| Disease and Demography in the Americas JW Verano, H Douglas Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1992 | 344 | 1992 |
| Beyond death: the Chinchorro mummies of ancient Chile BT Arriaza, JW Verano (No Title), 1995 | 298 | 1995 |
| Interpreting conflict in the ancient Andes: implications for the archaeology of warfare E Arkush, C Stanish Current Anthropology 46 (1), 3-28, 2005 | 268 | 2005 |
| Prehistoric trepanation in the Cuzco region of Peru: a view into an ancient Andean practice VA Andrushko, JW Verano American Journal of Physical Anthropology: The Official Publication of the …, 2008 | 190 | 2008 |
| Where do they rest? The treatment of human offerings and trophies in ancient Peru JW Verano Tombs for the living: Andean mortuary practices 500, 189-227, 1995 | 159 | 1995 |
| The physical evidence of human sacrifice in ancient Peru JW Verano Ritual sacrifice in ancient Peru, 165-184, 2001 | 127 | 2001 |
| Trepanation in prehistoric South America: geographic and temporal trends over 2000 years JW Verano Trepanation: History, discovery, theory, 223-236, 2003 | 120 | 2003 |
| War and death in the Moche world: Osteological evidence and visual discourse JW Verano Studies in the History of Art 63, 110-125, 2001 | 98 | 2001 |
| Violence and weapon‐related trauma at Puruchuco‐Huaquerones, Peru MS Murphy, C Gaither, E Goycochea, JW Verano, G Cock American Journal of Physical Anthropology 142 (4), 636-649, 2010 | 96 | 2010 |
| Locals or foreigners? Morphological, biometric and isotopic approaches to the question of group affinity in human skeletal remains recovered from unusual archaeological contexts JW Verano, MJ DeNiro Investigations of ancient human tissue: chemical analysis in anthropology …, 1993 | 90 | 1993 |
| Biodistance analysis of the Moche sacrificial victims from Huaca de la Luna Plaza 3C: Matrix method test of their origins RC Sutter, JW Verano American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132 (2), 193-206, 2007 | 80 | 2007 |
| Advances in the paleopathology of Andean South America JW Verano Journal of World Prehistory 11, 237-268, 1997 | 79 | 1997 |
| Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago TD Dillehay, D Bonavia, S Goodbred, M Pino, V Vasquez, TR Tham, ... Antiquity 86 (331), 48-70, 2012 | 78 | 2012 |
| Human skeletal remains from Machu Picchu: a reexamination of the Yale Peabody Museum’s collections JW Verano The, 65-117, 1912 | 78 | 1912 |
| Differential diagnosis: trepanation JW Verano International Journal of Paleopathology 14, 1-9, 2016 | 76* | 2016 |
| A mass burial of mutilated individuals at Pacatnamu JW Verano The Pacatnamu Papers 1, 117-138, 1986 | 73 | 1986 |
| Residential histories of elites and sacrificial victims at Huacas de Moche, Peru, as reconstructed from oxygen isotopes JM Toyne, CD White, JW Verano, SU Castillo, JF Millaire, FJ Longstaffe Journal of Archaeological Science 42, 15-28, 2014 | 72 | 2014 |
| The nature of Moche Human sacrifice: A bioarchaeological perspective RC Sutter, RJ Cortez Current Anthropology 46 (4), 521-549, 2005 | 71 | 2005 |
| Modified human skulls from the urban sector of the pyramids of Moche, northern Peru JW Verano, S Uceda, C Chapdelaine, R Tello, MI Paredes, V Pimentel Latin American Antiquity 10 (1), 59-70, 1999 | 69 | 1999 |
| A mass sacrifice of children and camelids at the Huanchaquito-Las Llamas site, Moche Valley, Peru G Prieto, JW Verano, N Goepfert, D Kennett, J Quilter, S LeBlanc, ... PLoS One 14 (3), e0211691, 2019 | 68 | 2019 |
