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Papers

(The median citation count of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	42
Introduction to the special issue on ‘Plant use and management during the emergence of farming in Southwest Asia: recent insights and new approaches’	18
Survival during the 4.2 ka event by Jomon hunter–gatherers with management and use of plant resources at the Denotame site in central Japan	15
The importance of wild plant resources in the Neolithic: a case study of the Late Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Grandson-Corcelettes, Les Pins (Switzerland)	14
Woodland management at the Swedish middle Neolithic site of Alvastra? A new perspective	12
The potential of REVEALS-based vegetation reconstructions using pollen records from alluvial floodplains	12
Flax use, weeds and manuring in Viking Age Åland: archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis	12
The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology	12
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	12
Exploring palaeoecology in the Northern Territory: the Walanjiwurru rockshelter, vegetation dynamics and shifting social landscapes in Marra Country	11
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce	11
List of critical referees, Volumes 32–33	11
Relative pollen productivity estimates for the dominant plant taxa in the Hoh Xil region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	11
Correction: New crops in the 1st millennium ce in northern Italy	10
Holocene vegetation dynamics, river valley evolution and human settlement of the upper Kama valley, Ural region, Russia	10
Landscape of ice and fire – uniquely well-preserved Scots pine trunks reveal forest fires near the retreating Weichselian ice margin	9
Correction: Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	9
Exploring prehistoric plant use by molecular analyses of Neolithic grave goods	9
Agriculture and crop dispersal in the western periphery of the Old World: the Amazigh/Berber settling of the Canary Islands (ca. 2nd–15th centuries ce)	8
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	8
Modern pollen spectra from the east European forest steppe reflect land use patterns rather than a climatic gradient	8
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet): evidence from Iron Age Kenya	8
“It’s all just barley and figs!” Identifying patterns of plant waste accumulation in House 169, Elephantine Island, Egypt (1750–1650 bc) using machine learning	8
Agricultural resources in the Bronze Age city of Tel Lachish	8
Correction to: The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	8

Ñande reko: the fundamentals of Guaraní traditional environmental knowledge in southern Brazil	8
Plant use at Funnel Beaker sites: combined macro- and microremains analysis at the Early Neolithic site of Frydenlund, Denmark (ca. 3600 bce)	7
Correction: Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	7
Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	7
Changes in vegetation and human-environment interactions during the Holocene in the Lake Pueyrredón area (Southern Patagonia)	7
Recognizing Prunus persica (peach) and allied Rosaceae by the morphological characteristics of their fruitstones	6
Climate and agricultural history from the Petén Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya lowlands of southern Mexico	6
New perspectives on plant-use at neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria: an integrated phytolith and spherulite study	6
Holocene vegetation change at Grosssee, eastern Swiss Alps: effects of climate and human impact	6
A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)	6
A tale of new crops in the arid Arabian Peninsula oasis from antiquity to the early Islamic period	6
Which pulse is it? Identifying archaeological legumes seeds by means of biometric measurements and geometric morphometrics	5
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	5
Food, farming and trade on the Danube frontier: plant remains from Roman Aelia Mursa (Osijek, Croatia)	5
The impact of Lusatian Urnfield and subsequent prehistoric cultures on lake and woodland ecosystems: insights from multi-proxy palaeoecological investigations at Bruszczewo, western Poland	5
Stable carbon isotope (δ13C) analysis of archaeobotanical remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı (western Anatolia) to investigate crop management	5
Archaeobotanical evidence and ethnobotanical interpretation of plants used as coffin pillow fillings in burials in Poland (17th-18/19th centuries)	5
Palynological evidence for the temporal stability of the plant community in the Yellow River Source Area over the last 7,400 years	5
Correction to: Crop cultivation of Middle Yayoi culture communities (fourth century bce–first century ce) in the Kanto region, eastern Japan, inferred from a radiocarbon-dated archaeobotanical record	4
The first comprehensive macroremains analysis of edible plants from Vichama, Peru (1800–1500 bce)	4
Plant macrofossils as indicators of vegetation and climate change in the Northern Black Forest of Germany during the last millennium - with focus on the Little Ice Age	4
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction through phytolith analysis in the Casa de Pedra shell mound archaeological site, São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil	4
Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)	4
Iron Age plant subsistence in the Inner Congo Basin (DR Congo)	4
New evidence for food in the Late-Medieval Balkans: archaeobotany of Venetian houses at Butrint in southern Albania	4
Late Holocene hemp (Cannabis sativa) retting in NE Hungary and the Holocene spread of hemp cultivation in eastern-central Europe	4
Understanding the plant economy of the westernmost territory of the Roman state through waste: the wet site of O Areal (Vigo, Spain)	4
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II	4
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: a comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas	4
Advances in phytolith research in archaeology and paleoecology: developments and applications	4
First identification of plant remains in earthen architecture of Argentina: constructive and domestic archaeological data from early colonial contexts (16th and 17th centuries)	4
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	4
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant	4
Colourful rivers: archaeobotanical remains of dye plants from urban fluvial deposits in the southern Low Countries (Belgium)	4
A new tool for formalised vegetation reconstruction from (sub)fossil records – the FEVER Index	3
Development of crop growing from the late Yangshao to early Longshan period in the Zhengluo region of central China: phytolith evidence from the Shuanghuaishu site	3
Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia	3
Hunter-gatherer farming during the first millennium bce in inland, boreal landscapes: new pollen analytical and archaeological evidence from Dalarna, central Sweden	3
Differences in forest composition following two periods of settlement by pre-Columbian Native Americans	3
Microbotanical signatures of kreb: differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses	3
Comparison of image acquisition techniques and morphometric methods to distinguish between Vitis vinifera subspecies and cultivars	3
Correction: Genomic analysis of emmer wheat shows a complex history with two distinct domestic groups and evidence of differential hybridization with wild emmer from the western Fertile Crescent	3
Botanical composition of meadows and pastures and their role in the functioning of early medieval semi-artificial lake islands in Ziemia Lubuska (Lubusz land), western Poland	3
Vegetation dynamics and land-use change at the Neolithic lakeshore settlement site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia	3
Wild foods, woodland fuels, and cultivation through the Ceramic and Early Historical periods in Araucanía, Southern Chile (400–1850 ce)	3
Correction: Pollen signal of modern vegetation registered in surface soil samples along an elevation gradient from Iztaccíhuatl volcano, central Mexico	3
Agricultural development in the southeastern Baltic region from the late Bronze Age to the medieval period: a case study of Kernavė, southeast Lithuania	3
Mosses recognized as glacial relicts from their postglacial distribution in Poland	3
Surviving on the edge: the role of medieval and modern age charcoal production in the stand composition of colline beech woodlands in NE Hungary (EC Europe)	3
Isotopic insights into quinoa agriculture at an Andean hillfort town (cal ad 1250–1450)	3

Pre-Hispanic use of edible Geoffroea decorticans fruits in central Argentina - first approximations based on an integrated morphoanatomical and archaeobotanical approach	3
Were prehistoric cereal fields in western Norway manured? Evidence from stable isotope values (δ15N) of charred modern and fossil cereals	2
Modern vegetation and its pollen spectra in the Cantabrian mountains, northern Iberian Peninsula, compared with fossil pollen records	2
Late Bronze Age millet farmers at Arnbjerg N: an archaeobotanical analysis and a review of Late Bronze Age millet in Denmark	2
Saga, settlement and sediments at Helgafell, western Iceland	2
Neolithic landscape and firewood use: charcoal analysis of domestic and funerary contexts at La Dehesilla (Andalusia, Spain)	2
Afromontane forests and human impact after the African Humid Period: wood charcoal from the Sodicho rock shelter, SW Ethiopian highlands	2
The introduction history of Hordeum vulgare var. nudum (naked barley) into Fennoscandia	2
Processing and storage of tree fruits, cereals and pulses at PPNA Sharara, southern Jordan	2
Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: a case study of Ashkelon	2
Plant ways in Middle Bronze Age Anatolia—an archaeological interpretation of phytoliths and other plant remains from Zincirli Höyük, Türkiye	2
Environmental dynamics of the western European Mediterranean landscape during the Pleistocene to Holocene transition	2
Water and landscape management for 3,000 years in a mid-mountain area: evolution of the Gourgon mires complex (Massif Central, France) under anthropogenic and climate forcing	2
Examining climate and composition differences in eastern North American temperate forests using pollen ratios and pollen assemblage cluster analysis	2
Grape (Vitis vinifera) use in the early modern Low Countries: a tentative combination of aDNA-analysis and historical sources	2
Vegetation changes in the Grote Nete valley (Campine region, Belgium) during the Boreal: a response to the 9.3 ka event?	2
Natural conditions and sociocultural development in the Mid-Kama region (cis-Ural, Russia) over the last ten millennia: insights from the Shabunichi-1 peat core	2
Cultivating diversity at the onset of agriculture: insights from the Lower Yangtze in the 10th millennium bp	2
The role of fire in the Medieval and Early Modern landscape of Bad Waldsee within the broader context of the pre-Alpine forelands of south-western Germany	2
Potential late glacial maximum refugial areas of Alaska-Yukon postglacial migrant plants	2
Sieving the weeds from the grains: an R based package for classifying archaeobotanical samples of cereals and pulses according to crop processing stages	2
Inventions, innovations and the origins of spelt wheat	2
The first annually resolved analysis of slash-and-burn practices in the boreal Eurasia suggests their strong climatic and socio-economic controls	2
Transformation of West-Carpathian primeval woodlands into high-altitude grasslands from as early as the Bronze Age	2
Legacies of past human activities on one of the largest old-growth forests in the south-east European mountains	1
From wild stands to orchards: an archaeobotanical investigation of the olive tree in prehistoric Aegean vegetation	1
Archaeobotany of el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel (Israel): insights into plant exploitation along the Natufian sequence	1
Correction: Late Holocene hemp (Cannabis sativa) retting in NE Hungary and the Holocene spread of hemp cultivation in eastern-central Europe	1
Late Holocene vegetation dynamics: degree and regional patterns of the Dark Ages woodland regeneration (ad 300–700) in the Netherlands	1
Vegetation changes since the late Middle Ages around Bern, Switzerland	1
Subtropical montane vegetation dynamics in response to Holocene climate change in central Taiwan	1
How to discover ploidy levels of charred free-threshing wheat caryopses?	1
Insights into the indigenous-managed landscape in southeast Australia during the Holocene	1
Possible climatically driven, later prehistoric woodland decline on Ben Lomond, central Scotland	1
Performance of vegetation cover reconstructions using lake and soil pollen samples from the Tibetan Plateau	1
Combined archaeobotanical and linguistic evidence does not support the early domestication of Brassica rapa varieties	1
Comparable quantification methodologies in archaeobotany – a work-in-progress and debate	1
Pollen richness: a reflection of vegetation diversity or pollen-specific parameters?	1
Pre-Aksumite plant husbandry in the Horn of Africa	1
Getting to the root of the problem: new evidence for the use of plant root foods in Mesolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence in Europe	1
The history of Abies pinsapo during the Holocene in southern Spain, based on pedoanthracological analysis	1
Pollen signal of modern vegetation registered in surface soil samples along an elevation gradient from Iztaccíhuatl volcano, central Mexico	1
Surface-soil sporopollen and their relationship with climatic factors in southern Xinjiang, China: implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction	1
Environmental changes in central Mesoamerica in the Archaic and Formative periods	1
Agrobiodiversity and crop diffusion in Morocco from Antiquity to the early Modern period (8th century bce–17th century ce): an archaeobotanical review	1
Correction: NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform	1
Modern phytolith assemblages as indicators of vegetation in the southern Caucasus	1
Wood fuel consumption in the city of Barcelona in the medieval and early modern periods. An overview based on archaeological wood charcoal analysis	1
Vitis sp., Vitaceae and viticulture in the Indus Civilization, South Asia ca. 3200–1500 bc: a critical review	1
Reconstruction of the environmental conditions for the past 2,000 years in the Perico River basin (NW Argentina) based on fossil pollen records	1
Human-facilitated dispersal of pawpaw (Asimina triloba [L.] Dunal) at its northern range limits: re-examining the historical and archaeological evidence	1
The persistent place at Lubrza: a small paradise for hunter-gatherers? Multi-disciplinary studies of Late Palaeolithic environment and human activity in the Łagów lake district (western Poland)	1
Unravelling vegetation and human dynamics during the first millennium ad in Brandenburg, north-eastern Germany: insights from lake sediments	1
Studies on archaeological olive fruitstones from the Archaic and Punic periods (7th–3rd century bc) of Sardinia, Italy	1
Documenting a thousand years of environmental and anthropogenic changes on mangroves on the Bangkok coast, the upper Gulf of Thailand	1
The late Holocene introduction of Juglans regia (walnut) to Cyprus	1
The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	1
New research on crop diversity of the early farmers in southeastern Europe (ca. 6400 − 5700 bce)	1
Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia	1
Seeing the fields through the weeds: introducing the WeedEco R package for comparing past and present arable farming systems using functional weed ecology	1