| The first settlement of Remote Oceania: the Philippines to the Marianas H Hung, MT Carson, P Bellwood, FZ Campos, PJ Piper, E Dizon, ... Antiquity 85 (329), 909-926, 2011 | 201 | 2011 |
| Investigating the global dispersal of chickens in prehistory using ancient mitochondrial DNA signatures AA Storey, JS Athens, D Bryant, M Carson, K Emery, S DeFrance, ... PloS one 7 (7), e39171, 2012 | 165 | 2012 |
| Times of plenty, times of less: Last-millennium societal disruption in the Pacific Basin PD Nunn, R Hunter-Anderson, MT Carson, F Thomas, S Ulm, ... Human Ecology 35, 385-401, 2007 | 158 | 2007 |
| The pottery trail from Southeast Asia to remote Oceania MT Carson, H Hung, G Summerhayes, P Bellwood The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 8 (1), 17-36, 2013 | 108 | 2013 |
| Coastal connectivity: long-term trading networks across the South China Sea H Hung, KD Nguyen, P Bellwood, MT Carson The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 8 (3), 384-404, 2013 | 86 | 2013 |
| First settlement of Remote Oceania: earliest sites in the Mariana Islands MT Carson Springer Science & Business Media, 2013 | 82 | 2013 |
| Refining earliest settlement in Remote Oceania: renewed archaeological investigation at Unai Bapot, Saipan MT Carson The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 3 (1), 115-139, 2008 | 76 | 2008 |
| Palaeohabitat of first settlement sites 1500–1000 BC in Guam, Mariana Islands, western Pacific MT Carson Journal of Archaeological Science 38 (9), 2207-2221, 2011 | 61 | 2011 |
| Foragers, fishers and farmers: origins of the Taiwanese Neolithic H Hung, MT Carson Antiquity 88 (342), 1115-1131, 2014 | 56 | 2014 |
| Re-envisioning long-distance Oceanic migration: Early dates in the Mariana Islands MT Carson, H Kurashina World Archaeology 44 (3), 409-435, 2012 | 54 | 2012 |
| An overview of latte period archaeology MT Carson Micronesica 42 (1/2), 1-79, 2012 | 53 | 2012 |
| Evolution of an Austronesian landscape: The Ritidian site in Guam MT Carson Journal of Austronesian Studies 3 (1), 55-86, 2012 | 42 | 2012 |
| Tī ovens in Polynesia: Ethnological and archaeological perspectives MT Carson The Journal of the Polynesian Society 111 (4), 339-370, 2002 | 42 | 2002 |
| New radiocarbon dates from the Bapot-1 site in Saipan and Neolithic dispersal by stratified diffusion G Clark, F Petchey, O Winter, M Carson, P O’Day New Zealand Archaeological Association 11 (1), 21-35, 2010 | 40 | 2010 |
| Ancient DNA from Guam and the peopling of the Pacific I Pugach, A Hübner, H Hung, M Meyer, MT Carson, M Stoneking Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (1), e2022112118, 2021 | 38 | 2021 |
| Radiocarbon chronology with marine reservoir correction for the Ritidian archaeological site, northern Guam MT Carson Radiocarbon 52 (4), 1627-1638, 2010 | 38 | 2010 |
| The first discovery of Neolithic rice remains in eastern Taiwan: phytolith evidence from the Chaolaiqiao site Z Deng, H Hung, MT Carson, P Bellwood, S Yang, H Lu Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 10, 1477-1484, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
| Validating earliest rice farming in the Indonesian Archipelago Z Deng, H Hung, MT Carson, AA Oktaviana, B Hakim, T Simanjuntak Scientific reports 10 (1), 10984, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| Sea‐level fall implicated in profound societal change about 2570 cal yr bp (620 bc) in western Pacific island groups PD Nunn, MT Carson Geo: Geography and Environment 2 (1), 17-32, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
| Paleo‐terrain research: Finding the first settlement sites of remote Oceania MT Carson Geoarchaeology 29 (3), 268-275, 2014 | 33 | 2014 |
