Most cited papers from Pitt Rivers Museum

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What are the most cited papers from Pitt Rivers Museum?

The most cited paper from Pitt Rivers Museum is "The cultural biography of objects" (Chris Gosden, Yvonne Marshall, 1999), with 1,162 citations. Next come "What Do Objects Want?" (431) and "Building Past Landscape Perception With GIS: Understanding Topographic Prominence" (214).

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Showing 50 of 60 papers. Every paper with more than 6 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	The cultural biography of objects Chris Gosden, Yvonne Marshall · World Archaeology	Oct 1999	1,162
2	What Do Objects Want? Chris Gosden · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory	30 Aug 2005	431
3	Building Past Landscape Perception With GIS: Understanding Topographic Prominence Marcos Llobera · Journal of Archaeological Science	Sep 2001	214
4	35,000-year-old sites in the rainforests of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea Christina Pavlides, Chris Gosden · Antiquity	Sep 1994	149
5	Photographic “types”: The pursuit of method Elizabeth Edwards · Visual Anthropology	1990	131
6	MYTH, TOTEMISM AND THE CREATION OF CLANS Howard Morphy · Oceania	Jun 1990	126
7	Human Diversity and the Myth of the Primitive Isolate John Edward Terrell, Terry L. Hunt, Chris Gosden · Current Anthropology	Apr 1997	124
8	Prehistoric histories Chris Gosden, Gary Lock · World Archaeology	Jun 1998	121
9	Palaeoproteomics confirm earliest domesticated sheep in southern Africa ca. 2000 BP Ashley N. Coutu, Alberto J. Taurozzi, Meaghan Mackie et al. · Scientific Reports Open access	23 Mar 2021	102
10	Landscape — a usefully ambiguous concept Chris Gosden, Lesley Head · Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania	Oct 1994	96
11	Prehistoric exchange and interaction in southeastern southern africa: Marine shells and ostrich eggshell Peter J. Mitchell · African Archaeological Review	Mar 1996	85
12	Application of PIXE-PIGME to Archaeological Analysis of Changing Patterns of Obsidian Use in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea Glenn R. Summerhayes, J.R. Bird, Richard Fullagar et al. Book chapter	1998	80
13	Recent work in West Africa: New light on the Nok Culture Bernard Fagg · World Archaeology	Jun 1969	74
14	Are islands insular? Landscape vs. seascape in the case of the Arawe Islands, Papua New Guinea Chris Gosden, Christina Pavlides · Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania	Oct 1994	73
15	Testing the Effectiveness of Protocols for Removal of Common Conservation Treatments for Radiocarbon Dating Fiona Brock, Michael Dee, Andrew K. Hughes et al. · Radiocarbon Open access	9 Aug 2017	60
16	The late Quaternary of the Lesotho highlands, southern Africa: Preliminary results and future potential of ongoing research at Sehonghong shelter Peter J. Mitchell · Quaternary International	1996	56
17	Plant Remains From Waterlogged Sites In The Arawe Islands, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea: Implications For The History Of Plant Use And Domestication Peter J. Matthews, Chris Gosden · Economic Botany	Apr 1997	52
18	Taphonomy and Behaviour at the Acheulean Site of Kariandusi, Kenya Ceri Shipton · African Archaeological Review	13 May 2011	51
19	Igbo-Ukwu and the Nile J. E. G. Sutton · African Archaeological Review	Mar 2001	51
20	Arboriculture and agriculture in coastal Papua New Guinea Chris Gosden · Antiquity	1995	49
21	Photography and the performance of history Elizabeth J. Edwards · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) Open access	Nov 2001	44
22	Holocene later stone age hunter-gatherers south of the Limpopo River, Ca. 10,000-2000 B.P. Peter J. Mitchell · Journal of World Prehistory	Dec 1997	44
23	Social Networks and the Creation of the Pitt Rivers Museum Frances Larson, Alison Petch, David Zeitlyn · Journal of Material Culture	16 Oct 2007	38
24	The future of the enthnographic museum (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate) Clare Harris, Michael E. O’Hanlon · Anthropology Today Open access	30 Jan 2013	36
25	‘Many tender ties’: The shifting contexts and meanings of the S BLACK bag Laura L. Peers · World Archaeology	Oct 1999	32
26	The Organization of Later Stone Age Lithic Technology in the Caledon Valley, Southern Africa Peter J. Mitchell · African Archaeological Review	Sep 2000	31
27	Accurate Sex Identification of Ancient Elephant and Other Animal Remains Using Low-Coverage DNA Shotgun Sequencing Data Alida de Flamingh, Ashley N. Coutu, Alfred L. Roca et al. · G3 Genes Genomes Genetics Open access	28 Feb 2020	30
28	MAKING HISTORIES: THE TORRES STRAIT EXPEDITION OF 1898 Elizabeth Edwards · Pacific studies	Dec 1997	30
29	Traditions of Metal-Working in the Later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Britain: Part I Dennis Britton · Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society	Dec 1963	27
30	A Beaker workshop area in the rock shelter of Son Matge, Mallorca William H. Waldren · World Archaeology	Jun 1979	27
31	The archaic use of hallucinogens in Europe: an archaeology of altered states Richard Rudgley · Addiction	Feb 1995	27
32	Jeitun: Recent Excavations at an Early Neolithic Site in Southern Turkmenistan D. R. Harris, Chris Gosden, Michael Charles · Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society	1996	26
33	Strands Which Refuse to be Braided Laura L. Peers · Journal of Material Culture	Mar 2003	23
34	The Methodology of Microwear Analysis: A Comment on Nance Lawrence H. Keeley · American Antiquity	1974	22
35	Sourcing Elephant Ivory from a Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Shipwreck Alida de Flamingh, Ashley N. Coutu, Judith C. Sealy et al. · Current Biology Open access	17 Dec 2020	19
36	From the ground up: cultural heritage practices as tools for empowerment in the Homeless Heritage project Rachael Kiddey · International Journal of Heritage Studies	12 Jan 2017	19
37	A TALE FROM THREE REGIONS: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE PLEISTOCENE/HOLOCENE TRANSITION IN THE WESTERN CAPE, THE CALEDON VALLEY AND THE LESOTHO HIGHLANDS, SOUTHERN AFRICA Peter J. Mitchell, John E. Parkington, Lyn Wadley · Quaternary International	Jul 1998	19
38	The late Quaternary landscape at Sehonghong in the Lesotho highlands, southern Africa Peter J. Mitchell · Antiquity	Sep 1996	18
39	Conversações desassossegadas: diálogos sobre coleções etnográficas com o povo indígena Ka’apor Claudia Leonor López Garcés, Mariana de Campos Françozo, Laura Van Broekhoven et al. · Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Humanas Open access	Dec 2017	17
40	Origin of the mammal-like reptiles Tom S. Kemp · Nature	1980	17
41	Records management in English local government: the effect of freedom of information Elizabeth Jane Shepherd, Alice Stevenson, Andrew Flinn · Records Management Journal Open access	12 Jul 2011	17
42	Proportionality in EU Law: A Balancing Act? Wolf Sauter · Cambridge yearbook of European legal studies Open access	2013	14
43	A rock art pioneer: Louis E. Tylor, and previously undescribed painted rock fragments from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa John Hobart, Peter J. Mitchell, Jeremy Coote · Southern African humanities	2002	14
44	THERMOLUMINESCENT DATING OF A TERRACOTTA OF THE NOK CULTURE, NIGERIA Bernard Fagg, Stuart J. Fleming · Archaeometry	Feb 1970	14
45	Fieldwork and the Participant-Photographer: E.E. Evans-Pritchard and the Nuer Rite ofgorot Christopher Morton · Visual Anthropology	13 Jul 2009	14
46	Dossiê “Patrimônio indígena e coleções etnográficas” Mariana de Campos Françozo, Laura Van Broekhoven · Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Humanas Open access	Dec 2017	13
47	Pitsaneng John Hobart · Before Farming	2004	13
48	The scholar–practitioner expanded: an indigenous and museum research network Cara Krmpotich, Laura L. Peers · Museum Management and Curatorship	14 Nov 2011	12
49	Thermal methods of pest eradication: Their effect on museum objects Gail Gali Beiner, Ticca M.A. Ogilvie · Journal of the Institute of Conservation	2005	12
50	The colonial roots of botany – legacies of empire in the botanic gardens of Oxford and Kew Vibe Nielsen · Museum Management and Curatorship Open access	19 Oct 2023	11

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