| The archaeology of southern Africa P Mitchell Cambridge University Press, 2024 | 1042 | 2024 |
| Ages for the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa: implications for human behavior and dispersal Z Jacobs, RG Roberts, RF Galbraith, HJ Deacon, R Grun, A Mackay, ... science 322 (5902), 733-735, 2008 | 687 | 2008 |
| South African and Lesotho stone Age sequence updated (I) M Lombard, LYN Wadley, J Deacon, S Wurz, I Parsons, M Mohapi, ... South African Archaeological Bulletin 67 (195), 123-144, 2012 | 498 | 2012 |
| The first Africans: African archaeology from the earliest tool makers to most recent foragers L Barham, P Mitchell (No Title), 2008 | 410 | 2008 |
| African connections: an archaeological perspective on Africa and the wider world P Mitchell Rowman Altamira, 2005 | 249 | 2005 |
| Prehistoric exchange and interaction in southeastern southern Africa: marine shells and ostrich eggshell PJ Mitchell African Archaeological Review 13, 35-76, 1996 | 135 | 1996 |
| The late Pleistocene early microlithic assemblages of southern Africa P Mitchell World Archaeology 20 (1), 27-39, 1988 | 131 | 1988 |
| Horse nations: the worldwide impact of the horse on indigenous societies post-1492 P Mitchell Oxford University Press, 2015 | 130 | 2015 |
| Sehonghong: the Middle and Later Stone Age industrial sequence at a Lesotho rock-shelter PL Carter, PJ Mitchell, P Vinnicombe BAR Publishing, 1988 | 121 | 1988 |
| The Oxford handbook of African archaeology P Mitchell, P Lane OUP Oxford, 2013 | 119 | 2013 |
| The archaeology of southernmost Africa from c. 2000 BP to the early 1800s: a review of recent research P Mitchell, G Whitelaw The Journal of African History 46 (2), 209-241, 2005 | 119 | 2005 |
| Developing the archaeology of marine isotope stage 3 P Mitchell Goodwin Series, 52-65, 2008 | 117 | 2008 |
| Revisiting the Robberg: new results and a revision of old ideas at Sehonghong Rock Shelter, Lesotho PJ Mitchell The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 28-38, 1995 | 116 | 1995 |
| Ostrich eggshell bead strontium isotopes reveal persistent macroscale social networking across late Quaternary southern Africa BA Stewart, Y Zhao, PJ Mitchell, G Dewar, JD Gleason, JD Blum Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (12), 6453-6462, 2020 | 101 | 2020 |
| The earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa: new AMS radiocarbon dates A Bonneau, D Pearce, P Mitchell, R Staff, C Arthur, L Mallen, F Brock, ... antiquity 91 (356), 322-333, 2017 | 99 | 2017 |
| The donkey in human history: an archaeological perspective P Mitchell Oxford University Press, 2018 | 98 | 2018 |
| An early date for cattle from Namaqualand, South Africa: implications for the origins of herding in southern Africa J Orton, P Mitchell, R Klein, T Steele, KA Horsburgh Antiquity 87 (335), 108-120, 2013 | 98 | 2013 |
| Archaeological investigations at two Lesotho rock-shelters: terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene assemblages from Ha Makotoko and Ntloana Tsoana PJ Mitchell Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 59 (1), 39-60, 1993 | 80 | 1993 |
| Genetics and southern African prehistory: an archaeological view P Mitchell J Anthropol Sci 88, 73-92, 2010 | 79 | 2010 |
| Understanding the MSA/LSA transition: the pre-20 000 BP assemblages from new excavations at Sehonghong: rock shelter, Lesotho. PJ Mitchell Southern African Field Archaeology 3 (1), 15-25, 1994 | 78 | 1994 |
