| The Island Melanesians M Spriggs (No Title), 1997 | 794 | 1997 |
| Late colonization of east Polynesia M Spriggs, A Anderson Antiquity 67 (255), 200-217, 1993 | 401 | 1993 |
| Direct evidence for human use of plants 28,000 years ago: starch residues on stone artefacts from the northern Solomon Islands TH Loy, M Spriggs, S Wickler Antiquity 66 (253), 898-912, 1992 | 397 | 1992 |
| Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania G Larson, T Cucchi, M Fujita, E Matisoo-Smith, J Robins, A Anderson, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (12), 4834-4839, 2007 | 385 | 2007 |
| The dating of the Island Southeast Asian Neolithic: an attempt at chronometric hygiene and linguistic correlation M Spriggs Antiquity 63 (240), 587-613, 1989 | 346 | 1989 |
| Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific P Skoglund, C Posth, K Sirak, M Spriggs, F Valentin, S Bedford, GR Clark, ... Nature 538 (7626), 510-513, 2016 | 339 | 2016 |
| Pleistocene human occupation of the Solomon Islands, Melanesia S Wickler, M Spriggs Antiquity 62 (237), 703-706, 1988 | 291 | 1988 |
| The Teouma Lapita site and the early human settlement of the Pacific Islands S Bedford, M Spriggs, R Regenvanu antiquity 80 (310), 812-828, 2006 | 201 | 2006 |
| Archaeology and the Austronesian expansion: where are we now? M Spriggs Antiquity 85 (328), 510-528, 2011 | 188 | 2011 |
| The Lapita cultural complex: Origins, distribution, contemporaries and successors M Spriggs The Journal of Pacific History 19 (4), 202-223, 1984 | 174 | 1984 |
| Vegetable kingdoms: taro irrigation and Pacific prehistory MJT Spriggs The Australian National University (Australia), 1981 | 162 | 1981 |
| Excavation at Lene Hara Cave establishes occupation in East Timor at least 30,000–35,000 years ago S O'Connor, M Spriggs, P Veth Antiquity 76 (291), 45-49, 2002 | 151 | 2002 |
| Archaeology and language I: theoretical and methodological orientations R Blench, M Spriggs Routledge, 2003 | 150* | 2003 |
| Population turnover in remote Oceania shortly after initial settlement M Lipson, P Skoglund, M Spriggs, F Valentin, S Bedford, R Shing, ... Current biology 28 (7), 1157-1165. e7, 2018 | 145 | 2018 |
| Drafting support for war: Conscription and mass support for warfare MC Horowitz, MS Levendusky The Journal of Politics 73 (2), 524-534, 2011 | 140 | 2011 |
| Ethnographic parallels and the denial of history M Spriggs World archaeology 40 (4), 538-552, 2008 | 138 | 2008 |
| Lapita migrants in the Pacific's oldest cemetery: isotopic analysis at Teouma, Vanuatu RA Bentley, HR Buckley, M Spriggs, S Bedford, CJ Ottley, GM Nowell, ... American Antiquity 72 (4), 645-656, 2007 | 132 | 2007 |
| Pamwak rockshelter: a Pleistocene site on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea C Fredericksen, M Spriggs, W Ambrose Sahul in review: Pleistocene archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and island …, 1993 | 132 | 1993 |
| Marxist perspectives in archaeology M Spriggs Cambridge University Press, 1984 | 132 | 1984 |
| Lapita sites of the Bismarck Archipelago C Gosden, J Allen, W Ambrose, D Anson, J Golson, R Green, P Kirch, ... Antiquity 63 (240), 561-586, 1989 | 128 | 1989 |
