| Archaeology of the body RA Joyce Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 34 (1), 139-158, 2005 | 695 | 2005 |
| Beyond kinship: social and material reproduction in house societies RA Joyce, SD Gillespie University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000 | 591 | 2000 |
| Gender and power in prehispanic Mesoamerica RA Joyce University of Texas Press, 2001 | 470 | 2001 |
| Embodied Lives:: Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience RA Joyce, LM Meskell Routledge, 2014 | 436 | 2014 |
| Girling the girl and boying the boy: the production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica RA Joyce The Archaeology of Identities, 91-100, 2007 | 333 | 2007 |
| The languages of archaeology: dialogue, narrative, and writing RA Joyce John Wiley & Sons, 2008 | 327 | 2008 |
| Ancient bodies, ancient lives: sex, gender, and archaeology RA Joyce (No Title), 2008 | 291 | 2008 |
| Chemical and archaeological evidence for the earliest cacao beverages JS Henderson, RA Joyce, GR Hall, WJ Hurst, PE McGovern Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (48), 18937-18940, 2007 | 258 | 2007 |
| Postscript: Doing agency in archaeology RA Joyce, J Lopiparo Journal of archaeological method and theory 12, 365-374, 2005 | 222 | 2005 |
| Heirlooms and houses RA Joyce Beyond kinship: social and material reproduction in house societies 189, 2000 | 208 | 2000 |
| Unintended consequences? Monumentality as a novel experience in Formative Mesoamerica RA Joyce Journal of archaeological method and theory 11, 5-29, 2004 | 188 | 2004 |
| Women's work: images of production and reproduction in pre-Hispanic southern Central America [and Comments and Reply] RA Joyce, W Davis, AB Kehoe, EM Schortman, P Urban, E Bell Current Anthropology 34 (3), 255-274, 1993 | 180 | 1993 |
| Things in motion: object itineraries in anthropological practice RA Joyce SAR Press, 2015 | 179 | 2015 |
| Burying the dead at Tlatilco: Social memory and social identities RA Joyce Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 10 (1), 12-26, 2001 | 171 | 2001 |
| Cerro Palenque: power and identity on the Maya periphery RA Joyce University of Texas Press, 1991 | 166 | 1991 |
| Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica C Claassen, RA Joyce University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 | 165 | 1997 |
| The construction of gender in Classic Maya monuments RA Joyce Gender and archaeology, 167-195, 1996 | 149 | 1996 |
| Performing the body in pre-Hispanic Central America RA Joyce Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 33 (1), 147-165, 1998 | 145 | 1998 |
| Embodied subjectivity: gender, femininity, masculinity, sexuality RA Joyce A companion to social archaeology, 82-95, 2007 | 141 | 2007 |
| Heterarchy, history, and material reality:“Communities” in Late Classic Honduras RA Joyce, JA Hendon Archaeology of Communities, 143-160, 2012 | 135 | 2012 |
