| The creation of inequality: how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire K Flannery, J Marcus Harvard University Press, 2012 | 916 | 2012 |
| Zapotec civilization: How urban society evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley J Marcus, KV Flannery Thames and Hudson, 1996 | 728 | 1996 |
| Mesoamerican writing systems: Propaganda, myth, and history in four ancient civilizations J Marcus Princeton University Press, 1992 | 574 | 1992 |
| The cloud people: Divergent evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec civilizations KV Flannery, J Marcus Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press, 2003 | 416 | 2003 |
| Emblem and state in the classic Maya Lowlands: an epigraphic approach to territorial organization J Marcus Dumbarton Oaks, 1976 | 367 | 1976 |
| The peaks and valleys of ancient states: An extension of the dynamic model J Marcus Archaic states, 59-94, 1998 | 341 | 1998 |
| Archaic states GM Feinman, J Marcus School for Advanced Research on the, 1998 | 334 | 1998 |
| Itza Maya tropical agro-forestry [and comments and replies] S Atran, AF Chase, SL Fedick, G Knapp, H McKillop, J Marcus, ... Current anthropology 34 (5), 633-700, 1993 | 293 | 1993 |
| Territorial organization of the lowland Classic Maya J Marcus Science 180 (4089), 911-916, 1973 | 281 | 1973 |
| The flocks of the Wamani: A study of llama herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru KV Flannery, J Marcus, RG Reynolds Routledge, 2016 | 279 | 2016 |
| Ancient Maya political organization J Marcus Lowland Maya civilization in the eighth century AD, 111-183, 1993 | 271 | 1993 |
| Cognitive archaeology KV Flannery, J Marcus Cambridge Archaeological Journal 3 (2), 260-267, 1993 | 257* | 1993 |
| Ancient Zapotec ritual and religion: an application of the direct historical approach J Marcus, KV Flannery The ancient mind: elements of cognitive archaeology, 55-74, 1994 | 226 | 1994 |
| Formative Oaxaca and the Zapotec Cosmos: The interactions of ritual and human ecology are traced in this interpretation of a prehistoric settlement in highland Mexico KV Flannery, J Marcus American Scientist 64 (4), 374-383, 1976 | 217 | 1976 |
| Formative Mexican chiefdoms and the myth of the “mother culture” KV Flannery, J Marcus Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19 (1), 1-37, 2000 | 213 | 2000 |
| The archaeological evidence for social evolution J Marcus Annual Review of Anthropology 37, 251-266, 2008 | 199 | 2008 |
| The ancient city: New perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world J Marcus, JA Sabloff School for Advanced Research on the, 2008 | 195 | 2008 |
| On the nature of the Mesoamerican city J Marcus Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1980 | 172 | 1980 |
| Calakmul: New data from an ancient Maya capital in Campeche, Mexico WJ Folan, J Marcus, S Pincemin, MRD Carrasco, L Fletcher, AM López Latin American Antiquity 6 (4), 310-334, 1995 | 171 | 1995 |
| Lowland Maya archaeology at the crossroads J Marcus American Antiquity 48 (3), 454-488, 1983 | 165 | 1983 |
