Peter Bleed

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Peter Bleed is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Bleed has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Paleontology, 21 papers in Anthropology and 8 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Peter Bleed's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (12 papers) and Archaeology and Natural History (4 papers). Peter Bleed is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (12 papers) and Archaeology and Natural History (4 papers). Peter Bleed collaborates with scholars based in United States and Australia. Peter Bleed's co-authors include Douglas B. Bamforth, C. Melvin Aikens, Akira Matsui, Douglas D. Scott, Matthew Douglass, Valda Blundell, Alex Mackay, David J. Cochran, Michael W. Riley and Andris Freivalds and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Current Anthropology and American Antiquity.

In The Last Decade

Peter Bleed

35 papers receiving 959 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Optimal Design of Hunting Weapons: Maintainability or Reliability

1986 403 citations Peter Bleed American Antiquity profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Peter Bleed	831	789	334	175	116	38	1.1k
Sally R. Binford	750 0.9×	815 1.0×	305 0.9×	120 0.7×	117 1.0×	15	1.2k
Jean Clottes	735 0.9×	591 0.7×	437 1.3×	353 2.0×	46 0.4×	109	1.3k
David L. Clarke	476 0.6×	601 0.8×	297 0.9×	98 0.6×	81 0.7×	14	1.0k
Stephen Plog	526 0.6×	698 0.9×	188 0.6×	270 1.5×	111 1.0×	40	1.0k
Thomas P. Volman	813 1.0×	698 0.9×	387 1.2×	281 1.6×	38 0.3×	12	1.1k
J. M. Adovasio	850 1.0×	882 1.1×	397 1.2×	99 0.6×	126 1.1×	78	1.3k
Jean‐Michel Geneste	1.2k 1.4×	955 1.2×	630 1.9×	224 1.3×	83 0.7×	65	1.6k
Julien Riel‐Salvatore	883 1.1×	855 1.1×	494 1.5×	92 0.5×	48 0.4×	56	1.3k
C. Garth Sampson	1.2k 1.5×	985 1.2×	355 1.1×	683 3.9×	75 0.6×	53	1.5k
Раду Йовита	1.1k 1.3×	917 1.2×	473 1.4×	163 0.9×	49 0.4×	53	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Bleed

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Bleed, Peter, et al.. (2015). Scale armor on the North American frontier: Lessons from the John G. Bourke armor. Plains Anthropologist. 60(235). 199–222.

Bleed, Peter. (2011). Special Issue: Reduction Sequence, Chaîne Opératoire, and Other Methods: The Epistemologies of Different Approaches to Lithic Analysis Loosening Our Chaînes: Cognitive Insights for the Archaeological Application of Sequence Models. 1 indexed citations

Armstrong, Thomas J., David J. Cochran, Peter Bleed, et al.. (2010). Hand Tool Ergonomics – past and Present. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 54(15). 1145–1148. 3 indexed citations

Bleed, Peter, et al.. (2009). Burning Issues: Observations on Old and New Burned Earthlodges. Plains Anthropologist. 54(209). 19–25. 1 indexed citations

Bleed, Peter. (2008). Skill Matters. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 15(1). 154–166. 48 indexed citations

Bleed, Peter. (2006). Living in the human niche. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 15(1). 8–10. 29 indexed citations

Bleed, Peter. (2002). Obviously sequential, but continuous or staged? Refits and cognition in three late paleolithic assemblages from Japan. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 21(3). 329–343. 30 indexed citations

Bleed, Peter. (1997). Content as Variability, Result as Selection: Toward a Behavioral Definition of Technology. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association. 7(1). 95–104. 21 indexed citations

Bleed, Peter, et al.. (1996). Jomon of Japan: The World's Oldest Pottery. Monumenta Nipponica. 51(4). 526–526. 2 indexed citations

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Bleed, Peter. (1996). Risk and Cost in Japanese Microcore Technology. Lithic Technology. 21(2). 95–107. 23 indexed citations

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Bleed, Peter, et al.. (1991). Frontier Flintlocks: A Fault Tree Analysis of Firearm Use at Contact Period Sites of the Great Plains. Insecta mundi. 1(2). 233–248. 4 indexed citations

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Bleed, Peter. (1991). Operations Research and Archaeology. American Antiquity. 56(1). 19–35. 22 indexed citations

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Bleed, Peter, et al.. (1990). Why is the Japanese Sword Curved ?. MRS Proceedings. 185. 1 indexed citations

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Bleed, Peter, et al.. (1987). Energetic efficiency and hand tool design: A performance comparison of push and pull stroke saws. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 6(2). 189–197. 16 indexed citations

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Bleed, Peter. (1986). The Optimal Design of Hunting Weapons: Maintainability or Reliability. American Antiquity. 51(4). 737–747. 403 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bleed, Peter, et al.. (1982). A Performance Comparison of Japanese and American Hand Saws. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting. 26(5). 403–407.

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Bleed, Peter, et al.. (1978). Archaeological Investigations in the Proposed Midstate Irrigation Project, Nebraska. 1 indexed citations

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Bleed, Peter. (1977). Early Flakes from Sozudai, Japan: Are They Man-Made?. Science. 197(4311). 1357–1359. 1 indexed citations

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Blundell, Valda & Peter Bleed. (1974). GROUND STONE ARTIFACTS FROM LATE PLEISTOCENE AND EARLY HOLOCENE JAPAN1. Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania. 9(2). 120–133. 3 indexed citations

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Bleed, Peter. (1970). Notes On Aztalan Shell Tempered Pottery. 51(1). 1–20. 2 indexed citations

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