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Papers

(The median citation count of African Archaeological Review 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Giuseppina Mutri: Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya)	20
A Window into the Nubian Diet: A Case Study of Food Crop Storage in the Kingdom of Dongola (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries CE), Northern Sudan	15
John W. Arthur: Beer: A Global Journey Through the Past and Present	13
The Tichitt Culture and the Malian Lakes Region	11
Farming with Hand and Hoe over the Last Millennia: Traditional Terracing and the Agricultural Economy in Konso Zone, Southern Ethiopia	9
Alice Stevenson: Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum	8
Assimilations and Replacements of Early and Middle Holocene Ceramic Productions Across Spatial and Temporal Boundaries in Northern Sudan	8
Hunting by Farmers in the Central Lowveld of South Africa: The Late Iron Age Fauna from Mluwati	7
Investigating the MIS2 Microlithic Assemblage of Umbeli Belli Rockshelter and Its Place Within the Chrono-cultural Sequence of the LSA Along the East Coast of Southern Africa	7
Rethinking the Capsian: Lithic Variability Among Holocene Maghreb Hunter-Gatherers	7
Households in Transition: Persistence and Change of Dwellings in the City of Old Dongola (Sudan, 14th–17th Century)	7
Geospatial Science	6
“All the world's a stage…”: A Valedictory Note	6
Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers	6
Commentary on Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers	6
Deciphering Middle Stone Age Technological Behaviors: An Analysis of the Lithic Technology from Level VI-B at Mumba, Tanzania	6
Mark William Hauser and Julia John Haines: The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean	5
African Farmers, Not Stone Age Foragers: Reassessment of Human Remains from the Mumbwa Caves, Zambia	5
Preserving Heritage Amid War: A Protocol for Recording and Disseminating the Tomb of Djehutyhotep at the Sudan National Museum	4
When Communities Gather Around Their Past: Advancing Equitable Futures Through Collaborative Ethnoarchaeological Research in Ghana	4
The Future of Human Origins and Modern Behavior in Africa	4
Phillip L. de Barros: La Métallurgie du Fer en Pays Bassar (Nord-Togo) Depuis 2400 Ans. Tome I: L’Âge du Fer Ancien (de 400 avant J.-C. à 130 après J.-C.)	4
Science, Not Black Magic: Metal and Glass Production in Africa	4
Andrea Manzo: Ancient Egypt in its African Context: Economic Networks, Social and Cultural Interactions	3
First Archaeological Excavations Along the Atlantic Ocean Coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Iron Age Sites at Muanda	3

Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage Management in Kenya: The Impact of Changing Governance and Financing Landscapes on Developer-Led Archaeology	3
Ethnoarchaeology	3
Results of Preparatory Surveys on the Tagant Escarpment, Mauritania	3
Correction: Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History	3
Wild Food: Plants, Fish and Small Animals on the Menu for Early Holocene Populations at al-Khiday, Central Sudan	3
On the Validity of the Capsian and Iberomaurusian Entities (Northwest African Later Stone Age)	3
Training and Collaboration in African Archaeology	3
Replacement in Progress: Ethnoarchaeological Insights on Disappearing Pottery in Favour of Metal, Glass, and Plastic Containers in Lower Casamance, Senegal (Twentieth–Twenty-first Century AD)	3
New Insights on the Palaeo-archaeological Potential of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal	3
Institutionalizing a “developer pays” Principle for Commercial Archaeology as Part of Changing China-Africa Economic Relations	3
John Kinehan: Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert	3
Durability, Context, and Pragmatics in Linguistic Histories	3
Expanding Space and Time at Igbo-Ukwu: Insights from Recent Fieldwork	3
How African Pasts Can Inspire Alternative Responses to Climate Change: a Creative Writing Experiment	3
The Territory of Ancient Tipasa, Algeria: Archaeological Survey, Material Culture, and Connectivity in Central Maghreb	2
Past and Present Evidence of Loss and Replacements in African Pottery Traditions	2
A Newly Discovered Acheulean Assemblage in the Mbulu Plateau, Northern Tanzania	2
Cemeteries, Rock Art and Other Ritual Monuments of the Tangier Peninsula, Northwestern Africa, in Wider Trans-Regional Perspective (c. 3000–500 BC)	2
Evolution of an Early and Long-Lasting Iron Smelting Technique at Didé West 1, Falémé Valley, Eastern Senegal	2
David Phillipson: A Pan-African Archaeologist	2
Africa’s Cultural Crossroads: Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Syncretism in Western Uganda from Western Kansyore, Transitional Urewe, and Bigo-Period Burials	2
Archaeology and Development: Pre-construction Archaeology in Benin, Nigeria	2
Lotfi Belhouchet: Du Capsien Chasseur au Capsien Pasteur. Pour un Modèle Régional de Néolithisation	2
A Day on the Nile: Living in a Town in Nubia	2
Archaeology and Development: Post-Conflict Rebuilding of the Archaeology and Heritage Sector in Sudan	2
Genetics and Archaeology	2
Those Igbo-Ukwu Glass Beads: Morphology, Chemistry, Provenance, and Trade	2
Earth, Water, Air, and Fire – Thinking about Farming and Farmscapes	2
Techniques, Tools and Boundaries: The Impressed Corded Ware and the White Nile Mesolithic	2
Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History	2
David Phillipson: An Illustrious Synthesizer of African Archaeology	2
The Future of Heritage Management and Development in Africa	2
We Need Social Archaeology to Understand Resilience and Build Usable Pasts	1
In Consideration of a Post-Professional Archaeology: Reflections on David W. Phillipson’s Research and Career	1
Homo heidelbergensis and The Origins of The Middle Stone Age: The Kabwe (Broken Hill) Lithic Assemblage	1
New Luminescence and Radiocarbon Dates for Kanem-Borno Fired-Brick Elite Sites in Kanem, Chad: Bayesian Chronological Modelling of Settlement Construction	1
Communities and the Dead in Africa and Ancient Ethiopia (50–800 CE)	1
Igbo-Ukwu Textiles: AMS Dating and Fiber Analysis	1
Cultivating Complexity: Thirteenth Century AD Crop Systems and Wild Plant Utilization, South Africa	1
Connecting the Dots: Ceramics and the Creation of Foundational Narratives in East African Archaeology	1
Feasting in the Late Swahili: Zooarchaeological Remains from the Friday Mosque Complex at Mtwapa, Kenya	1
Introduction: Forum on Archaeology and Development in Africa	1
On Hunting and Meat-eating by Middle Stone Age Hominins at Loiyangalani Site in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania	1
Pikunda-Munda: Disappearance of Pottery Production in the Western Congo Basin at the End of the Early Iron Age	1
Glass Beads from Songo Mnara, Tanzania: Chemical Composition and Evidence for Local Bead Manufacture	1
Correction to: The 4.2 ka BP Climate Event in Egypt: Integration of Archaeological, Geoarchaeological, and Bioarchaeological Evidence	1
Preliminary Analysis of Ceramic Styles in Fier, Lankan, and Daffo, Southern Jos Plateau, Central Nigeria	1
The Age and Graphic Attributes of the First Potteries of the Western Sahara	1
Some Thoughts on Glass in African Archaeology: An Introduction	1
Isotopic Evidence for Socio-economic Dynamics Within the Capital of the Kingdom of Alwa, Sudan	1

Aspects of Zulu Ceramic Traditions in the Upper and Lower uThukela Basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	1
Storytelling in Archaeology and the Quest for a Pedagogy of Renewal	1
Sex Estimation in the Egyptian Old Kingdom Population (c. 2700–2180 BCE) using Logistic Regression	1
The Walls of Benin Reconsidered: Interpreting West African Linear Earthworks Using A. J. H. Goodwin’s Unpublished Excavation Data	1
David Phillipson’s Contribution to the Archaeology of the Northern Horn of Africa	1
School Learning Enriched by Doing: An Apprenticing Model	1
From “Studying Prehistory” to “Making History” to “Co-creating Heritage”: Reflections on a Journey	1
The Oudierin Drainage Archaeological Project: New Perspectives on the Saloum Delta Shell Middens (Senegal)	1
Reimagining the Role of African Universities in the Context of Archaeology and Development	1
Helina S. Woldekiros: The Boundaries of Ancient Trade: Kings, Commoners, and the Aksumite Salt Trade of Ethiopia	1
Impaled and Displayed: Human Skull Manipulation and Mortuary Practices in the Prehispanic Canary Islands	1
Large Tool Production Sequences in FLK West (Lower Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): Conceptualizing Form and Use During the Earliest Acheulean	1
Mtepe: Documentation and Analysis of a Sewn-Boat Reconstruction from Zanzibar, Tanzania	1
Taphonomy Patterns at Ratho Kroonkop, a Rain-Control Site in the Limpopo Valley, South Africa	1
Developer-Led Archaeology in Ethiopia: Reflection on the Field	1