| Amazonia 1492: pristine forest or cultural parkland? MJ Heckenberger, A Kuikuro, UT Kuikuro, JC Russell, M Schmidt, ... Science 301 (5640), 1710-1714, 2003 | 749 | 2003 |
| The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest CR Clement, WM Denevan, MJ Heckenberger, AB Junqueira, EG Neves, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1812), 20150813, 2015 | 595 | 2015 |
| The ecology of power: culture, place and personhood in the southern Amazon, AD 1000–2000 MJ Heckenberger Routledge, 2004 | 583 | 2004 |
| Pre-Columbian urbanism, anthropogenic landscapes, and the future of the Amazon MJ Heckenberger, JC Russell, C Fausto, JR Toney, MJ Schmidt, ... Science 321 (5893), 1214-1217, 2008 | 447 | 2008 |
| The legacy of cultural landscapes in the Brazilian Amazon: implications for biodiversity MJ Heckenberger, J Christian Russell, JR Toney, MJ Schmidt Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 362 …, 2007 | 374 | 2007 |
| Amazonian archaeology M Heckenberger, EG Neves Annual Review of Anthropology 38, 251-266, 2009 | 373 | 2009 |
| Village size and permanence in Amazonia: two archaeological examples from Brazil MJ Heckenberger, JB Petersen, EG Neves Latin American Antiquity 10 (4), 353-376, 1999 | 342 | 1999 |
| Identity and power in the ancient Andes: Tiwanaku cities through time JW Janusek Routledge, 2004 | 273 | 2004 |
| Ethnogenesis, regional integration, and ecology in prehistoric Amazonia: toward a system perspective A Hornborg Current Anthropology 46 (4), 589-620, 2005 | 266 | 2005 |
| Gift from the past; terra preta and prehistric Amerindian occupation in Amazonia J Peterson Unknown Amazon, 2001 | 255 | 2001 |
| Rethinking the Arawakan diaspora: hierarchy, regionality, and the Amazonian formative MJ Heckenberger Comparative Arawakan histories: rethinking language family and culture area …, 2002 | 226 | 2002 |
| Time and memory in indigenous Amazonia: anthropological perspectives C Fausto, M Heckenberger (No Title), 2007 | 196 | 2007 |
| Estrutura, história e transformação: a cultura xinguana na longue durée, 1000-2000 dC M Heckenberger Os povos do Alto Xingu: história e cultura, 21-62, 2001 | 174 | 2001 |
| The Timing of Terra Preta Formation in the Central Amazon: Archaeological Data from Three Sites EG Neves, JB Petersen, RN Bartone, MJ Heckenberger Amazonian dark earths: explorations in space and time, 125-134, 2004 | 167 | 2004 |
| Dark earths and the human built landscape in Amazonia: a widespread pattern of anthrosol formation MJ Schmidt, AR Py-Daniel, C de Paula Moraes, RBM Valle, ... Journal of archaeological science 42, 152-165, 2014 | 151 | 2014 |
| Os povos do Alto Xingu: história e cultura B Franchetto, M Heckenberger Editora UFRJ, 2000 | 129 | 2000 |
| De onde surgem os modelos? As origens e expansões Tupi na Amazônia Central MJ Heckenberger, EG Neves, JB Petersen Revista de Antropologia 41, 69-96, 1998 | 123 | 1998 |
| War and peace in the shadow of empire: sociopolitical change in the Upper Xingu of Southeastern Amazonia, AD 1400-2000 MJ Heckenberger University of Pittsburgh, 1996 | 117 | 1996 |
| Manioc agriculture and sedentism in Amazonia: the Upper Xingu example MJ Heckenberger Antiquity 72 (277), 633-648, 1998 | 115 | 1998 |
| Introduction: Indigenous History and the History of the “Indians” C Fausto, M Heckenberger Time and memory in indigenous amazonia: Anthropological perspectives, 1-46, 2007 | 90 | 2007 |
