| Modeling the roles of craft production in ancient political economies EM Schortman, PA Urban Journal of Archaeological Research 12, 185-226, 2004 | 208 | 2004 |
| Modeling interregional interaction in prehistory EM Schortman, PA Urban Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, 37-95, 1987 | 183 | 1987 |
| Women's work: images of production and reproduction in pre-Hispanic southern Central America [and Comments and Reply] RA Joyce, W Davis, AB Kehoe, EM Schortman, P Urban, E Bell Current Anthropology 34 (3), 255-274, 1993 | 171 | 1993 |
| Resources, power, and interregional interaction EM Schortman, PA Urban Springer Science & Business Media, 1992 | 159 | 1992 |
| Playing with power: ballcourts and political ritual in southern mesoamerica [and comments and reply] JG Fox, W Ashmore, JH Blitz, SD Gillespie, SD Houston, TJJ Leyenaar, ... Current Anthropology 37 (3), 483-509, 1996 | 143 | 1996 |
| Living on the edge: Core/periphery relations in ancient southeastern Mesoamerica EM Schortman, PA Urban Current anthropology 35 (4), 401-430, 1994 | 143 | 1994 |
| Politics with style: Identity formation in prehispanic southeastern Mesoamerica EM Schortman, PA Urban, M Ausec American Anthropologist 103 (2), 312-330, 2001 | 131 | 2001 |
| Culture contact structure and process EM Schortman, PA Urban Studies in culture contact: interaction, culture change, and archaeology …, 1998 | 88 | 1998 |
| Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology K Deagan, PM Rice, RL Schuyler, AF Ramenofsky, EM Schortman, ... SIU Press, 2015 | 74 | 2015 |
| The Southeast Maya Periphery PA Urban, EM Schortman University of Texas Press, 1986 | 41 | 1986 |
| The place of interaction studies in archaeological thought EM Schortman, PA Urban Resources, Power, and Interregional Interaction, 3-15, 1992 | 38 | 1992 |
| Interregional Interaction in the SE Maya Periphery: The Santa Barbara Archaeological Project 1983–1984 Seasons E Schortman, P Urban, W Ashmore, J Benyo Journal of Field Archaeology 13 (3), 259-272, 1986 | 38 | 1986 |
| Archaeological investigations in the Valle de Naco, northwestern Honduras: a preliminary report JS Henderson, I Sterns, A Wonderley, PA Urban Journal of Field Archaeology 6 (2), 169-192, 1979 | 38 | 1979 |
| Archaeological theory in practice PA Urban Routledge, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
| Power, memory, and prehistory: constructing and erasing political landscapes in the Naco Valley, northwestern Honduras E Schortman, P Urban American Anthropologist 113 (1), 5-21, 2011 | 37 | 2011 |
| Networks of power: political relations in the Late Postclassic Naco Valley E Schortman, P Urban University Press of Colorado, 2011 | 36 | 2011 |
| Opportunities for advancement: Intra-community power contests in the midst of political decentralization in Terminal Classic Southeastern Mesoamerica P Urban, E Schortman Latin American Antiquity 15 (3), 251-272, 2004 | 35 | 2004 |
| Precolumbian settlement in the Naco valley, northwestern Honduras PA Urban The southeast Maya periphery, 275-295, 1986 | 34* | 1986 |
| Power without bounds? Middle Preclassic political developments in the Naco Valley, Honduras P Urban, E Schortman, M Ausec Latin American Antiquity 13 (2), 131-152, 2002 | 33 | 2002 |
| Enacting power through networks EM Schortman, PA Urban Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 31 (4), 500-514, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
