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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ottoman archaeology between the Self and the Other : archaeological ethnography and the transborder research potential of the SW Balkans21
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence?: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times12
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th–20th centuries)10
Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France9
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity8
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)8
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE7
Assessing the risks of northeastern African archaeological heritage and their relationship to human–environmental processes: a Bayesian network approach7
Magic money: commodities and exchange in Bronze Age Europe6
Global commodities: cosmology and value6
Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea6
Glass beads in a Dillybag: a cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia6
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations6
Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 10055
Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond5
Practice beyond category: archaeologies of labor4
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: local concepts and global conversations4
Entanglements, ontologies, and grinding stones at the medieval site of Handoga (Djibouti)4
Archaeologies of crime and punishment: an introduction4
Hominin adaptations in the Lesser Sunda Islands: exploring the vertebrate record to investigate fauna diversity before, during and after the Last Glacial Maximum4
Projectile points, dangers and Amerindian ontologies at eastern Catamarca (Argentina) during the first millennium CE4
Materializations of variable power strategies and inequalities in Polynesia4
From money to commodity: comparative case studies in demonetization4
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?4
Islands and hominin adaptation3
Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean3
Broken Buddhas, burials, and sanctuary-adjacent sanctuaries: the ancestral animist archaeologies of Angkor’s ancient places and things3
An archaeology of the crime and punishment of young convicts: a view from colonial Australia3
Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery3
Community archaeology and climate change3
Submerged landscape evolution of the Beagle Channel: context of the first record of underwater archaeological evidence3
Longquan celadon: a quantitative archaeological analysis of a pan-Indian Ocean industry of the 12 th to 15 th centuries3
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