| From ‘collapse’to urban diaspora: The transformation of low-density, dispersed agrarian urbanism LJ Lucero, R Fletcher, R Coningham Antiquity 89 (347), 1139-1154, 2015 | 117 | 2015 |
| The archaeology of South Asia: from the Indus to Asoka, c. 6500 BCE–200 CE R Coningham, R Young Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 113 | 2015 |
| Anuradhapura: The British-Sri Lankan Excavations at Anuradhapura Salgaha Watta: Volume 1 The Site RAE Coningham Archaeopress, 1999 | 106* | 1999 |
| Passage to India? Anuradhapura and the early use of the Brahmi script RAE Coningham, FR Allchin, CM Batt, D Lucy Cambridge Archaeological Journal 6 (1), 73-97, 1996 | 77 | 1996 |
| The state of theocracy: defining an early medieval hinterland in Sri Lanka R Coningham, P Gunawardhana, M Manuel, G Adikari, M Katugampola, ... antiquity 81 (313), 699-719, 2007 | 70 | 2007 |
| Monks, caves and kings: a reassessment of the nature of early Buddhism in Sri Lanka RAE Coningham World Archaeology 27 (2), 222-242, 1995 | 66 | 1995 |
| The archaeology of Buddhism R Coningham Archaeology and world religion, 75-109, 2002 | 63 | 2002 |
| The dry tank: development and disuse of water management infrastructure in the Anuradhapura hinterland, Sri Lanka K Gilliland, IA Simpson, WP Adderley, CI Burbidge, AJ Cresswell, ... Journal of Archaeological Science 40 (2), 1012-1028, 2013 | 58 | 2013 |
| From Susa to Anuradhapura: Reconstructing Aspects of Trade and Exchange in Bitumen‐Coated Ceramic Vessels between Iran and Sri Lanka from the Third to the Ninth Centuries AD B Stern, J Connan, E Blakelock, R Jackman, RAE Coningham, C Heron Archaeometry 50 (3), 409-428, 2008 | 57 | 2008 |
| The earliest Buddhist shrine: excavating the birthplace of the Buddha, Lumbini (Nepal) RAE Coningham, KP Acharya, KM Strickland, CE Davis, MJ Manuel, ... Antiquity 87 (338), 1104-1123, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
| Paradise Lost: the bombing of the Temple of the Tooth—a UNESCO World Heritage site in Sri Lanka R Coningham, N Lewer Antiquity 73 (282), 857-866, 1999 | 54 | 1999 |
| Dark Age or continuum? An archaeological analysis of the second emergence of urbanism in South Asia RAE Coningham, FR Allchin The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The Emergence of Cities and …, 1995 | 48 | 1995 |
| The rise of cities in Sri Lanka RAE Coningham, FR Allchin The archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: the emergence of cities and …, 1995 | 48 | 1995 |
| Irrigation on the Tehran Plain, Iran: Tepe Pardis—The site of a possible Neolithic irrigation feature? GK Gillmore, RAE Coningham, H Fazeli, RL Young, M Magshoudi, ... Catena 78 (3), 285-300, 2009 | 46 | 2009 |
| Cheshmeh-Ali revisited: towards an absolute dating of the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Iran's Tehran Plain H Fazeli, RAE Coningham, CM Batt Iran 42 (1), 13-23, 2004 | 46 | 2004 |
| A geochemical investigation of the origin of Rouletted and other related South Asian fine wares LA Ford, AM Pollard, RAE Coningham, B Stern antiquity 79 (306), 909-920, 2005 | 41 | 2005 |
| Socio-economic transformations in the Tehran Plain: final season of settlement survey and excavations at Tepe Pardis H Fazeli, RAE Coningham, RL Young, GK Gillmore, M Maghsoudi, ... Iran 45 (1), 267-285, 2007 | 40 | 2007 |
| Location, location, location: a pilot survey of the Tehran Plain in 2003 RAE Coningham, H Fazeli, RL Young, RE Donahue Iran 42 (1), 1-12, 2004 | 36 | 2004 |
| Were cities built as images? P Carl, B Kemp, R Laurence, R Coningham, C Higham, GL Cowgill Cambridge Archaeological Journal 10 (2), 327-365, 2000 | 36 | 2000 |
| Appropriating the past: Philosophical perspectives on the practice of archaeology G Scarre, R Coningham Cambridge University Press, 2012 | 32 | 2012 |
