Duncan Sayer

1.1k total citations
30 papers, 299 citations indexed

About

Duncan Sayer is a scholar working on Anthropology, History and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Duncan Sayer has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 299 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Anthropology, 9 papers in History and 9 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Duncan Sayer's work include Historical and Archaeological Studies (9 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 papers) and Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (6 papers). Duncan Sayer is often cited by papers focused on Historical and Archaeological Studies (9 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 papers) and Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (6 papers). Duncan Sayer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. Duncan Sayer's co-authors include Howard Williams, Christopher King, Richard Mortimer, Wolfgang Haak, Bastien Llamas, Chris Tyler‐Smith, Richard Durbin, Alan Cooper, Stephan Schiffels and Elizabeth Popescu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Social Science Computer Review.

In The Last Decade

Duncan Sayer

27 papers receiving 243 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Duncan Sayer United Kingdom	10	92	91	79	68	42	30	299
Pamela L. Geller United States	11	142 1.5×	108 1.2×	93 1.2×	120 1.8×	22 0.5×	19	341
Liv Nilsson Stutz Sweden	11	211 2.3×	217 2.4×	24 0.3×	168 2.5×	41 1.0×	43	378
Heinrich Härke United Kingdom	12	195 2.1×	189 2.1×	65 0.8×	146 2.1×	87 2.1×	39	533
Guus Kroonen United States	7	121 1.3×	118 1.3×	77 1.0×	63 0.9×	37 0.9×	26	382
Bettina Arnold United States	11	174 1.9×	196 2.2×	32 0.4×	191 2.8×	55 1.3×	29	511
Rachel J. Crellin United Kingdom	11	101 1.1×	171 1.9×	28 0.4×	145 2.1×	21 0.5×	25	357
Klavs Randsborg Denmark	8	174 1.9×	195 2.1×	20 0.3×	146 2.1×	79 1.9×	45	392
Terje Oestigaard Norway	10	155 1.7×	137 1.5×	9 0.1×	101 1.5×	50 1.2×	48	375
Melanie Giles United Kingdom	9	82 0.9×	98 1.1×	11 0.1×	58 0.9×	24 0.6×	26	213
Eleanor Scott	8	138 1.5×	103 1.1×	10 0.1×	141 2.1×	23 0.5×	14	311

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Foody, M. George B., Katharina Dulias, Peter Ditchfıeld, et al.. (2025). Ancient genomes reveal cosmopolitan ancestry and maternal kinship patterns at post-Roman Worth Matravers, Dorset. Antiquity. 99(407). 1356–1371. 1 indexed citations

Sayer, Duncan, Joscha Gretzinger, John Hines, et al.. (2025). West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset. Antiquity. 99(407). 1341–1355. 1 indexed citations

Sayer, Duncan, et al.. (2019). Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece. Bloomsbury Academic eBooks. 2 indexed citations

Sayer, Duncan, et al.. (2019). Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece: Reflections on Literature, Society and Religion. 1 indexed citations

Schiffels, Stephan, Wolfgang Haak, Pirita Paajanen, et al.. (2016). Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon genomes from East England reveal British migration history. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10408–10408. 92 indexed citations

Sayer, Duncan. (2014). ‘Sons of athelings given to the earth’:^{Infant Mortality within Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Geography}. Medieval Archaeology. 58(1). 78–103. 5 indexed citations

Sayer, Duncan. (2013). Investigating the Social Aspects Early Medieval Mortuary Practice. History Compass. 11(2). 147–162. 2 indexed citations

Sayer, Duncan, et al.. (2013). Reconsidering obstetric death and female fertility in Anglo-Saxon England. World Archaeology. 45(2). 285–297. 19 indexed citations

Sayer, Duncan. (2013). Two Viking Ship Burials and the Transience of Situational Ethics. Norwegian Archaeological Review. 46(2). 231–233. 1 indexed citations

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Sayer, Duncan, et al.. (2013). Death and the Anglo-Saxon Mother. CLOK (University of Central Lancashire). 1 indexed citations

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Sayer, Duncan, et al.. (2011). Anglo-Saxon Oakington: Life and death in the East Anglian Fens. CLOK (University of Central Lancashire). 20–27. 3 indexed citations

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King, Christopher & Duncan Sayer. (2011). The Archaeology of Post-Medieval Religion. CLOK (University of Central Lancashire). 18 indexed citations

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Sayer, Duncan. (2011). Death and the Dissenter: Group Identity and Stylistic Simplicity as Witnessed in Nineteenth-Century Nonconformist Gravestones. Historical Archaeology. 45(4). 115–134. 2 indexed citations

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Sayer, Duncan. (2011). Bowls, Bobbins and Bones. Resolving the Human Remains Crisis in British Archaeology: A Response. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21(0). 1 indexed citations

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Sayer, Duncan. (2010). Who's afraid of the dead? Archaeology, modernity and the death taboo. World Archaeology. 42(3). 481–491. 22 indexed citations

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Sayer, Duncan. (2010). Death and the family. Journal of Social Archaeology. 10(1). 59–91. 17 indexed citations

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Sayer, Duncan. (2010). Ethics and Burial Archaeology. CLOK (University of Central Lancashire). 12 indexed citations

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Sayer, Duncan & Howard Williams. (2009). Mortuary Practice and Social Identities in the Middle Ages.. CLOK (University of Central Lancashire). 16 indexed citations

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Sayer, Duncan. (2009). Medieval waterways and hydraulic economics: monasteries, towns and the East Anglian fen. World Archaeology. 41(1). 134–150. 7 indexed citations

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Sayer, Duncan, et al.. (2004). Lost congregations: the crisis facing later post-medieval urban burial grounds. 5-6. 55–61. 6 indexed citations

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