Archeology (Social Sciences) papers

Pofolia’s corpus holds 67 papers from Archeology (Social Sciences) (2012–2026), each with a short summary. Below, the 20 most-cited, then the most recently added.

At a glance

• Most cited: Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in Phenix. (2019, 567 citations).
• The 20 papers listed have 3,702 citations between them.
• 11 of the 12 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
• 4 have a free full text (open access).
• Most frequent journals: PLoS ONE, Oxford University Press eBooks, Annual Review of Anthropology.
• Published between 2012 and 2019.

Most cited

Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals

• Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in Phenix.

  2019 · 567 citations

  The Phenix software package has been updated to support macromolecular structure determination using X-ray, neutron, electron diffraction, and cryo-electron microscopy data.

• Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 153.23 · 437 citations

  Organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa, including notched bones, wooden digging sticks, and bone awls, demonstrate key elements of San material culture dating back to approximately 44,000 years ago.

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• Mapping the Global Flow of Steel: From Steelmaking to End-Use Goods

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 50.06 · 264 citations

  This paper presents the first comprehensive map of global steel flows, tracing the material from production through to final goods, to identify key areas for environmental impact reduction.

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• The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2017 · FWCI 73.11 · 226 citations

  This handbook explores rock art as a widespread cultural expression, offering insights into ancestral minds, symbolic landscapes, and spiritual beliefs across diverse global contexts and time periods.

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• History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain

  2012 · FWCI 14.99 · 164 citations

  Edward Baines' 1835 work analyzes the cotton industry as a model of integrating manufacturing, science, and innovation, tracing its development and current state in Britain.

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• Decolonizing Indigenous histories: exploring prehistoric/colonial transitions in archaeology

  Choice Reviews Online · 2013 · 161 citations

  This edited volume reframes archaeology of colonialism by integrating long-term Indigenous histories and collaborative research, moving beyond artificial prehistoric/colonial divides.

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• Archaeologies of the Bantu Expansion

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2013 · FWCI 2.19 · 156 citations

  The Bantu expansion, a complex series of population movements across Africa over millennia, is best understood not as a single event but as a multifaceted process involving colonization, migration, and diffusion.

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• Russia and Syria: explaining alignment with a regime in crisis

  International Affairs · 2013 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 51.11 · 154 citations

  Russia's unwavering support for the Assad regime in Syria is driven less by identity or material interests and more by concerns over domestic political order and resisting Western-led regime change interventions.

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• Modelling the Spread of Farming in the Bantu-Speaking Regions of Africa: An Archaeology-Based Phylogeography

  PLoS ONE · 2014 · Q1 · FWCI 87.03 · 153 citations · Open access

  This study uses archaeological data and novel spatial modeling techniques to reconstruct the spread of farming across sub-Saharan Africa among Bantu-speaking populations.

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• Geologic subjects: nonhuman origins, geomorphic aesthetics and the art of becoming in human

  Cultural Geographies · 2014 · Q1 · FWCI 49.10 · 141 citations

  This paper argues that human subjectivity is not solely human-derived but emerges from a complex interplay with nonhuman and inhuman forces, as evidenced by prehistoric rock art.

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• The Science of Armour Materials

  Elsevier eBooks · 2016 · FWCI 20.78 · 137 citations

  This book provides a comprehensive overview of armour materials, detailing their properties and applications in various operational environments.

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• An early date for cattle from Namaqualand, South Africa: implications for the origins of herding in southern Africa

  Antiquity · 2013 · Q1 · FWCI 51.14 · 137 citations

  New radiocarbon dating of a cow horn from Namaqualand, South Africa, suggests cattle arrived in the region during the early first millennium AD.

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• Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers?

  John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks · 2017 · FWCI 7.04 · 136 citations

  Lexical reconstructions suggest early Bantu speakers south of the West African rainforest 2500 years ago cultivated at least five crops, indicating agricultural knowledge, but they also heavily relied on wild plant resources.

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• Livestock First Reached Southern Africa in Two Separate Events

  PLoS ONE · 2015 · Q1 · FWCI 71.57 · 134 citations · Open access

  New analysis of stone toolkits and early livestock/ceramic remains reveals livestock entered southern Africa via two distinct routes just over 2000 years ago, contradicting single migration theories.

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• Psychoactive Substances in Prehistoric Times: Examining the Archaeological Evidence

  Time and Mind · 2015 · Q1 · FWCI 30.19 · 134 citations

  Archaeological evidence suggests humans have consumed psychoactive substances like drug plants and fermented beverages for millennia.

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• Attention and Interpretation

  2013 · FWCI 18.41 · 126 citations

  This abstract describes a reissue of a 1970 book on attention and interpretation, originally part of a collaboration between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul.

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• Bronze Age Copper Produced at Mitterberg, Austria, and its Distribution

  Archaeologia Austriaca · 2016 · Q1 · FWCI 52.74 · 123 citations · Open access

  Analysis of lead isotope ratios and trace elements reveals that Mitterberg, a major Bronze Age mining field in the Alps, became the primary source of copper in Central Europe by the Middle Bronze Age, replacing earlier fahlore sources.

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• THE EVOLUTION AND AGES OF MAKGADIKGADI PALAEO-LAKES: CONSILIENT EVIDENCE FROM KALAHARI DRAINAGE EVOLUTION SOUTH-CENTRAL AFRICA

  South African Journal of Geology · 2012 · Q2 · FWCI 51.23 · 120 citations

  The Makgadikgadi palaeo-lake system in Botswana, a remnant of a larger inland lake, has a much older history than previously thought. Its evolution was driven by tectonic shifts that rerouted regional rivers into the basin.

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• The archaeological evidence for the appearance of pastoralism and farming in southern Africa

  PLoS ONE · 2018 · Q1 · FWCI 41.52 · 119 citations · Open access

  Archaeological data from 550 BC to AD 1050 reveals that pottery, cattle, and sheep appeared in drier southern African regions approximately 700 years before the full 'Iron Age package' (including agriculture and metalworking) emerged in the east.

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• Archaeometallurgy: The Study of Preindustrial Mining and Metallurgy

  Annual Review of Anthropology · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 45.07 · 113 citations

  Archaeometallurgy, focusing on preindustrial mining and metallurgy, offers anthropologists insights into the materiality of metals, variable value systems, and the social construction of technology before capitalism.

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Recently added

• The Main Stages of the Late Quaternary Evolution of the Kalahari Region, Southern Africa

  2026 · 93 citations

  Kalahari climate shifts during the Late Quaternary were driven by changes in global atmospheric circulation intensity, not by shifts in climatic belts, with distinct wet and arid periods identified.

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• Distinguishing African bovids using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS): New peptide markers and insights into Iron Age economies in Zambia

  PLoS ONE · 2021 · Q1 · FWCI 94.18 · 63 citations · Open access

  ZooMS analysis can now distinguish nearly all African bovid subfamilies, and some tribes/sub-tribes, using newly identified peptide markers, including two novel ones, overcoming previous limitations in identifying fragmented African fauna.

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• Maliwawa figures—a previously undescribed Arnhem Land rock art style

  Australian Archaeology · 2020 · Q1 · FWCI 73.60 · 63 citations

  A previously undescribed rock art style, named Maliwawa Figures, characterized by large human and animal depictions with stroke-line infill, has been identified in northwest Arnhem Land.

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• Wood and the Activity of Dead Tissue

  Advanced Materials · 2020 · Q1 · SJR 8.00 · FWCI 50.07 · 62 citations · Open access

  Wood's cellulose microarchitecture acts as an analog code, enabling humidity-driven actuation (movement) by controlling water absorption and desorption.

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• The Museum as Sensescape: Western Sensibilities and Indigenous Artifacts

  2020 · FWCI 94.03 · 60 citations

  Museums historically prioritized sight over touch, reflecting Western biases that associated 'lower' senses with 'lower' races and used displays to model colonial order.

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• Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in Phenix.

  2019 · 567 citations

  The Phenix software package has been updated to support macromolecular structure determination using X-ray, neutron, electron diffraction, and cryo-electron microscopy data.

• Forest and wildlife resource-conservation efforts based on indigenous knowledge: The case of Nharira community in Chikomba district, Zimbabwe

  Forest Policy and Economics · 2019 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 53.86 · 108 citations

  The Nharira community in Zimbabwe's Chikomba district actively conserves forest and wildlife resources using a combination of customary rules, rituals, taboos, totems, metaphors, and proverbs.

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• Diversification, Intensification and Specialization: Changing Land Use in Western Africa from 1800 BC to AD 1500

  Journal of World Prehistory · 2019 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 40.96 · 62 citations · Open access

  An atlas of land-use practices in West Africa from 1800 BC to AD 1500, synthesized from diverse data, reveals an irregular and non-linear trajectory of agricultural development.

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