| Households, houses, neighborhoods and corporate villages: modeling the Early Bronze Age as a house society MS Chesson Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 16 (1), 79-102, 2003 | 145 | 2003 |
| Social memory, identity, and death: an introduction MS Chesson Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 10 (1), 1-10, 2001 | 144 | 2001 |
| Libraries of the dead: Early Bronze Age charnel houses and social identity at urban Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan MS Chesson Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 18 (2), 137-164, 1999 | 104 | 1999 |
| Social memory, identity, and death: anthropological perspectives on mortuary rituals MS Chesson, SE Hollimon American Anthropological Association 10, 100-113, 2001 | 94 | 2001 |
| Tales of the city?“Urbanism” in the Early Bronze Age Levant from Mediterranean and Levantine perspectives MS Chesson, G Philip Horizon 1 (2), 2003 | 93 | 2003 |
| Lumps of clay and pieces of stone: ambiguity, bodies, and identity as portrayed in Neolithic figurines I Kuijt, MS Chesson Archaeologies of the Middle East: critical perspectives, 152-83, 2005 | 85 | 2005 |
| Embodied memories of place and people: Death and society in an early urban community MS Chesson Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 10 (1), 100-113, 2001 | 55 | 2001 |
| Dhra', excavation project, 2002 interim report B Finlayson, I Kuijt, T Arpin, M Chesson, S Dennis, N Goodale, ... Levant 35 (1), 1-38, 2003 | 54 | 2003 |
| Reconceptualizing the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant without cities: local histories and walled communities of EB II–III society MS Chesson Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 28 (1), 51-79, 2015 | 50 | 2015 |
| Looting matters: Early Bronze Age cemeteries of Jordan's southeast Dead Sea Plain in the past and present MM Kersel, MS Chesson | 40 | 2013 |
| Remembering and forgetting in Early Bronze Age mortuary practices on the southeastern Dead Sea Plain, Jordan MS Chesson Performing death: Social analyses of funerary traditions in the Ancient Near …, 2007 | 39 | 2007 |
| Population aggregation, residential storage and socioeconomic inequality at Early Bronze Age Numayra, Jordan MS Chesson, N Goodale Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 35, 117-134, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
| A recipe for disaster: emerging urbanism and unsustainable plant economies at Early Bronze Age Ras an-Numayra, Jordan CE White, MS Chesson, RT Schaub Antiquity 88 (340), 363-377, 2014 | 29 | 2014 |
| Homemaking in the early bronze age MS Chesson New Perspectives on Household Archaeology, 45-79, 2012 | 27 | 2012 |
| Imagery and Social Relationships: Shi ing Identity and Ambiguity in the Neolithic I Kuijt, MS Chesson | 26 | 2007 |
| Results of the 2001 Kerak Plateau Early Bronze Age Survey MS Chesson, C Makarewicz, I Kuijt, C Whiting The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 59, 1-62, 2005 | 25 | 2005 |
| Ceramics and daily life in the EBA household: Form, function and action in residential compounds at Tell el-Handaquq South, Jordan MS Chesson Ceramics and change in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant, 365-378, 2000 | 20 | 2000 |
| Excavations at'Ain Waida', Jordan: New Insights into Pottery Neolithic Lifeways in the Southern Levant I Kuijt, MS Chesson Paléorient, 109-122, 2002 | 19 | 2002 |
| Bioarchaeological reconstruction of group identity at Early Bronze Age Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan SG Sheridan, J Ullinger, L Gregoricka, M Chesson Remembering the dead in the ancient Near East: Recent contributions from …, 2014 | 17 | 2014 |
| Tomato season in the Ghor es-Safi: A lesson in community archaeology MM Kersel, MS Chesson Near Eastern Archaeology 76 (3), 159-165, 2013 | 17 | 2013 |
