| The survival of organic matter in bone: a review MJ Collins, CM Nielsen–Marsh, J Hiller, CI Smith, JP Roberts, ... Archaeometry 44 (3), 383-394, 2002 | 573 | 2002 |
| Age estimation: the state of the art in relation to the specific demands of forensic practise S Ritz-Timme, C Cattaneo, MJ Collins, ER Waite, HW Schütz, HJ Kaatsch, ... International journal of legal medicine 113 (3), 129-136, 2000 | 527 | 2000 |
| The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils ME Allentoft, M Collins, D Harker, J Haile, CL Oskam, ML Hale, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1748), 4724-4733, 2012 | 511 | 2012 |
| The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana M Rasmussen, SL Anzick, MR Waters, P Skoglund, M DeGiorgio, ... Nature 506 (7487), 225-229, 2014 | 451 | 2014 |
| Ancient biomolecules from deep ice cores reveal a forested southern Greenland E Willerslev, E Cappellini, W Boomsma, R Nielsen, MB Hebsgaard, ... Science 317 (5834), 111-114, 2007 | 436 | 2007 |
| Pathogens and host immunity in the ancient human oral cavity C Warinner, JFM Rodrigues, R Vyas, C Trachsel, N Shved, J Grossmann, ... Nature genetics 46 (4), 336-344, 2014 | 426 | 2014 |
| The earliest record of human activity in northern Europe SA Parfitt, RW Barendregt, M Breda, I Candy, MJ Collins, GR Coope, ... Nature 438 (7070), 1008-1012, 2005 | 396 | 2005 |
| Species identification by analysis of bone collagen using matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionisation time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry M Buckley, M Collins, J Thomas‐Oates, JC Wilson Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry: An International Journal Devoted …, 2009 | 382 | 2009 |
| Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone MME Jans, CM Nielsen-Marsh, CI Smith, MJ Collins, H Kars Journal of Archaeological Science 31 (1), 87-95, 2004 | 359 | 2004 |
| Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal plants entrapped in dental calculus K Hardy, S Buckley, MJ Collins, A Estalrrich, D Brothwell, L Copeland, ... Naturwissenschaften 99 (8), 617-626, 2012 | 344 | 2012 |
| The thermal history of human fossils and the likelihood of successful DNA amplification CI Smith, AT Chamberlain, MS Riley, C Stringer, MJ Collins Journal of human evolution 45 (3), 203-217, 2003 | 306 | 2003 |
| Whole-genome shotgun sequencing of mitochondria from ancient hair shafts MTP Gilbert, LP Tomsho, S Rendulic, M Packard, DI Drautz, A Sher, ... science 317 (5846), 1927-1930, 2007 | 272 | 2007 |
| Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates F Welker, MJ Collins, JA Thomas, M Wadsley, S Brace, E Cappellini, ... Nature 522 (7554), 81-84, 2015 | 227 | 2015 |
| A basic mathematical simulation of the chemical degradation of ancient collagen MJ Collins, MS Riley, AM Child, G Turner-Walker Journal of Archaeological Science 22 (2), 175-183, 1995 | 224 | 1995 |
| Not just old but old and cold? CI Smith, AT Chamberlain, MS Riley, A Cooper, CB Stringer, MJ Collins Nature 410 (6830), 771-772, 2001 | 214 | 2001 |
| Distinguishing between archaeological sheep and goat bones using a single collagen peptide M Buckley, SW Kansa, S Howard, S Campbell, J Thomas-Oates, ... Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (1), 13-20, 2010 | 211 | 2010 |
| Molecular phylogeny of the extinct cave lion Panthera leo spelaea J Burger, W Rosendahl, O Loreille, H Hemmer, T Eriksson, A Götherström, ... Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 30 (3), 841-849, 2004 | 204 | 2004 |
| The future of ancient DNA: Technical advances and conceptual shifts M Hofreiter, JLA Paijmans, H Goodchild, CF Speller, A Barlow, GG Fortes, ... BioEssays 37 (3), 284-293, 2015 | 201 | 2015 |
| Did the first farmers of central and eastern Europe produce dairy foods? OE Craig, J Chapman, C Heron, LH Willis, L Bartosiewicz, G Taylor, ... antiquity 79 (306), 882-894, 2005 | 197 | 2005 |
| The taphonomy of cooked bone: characterizing boiling and its physico–chemical effects SJ Roberts, CI Smith, A Millard, MJ Collins Archaeometry 44 (3), 485-494, 2002 | 195 | 2002 |
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