| The politics of archaeology in Africa N Shepherd Annual review of anthropology 31 (1), 189-209, 2002 | 165 | 2002 |
| State of the discipline: science, culture and identity in South African archaeology, 1870–2003 N Shepherd Journal of Southern African Studies 29 (4), 823-844, 2003 | 137 | 2003 |
| When the Hand that Holds the Trowel is Black...' Disciplinary Practices of Self-Representation and the Issue ofNative'Labour in Archaeology N Shepherd Journal of Social Archaeology 3 (3), 334-352, 2003 | 137 | 2003 |
| Desire lines: space, memory and identity in the post-apartheid city N Murray, N Shepherd, M Hall Routledge, 2007 | 128 | 2007 |
| Archaeology dreaming: post-apartheid urban imaginaries and the bones of the Prestwich Street dead N Shepherd Journal of social archaeology 7 (1), 3-28, 2007 | 107 | 2007 |
| New South African Keywords N Shepherd, S Robins, SL Robins Ohio University Press, 2008 | 89 | 2008 |
| Historical archaeology and colonialism N Shepherd, S Lawrence The Cambridge companion to historical archaeology, 69-86, 2006 | 61 | 2006 |
| Heritage N Shepherd New South African Keywords 11, 5-28, 2008 | 59 | 2008 |
| Colonial and decolonial linguistics: Knowledges and epistemes A Deumert, A Storch, N Shepherd Oxford University Press, USA, 2021 | 53 | 2021 |
| Disciplining archaeology; the invention of South African prehistory, 1923-1953 N Shepherd Kronos: Journal of Cape History 28 (1), 127-145, 2002 | 51 | 2002 |
| What's up with WAC? Archaeology and'Engagement'in a Globalized World N Shepherd, A Haber public archaeology 10 (2), 96-115, 2011 | 50 | 2011 |
| Heading south, looking north: why we need a post-colonial archaeology N Shepherd Archaeological Dialogues 9 (2), 74-82, 2002 | 48 | 2002 |
| What Does It Mean ‘To Give the Past Back to the People'? Archaeology and Ethics in the Postcolony N Shepherd Archaeology and Capitalism, 99-114, 2016 | 43 | 2016 |
| Ruin memory: a hauntology of Cape Town N Shepherd Reclaiming archaeology, 233-243, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| Making sense of “day zero”: slow catastrophes, Anthropocene futures, and the story of Cape Town’s water crisis N Shepherd Water 11 (9), 1744, 2019 | 37 | 2019 |
| Introduction: Space, memory and identity in the postapartheid city. N Shepherd, N Murray Desire Lines: Space, memory and identity in the postapartheid city, 1-18, 2007 | 35 | 2007 |
| The World Below:: Postapartheid urban imaginaries and the remains of the Prestwich Street dead N Shepherd Desire lines: Space, memory and identity in the postapartheid city, 251-32, 2007 | 34 | 2007 |
| After the# fall: The shadow of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town N Shepherd City 24 (3-4), 565-579, 2020 | 33 | 2020 |
| The Mirror in the Ground: Archaeology, Photography and the making of an archive N Shepherd Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2015 | 32 | 2015 |
| Decolonizing climate change–heritage research NP Simpson, J Clarke, SA Orr, G Cundill, B Orlove, S Fatorić, S Sabour, ... Nature Climate Change 12 (3), 210-213, 2022 | 31 | 2022 |
