Steven Mithen

8.3k citations
150 papers · 4.4k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 31
  • Archeology top 0.5%
    • Archaeology and Historical Studies 17
    • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies 15
    • Ancient Egypt and Archaeology 11
  • Paleontology top 0.5%
    • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies 60
  • Anthropology top 0.2%
    • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology 44
  • Archeology top 0.2%
    • Archaeology and Historical Studies 17
    • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies 15
    • Ancient Egypt and Archaeology 11
    • Language and cultural evolution 15
    • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 13
    • Primate Behavior and Ecology 12

Steven Mithen

140 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Steven Mithen
Comparison fields: 5 of 158
  • Archeology 282
  • Paleontology 1.5k
  • Anthropology 1.4k
  • Archeology 738
  • Developmental Biology 156
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All Works

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Music as a coevolved system for social bondingbreakdown →
2020236
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A Lower Palaeolithic Handaxe from Scotland
20161
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Testing the functional utility of handaxe symmetry: fallow deer butchery with replica handaxes
201615
6 20133
7 201326
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Artefacts In: Croig Cave: a Late Bronze Age ornament deposit and three millennia of fishing and foraging on the north-west coast of Mull, Scotland
20121
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The early prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan : archaeological survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and al-Bustan and evaluation of the pre-pottery neolithic A site of WF16
200729
10 2006460
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Review symposium of Andy Clark's natural-born cyborgs
20042
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Stepping Out: Investigating Hominin Dispersals Within a Palaeoclimatic Framework.
20042
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After the ice : a global human history, 20,000-5000 BC/ Steve Mithen
200322
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15 200076
16 19985
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A search for the origins of art, religion and science
19967
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The cognitive origins of art, religion and science
19961
19 19908
20 198628

About Steven Mithen

Steven Mithen is a scholar working on Archeology, Paleontology, Anthropology, Archeology and Cultural Studies, having authored 150 papers that have together received 4.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (60 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (44 papers), Archaeology and Historical Studies (17 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (15 papers), Language and cultural evolution (15 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (13 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (12 papers) and Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Archeology (282 citations), Paleontology (1.5k citations), Anthropology (1.4k citations), Archeology (738 citations) and Developmental Biology (156 citations). Steven Mithen has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sri Lanka and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Marek Kohn, Bill Finlayson, Anna Machin, Rob Hosfield, James F. O’Connell, Melissa Reed, Bronwyn Tarr, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Luke Glowacki and Adena Schachner. Their work appears in journals such as Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Journal of Archaeological Science, Antiquity, Levant and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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