| Water and ritual: the rise and fall of Classic Maya rulers LJ Lucero University of Texas Press, 2006 | 230 | 2006 |
| The collapse of the Classic Maya: A case for the role of water control LJ Lucero American Anthropologist 104 (3), 814-826, 2002 | 196 | 2002 |
| The politics of ritual: The emergence of Classic Maya rulers LJ Lucero Current Anthropology 44 (4), 523-558, 2003 | 156 | 2003 |
| The depositional history of ritual and power WH Walker, LJ Lucero Agency in archaeology, 146-163, 2014 | 118 | 2014 |
| 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 |
| Climate change and Classic Maya water management LJ Lucero, JD Gunn, VL Scarborough Water 3 (2), 479-494, 2011 | 112 | 2011 |
| The non-hierarchical development of complexity in the semitropics: Water and cooperation VL Scarborough, LJ Lucero Water History 2, 185-205, 2010 | 92 | 2010 |
| Changing the atmosphere: Anthropology and climate change SJ Fiske, SA Crate, CL Crumley, K Galvin, H Lazrus, L Lucero, ... Final report of the AAA global climate change task force 137, 2014 | 91 | 2014 |
| Materialized cosmology among ancient Maya commoners LJ Lucero Journal of Social Archaeology 10 (1), 138-167, 2010 | 81 | 2010 |
| Changing the atmosphere. Anthropology and climate change. Final report of the AAA Global Climate Change Task Force SJ Fiske, SA Crate, CL Crumley, K Galvin, H Lazrus, L Lucero, ... Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association, 2014 | 80* | 2014 |
| Water control and Maya politics in the southern Maya lowlands LJ Lucero Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 9 (1), 35-49, 1999 | 77 | 1999 |
| The creation and sacrifice of witches in Classic Maya society LJ Lucero, SA Gibbs New perspectives on human sacrifice and ritual body treatments in ancient …, 2007 | 74 | 2007 |
| Precolumbian water management: ideology, ritual, and power LJ Lucero, BW Fash University of Arizona Press, 2006 | 74 | 2006 |
| Social integration in the ancient Maya hinterlands: Ceramic variability in the Belize River area LJ Lucero Arizona State University, 2001 | 72 | 2001 |
| Classic lowland Maya political organization: A review LJ Lucero Journal of World Prehistory 13, 211-263, 1999 | 68 | 1999 |
| Classic Maya temples, politics, and the voice of the people LJ Lucero Latin American Antiquity 18 (4), 407-427, 2007 | 67 | 2007 |
| Memorializing place among Classic Maya commoners LJ Lucero Memory work: archaeologies of material practices, 187-205, 2008 | 44 | 2008 |
| A Cosmology of Conservation in the Ancient Maya World LJ Lucero Journal of Anthropological Research 74 (3), 327-359, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| 3 Water and Landscape: Ancient Maya Settlement Decisions LJ Lucero, SL Fedick, NP Dunning, DL Lentz, VL Scarborough Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 24 (1), 30-42, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
| Pilgrimage to the edge of the watery underworld: an ancient Maya water temple at Cara Blanca, Belize LJ Lucero, A Kinkella Cambridge Archaeological Journal 25 (1), 163-185, 2015 | 33 | 2015 |
