| Flow of power: ancient water systems and landscapes VL Scarborough (No Title), 2003 | 390 | 2003 |
| Ecology and ritual: water management and the Maya VL Scarborough Latin American Antiquity 9 (2), 135-159, 1998 | 278 | 1998 |
| Arising from the Bajos: The Evolution of a Neotropical Landscape and the Rise of Maya Civilization NP Dunning, S Luzzadder‐Beach, T Beach, JG Jones, V Scarborough, ... Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92 (2), 267-283, 2002 | 235 | 2002 |
| A water storage adaptation in the Maya lowlands VL Scarborough, GG Gallopin Science 251 (4994), 658-662, 1991 | 206 | 1991 |
| The Mesoamerican Ballgame VL Scarborough, DR Wilcox University of Arizona Press, 1993 | 184 | 1993 |
| Temple mountains, sacred lakes, and fertile fields: ancient Maya landscapes in northwestern Belize N Dunning, V Scarborough, F Valdez, S Luzzadder-Beach, T Beach, ... Antiquity 73 (281), 650-660, 1999 | 171 | 1999 |
| Water and sustainable land use at the ancient tropical city of Tikal, Guatemala VL Scarborough, NP Dunning, KB Tankersley, C Carr, E Weaver, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (31), 12408-12413, 2012 | 156 | 2012 |
| Forests, fields, and the edge of sustainability at the ancient Maya city of Tikal DL Lentz, NP Dunning, VL Scarborough, KS Magee, KM Thompson, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (52), 18513-18518, 2014 | 132 | 2014 |
| Water management in the southern Maya lowlands: an accretive model for the engineered landscape VL Scarborough Research in Economic Anthropology 7, 17-69, 1993 | 123 | 1993 |
| Developing an Integrated History and future of People on Earth (IHOPE) R Costanza, S Van Der Leeuw, K Hibbard, S Aulenbach, S Brewer, ... Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 4 (1), 106-114, 2012 | 120 | 2012 |
| Climate change and classic Maya water management LJ Lucero, JD Gunn, VL Scarborough Water 3 (2), 479-494, 2011 | 113 | 2011 |
| Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya: The Three Rivers Region of the East-central Yucatˆn Peninsula VL Scarborough, F Valdez, NP Dunning University of Arizona Press, 2003 | 108 | 2003 |
| Complexity and sustainability: Perspectives from the ancient Maya and the modern Balinese VL Scarborough, WR Burnside American Antiquity 75 (2), 327-363, 2010 | 97 | 2010 |
| The non-hierarchical development of complexity in the semitropics: water and cooperation VL Scarborough, LJ Lucero Water History 2, 185-205, 2010 | 96 | 2010 |
| The politicization of the Mesoamerican ballgame and its implications for the interpretation of the distribution of ballcourts in central Mexico RS Santley, MJ Berman, RT Alexander, VL Scarborough, DR Wilcox The Mesoamerican Ballgame, 3-24, 1991 | 94 | 1991 |
| Water and land at the ancient Maya community of La Milpa VL Scarborough, ME Becher, JL Baker, G Harris, F Valdez Jr Latin American Antiquity 6 (2), 98-119, 1995 | 92 | 1995 |
| An alternative order: the dualistic economies of the ancient Maya VL Scarborough, F Valdez Jr Latin American Antiquity 20 (1), 207-227, 2009 | 83 | 2009 |
| Water management adaptations in nonindustrial complex societies: an archaeological perspective VL Scarborough Archaeological method and theory 3, 101-154, 1991 | 81 | 1991 |
| Subsistence, trade, and development of the coastal Maya DA Freidel, V Scarborough Maya Subsistence, 131-155, 1982 | 72 | 1982 |
| A preclassic Maya water system VL Scarborough American Antiquity 48 (4), 720-744, 1983 | 65 | 1983 |
