| 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 | 561 | 2019 |
| Defining the ‘generalist specialist’ niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens P Roberts, BA Stewart Nature Human Behaviour 2 (8), 542-550, 2018 | 217 | 2018 |
| The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation P Roberts, C Hunt, M Arroyo-Kalin, D Evans, N Boivin Nature plants 3 (8), 1-9, 2017 | 200 | 2017 |
| Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages M Robbeets, R Bouckaert, M Conte, A Savelyev, T Li, DI An, K Shinoda, ... Nature 599 (7886), 616-621, 2021 | 174 | 2021 |
| Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania C Posth, K Nägele, H Colleran, F Valentin, S Bedford, KW Kami, R Shing, ... Nature ecology & evolution 2 (4), 731-740, 2018 | 172 | 2018 |
| Direct evidence for human reliance on rainforest resources in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka P Roberts, N Perera, O Wedage, S Deraniyagala, J Perera, S Eregama, ... Science 347 (6227), 1246-1249, 2015 | 134 | 2015 |
| 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest C Shipton, P Roberts, W Archer, SJ Armitage, C Bita, J Blinkhorn, ... Nature Communications 9 (1), 1832, 2018 | 130 | 2018 |
| Paleolithic to Bronze Age Siberians reveal connections with first Americans and across Eurasia H Yu, MA Spyrou, M Karapetian, S Shnaider, R Radzevičiūtė, K Nägele, ... Cell 181 (6), 1232-1245. e20, 2020 | 117 | 2020 |
| Calling all archaeologists: guidelines for terminology, methodology, data handling, and reporting when undertaking and reviewing stable isotope applications in archaeology P Roberts, R Fernandes, OE Craig, T Larsen, A Lucquin, J Swift, J Zech Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 32 (5), 361-372, 2018 | 113 | 2018 |
| Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago O Wedage, N Amano, MC Langley, K Douka, J Blinkhorn, A Crowther, ... Nature Communications 10 (1), 739, 2019 | 110 | 2019 |
| Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa K Wang, S Goldstein, M Bleasdale, B Clist, K Bostoen, P Bakwa-Lufu, ... Science advances 6 (24), eaaz0183, 2020 | 102 | 2020 |
| Earliest known human burial in Africa M Martinón-Torres, F d’Errico, E Santos, A Álvaro Gallo, N Amano, ... Nature 593 (7857), 95-100, 2021 | 92 | 2021 |
| Anthropogenic impacts on Late Holocene land-cover change and floristic biodiversity loss in tropical southeastern Asia Z Zheng, T Ma, P Roberts, Z Li, Y Yue, H Peng, K Huang, Z Han, Q Wan, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (40), e2022210118, 2021 | 91 | 2021 |
| Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics MC Langley, N Amano, O Wedage, S Deraniyagala, MM Pathmalal, ... Science Advances 6 (24), eaba3831, 2020 | 91 | 2020 |
| Microliths in the South Asian rainforest~ 45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka O Wedage, A Picin, J Blinkhorn, K Douka, S Deraniyagala, N Kourampas, ... Plos One 14 (10), e0222606, 2019 | 91 | 2019 |
| Fruits of the forest: human stable isotope ecology and rainforest adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene (∼ 36 to 3 ka) Sri Lanka P Roberts, N Perera, O Wedage, S Deraniyagala, J Perera, S Eregama, ... Journal of human evolution 106, 102-118, 2017 | 88 | 2017 |
| Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia J Louys, P Roberts Nature 586 (7829), 402-406, 2020 | 87 | 2020 |
| Heading north: Late Pleistocene environments and human dispersals in central and eastern Asia F Li, N Vanwezer, N Boivin, X Gao, F Ott, M Petraglia, P Roberts PLoS One 14 (5), e0216433, 2019 | 85 | 2019 |
| Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa M Bleasdale, KK Richter, A Janzen, S Brown, A Scott, J Zech, S Wilkin, ... Nature communications 12 (1), 632, 2021 | 84 | 2021 |
| Climate, environment and early human innovation: stable isotope and faunal proxy evidence from archaeological sites (98-59ka) in the southern Cape, South Africa P Roberts, CS Henshilwood, KL van Niekerk, P Keene, A Gledhill, ... PLoS One 11 (7), e0157408, 2016 | 83 | 2016 |