| Swahili cosmopolitanism in Africa and the Indian Ocean world, AD 600–1500 A LaViolette Archaeologies 4 (1), 24-49, 2008 | 165 | 2008 |
| When did the Swahili become maritime? J Fleisher, P Lane, A LaViolette, M Horton, E Pollard, E Quintana Morales, ... American Anthropologist 117 (1), 100-115, 2015 | 158 | 2015 |
| The archaeology of sub-Saharan urbanism: cities and their countrysides A LaViolette, J Fleisher African archaeology: A critical introduction, 327-352, 2005 | 123 | 2005 |
| Elusive wattle-and-daub: finding the hidden majority in the archaeology of the Swahili J Fleisher, A LaViolette AZANIA: Journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa 34 (1), 87-108, 1999 | 96 | 1999 |
| The urban history of a rural place: Swahili archaeology on Pemba Island, Tanzania, 700-1500 AD A LaViolette, J Fleisher The International journal of African historical studies 42 (3), 433-455, 2009 | 91 | 2009 |
| The Swahili World S Wynne-Jones, AJ LaViolette Routledge, 2018 | 84 | 2018 |
| The early Swahili trade village of Tumbe, Pemba Island, Tanzania, AD 600–950 J Fleisher, A LaViolette Antiquity 87 (338), 1151-1168, 2013 | 77 | 2013 |
| Ethno-archaeology in Jenné, Mali: craft and status among smiths, potters and masons AJ LaViolette, A La Violette British Archaeological Reports Limited, 2000 | 65 | 2000 |
| Bead grinders and early Swahili household economy: Analysis of an assemblage from Tumbe, Pemba Island, Tanzania, 7th-10th centuries AD JL Flexner, JB Fleisher, A LaViolette Journal of African Archaeology 6 (2), 161-181, 2008 | 47 | 2008 |
| The changing power of Swahili houses, fourteenth to nineteenth centuries AD JB Fleisher, A LaViolette The durable house: House society models in archaeology, 175-197, 2007 | 45 | 2007 |
| Swahili archaeology and history on Pemba, Tanzania: a critique and case study of the use of written and oral sources in archaeology A LaViolette African historical archaeologies, 125-162, 2004 | 41 | 2004 |
| Women craft specialists in Jenne A La Violette Status and Identity in West Africa, 170-81, 1995 | 40* | 1995 |
| The Swahili world A LaViolette, S Wynne-Jones The Swahili World, 1-14, 2017 | 29* | 2017 |
| The coast and the hinterland: University of Dar es Salaam archaeological field schools, 1987–88 A LaViolette, WB Fawcett, NJ Karoma, PR Schmidt Nyame Akuma 32 (38), e46, 1989 | 28 | 1989 |
| Reconnaissance of sites bearing triangular incised (Tana tradition) ware on Pemba Island, Tanzania A LaViolette, J Fleisher Nyame Akuma 44, 59-65, 1995 | 26 | 1995 |
| Swahili Archaeology on Pemba Island, Tanzania: Pujini, Bandari ya Faraji, and Chwaka, 1997–1998 A LaViolette Nyame Akuma 53, 50-63, 2000 | 25 | 2000 |
| Report on excavations at the Swahili site of Pujini, Pemba Island, Tanzania A LaViolette Nyame Akuma, 72-83, 1996 | 23 | 1996 |
| Swahili historical chronicles from an archaeological perspective: bridging history, archaeology, coast, and hinterland in southern Tanzania M Pawlowicz, A LaViolette, PR Schmidt, SA Mrozowski The Death of Prehistory, 117-40, 2013 | 21 | 2013 |
| An archeological ethnography of blacksmiths, potters, and masons in Jenne, Mali (West Africa). AJ LaViolette | 18 | 1989 |
| Developments in Rural Life on the Eastern African Coast, a.d. 700–1500 A LaViolette, JB Fleisher Journal of Field Archaeology 43 (5), 380-398, 2018 | 14 | 2018 |
