4,300-year-old chimpanzee sites and the origins of percussive stone technology J Mercader, H Barton, J Gillespie, J Harris, S Kuhn, R Tyler, C Boesch Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (9), 3043-3048, 2007 | 434 | 2007 |
Excavation of a chimpanzee stone tool site in the African rainforest J Mercader, M Panger, C Boesch Science 296 (5572), 1452-1455, 2002 | 416 | 2002 |
Primate archaeology M Haslam, A Hernandez-Aguilar, V Ling, S Carvalho, I De La Torre, ... Nature 460 (7253), 339-344, 2009 | 309 | 2009 |
Mozambican grass seed consumption during the Middle Stone Age J Mercader Science 326 (5960), 1680-1683, 2009 | 185 | 2009 |
Phytoliths in woody plants from the Miombo woodlands of Mozambique J Mercader, T Bennett, C Esselmont, S Simpson, D Walde Annals of Botany 104 (1), 91-113, 2009 | 183 | 2009 |
Documenting contamination in ancient starch laboratories A Crowther, M Haslam, N Oakden, D Walde, J Mercader Journal of Archaeological Science 49, 90-104, 2014 | 163 | 2014 |
Phytoliths from archaeological sites in the tropical forest of Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo J Mercader, F Runge, L Vrydaghs, H Doutrelepont, CEN Ewango, ... Quaternary Research 54 (1), 102-112, 2000 | 135 | 2000 |
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 | 119 | 2018 |
Poaceae phytoliths from the Niassa rift, Mozambique J Mercader, F Astudillo, M Barkworth, T Bennett, C Esselmont, R Kinyanjui, ... Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (8), 1953-1967, 2010 | 116 | 2010 |
Forest people: the role of African rainforests in human evolution and dispersal J Mercader Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews: Issues, News, and …, 2002 | 115 | 2002 |
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 | 90 | 2020 |
Middle stone age starch acquisition in the Niassa Rift, Mozambique J Mercader, T Bennett, M Raja Quaternary Research 70 (2), 283-300, 2008 | 85 | 2008 |
Under the canopy: the archaeology of tropical rain forests. J Mercader | 75 | 2002 |
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 | 74 | 2021 |
Across forests and savannas: later stone age assemblages from Ituri and Semliki, Democratic Republic of Congo J Mercader, AS Brooks Journal of Anthropological Research 57 (2), 197-217, 2001 | 61 | 2001 |
Ceramic tradition in the African forest: characterisation analysis of ancient and modern pottery from Ituri, DR Congo J Mercader, M Garcia-Heras, I Gonzalez-Alvarez Journal of Archaeological Science 27 (2), 163-182, 2000 | 60 | 2000 |
Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa JC Thompson, DK Wright, SJ Ivory, JH Choi, S Nightingale, A Mackay, ... Science Advances 7 (19), eabf9776, 2021 | 56 | 2021 |
Exaggerated expectations in ancient starch research and the need for new taphonomic and authenticity criteria J Mercader, T Akeju, M Brown, M Bundala, MJ Collins, L Copeland, ... Facets 3 (1), 777-798, 2018 | 55 | 2018 |
Soil phytoliths from miombo woodlands in Mozambique J Mercader, T Bennett, C Esselmont, S Simpson, D Walde Quaternary Research 75 (1), 138-150, 2011 | 55 | 2011 |
The nature of ‘stone-lines’ in the African quaternary record: archaeological resolution at the rainforest site of Mosumu, Equatorial Guinea J Mercader, R Martı́, JL Martı́nez, A Brooks Quaternary International 89 (1), 71-96, 2002 | 55 | 2002 |