| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Archaeology: the loss of innocence | Antiquity | 1973 | 337 |
| 2 | Handaxes: products of sexual selection? | Antiquity | 1999 | 331 |
| 3 | Beyond lifetime averages: tracing life histories through isotopic analysis of different calcified tissues from archaeological human skeletons | Antiquity | 1995 | 292 |
| 4 | A calibration curve for radiocarbon dates | Antiquity | 1975 | 291 |
| 5 | Hominid species and stone-tool assemblages: how are they related? | Antiquity | 1987 | 269 |
| 6 | Presumed domestication? Evidence for wild rice cultivation and domestication in the fifth millennium BC of the Lower Yangtze region | Antiquity | 2007 | 265 |
| 7 | The past as propaganda: totalitarian archaeology in Nazi Germany | Antiquity | 1990 | 260 |
| 8 | Combining archaeological and radiocarbon information: a Bayesian approach to calibration | Antiquity | 1991 | 259 |
| 9 | The chronology of colonization in New Zealand | Antiquity | 1991 | 251 |
| 10 | Late colonization of East Polynesia | Antiquity | 1993 | 246 |
| 11 | ‘Always momentary, fluid and flexible’: towards a reflexive excavation methodology | Antiquity | 1997 | 241 |
| 12 | Direct evidence for human use of plants 28,000 years ago: starch residues on stone artefacts from the northern Solomon Islands | Antiquity | 1992 | 228 |
| 13 | Indications of bow and stone-tipped arrow use 64 000 years ago in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | Antiquity | 2010 | 227 |
| 14 | CORONA Satellite Photography and Ancient Road Networks: A Northern Mesopotamian Case Study | Antiquity | 2003 | 219 |
| 15 | European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic radiocarbon dates are often older than they look: problems with previous dates and some remedies | Antiquity | 2011 | 217 |
| 16 | Sea-level change and shore-line evolution in Aegean Greece since Upper Palaeolithic time | Antiquity | 1996 | 211 |
| 17 | Across the Indian Ocean: the prehistoric movement of plants and animals | Antiquity | 2011 | 209 |
| 18 | Earliest direct evidence for broomcorn millet and wheat in the central Eurasian steppe region | Antiquity | 2010 | 206 |
| 19 | Neolithic transition in Europe: the radiocarbon record revisited | Antiquity | 2003 | 193 |
| 20 | The Volcanic Destruction of Minoan Crete | Antiquity | 1939 | 188 |
| 21 | Prehistoric human migration in the Linearbandkeramik of Central Europe | Antiquity | 2001 | 187 |
| 22 | The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities. New evidence from Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey | Antiquity | 2012 | 184 |
| 23 | The potential of airborne lidar for detection of archaeological features under woodland canopies | Antiquity | 2005 | 183 |
| 24 | The emergence of agriculture in southern China | Antiquity | 2010 | 182 |
| 25 | The dating of the Island Southeast Asian Neolithic: an attempt at chronometric hygiene and linguistic correlation | Antiquity | 1989 | 181 |
| 26 | Stonehenge for the ancestors: the stones pass on the message | Antiquity | 1998 | 177 |
| 27 | The earliest farmers in Europe | Antiquity | 1995 | 175 |
| 28 | Of gods, glyphs and kings: divinity and rulership among the Classic Maya | Antiquity | 1996 | 175 |
| 29 | Widening diet breadth, declining foraging efficiency, and prehistoric harvest pressure: ichthyofaunal evidence from the Emeryville Shellmound, California | Antiquity | 1997 | 175 |
| 30 | The Middle Yangtze region in China is one place where rice was domesticated: phytolith evidence from the Diaotonghuan Cave, Northern Jiangxi | Antiquity | 1998 | 173 |
| 31 | An engraved bone fragment from c. 70,000-year-old Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origin of symbolism and language | Antiquity | 2001 | 170 |
| 32 | New light on an ancient landscape: lidar survey in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site | Antiquity | 2005 | 170 |
| 33 | Fuel for thought? Beeswax in lamps and conical cups from Late Minoan Crete | Antiquity | 1997 | 169 |
| 34 | The power of stone: symbolic aspects of stone use and tool development in western Arnhem Land, Australia | Antiquity | 1991 | 168 |
| 35 | A critique of the Chinese ‘Middle Palaeolithic’ | Antiquity | 2002 | 167 |
| 36 | Investigating population movement by stable isotope analysis: a report from Britain | Antiquity | 2004 | 166 |
| 37 | Agricultural origins in the Korean Peninsula | Antiquity | 2003 | 165 |
| 38 | Pots, trade and the archaic Greek economy | Antiquity | 1996 | 164 |
| 39 | Development of metallurgy in Eurasia | Antiquity | 2009 | 164 |
| 40 | The early chronology of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in Europe | Antiquity | 2013 | 163 |
| 41 | Goddesses, Gimbutas and New Age archaeology | Antiquity | 1995 | 159 |
| 42 | The earliest occupation of Europe: a short chronology | Antiquity | 1994 | 158 |
| 43 | Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe | Antiquity | 2017 | 157 |
| 44 | Application of sky-view factor for the visualisation of historic landscape features in lidar-derived relief models | Antiquity | 2011 | 152 |
| 45 | The population of ancient Rome | Antiquity | 1997 | 151 |
| 46 | Upper Palaeolithic fibre technology: interlaced woven finds from Pavlov I, Czech Republic, c. 26,000 years ago | Antiquity | 1996 | 148 |
| 47 | Neo-environmental determinism and agrarian ‘collapse’ in Andean prehistory | Antiquity | 1999 | 147 |
| 48 | New evidence for the origins of sedentism and rice domestication in the Lower Yangzi River, China | Antiquity | 2006 | 147 |
| 49 | Visualisation of LiDAR terrain models for archaeological feature detection | Antiquity | 2008 | 146 |
| 50 | Private pantries and celebrated surplus: storing and sharing food at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia | Antiquity | 2009 | 146 |
