Topic · Ancient Near East History
Most cited papers in Ancient Near East History
What are the most cited papers in Ancient Near East History?
The most cited paper in Ancient Near East History is "Ancient Admixture in Human History" (Nick Patterson, Priya Moorjani, Yontao Luo et al., 2012), with 3,251 citations. Next come "Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact" (1,186) and "Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin" (1,116).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 131 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancient Admixture in Human History Nick Patterson, Priya Moorjani, Yontao Luo et al. · Genetics | 8 Sep 2012 | 3,251 |
| 2 | Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact Melinda A. Zeder · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 12 Aug 2008 | 1,186 |
| 3 | Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin Russell David Gray, Quentin Douglas Atkinson · Nature | Nov 2003 | 1,116 |
| 4 | Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding Richard P. Evershed et al. · Nature | 6 Aug 2008 | 676 |
| 5 | The Cradle of Agriculture Simcha Lev‐Yadun, Avi Gopher, Shahal Abbo · Science | 2 Jun 2000 | 608 |
| 6 | The Optimal Design of Hunting Weapons: Maintainability or Reliability Peter Bleed · American Antiquity | Oct 1986 | 590 |
| 7 | Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor Amélie Kuhrt, Martha T. Roth · American Journal of Legal History | 1997 | 546 |
| 8 | Becoming Roman, staying Greek: Culture, identity and the civilizing process in the Roman East Greg D. Woolf · Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society | 1994 | 500 |
| 9 | Population, Exchange, and Early State Formation in Southwestern Iran Henry T. Wright, Gregory A. Johnson · American Anthropologist | Jun 1975 | 426 |
| 10 | Origins and Development of Urbanism: Archaeological Perspectives George L. Cowgill · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 2004 | 366 |
| 11 | Demography Walter Scheidel · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 29 Nov 2007 | 344 |
| 12 | Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East Hans Jörg Nissen, Peter Damerow, Robert K. Englund | 10 Feb 1994 | 339 |
| 13 | The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities. New evidence from Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey Oliver Dietrich, Manfred Heun, Jens Notroff et al. · Antiquity | 22 Aug 2012 | 328 |
| 14 | Daily Practice and Social Memory at Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder, Craig Cessford · American Antiquity | 2004 | 317 |
| 15 | Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the indo-european steppe hypothesis Will Chang, Chundra Cathcart, David W. Hall et al. · Language | Mar 2015 | 315 |
| 16 | Europe in the Neolithic: The Creation of New Worlds Peter Bogucki · American Anthropologist | Sep 1997 | 313 |
| 17 | The growth of the Mediterranean economy in the early first millennium BC Susan Sherratt, Andrew Sherratt · World Archaeology | Feb 1993 | 292 |
| 18 | The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages Stuart James · Reference Reviews | Oct 2004 | 290 |
| 19 | CORONA Satellite Photography and Ancient Road Networks: A Northern Mesopotamian Case Study Jason A. Ur · Antiquity | Mar 2003 | 272 |
| 20 | Obsidian and Early Cultural Contact in the Near East Colin Renfrew, John E. Dixon, Johnson Robin Cann · Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society | Dec 1966 | 270 |
| 21 | Cycles of Civilization in Northern Mesopotamia, 4400–2000 BC Jason A. Ur · Journal of Archaeological Research | 23 Mar 2010 | 264 |
| 22 | Traditional healing with animals (zootherapy): medieval to present-day Levantine practice Efraim Lev · Journal of Ethnopharmacology | 12 Feb 2003 | 249 |
| 23 | From Passive Periphery to Active Agents: Emerging Perspectives in the Archaeology of Interregional Interaction Gil J. Stein · American Anthropologist | Sep 2002 | 236 |
| 24 | An ethnobotanical study in Central Anatolia (Turkey) Füsun Ertuğ · Economic Botany | Apr 2000 | 234 |
| 25 | New Evidence on the Province of Asia Christian Habicht · The Journal of Roman Studies | Nov 1975 | 228 |
| 26 | The Hoplite Reform and History Anthony Snodgrass · The Journal of Hellenic Studies | Nov 1965 | 215 |
| 27 | Göbekli Tepe – the Stone Age Sanctuaries. New results of ongoing excavations with a special focus on sculptures and high reliefs Klaus H. Schmidt · Documenta Praehistorica | 31 Dec 2010 | 214 |
| 28 | The tablet House: a scribal school in old Babylonian Nippur Eleanor Robson · Revue d assyriologie et d archéologie orientale | Mar 2001 | 210 |
| 29 | Copper statues and pieces of copper: a challenge to the standard account M. B. Burke · Analysis | 1992 | 209 |
| 30 | Early Islamic Syria: An Archaeological Assessment Alan Walmsley | 2007 | 207 |
| 31 | The Beginnings of Pyrotechnology, Part II: Production and Use of Lime and Gypsum Plaster in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Near East WILLIAM DAVID KINGERY, Pamela B. Vandiver, Martha Prickett · Journal of Field Archaeology | 1988 | 203 |
| 32 | Use and trade of bitumen in antiquity and prehistory: molecular archaeology reveals secrets of past civilizations Jacques Connan · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 29 Jan 1999 | 202 |
| 33 | Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent During the Fourth and Third Millennia BC T.J. Wilkinson, Graham Philip, Jane Bradbury et al. · Journal of World Prehistory | Mar 2014 | 197 |
| 34 | Thinking a Bow-and-arrow Set: Cognitive Implications of Middle Stone Age Bow and Stone-tipped Arrow Technology Marlize Lombard, Miriam Noël Haidle · Cambridge Archaeological Journal | 23 May 2012 | 196 |
| 35 | Early Mesopotamian urbanism: a new view from the north Joan Oates, Augusta McMahon, Philip Karsgaard et al. · Antiquity | Sep 2007 | 191 |
| 36 | Political Economy in Early Mesopotamian States Norman Yoffee · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 1995 | 190 |
| 37 | Olivine composition in chondrites Brian Harold Mason · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | Oct 1963 | 190 |
| 38 | Hallmarks in the history of epilepsy: Epilepsy in antiquity Emmanouil Magiorkinis, Kalliopi Sidiropoulou, Aristidis Diamantis · Epilepsy & Behavior | 6 Dec 2009 | 188 |
| 39 | Further Analysis of Near Eastern Obsidians Colin Renfrew, John E. Dixon, Johnson Robin Cann · Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society | Feb 1969 | 188 |
| 40 | The Chalcolithic Period of the Southern Levant: A Synthetic Review Yorke M. Rowan, Jonathan M. Golden · Journal of World Prehistory | Mar 2009 | 187 |
| 41 | The land of assur and the yoke of assur John Nicholas Postgate · World Archaeology | Feb 1992 | 185 |
| 42 | Agriculture and the Origins of the State in Ancient Egypt Robert Colby Allen · Explorations in Economic History | Apr 1997 | 184 |
| 43 | Chromite composition in relation to chemistry and texture of ordinary chondrites T. E. Bunch, Klaus Keil, Kenneth G. Snetsinger · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | Oct 1967 | 184 |
| 44 | Chronology for the Aegean Late Bronze Age 1700-1400 B.C. Sturt W. Manning, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Walter Kutschera et al. · Science | 27 Apr 2006 | 183 |
| 45 | Recognizing Complex Cognition through Innovative Technology in Stone Age and Palaeolithic Sites Lyn Wadley · Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Jun 2013 | 180 |
| 46 | THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF IRAN UNDER THE ARSACIDS A. D. H. Bivar · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 14 Apr 1983 | 179 |
| 47 | Morals and Values in Homer A. A. Long · The Journal of Hellenic Studies | Nov 1970 | 179 |
| 48 | Objects with Attitude: Biographical Facts and Fallacies in the Study of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Warrior Graves James Whitley · Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Oct 2002 | 179 |
| 49 | Technical Innovation and Economic Progress in the Ancient World M. I. Finley · The Economic History Review | Aug 1965 | 173 |
| 50 | Money in Mesopotamia Marvin A. Powell · Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient | 1996 | 171 |
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