| Indigenous African metallurgy: nature and culture ST Childs, D Killick Annual review of Anthropology, 317-337, 1993 | 314 | 1993 |
| From ores to metals D Killick Archaeometallurgy in global perspective: Methods and syntheses, 11-45, 2014 | 177* | 2014 |
| Archaeometallurgy: the study of preindustrial mining and metallurgy D Killick, T Fenn Annual review of anthropology 41 (1), 559-575, 2012 | 173 | 2012 |
| Social constructionist approaches to the study of technology D Killick World Archaeology 36 (4), 571-578, 2004 | 150 | 2004 |
| Between bloomery and blast furnace: Mafa iron-smelting technology in North Cameroon N David, R Heimann, D Killick, M Wayman African Archaeological Review 7 (1), 183-208, 1989 | 140 | 1989 |
| The awkward adolescence of archaeological science D Killick Journal of archaeological science 56, 242-247, 2015 | 114 | 2015 |
| What do we know about African iron working? D Killick Journal of African Archaeology 2 (1), 97-112, 2004 | 99 | 2004 |
| Archaeological theories and archaeological sciences M Martinón-Torres, D Killick | 88 | 2013 |
| A novel approach to lead isotope provenance studies of tin and bronze LJ Molofsky UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 2009 | 84* | 2009 |
| Reassessment of the evidence for early metallurgy in Niger, West Africa D Killick, NJ Van Der Merwe, RB Gordon, D Grébénart Journal of Archaeological Science 15 (4), 367-394, 1988 | 83 | 1988 |
| Adaptation of technology to culture and environment: bloomery iron smelting in America and Africa RB Gordon, DJ Killick Technology and Culture 34 (2), 243-270, 1993 | 77 | 1993 |
| Slag identification at southern African archaeological sites D Miller, D Killick Journal of African Archaeology 2 (1), 23-47, 2004 | 74 | 2004 |
| Geological constraints on the use of lead isotopes for provenance in archaeometallurgy DJ Killick, JA Stephens, TR Fenn Archaeometry 62, 86-105, 2020 | 71 | 2020 |
| Agency, dependency, and long–distance trade D Killick Polities and power: Archaeological perspectives on the landscape of early …, 2009 | 67 | 2009 |
| Invention and innovation in African iron-smelting technologies D Killick Cambridge Archaeological Journal 25 (1), 307-319, 2015 | 66 | 2015 |
| The technology of tin smelting in the Rooiberg Valley, Limpopo Province, South Africa, ca. 1650–1850 CE S Chirikure, RB Heimann, D Killick Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (7), 1656-1669, 2010 | 66 | 2010 |
| Square: an iron smelting site near Phalaborwa NJ Van der Merwe, DJ Killick Goodwin Series, 86-93, 1979 | 66 | 1979 |
| The social geography of pottery in Botswana as reconstructed by optical petrography EN Wilmsen, D Killick, DD Rosenstein, PC Thebe, JR Denbow Journal of African Archaeology 7 (1), 3-39, 2009 | 64 | 2009 |
| Indigenous and imported metals at Swahili sites on the coast of Kenya CM Kusimba, DJ Killick, RG Cresswell Society, culture, and technology in Africa 11, 63-77, 1994 | 60 | 1994 |
| Science, speculation and the origins of extractive metallurgy DJB Killick Handbook of archaeological sciences, 483-492, 2001 | 57 | 2001 |
