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Most cited papers from American Anthropological Association

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What are the most cited papers from American Anthropological Association?

The most cited paper from American Anthropological Association is "Sediments exposed to high temperatures: reconstructing pyrotechnological processes in Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata at Tel Dor (Israel)" (Francesco Berna, Adi Eliyahu Behar, Ruth Shahack‐Gross et al., 2006), with 312 citations. Next come "Enamel hypoplasia and early mortality: Bioarcheological support for the Barker hypothesis" (220) and "The Golden Marshalltown: A Parable for the Archeology of the 1980s" (185).

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Showing 50 of 60 papers. Every paper with more than 22 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	Sediments exposed to high temperatures: reconstructing pyrotechnological processes in Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata at Tel Dor (Israel) Francesco Berna, Adi Eliyahu Behar, Ruth Shahack‐Gross et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science	8 Jul 2006	312
2	Enamel hypoplasia and early mortality: Bioarcheological support for the Barker hypothesis George J. Armelagos, Alan H. Goodman, Kristin Nicole Harper et al. · Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews Open access	Nov 2009	220
3	The Golden Marshalltown: A Parable for the Archeology of the 1980s Kent V. Flannery · American Anthropologist	Jun 1982	185
4	The Ascendance of Hunting during the California Middle Archaic: An Evolutionary Perspective William R. Hildebrandt, Kelly R. McGuire · American Antiquity	Apr 2002	175
5	Reassessing the Emergence of Village Life in the Near East Brian Franklin Byrd · Journal of Archaeological Research	18 Aug 2005	170
6	Ancient human parallel lineages within North America contributed to a coastal expansion Christiana L. Scheib et al. · Science	Jun 2018	163
7	Evolution of marine mammal hunting: A view from the California and Oregon coasts William R. Hildebrandt, Terry L. Jones · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology	Dec 1992	141
8	Re-Thinking Great Basin Foragers: Prestige Hunting and Costly Signaling during the Middle Archaic Period Kelly R. McGuire, William R. Hildebrandt · American Antiquity	Oct 2005	140
9	Factors Affecting the Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) Analysis of Archaeological Obsidian Mark K. Davis, Thomas L. Jackson, M. Steven Shackley et al. Book chapter	21 Sep 2010	132
10	Other Times, Other Customs: The Anthropology of History Marshall Sahlins · American Anthropologist	Sep 1983	131
11	Feeding behavior of yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalusin) the Amboseli National Park, Kenya David Post · International Journal of Primatology	Dec 1982	122
12	CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY IN THE RISE OF MAYA CIVILIZATION: A preliminary perspective from northern Peten Richard D. Hansen, Steven R. Bozarth, John S. Jacob et al. · Ancient Mesoamerica	Jul 2002	103
13	Memory Pieces and Footprints: Multivocality and the Meanings of Ancient Times and Ancestral Places among the Zuni and Hopi Chip Colwell‐Chanthaphonh, Thomas J. Ferguson · American Anthropologist	13 Feb 2006	102
14	A comparison of proteomic, genomic, and osteological methods of archaeological sex estimation Tammy Y. Buonasera, Jelmer W. Eerkens, Alida de Flamingh et al. · Scientific Reports Open access	17 Jul 2020	98
15	Ceramic Production among Small-Scale and Mobile Hunters and Gatherers: A Case Study from the Southwestern Great Basin Jelmer W. Eerkens, Héctor Neff, Michael Dean Glascock · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology	Jun 2002	96
16	AIDS and promiscuity: Muddles in the models of HIV prevention Ralph Bolton · Medical Anthropology	May 1992	86
17	AIDS and the IV drug user: The local context in prevention efforts Merrill C. Singer, Zhongke Jia, Jean J. Schensul et al. · Medical Anthropology	May 1992	81
18	The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities Nicholas C. Kawa, José A. Clavijo Michelangeli, Jessica L. Clark et al. · American Anthropologist	26 Dec 2018	77
19	Reasserting a Prehistoric Tragedy of the Commons: Reply to Lyman Terry L. Jones, William R. Hildebrandt · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology	Mar 1995	77
20	Reduction Strategies and Geochemical Characterization of Lithic Assemblages: A Comparison of Three Case Studies from Western North America Jelmer W. Eerkens, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Michael Dean Glascock et al. · American Antiquity	Jul 2007	76
21	Trends, Issues, Perspectives, and Values for the Aging of the Baby Boom Cohorts John M. Cornman, Eric R. Kingson · The Gerontologist	Feb 1996	75
22	Indigenous responses to drought in sub‐Saharan Africa* Anne Fleurett · Disasters	Sep 1986	70
23	Distinguishing Between Darts and Arrows in the Archaeological Record: Implications for Technological Change in the American West William R. Hildebrandt, Jerome King · American Antiquity	Oct 2012	62
24	Stable isotope reconstructions of shellfish harvesting seasonality in an estuarine environment: implications for Late Holocene San Francisco Bay settlement patterns Jelmer W. Eerkens, Brian Franklin Byrd, Howard J. Spero et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science	27 Dec 2012	56
25	Earliest evidence for human use of tobacco in the Pleistocene Americas Daron G. Duke, Eric Wohlgemuth, Karen R. Adams et al. · Nature Human Behaviour	11 Oct 2021	55
26	The Pre-Aksumite Period: indigenous origins and development in the Horn of Africa A. Catherine D’Andrea, Lynn Welton, Andrea Celeste Tafolla Manzo et al. · Azania Archaeological Research in Africa	3 Jul 2023	53
27	The Western Stemmed Tradition: Problems and Prospects in Paleoindian Archaeology in the Intermountain West Geoffrey M. Smith, Daron G. Duke, Dennis L. Jenkins et al. · PaleoAmerica	6 Sep 2019	51
28	Costly Signaling and the Ascendance of No-Can-Do Archaeology: A Reply to Codding and Jones Kelly R. McGuire, William R. Hildebrandt, Kimberly L. H. Carpenter · American Antiquity	Apr 2007	51
29	Synchronization of energy consumption by human societies throughout the Holocene Jacob Freeman, Jacopo Alessandro Baggio, Erick Robinson et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access	17 Sep 2018	48
30	Ancient and modern genomics of the Ohlone Indigenous population of California Alissa L. Severson, Brian Franklin Byrd, Elizabeth K. Mallott et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access	21 Mar 2022	47
31	Changing the environment of aids risk: Findings on syringe exchange and pharmacy sales of syringes in Hartford, CT Merrill C. Singer, David Himmelgreen, Margaret R. Weeks et al. · Medical Anthropology	Jul 1997	45
32	A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States Robert L. Kelly et al. · American Antiquity Open access	7 Feb 2022	44
33	Virtue Ethics and the Practice of History Chip Colwell‐Chanthaphonh, Thomas J. Ferguson · Journal of Social Archaeology	Feb 2004	44
34	Co-Creation of Knowledge by the Hopi Tribe and Archaeologists Thomas J. Ferguson, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Maren P. Hopkins · Advances in Archaeological Practice Open access	28 Jul 2015	43
35	Modeling foraging ranges and spatial organization of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers in the southern Levant – A least-cost GIS approach Brian Franklin Byrd, Andrew N. Garrard, Paul Brandy · Quaternary International Open access	14 Aug 2015	43
36	Dental calculus as a source of ancient alkaloids: Detection of nicotine by LC-MS in calculus samples from the Americas Jelmer W. Eerkens, Shannon Tushingham, Korey J. Brownstein et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science Reports Open access	20 Feb 2018	42
37	Large-Game Hunting, Gender-Differentiated Work Organization, and the Role of Evolutionary Ecology in California and Great Basin Prehistory: A Reply to Broughton and Bayham William R. Hildebrandt, Kelly R. McGuire · American Antiquity	Oct 2003	42
38	When are two tools better than one? Mortars, millingslabs, and the California acorn economy Nathan E. Stevens, Richard L. McElreath · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Open access	3 Jan 2015	42
39	Large-scale trapping features from the Great Basin, USA: The significance of leadership and communal gatherings in ancient foraging societies Bryan Hockett, Cliff Creger, Beth Peterson Smith et al. · Quaternary International	25 Dec 2012	41
40	Provenance analysis of Olivella biplicata shell beads from the California and Oregon Coast by stable isotope fingerprinting Jelmer W. Eerkens, Gregory S. Herbert, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science Open access	21 Jun 2005	39
41	The biological impact of social responses to the AIDS epidemic Janet W. McGrath · Medical Anthropology	1993	38
42	An Overview of Video Description: History, Benefits, and Guidelines Jaclyn Packer, Katie Vizenor, Joshua A. Miele · Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness	Mar 2015	34
43	Where were the northern elephant seals? Holocene archaeology and biogeography of Mirounga angustirostris Torben C. Rick, Robert L. DeLong, Jon M. Erlandson et al. · The Holocene	Jun 2011	33
44	Are obsidian subsources meaningful units of analysis?: temporal and spatial patterning of subsources in the Coso Volcanic Field, southeastern California Jelmer W. Eerkens, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal · Journal of Archaeological Science	31 Jul 2003	33
45	A GIS model for predicting wetland habitat in the Great Basin at the Pleistocene–Holocene transition and implications for Paleoindian archaeology Daron G. Duke, Jerome King · Journal of Archaeological Science	28 May 2014	31
46	On Intensive Late Holocene Iron Mining and Production in the Northern Congo Basin and the Environmental Consequences Associated with Metallurgy in Central Africa Karen D. Lupo, Dave N. Schmitt, Christopher A. Kiahtipes et al. · PLoS ONE Open access	10 Jul 2015	31
47	Social Circumscription, Territoriality, and the Late Holocene Intensification of Small-Bodied Shellfish Along the California Coast Adrian R. Whitaker, Brian Franklin Byrd · The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology	4 May 2014	30
48	Psychoanalysis and Sociology Donald N. Levine · Ethos	Sep 1978	28
49	Putting patria back into repatriation John R. Welch, Thomas J. Ferguson · Journal of Social Archaeology	11 May 2007	28
50	The Science Behind Pre‐Columbian Evidence of Syphilis in Europe: Research by Documentary George J. Armelagos, Molly Kathleen Zuckerman, Kristin Nicole Harper · Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews Open access	Mar 2012	28

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