| Development and disintegration of Maya political systems in response to climate change DJ Kennett, SFM Breitenbach, VV Aquino, Y Asmerom, J Awe, ... Science 338 (6108), 788-791, 2012 | 635 | 2012 |
| Reconstructing the deep population history of Central and South America C Posth, N Nakatsuka, I Lazaridis, P Skoglund, S Mallick, TC Lamnidis, ... Cell 175 (5), 1185-1197. e22, 2018 | 357 | 2018 |
| Constructing proxy records from age models (COPRA) SFM Breitenbach, K Rehfeld, B Goswami, JUL Baldini, HE Ridley, ... Climate of the Past 8 (5), 1765-1779, 2012 | 239 | 2012 |
| Assessing the applicability of portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry for obsidian provenance research in the Maya lowlands AJ Nazaroff, KM Prufer, BL Drake Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (4), 885-895, 2010 | 199 | 2010 |
| Aerosol forcing of the position of the intertropical convergence zone since ad 1550 HE Ridley, Y Asmerom, JUL Baldini, SFM Breitenbach, VV Aquino, ... Nature geoscience 8 (3), 195-200, 2015 | 161 | 2015 |
| In the maw of the earth monster: Mesoamerican ritual cave use KM Prufer, JE Brady University of Texas Press, 2005 | 130* | 2005 |
| Stone houses and earth lords: Maya religion in the cave context KM Prufer, JE Brady University Press of Colorado, 2021 | 117 | 2021 |
| Early isotopic evidence for maize as a staple grain in the Americas DJ Kennett, KM Prufer, BJ Culleton, RJ George, M Robinson, WR Trask, ... Science Advances 6 (23), eaba3245, 2020 | 114 | 2020 |
| Evaluating airborne LiDAR for detecting settlements and modified landscapes in disturbed tropical environments at Uxbenká, Belize KM Prufer, AE Thompson, DJ Kennett Journal of Archaeological Science 57, 1-13, 2015 | 96 | 2015 |
| Wood of the gods: The ritual use of pine (Pinus spp.) by the ancient lowland Maya CT Morehart, DL Lentz, KM Prufer Latin American Antiquity 16 (3), 255-274, 2005 | 93 | 2005 |
| Uncoupling human and climate drivers of late Holocene vegetation change in southern Brazil M Robinson, JG De Souza, SY Maezumi, M Cárdenas, L Pessenda, ... Scientific Reports 8 (1), 7800, 2018 | 91 | 2018 |
| Communities, caves, and ritual specialists: a study of sacred space in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize KM Prufer Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2002 | 89 | 2002 |
| Persistent northward North Atlantic tropical cyclone track migration over the past five centuries JASFMB Lisa M. Baldini, James U. L. Baldini, Jim N. McElwaine, Amy Benoit ... Scientific Reports 6, 2016 | 79 | 2016 |
| What we talk about when we talk about seasonality–A transdisciplinary review O Kwiecien, T Braun, CF Brunello, P Faulkner, N Hausmann, G Helle, ... Earth-Science Reviews 225, 103843, 2022 | 78 | 2022 |
| Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude hydrologic seesaw FA Lechleitner, SFM Breitenbach, K Rehfeld, HE Ridley, Y Asmerom, ... Scientific Reports 7 (1), 45809, 2017 | 74 | 2017 |
| Caves and ancient Maya ritual use of jute CT Halperin, S Garza, KM Prufer, JE Bradya Latin American Antiquity 14 (2), 207-219, 2003 | 73* | 2003 |
| A Bayesian AMS 14C chronology of the Classic Maya center of Uxbenká, Belize BJ Culleton, KM Prufer, DJ Kennett Journal of Archaeological Science 39 (5), 1572-1586, 2012 | 72 | 2012 |
| The Classic Period Maya transition from an ideal free to an ideal despotic settlement system at the polity of Uxbenká KM Pufer, AE Thompson, CR Meredith, BJ Culleton, JM Jordan, CE Ebert, ... Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 45, 53–68, 2017 | 64 | 2017 |
| Intertropical Convergence Zone Variability in the Neotropics During the Common Era Y Asmerom, JUL Baldini, KM Prufer, VJ Polyak, HE Ridley, VV Aquino, ... Science Advances 7 (6), eaax3644, 2020 | 61 | 2020 |
| The low-density urban systems of the Classic period Maya and Izapa: insights from settlement scaling theory ME Smith, SG Ortman, J Lobo, CE Ebert, AE Thompson, KM Prufer, ... Latin American Antiquity 32 (1), 120-137, 2021 | 51 | 2021 |
Douglas J KennettUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraVerified email at anth.ucsb.edu