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Papers

(The median citation count of World Archaeology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate-responsive earthen architecture: multi-scale environmental analysis of passive house design in Classical Olynthos	21
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)	13
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th–20th centuries)	10
Insights into Late Ceramic Period lived experiences in Greater Coclé via human burials at Operation 5, Cerro Juan Díaz, Panamá	9
Global commodities: cosmology and value	8
Stone workshops between petrography and iconography: a preliminary study on Iron Age basalt carvings	8
Ottoman archaeology between the Self and the Other : archaeological ethnography and the transborder research potential of the SW Balkans	8
Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France	8
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity	7
Glass beads in a Dillybag: a cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia	7
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE	7
Crafting and everyday archaeology at Chumnungwa	5
Tomb living: shaped-earth furniture in re-used tombs of Dra Abu el-Naga, Luxor	5
Cross-crafting in standardized and customized metallurgy. Some examples from Bronze Age Poland	5
Assessing the risks of northeastern African archaeological heritage and their relationship to human–environmental processes: a Bayesian network approach	5
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations	5
Magic money: commodities and exchange in Bronze Age Europe	4
Evocative imagery at whose expense? Critical perspectives on Viking Age mortuary reconstructions	4
Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 1005	4
Inserting the dead in living spaces in Bronze Age Southern Italy: the case of Coppa Nevigata	4
Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond	4
From present to past: universality in sheep/goat morphometric distinction?	4
Introducing Lithikos 2 - a novel volumetric morphometric analyser via a volume-based approach to handaxe refinement	3
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: local concepts and global conversations	3
From money to commodity: comparative case studies in demonetization	3

The big bull: stone sculptures, ceremonial places and monumentality in Late Iron Age central Iberia	3
Deurbanization as lateral stratigraphy: Three thousand years of settlement relocation at Sisupalgarh/Bhubaneswar, India	2
Life and death with the sea in between: the Precolumbian Maya site of Marco Gonzalez, Belize	2
Entanglements, ontologies, and grinding stones at the medieval site of Handoga (Djibouti)	2
Community archaeology and climate change	2
Longquan celadon: a quantitative archaeological analysis of a pan-Indian Ocean industry of the 12 ^th to 15 ^th centuries	2
Inequality in life and death: bridging divides between domestic and funerary archaeology in Middle Bronze Age Transylvania	2
Practice beyond category: archaeologies of labor	2
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?	2
From kinship systems to kinwork and oddkin: a view from Scandinavia	2
An archaeology of the crime and punishment of young convicts: a view from colonial Australia	2
Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery	2
Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans	2
Archaeologies of crime and punishment: an introduction	2
Materializations of variable power strategies and inequalities in Polynesia	2
Projectile points, dangers and Amerindian ontologies at eastern Catamarca (Argentina) during the first millennium CE	2
Broken Buddhas, burials, and sanctuary-adjacent sanctuaries: the ancestral animist archaeologies of Angkor’s ancient places and things	2
The punctuated itineraries of purple porphyry	2
Human remains, material culture and collections: an object-based perspective on ethical custodianship	1
A series of unfortunate events: deurbanization, agency, placemaking and the origins of city-states in Crete 1200–700 BC	1
Evidence for punishment and execution on the foreshore: a unique early medieval burial (680–810 AD) from London	1
Labor, gender, and intercultural diplomacy: the emergence of Madame Montour as a professional interpreter in colonial North America	1
Choreographic empathy beyond human and animal	1
Unequal housing in Pompeii: using house size to measure inequality	1
“Everything begins with a dot” cupmarks, minerals and waters in South Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art	1
Dance	1
Theory and methods of settlement archaeology – the Chinese contribution	1
20,000 hours rock art	1
Migration flows and concrete walls: an archaeological perspective on early migrant detention facilities. The C.P.T “Regina Pacis” (Italy, Puglia)	1
Revisiting Creswell Crags: applying digital methods to reassess the northernmost examples of Upper Palaeolithic cave art	1
Collectors, class and conflict at the lower palaeolithic discovery at Stoke Newington, 1878-1884	1
Stone panopticum: rethinking on the monumental stone sculpture of the Iron Age Histri	1
Establishing a dialogue – settlement and funerary archaeology in northern Sudan	1
Re-carving meanings: negotiating social value and conservation in southwest China’s rock carvings	1
Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean	1
Archaeobotany in an era of change and challenge: potential and fragility of macro- and micro-remains	1
Early medieval non-standard settlement graves: what they can or cannot tell us about the social status of a buried person?	1
Earthen dialogues: the cosmopolitics of adobe architectural construction in the Jequetepeque Valley of Peru (600–1000 CE)	1
Towards a political ecology of piracy in the Age of Sail	1
The Northern Tradition rock art of western Norway: from archaeological relativism to iconographic relevance under Late Mesolithic demographic change	1
Carved stone in Mesolithic Cornwall: portable art, Mesolithic magic or mundane markings. Extraordinary new discoveries from southwest Britain	1
Carving miniature worlds – landscape, environments, and Nordic Bronze Age rock art carvers	1
Gone with the wind. Urbanization and deurbanization processes in the medieval Muslim Horn of Africa: the case of Handoga (Djibouti)	1
Crucibles: material expressions of cross craft interaction	1
Beyond bones: how biomolecular archaeology is challenging the definition of ancient human remains and its ethical implications	1
Making dolia and dolium makers	1
Urban archaeology in Kaifeng, a capital city of dynastic China: progress and insights	1
Uncovering the time-depth of rock art: seriation and agency in the case of Levantine rock art of eastern Iberia	1
‘Ribbon-decked poverty’: costume and performance in South Midlands morris dance	1
Understanding Chinese archaeology by statistical analysis of papers published by Chinese researchers in Chinese and World core journals during the past century (1920–2020)	1

Debating archaeological essentials: rethinking place, time, repetition, difference, and representation	1
The living stones. Reassessing the Lombard group of megalithic monuments in the Copper Age	1
Mining and metallurgical labor in Islamic period Southwest Asia	1
The persistence of memory: reuse and resignification of prehistoric petroglyphs in historical times. Two case studies from Malagón (La Mancha, Spain)	1
Early settlers of Soba: strontium isotope evidence for population dynamics in medieval Nubia	1
Giving and taking: negotiating responsible sampling for aDNA and multi-isotope analysis in practice	1
A kaleidoscope from a lost world: mesolithic harpoon morphology in Eastern Middle Sweden	1
On the historical mode of existence of rock art: making, chaîne opératoire, and history	1
5000 years of mudbrick at Arslantepe: ancient earthen architecture and modern sustainability	1
Getting into shape: computing continua of Middle Stone Age prepared core technology	1