| Mesolithic Europe GN Bailey, P Spikins Cambridge University Press, 2008 | 147 | 2008 |
| From homininity to humanity: Compassion from the earliest archaics to modern humans PA Spikins, HE Rutherford, AP Needham Time and Mind 3 (3), 303-325, 2010 | 119 | 2010 |
| Mesolithic Northern England: environment, population and settlement PA Spikins Newcastle University, 1999 | 100 | 1999 |
| How compassion made us human: The evolutionary origins of tenderness, trust and morality P Spikins Pen and Sword, 2015 | 81 | 2015 |
| Autism, the integrations of ‘difference’and the origins of modern human behaviour P Spikins Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19 (2), 179-201, 2009 | 80 | 2009 |
| Calculated or caring? Neanderthal healthcare in social context P Spikins, A Needham, L Tilley, G Hitchens World Archaeology 50 (3), 384-403, 2018 | 73 | 2018 |
| Living to fight another day: the ecological and evolutionary significance of Neanderthal healthcare P Spikins, A Needham, B Wright, C Dytham, M Gatta, G Hitchens Quaternary Science Reviews 217, 98-118, 2019 | 59 | 2019 |
| The cradle of thought: growth, learning, play and attachment in Neanderthal children P Spikins, G Hitchens, A Needham, H Rutherford Oxford Journal of Archaeology 33 (2), 111-134, 2014 | 59 | 2014 |
| Supraorbital morphology and social dynamics in human evolution RM Godinho, P Spikins, P O’Higgins Nature ecology & evolution 2 (6), 956-961, 2018 | 58 | 2018 |
| Goodwill hunting? Debates over the ‘meaning’of Lower Palaeolithic handaxe form revisited P Spikins World Archaeology 44 (3), 378-392, 2012 | 58 | 2012 |
| Should autism spectrum conditions be characterised in a more positive way in our modern world? B Wright, P Spikins, H Pearson Medicina 56 (5), 233, 2020 | 49 | 2020 |
| GIS based interpolation applied to distinguishing occupation phases of early prehistoric sites P Spikins, C Conneller, H Ayestaran, B Scaife Journal of Archaeological Science 29 (11), 1235-1245, 2002 | 49 | 2002 |
| GIS models of past vegetation: An example from northern England, 10,000–5000 BP P Spikins Journal of Archaeological Science 27 (3), 219-234, 2000 | 47 | 2000 |
| Prehistoric origins: The compassion of far distant strangers P Spikins Compassion: Concepts, Research and Applications, 16, 2017 | 44 | 2017 |
| Mesolithic Europe: glimpses of another world P Spikins Cambridge University Press, 2008 | 44 | 2008 |
| Are there alternative adaptive strategies to human pro-sociality? The role of collaborative morality in the emergence of personality variation and autistic traits P Spikins, B Wright, D Hodgson Time and Mind 9 (4), 289-313, 2016 | 42 | 2016 |
| Prehistoric People of the Pennines: Reconstructing the lifestyles of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on Marsden Moor P Spikins West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 2002 | 42 | 2002 |
| Ethno-fact or ethno-fiction? Searching for the'structure'of settlement patterns P Spikins Current Research on the British and Irish Mesolithic, 105-18, 2000 | 41 | 2000 |
| Theoretical and methodological approaches to ecological changes, social behaviour and human intergroup tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP P Spikins, JC French, S John-Wood, C Dytham Journal of archaeological method and theory 28, 53-75, 2021 | 36 | 2021 |
| The Bashful and the Boastful: Prestigious Leaders and Social Change in Mesolithic Societies P Spikins Journal of world prehistory 21 (3-4), 173-193, 2008 | 36 | 2008 |
Gail HitchensUniversity of YorkVerified email at york.ac.uk
