| Hominid use of fire in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene: A review of the evidence [and comments and replies] SR James, RW Dennell, AS Gilbert, HT Lewis, JAJ Gowlett, TF Lynch, ... Current Anthropology 30 (1), 1-26, 1989 | 660 | 1989 |
| Making history in Banda: Anthropological visions of Africa's past AB Stahl Cambridge University Press, 2001 | 337 | 2001 |
| Concepts of time and approaches to analogical reasoning in historical perspective AB Stahl American antiquity 58 (2), 235-260, 1993 | 329 | 1993 |
| Hominid dietary selection before fire [and comments and reply] AB Stahl, RIM Dunbar, K Homewood, F Ikawa-Smith, A Kortlandt, ... Current Anthropology 25 (2), 151-168, 1984 | 257 | 1984 |
| Colonial entanglements and the practices of taste: An alternative to logocentric approaches AB Stahl American Anthropologist 104 (3), 827-845, 2002 | 248 | 2002 |
| Plant-food processing: implications for dietary quality AB Stahl Foraging and farming, 171-194, 2014 | 244 | 2014 |
| African archaeology: A critical introduction AB Stahl (No Title), 2005 | 122 | 2005 |
| Reinvestigation of Kintampo 6 rock shelter, Ghana: implications for the nature of culture change AB Stahl African Archaeological Review 3 (1), 117-150, 1985 | 122 | 1985 |
| Material histories AB Stahl | 117 | 2010 |
| Political economic mosaics: archaeology of the last two millennia in tropical sub-Saharan Africa AB Stahl Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 33 (1), 145-172, 2004 | 111 | 2004 |
| Gender in African prehistory S Kent Rowman Altamira, 1998 | 105 | 1998 |
| Intensification in the west African Late Stone Age: a view from central Ghana AB Stahl The Archaeology of Africa, 261-273, 2014 | 100 | 2014 |
| Ethnic style and ethnic boundaries: A diachronic case study from West-Central Ghana AB Stahl Ethnohistory, 250-275, 1991 | 90 | 1991 |
| Perceiving variability in time and space: The evolutionary mapping of African societies AB Stahl Beyond chiefdoms: Pathways to complexity in Africa, 39-55, 1999 | 76 | 1999 |
| Change and continuity in the Banda area, Ghana: The direct historical approach AB Stahl Journal of Field Archaeology 21 (2), 181-203, 1994 | 75 | 1994 |
| Innovation, diffusion, and culture contact: The Holocene archaeology of Ghana AB Stahl Journal of world prehistory 8, 51-112, 1994 | 74 | 1994 |
| Ceramic production, consumption and exchange in the Banda area, Ghana: Insights from compositional analyses AB Stahl, M das Dores Cruz, H Neff, MD Glascock, RJ Speakman, B Giles, ... Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27 (3), 363-381, 2008 | 73 | 2008 |
| The archaeology of global encounters viewed from Banda, Ghana AB Stahl African Archaeological Review 16, 5-81, 1999 | 70 | 1999 |
| Dogs, pythons, pots, and beads: The dynamics of shrines and sacrificial practices in Banda, Ghana, 1400–1900 CE AB Stahl Memory work: Archaeologies of material practices, 159-186, 2008 | 66 | 2008 |
| Men and Women in a Market Economy: Gender and Craft Production in West Central Ghana, ca. 1700-1995 AB Stahl, MDD Cruz | 53 | 1998 |
