David Wengrow

1.3k total citations
38 papers, 586 citations indexed

About

David Wengrow is a scholar working on Paleontology, Archeology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Wengrow has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 586 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Paleontology, 15 papers in Archeology and 7 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in David Wengrow's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 papers), Ancient Near East History (9 papers) and Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (8 papers). David Wengrow is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 papers), Ancient Near East History (9 papers) and Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (8 papers). David Wengrow collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Mexico. David Wengrow's co-authors include David Graeber, Michael Dee, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Alice Stevenson, Fiona Brock, Andrew Shortland, Sarah Foster, Linus Girdland Flink, Raphael Greenberg and Robert Carter and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Archaeological Science and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

David Wengrow

33 papers receiving 490 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Wengrow United Kingdom 12 273 247 197 79 61 38 586
K. Anne Pyburn United States 13 234 0.9× 143 0.6× 208 1.1× 67 0.8× 50 0.8× 34 513
Margaret W. Conkey United States 11 284 1.0× 167 0.7× 449 2.3× 89 1.1× 145 2.4× 16 716
R. Alan Covey United States 11 282 1.0× 82 0.3× 127 0.6× 53 0.7× 68 1.1× 33 521
Stephen W. Silliman United States 14 398 1.5× 160 0.6× 585 3.0× 75 0.9× 107 1.8× 32 797
Traci Ardren United States 16 334 1.2× 145 0.6× 219 1.1× 57 0.7× 57 0.9× 46 579
Hans Jörg Nissen Germany 14 268 1.0× 341 1.4× 167 0.8× 77 1.0× 20 0.3× 33 665
Anna Marie Prentiss United States 14 386 1.4× 88 0.4× 281 1.4× 118 1.5× 80 1.3× 39 681
Peter S. Wells United States 16 467 1.7× 376 1.5× 363 1.8× 58 0.7× 89 1.5× 89 1.1k
Margaret W. Conkey United States 6 448 1.6× 194 0.8× 490 2.5× 54 0.7× 158 2.6× 12 776
Christian E. Peterson United States 12 449 1.6× 102 0.4× 206 1.0× 125 1.6× 89 1.5× 18 743

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Wengrow

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All Works

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Wengrow, David. (2019). The origins of civic life: a global perspective. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1. 2 indexed citations
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Fleitmann, Dominik, et al.. (2018). Mid- to late-Holocene archaeology, environment and climate in the northeast Kurdistan region of Iraq. The Holocene. 28(6). 955–967. 19 indexed citations
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Graeber, David, et al.. (2018). Comment changer le cours de l’histoire (ou au moins du passé). N° 11(3). 4–29. 2 indexed citations
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Wengrow, David & David Graeber. (2018). “Many Seasons Ago”: Slavery and Its Rejection among Foragers on the Pacific Coast of North America. American Anthropologist. 120(2). 237–249. 11 indexed citations
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Wengrow, David & David Graeber. (2015). Farewell to the ‘childhood of man’: ritual, seasonality, and the origins of inequality. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 21(3). 597–619. 111 indexed citations
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Wengrow, David, Michael Dee, Sarah Foster, Alice Stevenson, & Christopher Bronk Ramsey. (2014). Cultural convergence in the Neolithic of the Nile Valley: a prehistoric perspective on Egypt's place in Africa. Antiquity. 88(339). 95–111. 37 indexed citations
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Dee, Michael, David Wengrow, Andrew Shortland, et al.. (2014). Radiocarbon dating and the Naqada relative chronology. Journal of Archaeological Science. 46. 319–323. 8 indexed citations
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Wengrow, David. (2013). The Origins of Monsters. Princeton University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Wengrow, David. (2013). The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 27(3). 311–3. 18 indexed citations
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Dee, Michael, David Wengrow, Andrew Shortland, et al.. (2013). An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 469(2159). 20130395–20130395. 50 indexed citations
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Greenberg, Raphael, et al.. (2012). TEL BET YERAH: Hub of the Early Bronze Age Levant. Near Eastern Archaeology. 75(2). 88–107. 20 indexed citations
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Wengrow, David. (2011). What Makes Civilization?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5 indexed citations
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Wengrow, David, et al.. (2010). Cosmetic connections? An Egyptian relief carving from Early Bronze Age Tel Bet Yerah (Israel). UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Wengrow, David. (2010). What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West. UCL Discovery (University College London). 30 indexed citations
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Wengrow, David. (2008). Prehistories of Commodity Branding. Current Anthropology. 49(1). 7–34. 79 indexed citations
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Wengrow, David. (2001). The evolution of simplicity: aesthetic labour and social change in the Neolithic Near East. World Archaeology. 33(2). 168–188. 6 indexed citations
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Wengrow, David. (1998). ‘The changing face of clay’: continuity and change in the transition from village to urban life in the Near East. Antiquity. 72(278). 783–795. 34 indexed citations
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Wengrow, David. (1996). EGYPTIAN TASKMASTERS AND HEAVY BURDENS: HIGHLAND EXPLOITATION AND THE COLLARED‐RIM PITHOS OF THE BRONZE/IRON AGE LEVANT. Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 15(3). 307–326. 9 indexed citations

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