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Papers

(The TQCC of Cambridge Archaeological Journal 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards a Broader Understanding of the Emergence of Iron Technology in Prehistoric Arctic Fennoscandia	35
A Queer Feminist Perspective on the Early Neolithic Urfa Region: The Ecstatic Agency of the Phallus	21
CAJ volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	21
CAJ volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	16
Dances with Zigzags in Toro Muerto, Peru: Geometric Petroglyphs as (Possible) Embodiments of Songs	13
CAJ volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	12
The Proceduralization of Hominin Knapping Skill: Memorizing Different Lithic Technologies	10
CAJ volume 33 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	9
More Error than Minority: Gendered Burial Practices Align with Peptide-based Sex Identification in Early Bronze Age Burials in Central Europe	9
Relationality, Immanence, Hierarchy: The Nature and Culture of Being(s) at Göbekli Tepe	9
Reflections on a Counter-Humanist Archaeology: A Commentary on Greer 2023	8
Building Ideas out of Wood. What Ancient Egyptian Funerary ‘Models’ Tell Us about Thought and Communication	8
A Kin-based Trade Partnership Model for Obsidian in the Halafian Interaction Sphere: A View from the Southern Levant Wadi Rabah Culture	8
Using Topic Modelling to Reassess Heritage Values from a People-centred Perspective: Applications from the North of England	7
Turning Art into Hammers: A Complex Biography of Palaeolithic Portable Art from Coímbre Cave (Asturias, Spain)	7
CAJ volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	7
Social Exclusion in Ancient Egypt: A Sociological Approach	7
Insights into Natufian Social Identity: A Case Study from the Graveyard of Hayonim Cave	7
The Constructed Desert: A Sacred Cultural Landscape at Har Tzuriaz, Negev, Israel	7
Death and Depths: Exploring Early Fifth Millennium bce Ritual Performance in Har Sifsof Cave, Upper Galilee (Israel)	7
Toward a Poetics of Maya Art and Writing	7
Folk Magic and the Haunting of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland	6
CAJ volume 32 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	6
CAJ volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	6
Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain)	6

Naturalizing the Normative: Cosmology, Ontogenesis and the Emergence of Ritual Communities in Southern Roman Britain	6
CAJ volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Zoroastrian Cave as Heritage for the Long-Term Preservation of Identity and Social Cohesion of This Minority Community	5
Acheulean Handaxes in Medieval France: An Earlier ‘Modern’ Social History for Palaeolithic Bifaces	5
Reframing the Uruk Expansion: Glocalization and Local Dynamics in the Late Chalcolithic Adhaim-Sirwan Drainage Basin, Iraqi Kurdistan	5
Textiles and Staple Finance in the Near East and the Southern Levant	5
Bridlington Boulevard Revisited: New Insights into Pit and Post-hole Cremations in Neolithic Britain	5
The Mandate for Speculation: Responding to Uncertainty in Archaeological Thinking	5
Wealth in Livestock, Wealth-in-People, and Shifting Modes of Production in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Jordan – CORRIGENDUM	5
A Partial Prehistory of the Southwest Silk Road: Archaeometallurgical Networks along the Sub-Himalayan Corridor	5
The Metalworker as Social Agent: Alongue duréeApproach from Northwestern Iberia Atlantic Façade (Ninth–First Centuriesbce)	4
An Argaric Tomb for a Carpathian ‘Princess’?	4
Affirmation and Action: A Posthumanist Feminist Agenda for Archaeology	4
New Materialism and Posthumanism in Roman Archaeology: When Objects Speak for Others	4
Finding Difference in Emotional Communities: New Feminisms of Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Centuryceand Sixth Millenniumbce	4
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in San Forager Theories of Disease, and Its Implications for Understanding Images of Conflict in Southern African Rock Art	4
CAJ volume 32 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance	4
Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean World at the Turn of the First Millenniumce: Networks, Commodities and Cultural Reception	4
The Use of Balances in Late Andean Prehistory (ad 1200–1650)	3
CAJ volume 32 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
The Cognitive Processus Behind Neolithic Schematic Rock Art. Archaeological Implications and Research Hypothesis	3
Hanging over the Void. Uses of Long Ropes and Climbing Rope Ladders in Prehistory as Illustrated in Levantine Rock Art	3
Minds on Fire: Cognitive Aspects of Early Firemaking and the Possible Inventors of Firemaking Kits	3
Revealing the Earliest Animal Engravings in Scotland: The Dunchraigaig Deer, Kilmartin	3
CAJ volume 33 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Photographic Insights from Engaged Archaeology: Yucatan and Beyond	3
Towards Ontological Alterity in the Nordic Bronze Age? Perspectives from Ornamented Personal Objects	3
Transdisciplinary Theoretical Approaches to Migration Studies in Archaeology	3
CAJ volume 32 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
Superstitious Beliefs in the Necropolises of the Huelva Coast: Peculiarities of the Premature Death of Children, Outcasts and Women	3