| Early Mesopotamian urbanism: a new view from the north J Oates, A McMahon, P Karsgaard, S Al Quntar, J Ur antiquity 81 (313), 585-600, 2007 | 222 | 2007 |
| Isotope evidence for agricultural extensification reveals how the world's first cities were fed AK Styring, M Charles, F Fantone, MM Hald, A McMahon, RH Meadow, ... Nature Plants 3 (6), 1-11, 2017 | 158 | 2017 |
| Uruk colonies and Anatolian communities: An interim report on the 1992-1993 excavations at Hacinebi, Turkey GJ Stein, R Bernbeck, C Coursey, A McMahon, NF Miller, A Misir, J Nicola, ... American Journal of Archaeology 100 (2), 205-260, 1996 | 112 | 1996 |
| Late Chalcolithic mass graves at Tell Brak, Syria, and violent conflict during the growth of early city-states A McMahon, A Sołtysiak, J Weber Journal of Field Archaeology 36 (3), 201-220, 2011 | 102 | 2011 |
| Nippur/5 The early dynastic to Akkadian transition: the area WF sounding at Nippur A McMahon Nippur, 2006 | 100* | 2006 |
| Space, sound, and light: Toward a sensory experience of ancient monumental architecture A McMahon American journal of archaeology 117 (2), 163-179, 2013 | 93 | 2013 |
| Excavations at Tell Brak 2006–2007 A McMahon, J Oates, S Al-Quntar, M Charles, C Colantoni, MM Hald, ... Iraq 69, 145-171, 2007 | 75 | 2007 |
| The lion, the king and the cage: Late Chalcolithic iconography and ideology in northern Mesopotamia A McMahon Iraq 71, 115-124, 2009 | 65 | 2009 |
| Early urbanism in northern Mesopotamia A McMahon Journal of Archaeological Research 28 (3), 289-337, 2020 | 59 | 2020 |
| Travels in Edin: deltaic resilience and early urbanism in Greater Mesopotamia JR Pournelle, G Algaze, H Crawford, A McMahon, N Postgate Preludes to Urbanism. The Late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia, 7-34, 2014 | 57 | 2014 |
| Investigation of the Early Dynastic-Akkadian transition: Report of the 18th and 19th seasons of excavation in Area WF, Nippur MG Gibson, A McMahon Iraq 57, 1-39, 1995 | 45 | 1995 |
| Waste management in early urban southern Mesopotamia A McMahon Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations, 19-40, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
| Excavations at Hacinebi, Turkey–1996: Preliminary Report G Stein, K Boden, C Edens, J Pearce Edens, K Keith, A McMahon, ... Anatolica 23, 111-171, 1997 | 43 | 1997 |
| New excavations at Chagar Bazar, 1999–2000 A McMAHON, Ö Tunca, AM Bagdo Iraq 63, 201-222, 2001 | 41 | 2001 |
| The growth of early social networks: New geochemical results of obsidian from the Ubaid to Chalcolithic Period in Syria, Iraq and the Gulf L Khalidi, B Gratuze, G Stein, A McMahon, S Al-Quntar, R Carter, R Cuttler, ... Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9, 743-757, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
| The Akkadian period: Empire, environment, and imagination A McMahon A companion to the archaeology of the ancient Near East, 647-667, 2012 | 27 | 2012 |
| Tell Brak, early northern Mesopotamian urbanism, economic complexity and social stress, fifth–fourth millennia BC A McMahon Bonatz, D., and Martin, L.(eds.) 100, 67-80, 2013 | 24 | 2013 |
| Once there was a place: settlement archaeology at Chagar Bazar, 1999-2002 A McMahon Oxbow Books, 2009 | 23 | 2009 |
| The shipwreck of Odysseus: strong and weak imagery in Late Geometric art JM Hurwit American Journal of Archaeology 115 (1), 1-18, 2011 | 22 | 2011 |
| The Kuyunjik gully sounding, Nineveh, 1989 & 1990 seasons A McMahon ラーフィダーン= al-Rāfidān 19, 1998 | 22 | 1998 |
