| Star Carr in context: new archaeological and palaeoecological investigations at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire P Mellars, P Dark (No Title), 1998 | 211 | 1998 |
| The Landscape of Roman Britain K Dark, P Dark Sutton Publishing, 1997 | 190 | 1997 |
| The environment of Britain in the first millennium AD P Dark (No Title), 2000 | 184 | 2000 |
| Climate deterioration and land-use change in the first millennium BC: perspectives from the British palynological record P Dark Journal of Archaeological Science 33 (10), 1381-1395, 2006 | 100 | 2006 |
| Pests and diseases of prehistoric crops: a yield ‘honeymoon’for early grain crops in Europe? P Dark, H Gent Oxford Journal of Archaeology 20 (1), 59-78, 2001 | 70 | 2001 |
| Pollen evidence for the environment of Roman Britain P Dark Britannia 30, 247-272, 1999 | 44 | 1999 |
| Seasonal deposition of Holocene banded sediments in the Severn Estuary Levels (southwest Britain): palynological and sedimentological evidence P Dark, JRL Allen Quaternary Science Reviews 24 (1-2), 11-33, 2005 | 42 | 2005 |
| New radiocarbon accelerator dates on artefacts from the early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire P Dark, TFG Higham, R Jacobi, TC Lord Archaeometry 48 (1), 185-200, 2006 | 33 | 2006 |
| Palaeoecological evidence for landscape continuity and change in Britain ca AD 400–800 P Dark External contacts and the economy of late Roman and post-Roman Britain, 23-51, 1996 | 31 | 1996 |
| Mid-to late-Holocene vegetational and land-use change in the Hadrian's Wall region: a radiocarbon-dated pollen sequence from Crag Lough, Northumberland, England P Dark Journal of Archaeological Science 32 (4), 601-618, 2005 | 29 | 2005 |
| Dogs, a crane (not duck) and diet at Star Carr: A response to Schulting and Richards P Dark Journal of Archaeological Science 30 (10), 1353-1356, 2003 | 26 | 2003 |
| New evidence for the antiquity of the intestinal parasite Trichuris (whipworm) in Europe P Dark Antiquity 78 (301), 676-681, 2004 | 24 | 2004 |
| Plant remains as indicators of seasonality of site-use in the Mesolithic period P Dark Environmental Archaeology 9 (1), 39-45, 2004 | 24 | 2004 |
| Seasonality of δ13C and C/N ratios in modern and mid-Holocene sediments in the Severn Estuary Levels, SW Britain JRL Allen, AL Lamb, P Dark The Holocene 17 (1), 139-144, 2007 | 19 | 2007 |
| Revised ‘absolute’dating of the early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire, in the light of changes in the early Holocene tree-ring chronology P Dark Antiquity 74 (284), 304-307, 2000 | 19 | 2000 |
| Identification of the wood and evidence for human working M Taylor, P Mellars, P Dark Star Carr in context: new archaeological and palaeoecological investigations …, 1998 | 18 | 1998 |
| Seasonality of modern pollen and sediment deposition in an estuarine context: the Severn Estuary Levels, southwest England JRL Allen, P Dark Journal of Quaternary Science: Published for the Quaternary Research …, 2008 | 16 | 2008 |
| Mesolithic to Neolithic coastal environmental change: excavations at Goldcliff East, 2002 M Bell, JRL Allen, S Buckley, P Dark, SK Haslett Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 13, 1-29, 2002 | 16 | 2002 |
| Lake-edge sequences: results P Dark Star Carr in context: new archaeological and palaeoecological investigations …, 1998 | 15 | 1998 |
| Radiocarbon dating of the lake-edge deposits P Dark Star Carr in context: new archaeological and palaeoecological investigations …, 1998 | 14 | 1998 |
