| Handbook to the Iron Age: the archaeology of pre-colonial farming societies in southern Africa TN Huffman (No Title), 2007 | 1372 | 2007 |
| Archaeology and ethnohistory of the African Iron Age TN Huffman Annual review of Anthropology, 133-150, 1982 | 434 | 1982 |
| Snakes & crocodiles: power and symbolism in ancient Zimbabwe TN Huffman (No Title), 1996 | 341 | 1996 |
| Mapungubwe and the origins of the Zimbabwe culture TN Huffman Goodwin Series, 14-29, 2000 | 278 | 2000 |
| Iron Age settlement patterns and the origins of class distinction in southern Africa TN Huffman | 237 | 1986 |
| Ceramics, settlements and late Iron Age migrations TN Huffman African archaeological review 7 (1), 155-182, 1989 | 219 | 1989 |
| Archaeological evidence for climatic change during the last 2000 years in southern Africa TN Huffman Quaternary International 33, 55-60, 1996 | 203 | 1996 |
| Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe: The origin and spread of social complexity in southern Africa TN Huffman Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28 (1), 37-54, 2009 | 201 | 2009 |
| Middle to late holocene paleoclimatic change and the early bantu expansion in the rain forests of Western Central Africa K Bostoen, B Clist, C Doumenge, R Grollemund, JM Hombert, JK Muluwa, ... Current Anthropology 56 (3), 354-384, 2015 | 191 | 2015 |
| The Early Iron Age and the spread of the Bantu TN Huffman The South African Archaeological Bulletin 25 (97), 3-21, 1970 | 190 | 1970 |
| Ceramics, classification and Iron Age entities TN Huffman African studies 39 (2), 123-174, 1980 | 174 | 1980 |
| The Central Cattle Pattern and interpreting the past TN Huffman Southern African Humanities 13 (1), 19-35, 2001 | 169 | 2001 |
| Iron age migrations: the ceramic sequence in southern Zambia: excavations at Gundu and Ndonde TN Huffman ISBS, 1989 | 157 | 1989 |
| Broederstroom and the central cattle pattern TN Huffman South African Journal of Science 89 (5), 220-226, 1993 | 149 | 1993 |
| The archaeology of the Nguni past TN Huffman Southern African Humanities 16 (1), 79-111, 2004 | 140 | 2004 |
| The rise and fall of Zimbabwe TN Huffman The Journal of African History 13 (3), 353-366, 1972 | 140 | 1972 |
| The Leopard's Kopje Tradition. TN Huffman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974 | 131 | 1974 |
| Archaeological evidence and conventional explanations of southern Bantu settlement patterns TN Huffman Africa 56 (3), 280-298, 1986 | 126 | 1986 |
| Snakes and birds: expressive space at Great Zimbabwe TN Huffman African Studies 40 (2), 131-150, 1981 | 122 | 1981 |
| The trance hypothesis and the rock art of Zimbabwe TN Huffman Goodwin Series, 49-53, 1983 | 118 | 1983 |
