| The evolution of human societies: from foraging group to agrarian state AW Johnson, TK Earle Stanford University Press, 2000 | 2636 | 2000 |
| How chiefs come to power: The political economy in prehistory TK Earle Stanford University Press, 1997 | 1696 | 1997 |
| Ideology, materialization, and power strategies E DeMarrais, LJ Castillo, T Earle Current anthropology 37 (1), 15-31, 1996 | 1222 | 1996 |
| Specialization, exchange and complex societies EM Brumfiel, TK Earle Cambridge University Press, 1987 | 1217 | 1987 |
| Staple finance, wealth finance, and storage in the Inka political economy [and comments and reply] TN d'Altroy, TK Earle, DL Browman, D La Lone, ME Moseley, JV Murra, ... Current anthropology 26 (2), 187-206, 1985 | 1025 | 1985 |
| Chiefdoms in archaeological and ethnohistorical perspective TK Earle Annual review of anthropology 16, 279-308, 1987 | 779 | 1987 |
| The development of social stratification in Bronze Age Europe [and comments and reply] A Gilman, R McC, AMB Sestieri, A Cazzella, HJM Claessen, GL Cowgill, ... Current anthropology 22 (1), 1-23, 1981 | 588 | 1981 |
| Chiefdoms: power, economy, and ideology TK Earle Cambridge University Press, 1993 | 581 | 1993 |
| The evolution of chiefdoms T Earle Current Anthropology 30 (1), 84-88, 1989 | 506 | 1989 |
| Evolution of specialized pottery production: a trial model [and comments and reply] PM Rice, WY Adams, JW Ball, WM Davis, T Earle, RE Fry, I Hodder, ... Current Anthropology 22 (3), 219-240, 1981 | 488 | 1981 |
| Bronze Age Economics: the first political economies T Earle Routledge, 2018 | 439 | 2018 |
| Exchange systems in prehistory T Earle, J Ericson Elsevier, 2014 | 409 | 2014 |
| Economic and social organization of a complex chiefdom: The Halelea district, Kaua’i, Hawaii T Earle U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY, 1978 | 373 | 1978 |
| Processual archaeology and the radical critique [and comments and reply] TK Earle, RW Preucel, EM Brumfiel, C Carr, WF Limp, C Chippindale, ... Current anthropology 28 (4), 501-538, 1987 | 347 | 1987 |
| Status distinction and legitimation of power as reflected in changing patterns of consumption in late prehispanic Peru CL Costin, T Earle American antiquity 54 (4), 691-714, 1989 | 344 | 1989 |
| A reappraisal of redistribution: complex Hawaiian chiefdoms TK Earle Exchange systems in prehistory, 213-229, 1977 | 341 | 1977 |
| Eventful archaeology: the place of space in structural transformation RA Beck Jr, DJ Bolender, JA Brown, TK Earle Current anthropology 48 (6), 833-860, 2007 | 214 | 2007 |
| Archaeology, property, and prehistory T Earle Annual review of anthropology 29 (1), 39-60, 2000 | 206 | 2000 |
| Specialization and the production of wealth: Hawaiian chiefdoms and the Inka empire TK Earle Specialization, exchange, and complex societies, 64-75, 1987 | 206 | 1987 |
| Monumentality and the Rise of Religious Authority in Precontact Hawai'i [and Comments and Reply] MJ Kolb, R Cordy, T Earle, G Feinman, MW Graves, CA Hastorf, I Hodder, ... Current Anthropology 35 (5), 521-547, 1994 | 196 | 1994 |
