| Introduction: the social construction of ancient cities ML Smith The social construction of ancient cities, 1-36, 2003 | 317* | 2003 |
| Networks, territories, and the cartography of ancient states ML Smith Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95 (4), 832-849, 2005 | 258 | 2005 |
| The Social Construction of Ancient Cities ML Smith (editor) Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003 | 237* | 2003 |
| The archaeology of food preference ML Smith American Anthropologist 108 (3), 480-493, 2006 | 193 | 2006 |
| The archaeology of urban landscapes ML Smith Annual Review of Anthropology 43 (1), 307-323, 2014 | 152 | 2014 |
| Inconspicuous consumption: Non-display goods and identity formation ML Smith Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 14 (4), 412-438, 2007 | 103 | 2007 |
| Urban empty spaces. Contentious places for consensus-building ML Smith Archaeological dialogues 15 (2), 216-231, 2008 | 102 | 2008 |
| The role of ordinary goods in premodern exchange ML Smith Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 6, 109-135, 1999 | 101 | 1999 |
| The archaeology of South Asian cities ML Smith Journal of archaeological research 14, 97-142, 2006 | 100 | 2006 |
| Cities: The First 6,000 Years ML Smith | 93 | 2019 |
| " INDIANIZATION" FROM THE INDIAN POINT OF VIEW: TRADE AND CULTURAL CONTACTS WITH SOUTHEAST ASIA IN THE EARLY FIRST MILLENNIUM CE. 1) ML Smith | 84 | 1999 |
| Territories, corridors, and networks: a biological model for the premodern state ML Smith Complexity 12 (4), 28-35, 2007 | 76 | 2007 |
| Citizen science in archaeology ML Smith American Antiquity 79 (4), 749-762, 2014 | 71 | 2014 |
| Untangling the ties that bind: the city, the countryside, and the nature of Maya urbanism at Xunantunich, Belize J Yaeger, ML Smith The social construction of ancient cities, 121-155, 2003 | 65 | 2003 |
| Urban infrastructure as materialized consensus ML Smith World Archaeology 48 (1), 164-178, 2016 | 61 | 2016 |
| Archaeological Investigations at Ziyaret Tepe-2002 T Matney, J MacGinnis, H McDonald, K Nicoll, L Rainville, M Roaf, ... Anatolica 29, 175-221, 2003 | 55 | 2003 |
| A Prehistory of Ordinary People ML Smith University of Arizona Press, 2010 | 46 | 2010 |
| Feasts and Their Failures ML Smith Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22, 1215-1237, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| Excavations at Sisupalgarh, Orissa RK Mohanty, ML Smith Indian Archaeological Society, 2008 | 36 | 2008 |
| Early walled cities of the Indian subcontinent as “small worlds.” ML Smith The Social Construction of Ancient Cities, 269-89, 2003 | 36 | 2003 |
