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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Fire and its roles in early hominid lifeways	African Archaeological Review	1985	184
2	Throwing and human evolution	African Archaeological Review	1987	161
3	Levallois Lithic Technology from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya: Acheulian Origin and Middle Stone Age Diversity	African Archaeological Review	2006	155
4	Animal Disease Challenges to the Emergence of Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa	African Archaeological Review	2000	153
5	Cultural beginnings: Plio-Pleistocene archaeological occurrences from the Afar, Ethiopia	African Archaeological Review	1983	140
6	Holocene Palaeoclimates of Africa	African Archaeological Review	1997	135
7	Obsidian sources and patterns of source utilization in Kenya and northern Tanzania: some initial findings	African Archaeological Review	1984	132
8	A Review of Swahili Archaeology	African Archaeological Review	1998	127
9	The Upper Pleistocene and early Holocene prehistory of the Horn of Africa	African Archaeological Review	1986	122
10	Ceramics and the Early Swahili: Deconstructing the Early Tana Tradition	African Archaeological Review	2011	122
11	Congo to Kalahari: data and hypotheses about the political economy of the western stream of the Early Iron Age	African Archaeological Review	1990	121
12	The First Herders at the Cape of Good Hope	African Archaeological Review	1998	108
13	Barbed Bone Points: Tradition and Continuity in Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa	African Archaeological Review	1998	102
14	Neolithic Pottery Traditions from the Islands, the Coast and the Interior of East Africa	African Archaeological Review	2003	102
15	(null)	African Archaeological Review	2000	99
16	Towards a Socialised Archaeology of Ceramics in Great Lakes Africa	African Archaeological Review	2010	95
17	The Origin of African Sheep: Archaeological and Genetic Perspectives	African Archaeological Review	2013	95
18	The international factor at Igbo-Ukwu	African Archaeological Review	1991	93
19	Holocene Climatic Changes and Cultural Dynamics in the Libyan Sahara	African Archaeological Review	1999	93
20	Some Insights on the Aterian in the Libyan Sahara: Chronology, Environment, and Archaeology	African Archaeological Review	1998	91
21	Pleistocene connexions between Africa and Southwest Asia: an archaeological perspective	African Archaeological Review	1987	90
22	The bovids from Elandsfontein, South Africa, and their implications for the age, palaeoenvironment, and origins of the site	African Archaeological Review	1991	90
23	Holocene vegetation of the Eastern Sahara: charcoal from prehistoric sites	African Archaeological Review	1989	89
24	Ceramics, settlements and Late Iron Age migrations	African Archaeological Review	1989	88
25	New research on the Holocene settlement and environment of the Chad Basin in Nigeria	African Archaeological Review	1996	87
26	An African origin for African cattle? ? some archaeological evidence	African Archaeological Review	1991	86
27	Holocene Supra-Regional Environmental Changes as Trigger for Major Socio-Cultural Processes in Northeastern Africa and the Sahara	African Archaeological Review	2015	86
28	Indian Ocean Food Globalisation and Africa	African Archaeological Review	2014	84
29	Fish, pots and grain: Early and Mid-Holocene adaptations in the Central Sudan	African Archaeological Review	1992	80
30	Kariandusi: Acheulean morphology and the question of allometry	African Archaeological Review	1994	80
31	Innovation and industry during the Early Iron Age in East Africa: the KM2 and KM3 sites of northwest Tanzania	African Archaeological Review	1985	78
32	The identification of cultivated pearl millet (Pennisetum) amongst plant impressions on pottery from Oued Chebbi (Dhar Oualata, Mauritania)	African Archaeological Review	1989	78
33	Genetics and African Cattle Domestication	African Archaeological Review	2013	78
34	The Chronological Evidence for the Introduction of Domestic Stock into Southern Africa	African Archaeological Review	1998	77
35	The archaeological significance of animal bones from Acheulean sites in southern Africa	African Archaeological Review	1988	75
36	The Holocene Archaeological Sequence of Shum Laka Rock Shelter (Grassfields, Western Cameroon)	African Archaeological Review	2001	75
37	Mesolithic Site Formation and Palaeoenvironment Along the White Nile (Central Sudan)	African Archaeological Review	2011	74
38	A Middle Stone Age occupation site at Porc Epic Cave, Dire Dawa (east-central Ethiopia)	African Archaeological Review	1984	73
39	Cattle herds and banana gardens: the historical geography of the western Great Lakes region,ca AD 800?1500	African Archaeological Review	1993	73
40	Ishango revisited: new age determinations and cultural interpretations	African Archaeological Review	1987	72
41	Palaeolithic and Neolithic Occupations in the Témara Region (Rabat, Morocco): Recent Data on Hominin Contexts and Behavior	African Archaeological Review	2008	70
42	Radiocarbon chronology of Neolithic and Predynastic sites in Upper Egypt and the Delta	African Archaeological Review	1985	69
43	Hunter to herder: large mammal remains from the hunter-gatherer occupation at Enkapune Ya Muto rock-shelter, Central Rift, Kenya	African Archaeological Review	1992	69
44	Gao and Igbo-Ukwu: Beads, interregional trade, and beyond	African Archaeological Review	1997	69
45	Disclosing Archaeological Complexity of the Khartoum Mesolithic: New Data at the Site and Regional Level	African Archaeological Review	2012	69
46	Human Technical Behavior in the African Middle Stone Age: The Lithic Assemblage of Porc-Epic Cave (Dire Dawa, Ethiopia)	African Archaeological Review	2006	68
47	Still Bay and Howiesons Poort Foraging Strategies: Recent Research and Models of Culture Change	African Archaeological Review	2012	68
48	Reevaluating the Age of the Iberomaurusian in Morocco	African Archaeological Review	2008	67
49	The early city in West Africa: towards an understanding	African Archaeological Review	1984	66
50	Roulette decoration on African pottery: technical considerations, dating and distributions	African Archaeological Review	1985	65

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