Michael D. Frachetti

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
42 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Michael D. Frachetti is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael D. Frachetti has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Paleontology, 27 papers in Anthropology and 11 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Michael D. Frachetti's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (30 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (11 papers). Michael D. Frachetti is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (30 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (11 papers). Michael D. Frachetti collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Michael D. Frachetti's co-authors include Robert N. Spengler, Alexei Mar'yashev, Gayle J. Fritz, Naomi F. Miller, Элисса Буллион, Cynthia M. Traub, Tim Williams, Norbert Benecke, Barbara Cerasetti and Taylor R. Hermes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael D. Frachetti

39 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Multiregional Emergence of Mobile Pastoralism and Nonuniform Institutional Complexity across Eurasia

2012 270 citations Michael D. Frachetti profile →
Early agriculture and crop transmission among Bronze Age mobile pastoralists of Central Eurasia

2014 190 citations Robert N. Spengler, Michael D. Frachetti et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
Nomadic ecology shaped the highland geography of Asia’s Silk Roads

2017 152 citations Michael D. Frachetti, Cynthia M. Traub et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael D. Frachetti United States	21	1.4k	974	615	320	272	42	1.9k
Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Lithuania	22	1.3k 1.0×	702 0.7×	780 1.3×	293 0.9×	122 0.4×	62	1.7k
Cheryl A. Makarewicz Germany	24	1.3k 1.0×	692 0.7×	387 0.6×	554 1.7×	167 0.6×	76	1.7k
Savino di Lernia Italy	22	801 0.6×	807 0.8×	139 0.2×	579 1.8×	120 0.4×	83	1.8k
Katie Manning United Kingdom	15	932 0.7×	687 0.7×	226 0.4×	313 1.0×	71 0.3×	28	1.5k
Naomi F. Miller United States	26	1.2k 0.9×	641 0.7×	286 0.5×	733 2.3×	96 0.4×	87	1.9k
Alison Betts Australia	21	848 0.6×	588 0.6×	296 0.5×	531 1.7×	101 0.4×	84	1.3k
Susan D. deFrance United States	20	890 0.7×	455 0.5×	437 0.7×	212 0.7×	65 0.2×	50	1.4k
Andrew Fairbairn Australia	22	1.0k 0.7×	608 0.6×	555 0.9×	533 1.7×	31 0.1×	68	1.6k
Emma Lightfoot United Kingdom	22	1.1k 0.8×	467 0.5×	625 1.0×	394 1.2×	39 0.1×	37	1.4k
Paul Halstead United Kingdom	29	2.4k 1.8×	1.1k 1.2×	608 1.0×	1.6k 4.9×	100 0.4×	87	3.5k

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Spengler, Robert N., et al.. (2025). Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1003–1003.

Tang, Li, et al.. (2024). Into thin air: prehistoric intensive crop management in high altitude western Tibet. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3.

Frachetti, Michael D., et al.. (2024). Large-scale medieval urbanism traced by UAV–lidar in highland Central Asia. Nature. 634(8036). 1118–1124. 6 indexed citations

Lü, Hongliang, et al.. (2024). Geospatial modelling of farmer–herder interactions maps cultural geography of Bronze and Iron Age Tibet, 3600–2200 BP. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2010–2010. 5 indexed citations

Frachetti, Michael D., Nicola Di Cosmo, Jan Esper, et al.. (2023). The dahliagram: An interdisciplinary tool for investigation, visualization, and communication of past human-environmental interaction. Science Advances. 9(47). eadj3142–eadj3142. 4 indexed citations

Shoda, Shinya, et al.. (2023). Pottery Impressions Reveal Earlier Westward Dispersal of Foxtail Millet in Inner Asian Mountain Corridor. Agronomy. 13(7). 1706–1706. 7 indexed citations

Powell, Wayne, Michael D. Frachetti, Cemal Pulak, et al.. (2022). Tin from Uluburun shipwreck shows small-scale commodity exchange fueled continental tin supply across Late Bronze Age Eurasia. Science Advances. 8(48). eabq3766–eabq3766. 20 indexed citations

Matuzevičiūtė, Giedrė Motuzaitė, Shinya Shoda, Anil K. Pokharia, et al.. (2021). The wind that shakes the barley: the role of East Asian cuisines on barley grain size. World Archaeology. 53(2). 287–304. 14 indexed citations

Hermes, Taylor R., Michael D. Frachetti, Dmitriy Voyakin, et al.. (2020). High mitochondrial diversity of domesticated goats persisted among Bronze and Iron Age pastoralists in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor. PLoS ONE. 15(5). e0233333–e0233333. 21 indexed citations

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Hermes, Taylor R., et al.. (2019). Early integration of pastoralism and millet cultivation in Bronze Age Eurasia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1910). 20191273–20191273. 79 indexed citations

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Li, Yuqi, et al.. (2019). Farming strategies of 1st millennium CE agro-pastoralists on the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains: A geoarchaeological and macrobotanical investigation of the Mohuchahangoukou (MGK) site, Xinjiang, China. PLoS ONE. 14(6). e0217171–e0217171. 19 indexed citations

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Spengler, Robert N., et al.. (2018). Arboreal crops on the medieval Silk Road: Archaeobotanical studies at Tashbulak. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0201409–e0201409. 24 indexed citations

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Hermes, Taylor R., et al.. (2018). Urban and nomadic isotopic niches reveal dietary connectivities along Central Asia’s Silk Roads. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 5177–5177. 35 indexed citations

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Spengler, Robert N., et al.. (2018). Eurasian Textiles: Case Studies in exchange during the incipient and later phases of the Silk Roads. Quaternary International. 1 indexed citations

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Boivin, Nicole & Michael D. Frachetti. (2018). Globalization in Prehistory: Contact, exchange, and the 'people without history'. 14 indexed citations

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Frachetti, Michael D., et al.. (2017). Nomadic ecology shaped the highland geography of Asia’s Silk Roads. Nature. 543(7644). 193–198. 152 indexed citations breakdown →

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Spengler, Robert N., et al.. (2017). Eurasian textiles: Case studies in exchange during the incipient and later Silk Road periods. Quaternary International. 468. 228–239. 11 indexed citations

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Frachetti, Michael D. & Farhod Maksudov. (2014). The landscape of ancient mobile pastoralism in the highlands of southeastern Uzbekistan, 2000b.c.–a.d.1400. Journal of Field Archaeology. 39(3). 195–212. 20 indexed citations

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Frachetti, Michael D., et al.. (2012). Bronze Age textile evidence in ceramic impressions: weaving and pottery technology among mobile pastoralists of central Eurasia. Antiquity. 86(332). 368–382. 22 indexed citations

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Frachetti, Michael D. & Alexei Mar'yashev. (2007). Long-Term Occupation and Seasonal Settlement of Eastern Eurasian Pastoralists at Begash, Kazakhstan. Journal of Field Archaeology. 32(3). 221–242. 50 indexed citations

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