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| The earliest horse harnessing and milking AK Outram, NA Stear, R Bendrey, S Olsen, A Kasparov, V Zaibert, ... Science 323 (5919), 1332-1335, 2009 | 887 | 2009 |
| The molecularly-uncharacterized component of nonliving organic matter in natural environments JI Hedges, G Eglinton, PG Hatcher, DL Kirchman, C Arnosti, S Derenne, ... Organic geochemistry 31 (10), 945-958, 2000 | 866 | 2000 |
| Organic residue analysis in archaeology: the archaeological biomarker revolution RP Evershed Archaeometry 50 (6), 895-924, 2008 | 800 | 2008 |
| Molecular Coproscopy: Dung and Diet of the Extinct Ground Sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis HN Poinar, M Hofreiter, WG Spaulding, PS Martin, BA Stankiewicz, ... Science 281 (5375), 402-406, 1998 | 680 | 1998 |
| Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe’s first farmers A Bogaard, R Fraser, THE Heaton, M Wallace, P Vaiglova, M Charles, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (31), 12589-12594, 2013 | 630 | 2013 |
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| Direct chemical evidence for widespread dairying in prehistoric Britain MS Copley, R Berstan, SN Dudd, G Docherty, AJ Mukherjee, V Straker, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (4), 1524-1529, 2003 | 588 | 2003 |
| The origin of faeces by means of biomarker detection ID Bull, MJ Lockheart, MM Elhmmali, DJ Roberts, RP Evershed Environment international 27 (8), 647-654, 2002 | 466 | 2002 |
| Stable carbon isotopic evidence for differences in the dietary origin of bone cholesterol, collagen and apatite: implications for their use in palaeodietary reconstruction S Jim, SH Ambrose, RP Evershed Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68 (1), 61-72, 2004 | 455 | 2004 |
| Expression of the dietary isotope signal in the compound‐specific δ13C values of pig bone lipids and amino acids MR Howland, LT Corr, SMM Young, V Jones, S Jim, NJ Van Der Merwe, ... International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 13 (1‐2), 54-65, 2003 | 443 | 2003 |
| First dairying in green Saharan Africa in the fifth millennium bc J Dunne, RP Evershed, M Salque, L Cramp, S Bruni, K Ryan, S Biagetti, ... Nature 486 (7403), 390-394, 2012 | 433 | 2012 |
| Direct demonstration of milk as an element of archaeological economies SN Dudd, RP Evershed Science 282 (5393), 1478-1481, 1998 | 427 | 1998 |
| Two episodes of microbial change coupled with Permo/Triassic faunal mass extinction S Xie, RD Pancost, H Yin, H Wang, RP Evershed Nature 434 (7032), 494-497, 2005 | 407 | 2005 |
| Biomolecular archaeology and lipids RP Evershed World archaeology 25 (1), 74-93, 1993 | 402 | 1993 |
| Chemistry of archaeological animal fats RP Evershed, SN Dudd, MS Copley, R Berstan, AW Stott, H Mottram, ... Accounts of chemical research 35 (8), 660-668, 2002 | 383 | 2002 |
| n-Alkane distributions in ombrotrophic mires as indicators of vegetation change related to climatic variation CJ Nott, S Xie, LA Avsejs, D Maddy, FM Chambers, RP Evershed Organic geochemistry 31 (2-3), 231-235, 2000 | 370 | 2000 |
| Analysis of organic residues of archaeological origin by high-temperature gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry RP Evershed, C Heron, LJ Goad Analyst 115 (10), 1339-1342, 1990 | 368 | 1990 |
| Organic geochemical studies of soils from the Rothamsted Classical Experiments—I. Total lipid extracts, solvent insoluble residues and humic acids from Broadbalk Wilderness PF Van Bergen, ID Bull, PR Poulton, RP Evershed Organic Geochemistry 26 (1-2), 117-135, 1997 | 334 | 1997 |
| Quantification and distribution of lipid in archaeological ceramics: implications for sampling potsherds for organic residue analysis and the classification of vessel use S Charters, RP Evershed, LJ Goad, A Leyden, PW Blinkhorn, V Denham Archaeometry 35 (2), 211-223, 1993 | 306 | 1993 |
