| How fast was wild wheat domesticated? K Tanno, G Willcox Science 311 (5769), 1886-1886, 2006 | 557 | 2006 |
| Early Holocene cultivation before domestication in northern Syria G Willcox, S Fornite, L Herveux Vegetation history and archaeobotany 17, 313-325, 2008 | 345 | 2008 |
| The distribution, natural habitats and availability of wild cereals in relation to their domestication in the Near East: multiple events, multiple centres G Willcox Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 14 (4), 534-541, 2005 | 321 | 2005 |
| Evolution of the grain dispersal system in barley M Pourkheirandish, G Hensel, B Kilian, N Senthil, G Chen, M Sameri, ... Cell 162 (3), 527-539, 2015 | 297 | 2015 |
| The origins of cultivation of Cicer arietinum L. and Vicia faba L.: early finds from Tell el-Kerkh, north-west Syria, late 10th millennium b.p. K Tanno, G Willcox Vegetation history and archaeobotany 15 (3), 197-204, 2006 | 287 | 2006 |
| Archaeobotanical evidence for the spread of farming in the eastern Mediterranean S Colledge, J Conolly, S Shennan Current anthropology 45 (S4), S35-S58, 2004 | 285 | 2004 |
| Cultivation and domestication had multiple origins: arguments against the core area hypothesis for the origins of agriculture in the Near East DQ Fuller, G Willcox, RG Allaby World Archaeology 43 (4), 628-652, 2011 | 280 | 2011 |
| First wave of cultivators spread to Cyprus at least 10,600 y ago JD Vigne, F Briois, A Zazzo, G Willcox, T Cucchi, S Thiébault, I Carrère, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (22), 8445-8449, 2012 | 220 | 2012 |
| Early agricultural pathways: moving outside the ‘core area’hypothesis in Southwest Asia DQ Fuller, G Willcox, RG Allaby Journal of experimental botany 63 (2), 617-633, 2012 | 205 | 2012 |
| Late Pleistocene and early Holocene climate and the beginnings of cultivation in northern Syria G Willcox, R Buxo, L Herveux The Holocene 19 (1), 151-158, 2009 | 201 | 2009 |
| Geographic distribution and domestication of wild emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccoides) H Özkan, G Willcox, A Graner, F Salamini, B Kilian Genetic resources and crop evolution 58, 11-53, 2011 | 197 | 2011 |
| Fouilles de Shortughaï (1). Recherches sur l'Asie centrale protohistorique HP Francfort FeniXX, 1989 | 195 | 1989 |
| Measuring grain size and identifying Near Eastern cereal domestication: evidence from the Euphrates valley G Willcox Journal of archaeological science 31 (2), 145-150, 2004 | 173 | 2004 |
| Large-scale cereal processing before domestication during the tenth millennium cal BC in northern Syria G Willcox, D Stordeur Antiquity 86 (331), 99-114, 2012 | 156 | 2012 |
| A history of deforestation as indicated by charcoal analysis of four sites in eastern Anatolia GH Willcox Anatolian studies 24, 117-133, 1974 | 152 | 1974 |
| Distinguishing wild and domestic wheat and barley spikelets from early Holocene sites in the Near East K Tanno, G Willcox Vegetation history and archaeobotany 21, 107-115, 2012 | 139 | 2012 |
| The roots of cultivation in southwestern Asia G Willcox Science 341 (6141), 39-40, 2013 | 138 | 2013 |
| Identifying pre-domestication cultivation using multivariate analysis S Colledge, AB Damania, J Valkoun, G Willcox, CO Qualset | 136 | 1998 |
| The earliest finds of cultivated plants in Armenia: evidence from charred remains and crop processing residues in pisé from the Neolithic settlements of Aratashen and Aknashen R Hovsepyan, G Willcox Vegetation history and archaeobotany 17, 63-71, 2008 | 131 | 2008 |
| Evidence for plant exploitation and vegetation history from three Early Neolithic pre-pottery sites on the Euphrates (Syria) G Willcox Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 5, 143-152, 1996 | 124 | 1996 |
