| Complexity, hierarchy, and scale: a controlled comparison between Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, and La Quemada, Zacatecas BA Nelson American Antiquity 60 (4), 597-618, 1995 | 170 | 1995 |
| Ceramic frequency and use-life: A highland Mayan case in cross-cultural perspective BA Nelson Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 162-181, 1991 | 92 | 1991 |
| Isotopic investigation of pre-Hispanic macaw breeding in Northwest Mexico AD Somerville, BA Nelson, KJ Knudson Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 29 (1), 125-135, 2010 | 90 | 2010 |
| Decoding prehistoric ceramics BA Nelson (No Title), 1985 | 88 | 1985 |
| Short-Term Sedentism in the American Southwest: The Mimbres Valley Salado BA Nelson, SA LeBlanc (No Title), 1986 | 87 | 1986 |
| Ethnoarchaeology and paleodemography: A test of Turner and Lofgren's hypothesis BA Nelson Journal of Anthropological Research 37 (2), 107-129, 1981 | 70 | 1981 |
| Reconstructing ceramic vessels and their systemic contexts BA Nelson Decoding prehistoric ceramics, 310-329, 1985 | 62 | 1985 |
| Mortuary practices and the social order at La Quemada, Zacatecas, Mexico BA Nelson, JA Darling, DA Kice Latin American Antiquity 3 (4), 298-315, 1992 | 58 | 1992 |
| Chronology and stratigraphy at La Quemada, Zacatecas, Mexico BA Nelson Journal of Field Archaeology 24 (1), 85-109, 1997 | 57 | 1997 |
| Fallow valleys: Asynchronous occupations in southwestern New Mexico BA Nelson, R Anyon Kiva 61 (3), 275-294, 1996 | 54 | 1996 |
| Demographic alternatives: Consequences for current models of southwestern prehistory BA Nelson, TA Kohler, KW Kintigh Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest 16, 113-146, 1994 | 49 | 1994 |
| Analyzing the impact of agave cultivation on famine risk in arid pre-Hispanic northern Mexico JM Anderies, BA Nelson, AP Kinzig Human ecology 36, 409-422, 2008 | 47 | 2008 |
| Long-term vulnerability and resilience: three examples from archaeological study in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico MC Nelson, M Hegmon, KW Kintigh, AP Kinzig, BA Nelson, JM Anderies, ... Surviving sudden environmental change: Answers from archaeology, 197-221, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| Mesoamerican objects and symbols in Chaco Canyon contexts BA Nelson The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon, 339-372, 2006 | 37 | 2006 |
| Aggregation, warfare, and the spread of the Mesoamerican tradition B Nelson The archaeology of regional interaction: Religion, warfare, and exchange …, 2008 | 31 | 2008 |
| Climate, agriculture, and cycles of human occupation over the last 4000 yr in southern Zacatecas, Mexico M Elliott, CT Fisher, BA Nelson, RSM Garza, SK Collins, DM Pearsall Quaternary Research 74 (1), 26-35, 2010 | 30 | 2010 |
| Drawing the Southwest to scale: Perspectives on macroregional relations RH McGuire, EC Adams, BA Nelson, KA Spielmann Themes in Southwest Prehistory, School of American Research Press, Santa Fe …, 1994 | 26 | 1994 |
| Process partitions from time-ordered clusters P Harnish, B Nelson, G Runger Journal of Quality Technology 41 (1), 3-17, 2009 | 20 | 2009 |
| Pilgrimage and material transfers in prehispanic northwest Mexico EC Wells, BA Nelson Mesoamerican Ritual Economy: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives …, 2007 | 19 | 2007 |
| Posibles pasajes migratorios en el norte de México y el suroeste de los Estados Unidos durante el Epiclásico y el Posclásico BA Nelson, D Crider Reacomodos demográficos del Clásico al Posclásico en el centro de México, 75-102, 2005 | 19 | 2005 |
