Michael Charles

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

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Michael Charles is a scholar working on Paleontology, Plant Science and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Charles has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Paleontology, 21 papers in Plant Science and 20 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Michael Charles's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (44 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (19 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (18 papers). Michael Charles is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (44 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (19 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (18 papers). Michael Charles collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Michael Charles's co-authors include Glynis Jones, Amy Bogaard, Michael Wallace, Rebecca Fraser, T.H.E. Heaton, Amy Styring, Paul Halstead, Colin P. Osborne, John Hodgson and Erika Nitsch and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael Charles

70 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe’s first farmers

2013 441 citations Amy Bogaard, Rebecca Fraser et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Feeding Medieval England 2025 ·Helena Hamerow, Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles, (unknown), Matilda Holmes, (unknown), Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Elizabeth Stroud, Richard M. Thomas	0
2	‘Domesticability’: were some species predisposed for domestication? 2025 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), Thomas H. G. Ezard, Michael Charles, Rafał M. Gutaker, Colin P. Osborne, Mark A. Chapman	2
3	On the formation of charred millet aggregates in archaeological assemblages 2024 ·Archaeometry ·Andrés Teira‐Brión, Joeri Kaal, Michael Charles	2
4	Living by the lake: Plant food diversity in a prehistoric lake‐dwelling community in the Republic of North Macedonia 2024 ·Archaeometry ·(unknown), Michael Charles, Ferrán Antolín, (unknown), (unknown), Albert Hafner, Stefanie Jacomet, André F. Lotter, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Elizabeth Stroud, Willy Tinner, Rachel Wood, Amy Bogaard	0
5	Processing and storage of tree fruits, cereals and pulses at PPNA Sharara, southern Jordan 2023 ·Vegetation History and Archaeobotany ·Jade Whitlam, Bill Finlayson, Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles, Cheryl A. Makarewicz	2
6	Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: a bioarchaeological dataset for the study of early medieval agriculture (Data paper) 2023 ·Internet Archaeology ·(unknown), Helena Hamerow, Amy Bogaard, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Michael Charles, (unknown), John Hodgson, Matilda Holmes, (unknown), (unknown), Elizabeth Stroud, Richard M. Thomas	0
7	Seeing the fields through the weeds: introducing the WeedEco R package for comparing past and present arable farming systems using functional weed ecology 2023 ·Vegetation History and Archaeobotany ·Elizabeth Stroud, Michael Charles, Glynis Jones, John Hodgson, Amy Bogaard	1
8	Investigating fuel for firing pottery at the end of the 3rd mill. BCE: The case of Logardan, northern Iraq 2023 ·Journal of Archaeological Science Reports ·(unknown), Michael Charles	1
9	Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms 2023 ·Vegetation History and Archaeobotany ·(unknown), Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles	4
10	“CROPPING THE MARGINS”: NEW EVIDENCE FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE AT MID-3^RD MILLENNIUM B.C.E. TELL BRAK, SYRIA 2023 ·Iraq ·(unknown), Geoff Emberling, Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles	2
11	Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey 2022 ·World Archaeology ·(unknown), Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles, John Wainwright	4
12	In a nutshell: Using structural and chemical changes to establish the charring conditions of archaeological hazelnut shells 2022 ·Journal of Archaeological Science ·(unknown), Michael Charles, Steven Mithen, Rick Schulting	5
13	An Integrated Bioarchaeological Approach to the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’: A Case Study from Stafford, England,c.ad800–1200 2020 ·European Journal of Archaeology ·Helena Hamerow, Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles, (unknown), Matilda Holmes, (unknown), (unknown), Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Elizabeth Stroud, Richard M. Thomas	36
14	Cutting the Mustard: New Insights Into the Plant Economy of Late Neolithic Tepe Khaleseh (Iran) 2019 ·Iran ·Jade Whitlam, (unknown), Michael Charles	3
15	Exploring the agroecology of Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Central Anatolia: An archaeobotanical approach to agricultural intensity based on functional ecological analysis of arable weed flora 2018 ·Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) ·Laura Green, Michael Charles, Amy Bogaard	5
16	Re-analysis of archaeobotanical remains from pre- and early agricultural sites provides no evidence for a narrowing of the wild plant food spectrum during the origins of agriculture in southwest Asia 2018 ·Vegetation History and Archaeobotany ·Michael Wallace, Glynis Jones, Michael Charles, (unknown), Eleanor Stillman, Vincent Bonhomme, Alexandra Livarda, Colin P. Osborne, Mark Rees, (unknown), Catherine Preece	26
17	Stable Carbon Isotope Evidence for Neolithic and Bronze Age Crop Water Management in the Eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia 2015 ·PLoS ONE ·Michael Wallace, Glynis Jones, Michael Charles, Rebecca Fraser, T.H.E. Heaton, Amy Bogaard	61
18	What goes in does not always come out: The impact of the ruminant digestive system of sheep on plant material, and its importance for the interpretation of dung-derived archaeobotanical assemblages 2013 ·Environmental Archaeology ·Michael Wallace, Michael Charles	50
19	Response of wild C ₄ crop progenitors to subambient CO ₂ highlights a possible role in the origin of agriculture 2007 ·Global Change Biology ·Jennifer Cunniff, Colin P. Osborne, Brad S. Ripley, Michael Charles, Glynis Jones	31
20	Archaeology of Plants. Current Research in Archaeobotany. Proceedings of the 12th IWGP Symposium, Sheffield 2001 2002 ·Springer eBooks ·Stefanie Jacomet, Glynis Jones, Michael Charles, Felix Bittmann	4

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