World Archaeology

Papers
(The TQCC of World Archaeology is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence?: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times24
Ottoman archaeology between the Self and the Other : archaeological ethnography and the transborder research potential of the SW Balkans14
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th–20th centuries)12
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)11
Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France11
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity9
Assessing the risks of northeastern African archaeological heritage and their relationship to human–environmental processes: a Bayesian network approach9
Glass beads in a Dillybag: a cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia8
Global commodities: cosmology and value7
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations7
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE7
Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea6
Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 10055
Hominin adaptations in the Lesser Sunda Islands: exploring the vertebrate record to investigate fauna diversity before, during and after the Last Glacial Maximum5
Magic money: commodities and exchange in Bronze Age Europe5
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: local concepts and global conversations5
Practice beyond category: archaeologies of labor5
Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond5
From present to past: universality in sheep/goat morphometric distinction?5
From money to commodity: comparative case studies in demonetization5
Materializations of variable power strategies and inequalities in Polynesia4
Islands and hominin adaptation4
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?4
Entanglements, ontologies, and grinding stones at the medieval site of Handoga (Djibouti)4
Archaeologies of crime and punishment: an introduction4
Community archaeology and climate change4
Projectile points, dangers and Amerindian ontologies at eastern Catamarca (Argentina) during the first millennium CE4
An archaeology of the crime and punishment of young convicts: a view from colonial Australia3
Submerged landscape evolution of the Beagle Channel: context of the first record of underwater archaeological evidence3
Illegal archaeological excavation crime in Jordanian law3
Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery3
Broken Buddhas, burials, and sanctuary-adjacent sanctuaries: the ancestral animist archaeologies of Angkor’s ancient places and things3
‘Ribbon-decked poverty’: costume and performance in South Midlands morris dance3
Submerged inland landscapes of the Aucilla basin, Northwest Florida, USA: populating the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene landscape3
Longquan celadon: a quantitative archaeological analysis of a pan-Indian Ocean industry of the 12 th to 15 th centuries3
Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean3
Evidence for punishment and execution on the foreshore: a unique early medieval burial (680–810 AD) from London3
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