Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Anthropological Archaeology is 2. 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.)
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The Leilatepe phenomenon (3900–3600 cal. BCE): A ‘Middle Ground’ between the Near East and the Caucasus27
Sociopolitical evolution, population clustering, and technology among early sedentary communities in northeastern Andes, Colombia26
Remote sensing evidence for third millennium BCE urban form and hydrology at the Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba, Iraq)26
Collapse, complexity, and caprines: Zooarchaeological investigations of the Hittite state and its afters20
Points of contention: Tradition, resistance, and arrow points in the California missions20
Introduction: Alcohol, rituals, and politics in the ancient world19
Blood symbolism at the root of symbolic culture? African hunter-gatherer perspectives17
Maize consumption out of the production areas in southern South America (Norpatagonia, Argentina): Occasional production, foreigner consumers, or exchange?17
Mold-making technology at architectural compound 60 (CA-60): A newly discovered ceramic workshop at Huacas de Moche, Peru16
The evolution of agro-urbanism: A case study from Angkor, Cambodia15
Deposition analysis and the hidden life of Bronze Age houses15
Materiality of forager food insecurity in the archaeological record: A case study from the central Canadian Boreal Forest, ∼1100–1300 CE15
Toward a quantitative history of ancient Israel: Burials as a test case15
Contrasting strategies: Social organization and interaction in the Early Bronze Age of northwestern Scandinavia15
From Hangovers to Hierarchies: Beer production and use during the Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant – New evidence from Tel Tsaf and Peqi‘in Cave14
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
Translocal identity construction among Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in northwestern China13
From space to Place: The making of temples13
Between the patio group and the plaza: Round platforms as stages for supra-household rituals in early Maya society12
Color as a key characteristic in the terminal pleistocene fluted-point-period lithic economy in northeastern North America12
Animals of the Serranía de la Lindosa: Exploring representation and categorisation in the rock art and zooarchaeological remains of the Colombian Amazon12
The land of the last hunter-gatherer groups in the Ebro basin: Forgers of their own destiny12
Keeping count: On interpreting record keeping in prehistory12
Looking back, looking forward: Resilience and persistence in a Klamath tribal community11
Geophysics elucidate long-term socio-ecological dynamics of foraging, pastoralism, and mixed subsistence strategies on SW Madagascar11
Forager and food producer interrelationships in the zooarchaeological record: Lessons from Central Africa11
Valencina: A copper age polity11
Understanding the intersection of Rapid climate change and subsistence Practices: An isotopic perspective from a Mediterranean Bell Beaker case study11
Kinship as social strategy: A contextual biodistance analysis of the Early Mycenaean Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery, southern Greece11
Diaspora, tradition, and progress: Archaeology of Alexandria, Virginia’s German Jewish community10
Commodification of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in 17th century southern New England10
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Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650–1550): A multi-method chemical and petrographic approach10
Violence among the first horticulturists in the atacama desert (1000 BCE – 600 CE)10
Extraction strategies and technological tradition at late pre-Hispanic quarries, southern Peru (ca. 1000–1532 CE)10
Population collapse or human resilience in response to the 9.3 and 8.2 ka cooling events: A multi-proxy analysis of Mesolithic occupation in the Scheldt basin (Belgium)9
Painting personhood: Red pigment practices in southern Peru9
Revisiting cremation practices of the Pastoral Neolithic in Kenya9
Space making and home making in the world’s first villages: Reconsidering the circular to rectangular architectural transition in the Central Anatolian Neolithic9
Τhe domestication of southwest Asian ‘farmyard animals’: Possible insights from management of feral and free-range relatives in Greece9
Cranial injuries as evidence for violent conflict during the Gallinazo Phase in the Moche Valley of North Coastal Peru9
Ancestral commons theorized: The entanglement of cosmology, community and landscape use in Bronze Age Northern Europe9
Revelatory locales: The ritual reuse of a Late Archaic shell ring in South Carolina9
Traction in Neolithic Çatalhöyük? Palaeopathological analysis of cattle and aurochs remains from the East and West Mounds8
The Pueblo Bonito mounds: Formation history, architectural context and representational fields8
The social dynamics of settling down8
Beer, ritual, and identity: Ethnoarchaeological and archaeological study in Konso, southern Ethiopia8
Taking the high ground: A model for lowland Maya settlement patterns8
Forager mobility, landscape learning and the peopling of Late Pleistocene North America8
Reconstructing and testing neighborhoods at the Maya city of Caracol, Belize7
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Economy, sharing strategies and community structure in the early Neolithic village of Chahai, Northeast China7
Urban structure, spatial equilibrium, and social inequality at Ancient Teotihuacan7
The tapir in the room: Ancient Maya storage architecture7
Demographic transitions, health, and population crises in the postcontact Western Hemisphere7
Meaningful choices and relational networks: Analysing western Arnhem Land’s Painted Hand rock art style using chaîne opératoire6
Violence as a lens to Viking societies: A comparison of Norway and Denmark6
Complicated endings: Household-based foodways and the demise of Early Bronze Age urban society in the southern Levant6
Craft Specialization in the Highland Longshan Society: Perspective from the Bone Needle Workshop on the Central Mound at the Shimao Site, Shaanxi, China6
Migration and state expansion: Archaeological and biochemical evidence from Pataraya, a wari outpost in Nasca, Peru (A.D. 650–1000)6
Predynastic beer production, distribution, and consumption at Hierakonpolis, Egypt6
Mapping human mobility and analyzing spatial memory: palimpsest landscapes of movement in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia6
Culinary chronicles of ancient Ebla: A multidisciplinary exploration of diet, nutrition, and health in a 3rd millennium BCE Syrian civilization6
Celts, Slabs, and Space: Organisation of lithic reduction strategies in Tamil Nadu, India6
“An instrument of grace”: Archaeological and ethnographic studies of homegardens in the American Neotropics6
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A performance test of archaeological similarity-based network inference using New Guinean ethnographic data6
Regional household variation and inequality across the Maya landscape6
Estimating two key dimensions of cultural transmission from archaeological data6
The politics of provincial site planning and the architectural evolution of the Inka administrative center of Turi, northern Chile6
The Archaeology of Musical Bamboos: Native Bamboos and Pre-Hispanic Flutes on the Andean Altiplano around Lake Titicaca (A First Approximation)6
Reconsidering narratives of household social inequality6
Alcohol, ancestors, and the house: Exploring ritual use of beer at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso5
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An integrative examination of elk imagery in Middle Holocene Cis-Baikal, Siberia5
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‘Braiding Knowledge’ about the peopling of the River Murray (Rinta) in South Australia: Ancestral narratives, geomorphological interpretations and archaeological evidence5
Transformations in the roles of men, women, and children in the ceramic industry at Early Bronze Age Hama, Syria and contemporary sites5
“To hell with everything”: Post-war nationalism and the “Old Slavic Sanctuary” at Ptuj Castle, Slovenia5
Palynological studies shed new light on the Neolithisation process in central Europe5
Dietary continuity and change at Panama Viejo from an interdisciplinary perspective, C. 600–16715
Profiling the people behind clay figurines: Technological trace and fingerprint analysis applied to ancient Egypt (Lahun village, MBA II, c. 1800–1700 BC)5
Potters’ technological choices in turbulent times: Exploring the transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain through communities of practice and technological investme5
Societal segmentation and early urbanism in Mesopotamia: Biological distance analysis from Tell Brak using dental morphology5
Cultural macroevolution in the middle to late Holocene Arctic of east Siberia and north America5
Home, hearth, and housekeeping: Alternative methods for detecting migrants in the Wari Empire, Peru5
Strategies of survival? Change, continuity and the adaptive cycle across the middle to early late bronze age at Tell el-Dabˁa, Egypt5
Past maize consumption correlates with population change in Central Western Argentina5
Middle Preclassic Nixtun-Ch'ich': A lowland Maya primate/ritual city4
Variability in the use of caves and rockshelters among ethnographic hunter-gatherers and its archaeological implications4
The case for schismogenesis between Late Developmental Northern Rio Grande and Chacoan communities in Northern New Mexico4
Classic Maya figurines as materials of socialization: Evidence from Ceibal, Guatemala4
Alternatives to interpretive binaries in archaeologies of migration4
Red Queen in Australia4
Hunting and feasting in the pre-Columbian Andes: Exploring the nature and scale of early ceremonial aggregations in Tulan Ravine (5300 to 2400 yr cal. BP) through the circulation of obsidian artefacts4
Plant use and peasant politics under Inka and Spanish rule at Ollantaytambo, Peru4
Hunting, Herding, and diet breadth. A landscape based approach to niche shifting in subsistence economies (Gobi Desert)4
On the pathways. Inter-nodal archaeology in the Atacama desert Pampa (c. 7000 BP-400 BP)4
Daily life in a New Kingdom fortress town in Nubia: A reexamination of physical activity at Tombos4
Just scratching the surface: Post-fire engravings as semasiographic writing in the ancient Andes4
Hunting to herding on the Andean Altiplano: Zooarchaeological insights into Archaic Period subsistence in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru (9.0–3.5 ka)4
Diet, economy, and culinary practices at the height of precolonial Swahili urbanism4
Revisiting ‘Settlement’: A case study of terminology and Early Bronze Age southeast Arabia4
Urbanizing food: New perspectives on food processing tools in the Early Bronze Age villages and early urban centers of the southern Levant4
Negotiating interaction during the Late Woodland-Mississippian transition in Southern Appalachia3
Dogs under urbanization: Isotopic insight from the Bronze Age Central Plains of China (ca. 2000–1000 BCE)3
The scale of social labor investments and social practices behind the construction of megalithic stele monuments in south Ethiopia3
Commensality as social integration in Neolithic Çatalhöyük: Pottery, faunal, and architectural approaches3
Response to Emily Hammer’s article: “Multi-centric, Marsh-based urbanism at the early Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al Hiba, Iraq)”3
Critiquing the logics of prestige in the interpretation of Cycladic Figurines: Towards an archaeological theory of value3
Cosmology, ancestors and mortuary monuments: Principles of political authority in the Rapayán and Tantamayo region of the upper Marañón in the central Andes of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period3
Dearly De-Parted: Ancestors, body partibility, and making place at Dos Hombres, Belize3
Cultural transmission and perception of vessel shapes among Hebron potters3
In search of the origin of inequalities: Gender study and variability of social organization in the first farmers societies of western Europe (Linearbandkeramik culture)3
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Human adaptation to Holocene environments: Perspectives and promise from China3
Libation ritual and the performance of kingship in early China3
Costly signaling, cost shifting, and the Maya Classic-Postclassic transition: architecture and portable display media in the context of The Petén Lakes region, Guatemala3
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Symbolism in action: Techno-typology, function, and human-artefact dynamics in figured/non-figured bone plaques from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Boncuklu Tarla, Turkey3
Earth construction from past to present: Initial results of the ethnoarchaeological program in the Gobaad Basin (Republic of Djibouti, Dikhil region)3
Losing liminality: Turner’s theory of transition in the funerary archaeology of Prepalatial Crete3
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) castration in Fennoscandia: Domestication theory, archaeological methods, and interpretive perspectives3
Understanding multi-sited early village communities of the American Southeast through categorical identities and relational connections3
A crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Alps: Lithic technology, raw material procurement, and mobility in the Aurignacian of Riparo Bombrini3
Integrating cross-collections research and archival study: new insights on macaws and parrots from Chaco Canyon, NM3
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Realizing potentiality. Donut stones in ancient Maya society3
Chronology and the evidence for war in the ancient Maya kingdom of Piedras Negras3
Superpositions and superimpositions in rock art studies: Reading the rock face at Pundawar Manbur, Kimberley, northwest Australia3
Marra philosophies of stone, and the stone artefacts of Walanjiwurru 1 rockshelter, Marra Country, northern Australia3
Classic Maya deity concurrence: Brides, gods, and inter-dynastic ritual exchange3
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A reappraisal of interaction spheres3
Response to Germonpré et al. “Some comments on ‘Friend or Foe? Large canid remains from Pavlovian sites and their archaeozoological context’, a paper by Wilczyński et al. (2020)”3
Marks on the floor. Instant and memory in the foundation of an agro-pastoralist place in the Puna high desert, Northwest Argentina (ca. 1500 BP)2
Who made the Oldowan? Reviewing African hominin fossils and archaeological sites from 3.5 million years ago2
Late Maritime Woodland period hunter-fisher-gatherer complexity in the Far Northeast: Toward an historical and contingent approach2
Moving in and moving out: Explaining final Pleistocene-Early Holocene hunter-gatherer population dynamics on the Korean Peninsula2
The day the music died: Making and playing bone wind instruments at La Real in Middle Horizon, Peru (600–1000 CE)2
Diet, Status, and incipient social Inequality: Stable isotope data from three complex Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer sites in southern California2
Episodic complexity and the emergence of a coastal kingdom: Climate, cooperation, and coercion in Southwest Florida2
Social change and late Holocene hydroclimate variability in southwest Indiana2
Ancient DNA and migrations: New understandings and misunderstandings2
Rethinking agency in hiri exchange relationships on Papua New Guinea’s south coast: Oral traditions and archaeology2
Households, Community, and Crafting at Kanono: The archaeology of a 2nd millennium village in Western Zambia2
Being-with other predators: Cultural negotiations of Neanderthal-carnivore relationships in Late Pleistocene Europe2
Archaeology’s epistemological breadth: Collaborative-Indigenous and ontological turns in historical perspective2
Corrigendum to “A collaborative synthetic view of migration in archaeology: Addressing challenges for policymakers” [J. Anthropol. Archaeol. 78 (2025) 101667]2
A new approach to population: Using multiple measures to estimate the population of a protohistoric village in the western Great Lakes region, USA2
Short-distance hunting strategies of Late Quaternary foragers in the miombo woodlands of Malawi2
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New insights from Ecuador into Inca-style pottery production in the provinces2
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Sex/gender system and social hierarchization in Bell Beaker burials from Iberia2
Modeling Archaic land use and mobility in north-central Belize2
Traditional adhesive production systems in Zambia and their archaeological implications2
Intragroup social differentiation and household inequality in prehistoric Mumun settlements of Korea2
Archaeologies of people and space: Social network analysis of communities and neighborhoods in spatial context2
Ritual networks and the structure of moral communities in Classic Maya society2
Variation in bioavailable lead, copper, and strontium concentrations in human skeletons from medieval to early modern Denmark2
Archaeology sits in places2
The cultural macroevolution of lithic technological strategies in Northern and Western North America during the upper Pleistocene and Holocene2
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