| Archaeological assessment reveals Earth's early transformation through land use etc. Stephens, Fuller, Boivin, Rick, Gauthier, Schmidt Science 365 (30 August), 897--902, 2019 | 472 | 2019 |
| Making alternative histories: the practice of archaeology and history in non-Western settings PR Schmidt, eds. and Patterson, Thomas C School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1995 | 379* | 1995 |
| Iron technology in East Africa: Symbolism, science, and archaeology PR Schmidt Indiana University Press, 1997 | 321 | 1997 |
| Historical Archaeology: a structural approach in an African culture PR Schmidt Greenwood Press, 1978 | 254 | 1978 |
| Historical archaeology in Africa: Representation, social memory, and oral traditions PR Schmidt Rowman Altamira, 2006 | 173 | 2006 |
| Plundering Africa's past PR Schmidt, RJ McIntosh Indiana University Press, 1996 | 172* | 1996 |
| Community archaeology and heritage in Africa PR Schmidt, I Pikirayi London: Routledge, 2016 | 156* | 2016 |
| Complex Iron Smelting and Prehistoric Culture in Tanzania: Recent discoveries show complex technological achievement in African iron production. P Schmidt, DH Avery Science 201 (4361), 1085-1089, 1978 | 152 | 1978 |
| The culture and technology of African iron production PR Schmidt (No Title), 1996 | 150* | 1996 |
| Postcolonial archaeologies in Africa PR Schmidt School for Advanced Research Press, 2009 | 137 | 2009 |
| The archaeology of ancient Eritrea PR Schmidt, MC Curtis, Z Teka The Red Sea Press, 2008 | 104* | 2008 |
| The death of prehistory PR Schmidt, SA Mrozowski Oxford University Press, USA, 2013 | 103 | 2013 |
| Gender in African prehistory S Kent Rowman Altamira, 1998 | 100 | 1998 |
| Ideology and the archaeological record in Africa: Interpreting symbolism in iron smelting technology PR Schmidt, BB Mapunda Journal of anthropological archaeology 16 (1), 73-102, 1997 | 98 | 1997 |
| Re-representing African pasts through historical archaeology PR Schmidt, JR Walz American antiquity 72 (1), 53-70, 2007 | 94 | 2007 |
| Innovation and industry during the Early Iron Age in East Africa: the KM2 and KM3 sites of northwest Tanzania PR Schmidt, ST Childs African Archaeological Review 3 (1), 53-94, 1985 | 83 | 1985 |
| Using Archoeology to Remake History in Africa PR Schmidt School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1995 | 78* | 1995 |
| Tropes, materiality, and ritual embodiment of African iron smelting furnaces as human figures PR Schmidt Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 16, 262-282, 2009 | 72 | 2009 |
| 8. Early Exploitation and Settlement in the Usambara Mountains PR Schmidt Forest conservation in the east Usambara Mountains, Tanzania 15, 75, 1989 | 72 | 1989 |
| Archaeological views on a history of landscape change in East Africa PR Schmidt The Journal of African History 38 (3), 393-421, 1997 | 69 | 1997 |
Innocent PikirayiProfessor of Archaeology, University of PretoriaVerified email at up.ac.za
