Timothy Earle

11.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
88 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Timothy Earle is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy Earle has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Paleontology, 25 papers in Anthropology and 16 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Timothy Earle's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (37 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (16 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 papers). Timothy Earle is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (37 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (16 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 papers). Timothy Earle collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Sweden. Timothy Earle's co-authors include Allen Johnson, Robert D. Drennan, Elizabeth DeMarrais, Barbara J. Price, Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Karl W. Butzer, Luis Jaime Castillo, Robert L. Carneiro, Stephen Shennan and Patrick D. Nolan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Timothy Earle

83 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies.

1988 498 citations Timothy Earle et al. Man profile →
The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Groups to Agrarian State

1988 473 citations Allen Johnson, Timothy Earle et al. profile →
Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy [and Comments and Reply]

1985 276 citations Timothy Earle et al. Current Anthropology profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Valencina: A copper age polity 2025 ·Journal of Anthropological Archaeology ·Leonardo García Sanjuán, Timothy Earle	0
2	A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia 2025 ·Science Advances ·Leonardo García Sanjuán, (unknown), Marta Díaz-Guardamino, José Antonio Lozano Rodríguez, Teodosio Donaire Romero, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Luís Miguel Cáceres Puro, David Wheatley, Timothy Earle, (unknown), (unknown), Álvaro Fernández Flores, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Fernando Muñiz Guinea	3
3	Taiwanese Prehistory 2024 ·Current Anthropology ·(unknown), Timothy Earle	1
4	Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity 2024 ·Current Anthropology ·Charles Stanish, Timothy Earle, Leonardo García Sanjuán, (unknown), Gustavo Barrientos	3
5	Warfare, Political Economy, and Social Formations: Considering Central Andean Prehistory 2023 ·Arqueología y Sociedad ·Timothy Earle	1
6	Wealth inequality and the pristine Hawaiian state: a political economy approach 2015 ·Timothy Earle	1
7	Remodeling the political economy of the Wari Empire 2012 ·Americanae (AECID Library) ·Timothy Earle, Justin Jennings	2
8	Taro Irrigation and Primary State Formation in Hawai'i 2012 ·Senri ethnological studies ·Timothy Earle	3
9	Chiefs, Chieftaincies, Chiefdoms, and Chiefly Confederacies: Power in the Evolution of Political Systems 2011 ·Social Evolution & History ·Timothy Earle	16
10	Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Redistribution and the Political Economy: The Evolution of an Idea 2011 ·American Journal of Archaeology ·Timothy Earle	10
11	La evolución de las sociedades: desde los grupos cazadores-recolectores al estado agrario 2003 ·Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) ·Allen Johnson, Timothy Earle	6
12	The Evolution of Human Societies 2000 ·Stanford University Press eBooks ·Allen Johnson, Timothy Earle	262
13	How Chiefs Come to Power 1997 ·Stanford University Press eBooks ·Timothy Earle	311
14	Labor Control and Emergent Stratification in Prehistoric Europe [and Comments and Reply] 1990 ·Current Anthropology ·(unknown), Douglass W. Bailey, Pam Crabtree, Timothy Earle, Gary M. Feinman, Antonio Gilman, Ian Hodder, A. Bernard Knapp, Vicente Lull, Šarūnas Milišauskas, John O’Shea, (unknown)	27
15	Settlement archaeology in the Jauja region of Peru 1989 ·Christine A. Hastorf, Timothy Earle, H. E. Wright, Lisa J. LeCount, (unknown), (unknown)	14
16	Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange 1982 ·Academic Press eBooks ·Jonathon E. Ericson, Timothy Earle	96
17	Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production: A Trial Model [and Comments and Reply] 1981 ·Current Anthropology ·Prudence M. Rice, William Y. Adams, Joseph W. Ball, Whitney Davis, Timothy Earle, Robert E. Fry, Ian Hodder, (unknown), Charles C. Kolb, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Barbara Stark, Sander E. van der Leeuw	148
18	Modelling Change in Prehistoric Subsistence Economies 1981 ·Man ·Thomas F. Lynch, Timothy Earle, Andrew L. Christenson	37
19	PREHISTORIC IRRIGATION IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: AN EVALUATION OF EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE 1980 ·Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania ·Timothy Earle	41
20	PROCESSUAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE RADICAL CRITIQUE 1978 ·Timothy Earle, Robert W. Preucel	49

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