Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Anthropological Archaeology is 13. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sociopolitical evolution, population clustering, and technology among early sedentary communities in northeastern Andes, Colombia30
The Leilatepe phenomenon (3900–3600 cal. BCE): A ‘Middle Ground’ between the Near East and the Caucasus28
Blood symbolism at the root of symbolic culture? African hunter-gatherer perspectives20
Contrasting strategies: Social organization and interaction in the Early Bronze Age of northwestern Scandinavia20
Materiality of forager food insecurity in the archaeological record: A case study from the central Canadian Boreal Forest, ∼1100–1300 CE20
Mold-making technology at architectural compound 60 (CA-60): A newly discovered ceramic workshop at Huacas de Moche, Peru19
Maize consumption out of the production areas in southern South America (Norpatagonia, Argentina): Occasional production, foreigner consumers, or exchange?18
Introduction: Alcohol, rituals, and politics in the ancient world16
Collapse, complexity, and caprines: Zooarchaeological investigations of the Hittite state and its afters16
Points of contention: Tradition, resistance, and arrow points in the California missions15
Valencina: A copper age polity14
Remote sensing evidence for third millennium BCE urban form and hydrology at the Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba, Iraq)14
Deposition analysis and the hidden life of Bronze Age houses13
Late Holocene tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) resource depression and distant patch use in central California: Faunal and isotopic evidence from King Brown and the Emeryville Shellmound13
Toward a quantitative history of ancient Israel: Burials as a test case13
The land of the last hunter-gatherer groups in the Ebro basin: Forgers of their own destiny13
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