| An exegesis of the curation concept MJ Shott Journal of anthropological research 52 (3), 259-280, 1996 | 330 | 1996 |
| On tool-class use lives and the formation of archaeological assemblages MJ Shott American antiquity 54 (1), 9-30, 1989 | 304 | 1989 |
| Size and form in the analysis of flake debris: review and recent approaches MJ Shott Journal of archaeological method and theory 1, 69-110, 1994 | 261 | 1994 |
| Stones and shafts redux: the metric discrimination of chipped-stone dart and arrow points MJ Shott American Antiquity 62 (1), 86-101, 1997 | 251 | 1997 |
| Chaîne Opératoire and Reduction Sequence MJ Shott Lithic technology 28 (2), 95-105, 2003 | 243 | 2003 |
| Spears, darts, and arrows: Late Woodland hunting techniques in the Upper Ohio Valley MJ Shott American Antiquity 58 (3), 425-443, 1993 | 169 | 1993 |
| Mortal pots: on use life and vessel size in the formation of ceramic assemblages MJ Shott American Antiquity 61 (3), 463-482, 1996 | 136 | 1996 |
| Bipolar industries: ethnographic evidence and archaeological implications MJ Shott North American Archaeologist 10 (1), 1-24, 1989 | 136 | 1989 |
| Use life and curation in New Guinea experimental used flakes MJ Shott, P Sillitoe Journal of Archaeological Science 32 (5), 653-663, 2005 | 130 | 2005 |
| Design and evaluation of shovel-test sampling in regional archaeological survey JJ Krakker, MJ Shott, PD Welch Journal of Field Archaeology 10 (4), 469-480, 1983 | 123 | 1983 |
| The Gainey site: variability in a Great Lakes Paleo-indian assemblage DB Simons, MJ Shott, HT Wright Archaeology of Eastern North America, 266-279, 1984 | 121 | 1984 |
| Measuring reduction in stone tools: an ethnoarchaeological study of Gamo hidescrapers from Ethiopia MJ Shott, KJ Weedman Journal of Archaeological Science 34 (7), 1016-1035, 2007 | 118 | 2007 |
| Flake size from platform attributes: predictive and empirical approaches MJ Shott, AP Bradbury, PJ Carr, GH Odell Journal of archaeological science 27 (10), 877-894, 2000 | 104 | 2000 |
| Exploring new approaches to lithic analysis: laser scanning and geometric morphometrics MJ Shott, BW Trail Lithic technology 35 (2), 195-220, 2010 | 103 | 2010 |
| Status and role of formation theory in contemporary archaeological practice MJ Shott Journal of archaeological research 6, 299-329, 1998 | 98 | 1998 |
| How much is a scraper? Curation, use rates, and the formation of scraper assemblages MJ Shott, MJ Scott Lithic Technology, 53-72, 1995 | 98 | 1995 |
| Reliability of archaeological records on cultivated surfaces: a Michigan case study MJ Shott Journal of Field Archaeology 22 (4), 475-490, 1995 | 92 | 1995 |
| Biface reduction and the measurement of Dalton curation: a southeastern United States case study MJ Shott, JAM Ballenger American Antiquity 72 (1), 153-175, 2007 | 89 | 2007 |
| On bipolar reduction and splintered pieces MJ Shott North American Archaeologist 20 (3), 217-238, 1999 | 88 | 1999 |
| Diversity, organization, and behavior in the material record: ethnographic and archaeological examples [and comments and replies] MJ Shott, S Bowdler, CJ Ellis, J Francis, GT Jones, RD Leonard, CL Nagle, ... Current Anthropology 30 (3), 283-315, 1989 | 86 | 1989 |
