Tai forest, Ivory coast | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2011 | 104 |
| 21 | “Official” and “practical” kin: Inferring social and community structure from dental phenotype at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2011 | 101 |
| 22 | Stable isotope evidence for sex‐ and status‐based variations in diet and life history at medieval Trino Vercellese, Italy | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2012 | 101 |
| 23 | Anterior dental microwear in Australopithecus afarensis: comparisons with human and nonhuman primates | Journal of Human Evolution | 1989 | 98 |
| 24 | Skeletal and dental morphology of African papionins: unmasking a cryptic clade | Journal of Human Evolution | 2002 | 97 |
| 25 | Comparing responses to novel objects in wild baboons (Papio ursinus) and geladas (Theropithecus gelada) | Animal Cognition | 2009 | 97 |
| 26 | The interaction of stressors in the induction of increased levels of fluctuating asymmetry in the laboratory rat | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1979 | 96 |
| 27 | Storytelling and story testing in domestication | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 96 |
| 28 | Persistent anthrax as a major driver of wildlife mortality in a tropical rainforest | Nature | 2017 | 95 |
| 29 | Dental caries prevalence as evidence for agriculture and subsistence variation during the Yayoi period in prehistoric Japan: Biocultural interpretations of an economy in transition | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2007 | 94 |
| 30 | Migration, Remittances, and Household Strategies | Annual Review of Anthropology | 2011 | 93 |
| 31 | Frontiers of Contact: Bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida | Journal of World Prehistory | 2001 | 92 |
| 32 | The intensification of pre-industrial cereal agriculture in the tropics: Boserup, cultivation lengthening, and the Classic Maya | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology | 2003 | 92 |
| 33 | Economic intensification and degenerative joint disease: Life and labor on the postcontact north coast of Peru | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2009 | 91 |
| 34 | Seed Processing and the Origins of Food Production in Eastern North America | American Antiquity | 2004 | 90 |
| 35 | Exploring the multidimensionality of stature variation in the past through comparisons of archaeological and living populations | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2014 | 89 |
| 36 | Diversifying Incomes and Losing Landscape Complexity in Quilombola Shifting Cultivation Communities of the Atlantic Rainforest (Brazil) | Human Ecology | 2013 | 87 |
| 37 | Dwellers by the Sea: Native American Adaptations along the Southern Coasts of Eastern North America | Journal of Archaeological Research | 2011 | 86 |
| 38 | Skeletal biology over the life span: A view from the surfaces | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2011 | 86 |
| 39 | Hand to Mouth in a Neandertal: Right-Handedness in Regourdou 1 | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 82 |
| 40 | Patterns in ontogeny of human trabecular bone from SunWatch Village in the Prehistoric Ohio Valley: General features of microarchitectural change | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2009 | 81 |
| 41 | Preliminary evidence for medieval Polish diet from carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2010 | 81 |
| 42 | Macroscopic and microscopic analyses of linear enamel hypoplasia in Plio-Pleistocene South African hominins with respect to aspects of enamel development and morphology | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2003 | 79 |
| 43 | Cross‐sectional analysis of long bones, occupational activities and long‐distance trade of the Classic Maya from Xcambó—Archaeological and osteological evidence | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2008 | 79 |
| 44 | The nutrition transition in amazonia: Rapid economic change and its impact on growth and development in Ribeirinhos | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2011 | 79 |
| 45 | Hedging their bets? Male and female chacma baboons form friendships based on likelihood of paternity | Animal Behaviour | 2010 | 78 |
| 46 | Update on the Search for Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus Monkey | International Journal of Primatology | 2005 | 77 |
| 47 | The Nilgiri Langur (Presbytis johnii) of South India | | 1970 | 75 |
| 48 | Feeding, Diet, and Jaw Form in West African Colobus and Procolobus | International Journal of Primatology | 2001 | 75 |
| 49 | Stature estimation in an early medieval (XI‐XII c.) Polish population: Testing the accuracy of regression equations in a bioarcheological sample | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2009 | 75 |
| 50 | Open Access, Open Systems: Pastoral Management of Common-Pool Resources in the Chad Basin | Human Ecology | 2013 | 74 |
