| The Swahili: The social landscape of of a mercantile society MC Horton, J Middleton Blackwell Publishers, 2000 | 697 | 2000 |
| Shanga: An early Muslim trading community on the coast of Eastern Africa MC Horton British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1996 | 499 | 1996 |
| Reconstructing prehistoric African population structure P Skoglund, JC Thompson, ME Prendergast, A Mittnik, K Sirak, ... Cell 171 (1), 59-71. e21, 2017 | 384 | 2017 |
| Gas chromatographic, mass spectrometric and stable carbon isotopic investigations of organic residues of plant oils and animal fats employed as illuminants in archaeological … MS Copley, HA Bland, P Rose, M Horton, RP Evershed Analyst 130 (6), 860-871, 2005 | 251 | 2005 |
| Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion A Crowther, L Lucas, R Helm, M Horton, C Shipton, HT Wright, S Walshaw, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (24), 6635-6640, 2016 | 167 | 2016 |
| 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 Swahili Corridor M Horton Scientific American 257 (3), 86-93, 1987 | 153 | 1987 |
| A novel marine dietary indicator utilising compound-specific bone collagen amino acid δ13C values of ancient humans LT Corr, JC Sealy, MC Horton, RP Evershed Journal of Archaeological Science 32 (3), 321-330, 2005 | 139 | 2005 |
| Detection of palm fruit lipids in archaeological pottery from Qasr Ibrim, Egyptian Nubia MS Copley, PJ Rose, A Clapham, DN Edwards, MC Horton, RP Evershed Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2001 | 130 | 2001 |
| Dairy pastoralism sustained eastern Eurasian steppe populations for 5,000 years S Wilkin, A Ventresca Miller, WTT Taylor, BK Miller, RW Hagan, ... Nature ecology & evolution 4 (3), 346-355, 2020 | 119 | 2020 |
| Volatile compounds in archaeological plant remains and the Maillard reaction during decay of organic matter RP Evershed, HA Bland, PF Van Bergen, JF Carter, MC Horton, ... Science 278 (5337), 432-433, 1997 | 118 | 1997 |
| Archaeological frankincense RP Evershed, PF van Bergen, TM Peakman, EC Leigh-Firbank, ... Nature 390 (6661), 667-668, 1997 | 101 | 1997 |
| Coastal subsistence, maritime trade, and the colonization of small offshore islands in eastern African prehistory A Crowther, P Faulkner, ME Prendergast, EM Quintana Morales, M Horton, ... The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 11 (2), 211-237, 2016 | 98 | 2016 |
| Zanzibar and Indian Ocean trade in the first millennium CE: the glass bead evidence M Wood, S Panighello, EF Orsega, P Robertshaw, JT van Elteren, ... Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 9, 879-901, 2017 | 89 | 2017 |
| Early settlement of the Northern Swahili coast. MC Horton | 88 | 1985 |
| Exploitation of marine resources: Evidence for the origin of the Swahili communities of East Africa M Horton, N Mudida The archaeology of Africa, 673-693, 2014 | 76 | 2014 |
| Early Muslim trading settlements on the East African coast: New evidence from Shanga MC Horton The Antiquaries Journal 67 (2), 290-323, 1987 | 75 | 1987 |
| Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets ME Prendergast, M Buckley, A Crowther, L Frantz, H Eager, O Lebrasseur, ... PloS one 12 (8), e0182565, 2017 | 73 | 2017 |
| Swahili architecture, space and social structure M Horton Architecture and order, 145-165, 2003 | 73 | 2003 |
| Asiatic colonization of the East African coast: the Manda evidence M Horton Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 118 (2), 201-213, 1986 | 70 | 1986 |
