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Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ayana Omilade Flewellen
University of California, Riverside
2
Zhenhua Deng
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
3
Tianna Bruno
University of Oregon
4
Eva Mol
University of York
5
Katherine Kanne
University College Dublin
6
Lara M. Cassidy
The University of Melbourne
7
Jacob Holland‐Lulewicz
Pennsylvania State University
8
Kendall Artz
William & Mary
9
Thomas Panganayi Thondhlana
Great Zimbabwe University
10
Sam Holley‐Kline
Florida State University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain
Nature|2025
29 cit.
2
Introduction: Archaeological Labor in Historical Contexts
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology|2024
15 cit.
3
Ancient Genomes From Bronze Age Remains Reveal Deep Diversity and Recent Adaptive Episodes for Human Oral Pathobionts
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2024
12 cit.
4
The earliest stamped hard pottery and high-firing technology dating back to 5000 BP: Evidence from two sites in southeastern China
Journal of Archaeological Science|2024
12 cit.
5
Black ecological relations and methodologies
Progress in Environmental Geography|2024
7 cit.
6
The initial spread of peaches across eastern North America was structured by Indigenous communities and ecologies
Nature Communications|2024
5 cit.
7
Common animals: sedentary pastoralism and the emergence of the commons as an institution
Frontiers in Human Dynamics|2024
4 cit.
8
Modern coastal ecosystems of the American Southeast are shaped by deep-time human-environment interactions
Communications Earth & Environment|2025
4 cit.
9
Relations outside of injury: Black ecologies, Indigenous geographies, and repair
Political Geography|2024
3 cit.
10
The integration of millets into rice agriculture in the mountainous region of southern Zhejiang, China
The Holocene|2025
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Micah Hilt
University of British Columbia Hospital
2
Anthony M. Krus
Scottish Enterprise
3
Alicia Odewale
Department of Archaeology
4
Logan Kistler
Smithsonian Institution
5
J.T. Roane
Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
6
Ruiliang Liu
British Museum
7
Jay Levy
Heritage Preservation
8
Kimberley Marwood
University of Sheffield
9
Malin Holst
York Osteoarchaeology (United Kingdom)
10
Ryan Espersen
Leiden University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater
Journal of Rural Studies|2022
75 cit.
2
The history of Coast Salish “woolly dogs” revealed by ancient genomics and Indigenous Knowledge
Science|2023
18 cit.
3
The six recipes of Zhou: a new perspective on Jin (金) and Xi (锡)
Antiquity|2022
12 cit.
4
The taming of the weed: Developmental plasticity facilitated plant domestication
PLoS ONE|2023
12 cit.
5
Historic manioc genomes illuminate maintenance of diversity under long-lived clonal cultivation
Science|2025
12 cit.
6
“The seeds of a different world are already alive in the everyday practices of ordinary Black and Indigenous people”: An interview with J.T. Roane
Curriculum Inquiry|2022
11 cit.
7
Social change and late Holocene hydroclimate variability in southwest Indiana
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology|2023
11 cit.
8
Squeezing mind out of metal: combining textual evidence with scientific data for metallurgy in early dynastic China
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences|2022
9 cit.
9
Iron production along the Great Wall Belt of the Han Empire: A metallurgical study of an iron smelting site in the Northern Shaanxi, China
Archaeometry|2022
8 cit.
10
Asking different questions: highly radiogenic lead, mixing and recycling of metal and social status in the Chinese Bronze Age
Mineralogical Magazine|2022
8 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Thomas E. Emerson
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2
Timothy Earle
Northwestern University
3
John Schofield
University of York
4
Melissa B. Hagstrum
University of Washington
5
Deborah Walker
Edith Cowan University
6
Paul Craddock
Université de Lille
7
William A. Ritchie
Tofwerk (Switzerland)
8
Pedro Paulo A. Funari
Kaiser Permanente
9
Antoinette Martinez
University of California, Davis
10
Arlen F. Chase
Boston University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Ideology, Materialization, and Power Strategies
Current Anthropology|1996
740 cit.
2
Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies.
Man|1988
680 cit.
3
The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Groups to Agrarian State
Economic Geography|1988
656 cit.
4
Airborne LiDAR, archaeology, and the ancient Maya landscape at Caracol, Belize
Journal of Archaeological Science|2010
527 cit.
5
How Chiefs Come to Power: The Political Economy in Prehistory
Journal of Field Archaeology|1999
510 cit.
6
Arquivos permanentes. Tratamento documental
Revista CPC|2006
469 cit.
7
The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1988
409 cit.
8
Bridge and Barrier. The Natural and Cultural History of Torres Strait.
Journal of Ecology|1974
342 cit.
9
Early Metal Mining and Production
Technology and Culture|1997
334 cit.
10
The Evolution of Human Societies
Ethnohistory|1990
324 cit.

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