| Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa: archaeological perspectives JC Monroe, A Ogundiran Cambridge University Press, 2012 | 84 | 2012 |
| Power and agency in precolonial African states JC Monroe Annual Review of Anthropology 42, 17-35, 2013 | 77 | 2013 |
| The precolonial state in West Africa: Building power in Dahomey JC Monroe Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 65 | 2014 |
| Continuity, revolution or evolution on the slave coast of West Africa? Royal architecture and political order in precolonial Dahomey JC Monroe The Journal of African History 48 (3), 349-373, 2007 | 44 | 2007 |
| Power by design: architecture and politics in precolonial Dahomey JC Monroe Journal of Social Archaeology 10 (3), 367-397, 2010 | 43 | 2010 |
| In the belly of dan: space, history, and power in precolonial dahomey JC Monroe Current Anthropology 52 (6), 769-798, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
| A seventeenth-century colonial cottage industry: New evidence and a dating formula for colono tobacco pipes in the Chesapeake JC Monroe, S Mallios Historical Archaeology 38, 68-82, 2004 | 28 | 2004 |
| The dynamics of state formation: The archaeology and ethnohistory of pre-colonial Dahomey JC Monroe University of California, Los Angeles, 2003 | 26 | 2003 |
| The Dahomean feast: royal women, private politics, and culinary practices in Atlantic West Africa JC Monroe, A Janzen African Archaeological Review 31, 299-337, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| Dahomey and the Atlantic slave trade: Archaeology and political order on the Bight of Benin JC Monroe Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African diaspora, 100-121, 2007 | 19 | 2007 |
| Building the state in Dahomey: power and landscape on the Bight of Benin JC Monroe Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa, 191-221, 2012 | 18 | 2012 |
| “Elephants for want of towns”: Archaeological perspectives on West African cities and their hinterlands JC Monroe Journal of Archaeological Research 26, 387-446, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| Urbanism on West Africa's slave coast: Archaeology sheds new light on cities in the era of the Atlantic slave trade JC Monroe American Scientist 99 (5), 400-409, 2011 | 17 | 2011 |
| New Light From Haiti's Royal Past: Recent Archaeological Excavations at The Palace of Sans-Souci, Milot JC Monroe | 11* | |
| The archaeology of the precolonial state in Africa JC Monroe | 10 | 2013 |
| Negotiating African-American ethnicity in the 17th century Chesapeake: Colono tobacco pipes and the ethnic uses of style JC Monroe, PJ Davey (No Title), 2002 | 10 | 2002 |
| Cities, slavery, and rural ambivalence in precolonial Dahomey JC Monroe The archaeology of slavery: A comparative approach to captivity and coercion …, 2015 | 7 | 2015 |
| Sovereignty after slavery: universal liberty and the practice of authority in postrevolutionary Haiti JC Monroe Current Anthropology 61 (S22), S232-S247, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| The Abomey Plateau archaeological project: preliminary results of the 2000, 2001, and 2002 seasons JC MONROE Nyame akuma, 2-10, 2004 | 6 | 2004 |
| A dating formula for Colono Tobacco pipes in the Chesapeake JC Monroe, S Mallios, Q Emmett The Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery Center 2 (1), 3-7, 2004 | 6 | 2004 |
