| Early wheat in China: Results from new studies at Donghuishan in the Hexi Corridor R Flad, L Shuicheng, W Xiaohong, Z Zhijun The Holocene 20 (6), 955-965, 2010 | 244 | 2010 |
| Pig domestication in ancient China Y Jing, RK Flad Antiquity 76 (293), 724-732, 2002 | 208 | 2002 |
| Zooarcheological evidence for animal domestication in northwest China RK Flad Developments in Quaternary Sciences 9, 167-203, 2007 | 187 | 2007 |
| Divination and power: a multiregional view of the development of oracle bone divination in early China RK Flad Current Anthropology 49 (3), 403-437, 2008 | 157 | 2008 |
| “Specialized” production in archaeological contexts: rethinking specialization, the social value of products, and the practice of production RK Flad, ZX Hruby Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 17 (1), 1-19, 2007 | 149 | 2007 |
| Toward a networks and boundaries approach to early complex polities: the Late Shang case RB Campbell Current Anthropology 50 (6), 821-848, 2009 | 129 | 2009 |
| Archaeological and chemical evidence for early salt production in China R Flad, J Zhu, C Wang, P Chen, L Von Falkenhausen, Z Sun, S Li Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (35), 12618-12622, 2005 | 105 | 2005 |
| Ancient Central China: centers and peripheries along the Yangzi River RK Flad, P Chen Cambridge University Press, 2013 | 98 | 2013 |
| New zooarchaeological evidence for changes in Shang Dynasty animal sacrifice J Yuan, R Flad Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 24 (3), 252-270, 2005 | 94 | 2005 |
| Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China: An Archaeological Investigation of Specialization in China's Three Gorges RK Flad Cambridge University Press, 2011 | 86 | 2011 |
| Meat-acquisition patterns in the Neolithic Yangzi river valley, China Y Jing, R Flad, L Yunbing Antiquity 82 (316), 351-366, 2008 | 75 | 2008 |
| Rethinking craft specialization in complex societies: archaeological analyses of the social meaning of production ZX Hruby, RK Flad Wiley-Blackwell, 2007 | 67 | 2007 |
| Foraging and farming: archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological evidence for Neolithic exchange on the Tibetan Plateau L Ren, G Dong, F Liu, J d'Alpoim-Guedes, RK Flad, M Ma, H Li, Y Yang, ... Antiquity 94 (375), 637-652, 2020 | 64 | 2020 |
| Is poverty in our genes? A critique of Ashraf and Galor," The'out of Africa'hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development," American Economic Review … JA Guedes, TC Bestor, D Carrasco, R Flad, E Fosse, M Herzfeld, ... Current Anthropology 54 (1), 71-79, 2013 | 60 | 2013 |
| Ritual or structure? Analysis of burial elaboration at Dadianzi, Inner Mongolia R Flad Journal of East Asian Archaeology 3 (3-4), 23-52, 2001 | 60 | 2001 |
| Early evidence for mounted horseback riding in northwest China Y Li, C Zhang, WTT Taylor, L Chen, RK Flad, N Boivin, H Liu, Y You, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (47), 29569-29576, 2020 | 54 | 2020 |
| Zooarchaeology, ancient mtDNA, and radiocarbon dating provide new evidence for the emergence of domestic cattle and caprines in the Tao River Valley of Gansu Province … K Brunson, R Lele, Z Xin, D Xiaoling, W Hui, Z Jing, R Flad Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 31, 102262, 2020 | 50 | 2020 |
| Urbanism as technology in early China R Flad Archaeological Research in Asia 14, 121-134, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| Research on early horse domestication in China J Yuan, R Flad Equids in Time and Space: Papers in Honour of Vera Eisenmann. Ed. M …, 2006 | 34 | 2006 |
| Cultivation strategies at the ancient Luanzagangzi settlement on the easternmost Eurasian steppe during the late Bronze Age J Zhang, H Lu, PW Jia, R Flad, N Wu, A Betts Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 26, 505-512, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
