| The diffusion of maize to the southwestern United States and its impact WL Merrill, RJ Hard, JB Mabry, GJ Fritz, KR Adams, JR Roney, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (50), 21019-21026, 2009 | 197 | 2009 |
| Mano size, stable carbon isotope ratios, and macrobotanical remains as multiple lines of evidence of maize dependence in the American Southwest RJ Hard, RP Mauldin, GR Raymond Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 3 (3), 253-318, 1996 | 130 | 1996 |
| Mobile agriculturalists and the emergence of sedentism: Perspectives from northern Mexico RJ Hard, WL Merrill American Anthropologist 94 (3), 601-620, 1992 | 116 | 1992 |
| A massive terraced village complex in Chihuahua, Mexico, 3000 years before present RJ Hard, JR Roney Science 279 (5357), 1661-1664, 1998 | 97 | 1998 |
| Terrace construction in northern Chihuahua, Mexico: 1150 BC and modern experiments RJ Hard, JE Zapata, BK Moses, JR Roney Journal of Field Archaeology 26 (2), 129-146, 1999 | 46 | 1999 |
| Exploring Texas archaeology with a model of intensification AL Johnson, RJ Hard Plains Anthropologist 53 (205), 137-153, 2008 | 40 | 2008 |
| Agriculture dependence in the Mountain Mogollon RJ Hard Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory, 135-149, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
| The transition to farming on the Rio Casas Grandes and in the southern Jornada Mogollon region RJ Hard, JR Roney The Late Archaic across the Borderlands, 141-186, 2021 | 37* | 2021 |
| The beginnings of maize agriculture J Roney, R Hard Archaeology Southwest 23 (1), 4, 2009 | 36 | 2009 |
| Stable isotope study of hunter-gatherer-fisher diet, mobility, and intensification on the Texas Gulf coastal plain RJ Hard, MA Katzenberg American Antiquity 76 (4), 709-751, 2011 | 34 | 2011 |
| Ecological relationships affecting the rise of farming economies: A test from the American Southwest RJ Hard University of New Mexico, 1986 | 26 | 1986 |
| Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of hunter–gatherers from the Coleman site, a Late Prehistoric cemetery in Central Texas RP Mauldin, RJ Hard, CM Munoz, JLZ Rice, K Verostick, DR Potter, ... Journal of archaeological science 40 (2), 1369-1381, 2013 | 22 | 2013 |
| A theory of regime change on the Texas coastal plain J Freeman, RJ Hard, RP Mauldin Quaternary International 446, 83-94, 2017 | 20 | 2017 |
| Radiocarbon data may support a Malthus-Boserup model of hunter-gatherer population expansion J Freeman, RJ Hard, RP Mauldin, JM Anderies Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 63, 101321, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Cerros de trincheras in northwestern Chihuahua RJ Hard, JR Roney Trincheras Sites in Time, Space and Society, 11-52, 2007 | 17* | 2007 |
| Early Farming and Warfare in Northwest Mexico RJ Hard, JR Roney University of Utah Press, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| Early agriculture in Chihuahua, Mexico RJ Hard, AC MacWilliams, JR Roney Histories of Maize, 497-512, 2016 | 16 | 2016 |
| Early agriculture in northwestern Chihuahua JR Roney, RJ Hard Traditions, Transitions, and Technologies: Themes in Southwestern …, 2002 | 15 | 2002 |
| Archaeological Testing to Determine the National Register Eligibility Status of 18 Prehistoric Sites on Camp Bowie, Brown County, Texas Volume 2 RP Mauldin, DL Nickels, CJ Broehm Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star …, 2003 | 13 | 2003 |
| Late Archaic period hilltop settlements in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico RJ Hard, JR Roney Identity, Feasting, and the Archaeology of the Greater Southwest …, 2004 | 12 | 2004 |
