Gavin Lucas

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Gavin Lucas is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gavin Lucas has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Paleontology, 22 papers in Anthropology and 17 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Gavin Lucas's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (23 papers), Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (18 papers) and Archaeological Research and Protection (12 papers). Gavin Lucas is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (23 papers), Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (18 papers) and Archaeological Research and Protection (12 papers). Gavin Lucas collaborates with scholars based in Iceland, United Kingdom and United States. Gavin Lucas's co-authors include Victor Buchli, Thomas H. McGovern, Ian Hodder, L. E. Miranda, Michael Shanks, John Carman, Jonathan Last, Brian M. Fagan, Ian A. Simpson and Ian T. Lawson and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Archaeological Science, American Anthropologist and Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.

In The Last Decade

Gavin Lucas

61 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Understanding the Archaeological Record

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gavin Lucas Iceland	19	710	644	537	259	240	67	1.8k
Helaine Silverman United States	21	447 0.6×	688 1.1×	606 1.1×	372 1.4×	160 0.7×	72	1.8k
Mary C. Beaudry United States	16	683 1.0×	562 0.9×	291 0.5×	163 0.6×	132 0.6×	44	1.3k
Keith Kintigh United States	25	675 1.0×	1.1k 1.7×	366 0.7×	214 0.8×	304 1.3×	63	2.1k
Barbara Bender United Kingdom	13	590 0.8×	595 0.9×	441 0.8×	454 1.8×	131 0.5×	31	1.7k
Randall H. McGuire United States	27	1.5k 2.2×	1.2k 1.8×	602 1.1×	206 0.8×	174 0.7×	76	2.4k
Jeremy A. Sabloff United States	25	858 1.2×	1.6k 2.5×	438 0.8×	406 1.6×	359 1.5×	85	2.5k
Carl Knappett Canada	20	563 0.8×	716 1.1×	575 1.1×	210 0.8×	74 0.3×	52	1.8k
Scott R. Hutson United States	20	394 0.6×	662 1.0×	278 0.5×	149 0.6×	216 0.9×	50	1.3k
Julian Thomas United Kingdom	26	1.2k 1.7×	1.6k 2.4×	1.0k 1.9×	570 2.2×	308 1.3×	117	3.0k
Chris Gosden United Kingdom	31	1.1k 1.6×	1.3k 2.1×	788 1.5×	1.0k 4.0×	169 0.7×	89	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gavin Lucas

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Lucas, Gavin & Orri Vésteinsson. (2024). The Future of Periodization. Dissecting the Legacy of Culture History. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 34(4). 637–652.

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Lucas, Gavin. (2023). Survivals and the persistence of the past. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 30(2). 399–416.

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Lucas, Gavin & Bjørnar Olsen. (2022). The Case Study in Archaeological Theory. American Antiquity. 87(2). 352–367. 1 indexed citations

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Panagiotakopulu, Eva, et al.. (2021). A very curious larder – Insects from post-medieval Skálholt, Iceland, and their implications for interpreting activity areas. Journal of Archaeological Science. 126. 105319–105319. 2 indexed citations

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Clark, Nigel, Sasha Engelmann, Tim Ingold, et al.. (2021). A Solid Fluids Lexicon. Theory Culture & Society. 39(2). 197–210. 4 indexed citations

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Jessen, Mads Dengsø, et al.. (2019). Will there be a next Nordic TAG? Reflections on theoretical archaeology in the Nordic countries today. Ministry of Culture Research Portal. 17–19.

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Lucas, Gavin. (2013). Conduits of Dispersal. Dematerializing an early twentieth century village in Iceland.. 3 indexed citations

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Lucas, Gavin, et al.. (2012). The Archaeology of Capitalism in Iceland: The View from Viðey. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 16(3). 604–621. 7 indexed citations

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Lucas, Gavin. (2010). Time and the archaeological archive. Rethinking History. 14(3). 343–359. 31 indexed citations

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Lucas, Gavin & Thomas H. McGovern. (2007). Bloody slaughter: Ritual decapitation and display at the Viking settlement of Hofstaðir, Iceland. European Journal of Archaeology. 10(1). 7–30. 36 indexed citations

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Lucas, Gavin. (2006). Archaeology at the edge. An archaeological dialogue with Martin Hall. Archaeological Dialogues. 13(1). 55–67. 3 indexed citations

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Lucas, Gavin. (2006). An Archaeology of Colonial Identity. 17 indexed citations

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Lucas, Gavin. (2004). Modern Disturbances: On the Ambiguities of Archaeology. Modernism/modernity. 11(1). 109–120. 52 indexed citations

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Miranda, L. E. & Gavin Lucas. (2004). Determinism in Fish Assemblages of Floodplain Lakes of the Vastly Disturbed Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 133(2). 358–370. 35 indexed citations

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Lucas, Gavin. (2002). Critical Approaches to Fieldwork. 24 indexed citations

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Lucas, Gavin. (2001). Destruction and the Rhetoric of Excavation. Norwegian Archaeological Review. 34(1). 35–46. 54 indexed citations

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Lucas, Gavin. (1996). Of Death and Debt. A History of the Body in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Yorkshire. 4(1). 99–118. 17 indexed citations

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Lucas, Gavin. (1995). The Changing Face of Time: English Domestic Clocks from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century. Journal of Design History. 8(1). 1–10. 1 indexed citations

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Lucas, Gavin, et al.. (1981). Apuntes para la historia colonial de Barlovento. 10 indexed citations

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Lucas, Gavin, et al.. (1976). Sur la presence de concretions algaires dans les formations lacustres neogenes de la region de Zahle (Liban). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. S7-XVIII(3). 707–710. 2 indexed citations

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