| Ancient civilizations C Scarre, B Fagan, C Golden Routledge, 2021 | 140 | 2021 |
| Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan: Divergent political trajectories in adjacent Maya polities C Golden, AK Scherer, AR Muñoz, R Vasquez Latin American Antiquity 19 (3), 249-274, 2008 | 122 | 2008 |
| Territory, trust, growth, and collapse in Classic period Maya kingdoms C Golden, AK Scherer Current Anthropology 54 (4), 397-435, 2013 | 107 | 2013 |
| The moral community: Maya settlement transformation at Piedras Negras, Guatemala SD Houston, H Escobedo, M Child, C Golden, R Muñoz, ML Smith The social construction of ancient cities, 212-253, 2003 | 106 | 2003 |
| Evaluating the use of IKONOS satellite imagery in lowland Maya settlement archaeology TG Garrison, SD Houston, C Golden, T Inomata, Z Nelson, J Munson Journal of Archaeological Science 35 (10), 2770-2777, 2008 | 105 | 2008 |
| Using in‐field phosphate testing to rapidly identify middens at Piedras Negras, Guatemala JJ Parnell, RE Terry, C Golden Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 16 (8), 855-873, 2001 | 104 | 2001 |
| Reanalyzing environmental lidar data for archaeology: Mesoamerican applications and implications C Golden, T Murtha, B Cook, DS Shaffer, W Schroder, EJ Hermitt, OA Firpi, ... Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9, 293-308, 2016 | 76 | 2016 |
| Tecolote, Guatemala: Archaeological evidence for a fortified Late Classic Maya political border AK Scherer, C Golden Journal of Field Archaeology 34 (3), 285-305, 2009 | 66 | 2009 |
| Ultrasonic extraction of total particulate aromatic hydrocarbons (TpAH) from airborne particles at room temperature C Golden, E Sawicki International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry 4 (1), 9-23, 1975 | 62 | 1975 |
| The old man of the Maya universe: a unitary dimension to ancient Maya religion S Martin, C Golden, S Houston Maya archaeology 3, 186-227, 2015 | 54 | 2015 |
| Border problems: Recent archaeological research along the Usumacinta River CW Golden, A Scherer The PARI journal: a quarterly publication of the Pre-Columbian Art Research …, 2006 | 53 | 2006 |
| Ancient soil resources of the Usumacinta River region, Guatemala KD Johnson, RE Terry, MW Jackson, C Golden Journal of Archaeological Science 34 (7), 1117-1129, 2007 | 47 | 2007 |
| The name of paper: The mythology of crowning and royal nomenclature on Palenque’s Palace Tablet D Stuart, C Golden, S Houston, J Skidmore Maya archaeology 2, 116-142, 2012 | 44 | 2012 |
| In the land of the Turtle Lords: archaeological investigations at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, 2000 S Houston, H Escobedo, M Child, C Golden, R Terry, D Webster Mexicon, 97-110, 2000 | 39 | 2000 |
| The politics of warfare in the Usumacinta Basin: La Pasadita and the realm of Bird Jaguar CW Golden Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare, 31-48, 2003 | 38 | 2003 |
| Between mountains and sea: investigations at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, 1998 S Houston, H Escobedo, P Hardin, R Terry, D Webster, M Child, C Golden, ... Mexicon 21 (1), 10-17, 1999 | 38 | 1999 |
| Kingship and polity: Conceptualizing the Maya body politic CW Golden Routledge, 2004 | 37 | 2004 |
| Middle Preclassic caches from Ceibal, Guatemala T Inomata Maya archaeology 3, 56, 2016 | 36 | 2016 |
| Ajpach’Waal: The Hieroglyphic Stairway of the Guzmán Group of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico K Tsukamoto, OQE Olguín, C Golden, S Houston, J Skidmore Maya archaeology 3, 30-55, 2015 | 33 | 2015 |
| The fourth Maya codex M Coe, S Houston, M Miller, K Taube, C Golden, J Skidmore Maya archaeology 3, 116-167, 2015 | 33 | 2015 |
