| Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use L Stephens, D Fuller, N Boivin, T Rick, N Gauthier, A Kay, B Marwick, ... Science 365 (6456), 897-902, 2019 | 559 | 2019 |
| A severe centennial-scale drought in midcontinental North America 4200 years ago and apparent global linkages RK Booth, ST Jackson, SL Forman, JE Kutzbach, EA Bettis III, J Kreigs, ... The Holocene 15 (3), 321-328, 2005 | 464 | 2005 |
| Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present R Marchant, S Richer, O Boles, C Capitani, CJ Courtney-Mustaphi, ... Earth-Science Reviews 178, 322-378, 2018 | 201 | 2018 |
| Humans as agents in the termination of the African Humid Period DK Wright Frontiers in Earth Science 5, 4, 2017 | 107 | 2017 |
| Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers M Lipson, EA Sawchuk, JC Thompson, J Oppenheimer, CA Tryon, ... Nature 603 (7900), 290-296, 2022 | 93 | 2022 |
| Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa JC Thompson, DK Wright, SJ Ivory, JH Choi, S Nightingale, A Mackay, ... Science Advances 7 (19), eabf9776, 2021 | 78 | 2021 |
| Water level history for Lake Turkana, Kenya in the past 15,000 years and a variable transition from the African Humid Period to Holocene aridity C Bloszies, SL Forman, DK Wright Bloszies, Christopher; Forman, Steven L.; Wright, David K. 132, 64-76, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| Accuracy vs. precision: understanding potential errors from radiocarbon dating on African landscapes DK Wright African Archaeological Review 34 (3), 303-319, 2017 | 60 | 2017 |
| New perspectives on early regional interaction networks of East African trade: A view from Tsavo National Park, Kenya DK Wright African Archaeological Review 22, 111-140, 2005 | 57 | 2005 |
| Variations in water level for Lake Turkana in the past 8500 years near Mt. Porr, Kenya and the transition from the African Humid Period to Holocene aridity SL Forman, DK Wright, C Bloszies Quaternary Science Reviews 97, 84-101, 2014 | 50 | 2014 |
| Lakeside view: Socio-cultural responses to changing water levels of Lake Turkana, Kenya DK Wright, SL Forman, P Kiura, C Bloszies, A Beyin African Archaeological Review 32 (2), 335-367, 2015 | 48 | 2015 |
| The emergence and intensification of early hunter‐gatherer niche construction JC Thompson, DK Wright, SJ Ivory Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 30 (1), 17-27, 2021 | 45 | 2021 |
| Analysis of feature intervisibility and cumulative visibility using GIS, Bayesian and spatial statistics: A study from the Mandara Mountains, northern Cameroon DK Wright, S MacEachern, J Lee PLOS ONE 9 (11), 2014 | 44 | 2014 |
| The development and collapse of precolonial ethnic mosaics in Tsavo, Kenya CM Kusimba, SB Kusimba, DK Wright Journal of African Archaeology 3 (2), 243-265, 2005 | 42 | 2005 |
| Holocene eolian activation as a proxy for broad-scale landscape change on the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona DK Wright, SL Forman, MR Waters, JC Ravesloot Quaternary Research 76 (1), 10-21, 2011 | 41 | 2011 |
| Approaches to Middle Stone Age landscape archaeology in tropical Africa DK Wright, JC Thompson, F Schilt, AS Cohen, JH Choi, J Mercader, ... Journal of Archaeological Science 77, 64-77, 2017 | 40 | 2017 |
| Long-term dynamics of pastoral ecology in northern Kenya: An old model for new resilience DK Wright Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 55, 101068, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| The old wood effect revisited: a comparison of radiocarbon dates of wood charcoal and short-lived taxa from Korea J Kim, DK Wright, J Hwang, J Kim, Y Oh Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, 3435-3448, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| Renewed Geoarchaeological Investigations of Mwanganda's Village (Elephant Butchery Site), Karonga, Malawi DK Wright, JC Thompson, A Mackay, M Welling, SL Forman, G Price, ... Geoarchaeology 29 (2), 98-120, 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| Renewed investigations into the Middle Stone Age of northern Malawi JC Thompson, A Mackay, DK Wright, M Welling, A Greaves, ... Quaternary International 270, 129-139, 2012 | 32 | 2012 |
