| Cattle before crops: the beginnings of food production in Africa F Marshall, E Hildebrand Journal of World prehistory 16, 99-143, 2002 | 624 | 2002 |
| Early MIS 3 occupation of Mochena Borago Rockshelter, Southwest Ethiopian Highlands: implications for Late Pleistocene archaeology, paleoenvironments and modern human dispersals SA Brandt, EC Fisher, EA Hildebrand, R Vogelsang, SH Ambrose, J Lesur, ... Quaternary International 274, 38-54, 2012 | 141 | 2012 |
| Domesticating plants in Africa D Fuller, E Hildebrand Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology, 507-526, 2013 | 105 | 2013 |
| Early bananas in Africa: the state of the art K Neumann, E Hildebrand Ethnobotany Research and Applications 7, 353-362, 2009 | 97 | 2009 |
| Comment on “Intensifying weathering and land use in Iron Age Central Africa” K Neumann, MKH Eggert, R Oslisly, B Clist, T Denham, P de Maret, ... science 337 (6098), 1040-1040, 2012 | 83 | 2012 |
| The advent of herding in the Horn of Africa: New data from Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somaliland J Lesur, EA Hildebrand, G Abawa, X Gutherz Quaternary International 343, 148-158, 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
| Shifting social networks along the Nile: Middle Holocene ceramic assemblages from Sai Island, Sudan EAA Garcea, EA Hildebrand Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28 (3), 304-322, 2009 | 78 | 2009 |
| A monumental cemetery built by eastern Africa’s first herders near Lake Turkana, Kenya EA Hildebrand, KM Grillo, EA Sawchuk, SK Pfeiffer, LB Conyers, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (36), 8942-8947, 2018 | 77 | 2018 |
| Early herders and monumental sites in eastern Africa: dating and interpretation EA Hildebrand, KM Grillo Antiquity 86 (332), 338-352, 2012 | 74 | 2012 |
| Motives and opportunities for domestication: an ethnoarchaeological study in southwest Ethiopia EA Hildebrand Journal of anthropological archaeology 22 (4), 358-375, 2003 | 72 | 2003 |
| The Holocene archaeology of Southwest Ethiopia: new insights from the Kafa archaeological project EA Hildebrand, SA Brandt, J Lesur-Gebremariam African Archaeological Review 27, 255-289, 2010 | 68 | 2010 |
| Four middle Holocene pillar sites in West Turkana, Kenya EA Hildebrand, JJ Shea, KM Grillo Journal of Field Archaeology 36 (3), 181-200, 2011 | 61 | 2011 |
| A new MIS 3 radiocarbon chronology for Mochena Borago Rockshelter, SW Ethiopia: Implications for the interpretation of Late Pleistocene chronostratigraphy and human behavior S Brandt, E Hildebrand, R Vogelsang, J Wolfhagen, H Wang Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11, 352-369, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
| The context of early megalithic architecture in eastern Africa: the Turkana Basin c. 5000-4000 BP KM Grillo, EA Hildebrand Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 48 (2), 193-217, 2013 | 50 | 2013 |
| Climate, ecology, and the spread of herding in eastern Africa KL Chritz, TE Cerling, KH Freeman, EA Hildebrand, A Janzen, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 204, 119-132, 2019 | 48 | 2019 |
| A tale of two tuber crops: How attributes of enset and yams may have shaped prehistoric human-plant interactions in southwest Ethiopia EA Hildebrand Rethinking Agriculture, 273-298, 2016 | 39 | 2016 |
| Cemeteries on a moving frontier: Mortuary practices and the spread of pastoralism from the Sahara into eastern Africa EA Sawchuk, ST Goldstein, KM Grillo, EA Hildebrand Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 51, 187-205, 2018 | 36 | 2018 |
| Local and regional landrace disappearance in species of Dioscorea L. (Yams) in Southwest Ethiopia: causes of agrobiodiversity loss and strategies for conservation. E Hildebrand, S Demissew, P Wilkin | 31 | 2002 |
| Enset, yams, and honey: Ethnoarchaeological approaches to the origins of horticulture in southwest Ethiopia. EA Hildebrand Washington University in St. Louis, 2003 | 30 | 2003 |
| Is monumentality in the eye of the beholder? Lessons from constructed spaces in Africa EA Hildebrand Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 48 (2), 155-172, 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
