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| Demography and the Palaeolithic archaeological record JC French Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 23, 150-199, 2016 | 103 | 2016 |
| Upper Palaeolithic population histories of Southwestern France: a comparison of the demographic signatures of 14C date distributions and archaeological site counts JC French, C Collins Journal of Archaeological Science 55, 122-134, 2015 | 67 | 2015 |
| The demography of the Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherers of Southwestern France: A multi-proxy approach using archaeological data JC French Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 39, 193-209, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| Theoretical and methodological approaches to ecological changes, social behaviour and human intergroup tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP P Spikins, JC French, S John-Wood, C Dytham Journal of archaeological method and theory 28, 53-75, 2021 | 45 | 2021 |
| Reconstructing prehistoric demography: What role for extant hunter‐gatherers? AE Page, JC French Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 29 (6), 332-345, 2020 | 41 | 2020 |
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| The use of ethnographic data in Neanderthal archaeological research: Recent trends and their interpretative implications JC French Hunter Gatherer Research 4 (1), 25-49, 2018 | 20 | 2018 |
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| Growing up Gravettian: Bioarchaeological perspectives on adolescence in the European mid-Upper Paleolithic JC French, A Nowell Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 67, 101430, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| Population changes across the Neanderthal-to-modern-human transition in western France: a reply to Dogandžić and McPherron (2013). P Mellars, JC French Journal of human evolution 65 (3), 330-333, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
| Archaeological demography as a tool for the study of women and gender in the past JC French Cambridge Archaeological Journal 29 (1), 141-157, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations P Riris, F Silva, E Crema, A Palmisano, E Robinson, PE Siegel, JC French, ... Nature 629 (8013), 837-842, 2024 | 11 | 2024 |
| Moving far or moving often? A neglected axis of variation in hunter-gatherer mobility M Grove, H Hall, L Timbrell, A Benton, JC French Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 52, 104266, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
| Women’s subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters AE Page, EJ Ringen, J Koster, M Borgerhoff Mulder, K Kramer, MK Shenk, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (9), e2318181121, 2024 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Palaeolithic archaeological record and the materiality of imagination: a response to J. Wentzel van Huyssteen JC French PressBooks, 2018 | 4 | 2018 |
| An assessment of puberty status in adolescents from the European Upper Paleolithic ME Lewis, JC French, E Rossoni-Notter, O Notter, A Moussous, ... Journal of human evolution 198, 103577, 2025 | 2 | 2025 |
| Report on the 2022 excavations at Wogan Cavern (Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, UK) R Dinnis, J Boulton, M Bates, A Chamberlain, J Davies, R Hopkins, ... Cave and Karst Science 50 (2), 83-91, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
