Gary M. Feinman

11.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
180 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Gary M. Feinman is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Visual Arts and Performing Arts. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary M. Feinman has authored 180 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Paleontology, 47 papers in Anthropology and 37 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Recurrent topics in Gary M. Feinman's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (84 papers), Latin American history and culture (36 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (21 papers). Gary M. Feinman is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (84 papers), Latin American history and culture (36 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (21 papers). Gary M. Feinman collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Gary M. Feinman's co-authors include Linda M. Nicholas, Richard E. Blanton, Stephen A. Kowalewski, Peter N. Peregrine, David M. Carballo, Patricia A. McAnany, Kent G. Lightfoot, T. Douglas Price, Laura Finsten and Mark Golitko and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Gary M. Feinman

167 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Dual-Processual Theory for the Evolution of Mesoamerican Civilization

1996 533 citations Richard E. Blanton, Gary M. Feinman et al. profile →
Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society.

1997 242 citations Gary M. Feinman et al. profile →
Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica

2017 184 citations Amy Bogaard, Gary M. Feinman et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Gary M. Feinman	3.7k	2.0k	1.2k	1.1k	911	180	5.5k
Timothy Earle	3.4k 0.9×	2.4k 1.2×	686 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	88	6.3k
Kent V. Flannery	2.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	705 0.6×	697 0.6×	786 0.9×	57	3.9k
Richard E. Blanton	1.8k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	801 0.7×	431 0.4×	459 0.5×	72	2.9k
Bruce G. Trigger	2.9k 0.8×	2.9k 1.4×	272 0.2×	618 0.6×	1.8k 2.0×	186	6.4k
Joyce Marcus	1.8k 0.5×	841 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	531 0.5×	411 0.5×	89	2.7k
Christopher Tilley	1.3k 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	186 0.2×	724 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	62	4.0k
Elizabeth M. Brumfiel	1.4k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	607 0.5×	345 0.3×	366 0.4×	50	2.1k
Prudence M. Rice	2.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	821 0.7×	570 0.5×	1.4k 1.6×	111	4.0k
Jeremy A. Sabloff	1.6k 0.4×	858 0.4×	503 0.4×	406 0.4×	438 0.5×	85	2.5k
Michael Brian Schiffer	3.4k 0.9×	2.8k 1.4×	194 0.2×	520 0.5×	1.7k 1.9×	108	5.4k

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All Works

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Feinman, Gary M., Adam S. Green, Dan Lawrence, et al.. (2025). Assessing grand narratives of economic inequality across time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(16). e2400698121–e2400698121. 8 indexed citations

Lawrence, Dan, Amy Bogaard, Gary M. Feinman, et al.. (2025). Housing inequality and settlement persistence are associated across the archaeological record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(16). e2400696122–e2400696122. 1 indexed citations

Duffy, Paul R., et al.. (2025). Five thousand years of inequality in the Carpathian Basin. Science Advances. 11(32). eadu0323–eadu0323.

Hoyer, Daniel, Pieter François, Gary M. Feinman, et al.. (2025). All Crises are Unhappy in Their Own Way: The Role of Societal Instability in Shaping the Past. Social Science History. 1–33.

Bogaard, Amy, Pablo Cruz, Mattia Fochesato, et al.. (2025). Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(16). e2400694122–e2400694122. 5 indexed citations

Thompson, Amy E., Jessica Munson, Scott G. Ortman, et al.. (2025). Assessing neighborhoods, wealth differentials, and perceived inequality in preindustrial societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(16). e2400699121–e2400699121. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Zheng‐Liang, Gary M. Feinman, Linda M. Nicholas, & Hui Fang. (2024). Population dynamics and imperial expansion in eastern Shandong (China) during the last millennium BCE. Archaeological Research in Asia. 40. 100544–100544.

Chase, Adrian S. Z., et al.. (2023). Understanding and calculating household size, wealth, and inequality in the Maya Lowlands. Ancient Mesoamerica. 34(3). 14 indexed citations

Hoyer, Daniel, Jenny Reddish, Robert Howard, et al.. (2023). Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1889). 20220402–20220402. 40 indexed citations

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Turchin, Peter, Harvey Whitehouse, Sergey Gavrilets, et al.. (2022). Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses. Science Advances. 8(25). eabn3517–eabn3517. 23 indexed citations

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Turchin, Peter, Daniel Hoyer, Andrey Korotayev, et al.. (2021). Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0258161–e0258161. 13 indexed citations

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Feinman, Gary M. & Linda M. Nicholas. (2019). Population, scale and the framing of long-term history. 11. 2 indexed citations

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Price, T. Douglas & Gary M. Feinman. (2010). Pathways to power : new perspectives on the emergence of social inequality. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 56 indexed citations

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Feinman, Gary M., et al.. (2009). Tres mil años en el valle de Oaxaca. Un sentido regional de asentamientos prehispánicos. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 20(1). 27–74.

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Fisher, Christopher T., J. Brett Hill, & Gary M. Feinman. (2009). The archaeology of environmental change : socionatural legacies of degradation and resilience. University of Arizona Press eBooks. 33 indexed citations

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Brumfiel, Elizabeth M. & Gary M. Feinman. (2008). The Aztec world. 11 indexed citations

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Feinman, Gary M.. (2008). Variability in States: Comparative Frameworks. Social Evolution & History. 7(1). 2 indexed citations

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Nicholas, Linda M. & Gary M. Feinman. (2006). La producción artesanal en Oaxaca. Arqueología mexicana. 14(80). 36–43. 2 indexed citations

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Chabal, Patrick, Gary M. Feinman, & Peter Skalník. (2004). Beyond States and Empires: Chiefdoms and Informal Politics. Social Evolution & History. 3(1). 11 indexed citations

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Feinman, Gary M. & Linda M. Nicholas. (1991). New Perspectives on Prehispanic Highland Mesoamerica: A Macroregional Approach. ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University). 24(24). 4. 12 indexed citations

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