| Social adaptation to food stress: A prehistoric southwestern example PE Minnis University of Chicago Press, 1985 | 292 | 1985 |
| Seeds in archaeological sites: sources and some interpretive problems PE Minnis American Antiquity 46 (1), 143-152, 1981 | 166 | 1981 |
| Changing settlement and population in the Mimbres Valley, SW New Mexico M Blake, SA LeBlanc, PE Minnis Journal of Field Archaeology 13 (4), 439-464, 1986 | 123 | 1986 |
| Biodiversity and native America PE Minnis, WJ Elisens University of Oklahoma Press, 2001 | 107 | 2001 |
| Casas Grandes and its hinterland: Prehistoric regional organization in northwest Mexico ME Whalen, PE Minnis University of Arizona Press, 2001 | 96 | 2001 |
| Ethnobotany: a reader PE Minnis University of Oklahoma Press, 2000 | 90 | 2000 |
| Prehistoric macaw breeding in the North American Southwest PE Minnis, ME Whalen, JH Kelley, JD Stewart American Antiquity 58 (2), 270-276, 1993 | 81 | 1993 |
| Ball courts and political centralization in the Casas Grandes region ME Whalen, PE Minnis American Antiquity 61 (4), 732-746, 1996 | 78 | 1996 |
| Prehistoric diet in the northern Southwest: macroplant remains from Four Corners feces PE Minnis American Antiquity 54 (3), 543-563, 1989 | 76 | 1989 |
| Earliest plant cultivation in the desert borderlands of North America PE Minnis The origins of agriculture: An international perspective, 121-141, 1992 | 61 | 1992 |
| People and plants in ancient western North America PE Minnis University of Arizona Press, 2004 | 60 | 2004 |
| Famine foods of the northern American desert borderlands in historical context PE Minnis Journal of Ethnobiology 11 (2), 231-257, 1991 | 60 | 1991 |
| Domesticating people and plants in the Greater Southwest PE Minnis Prehistoric food production in North America 75, 309-340, 1985 | 59 | 1985 |
| The neighbors of Casas Grandes: excavating medio period communities of northwest Chihuahua, Mexico ME Whalen, PE Minnis University of Arizona Press, 2009 | 56 | 2009 |
| Paleoethnobotanical Indicators of Prehistoric Environmental Disturbance: A Case Study in The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany PE Minnis Names. Journal of the American Name Society Postdam, NY 67, 347-366, 1978 | 56 | 1978 |
| A Study of the Site Specific Distribution of Agave Parryi in East Central Arizona PE Minnis, SE Plog Kiva 41 (3-4), 299-308, 1976 | 51 | 1976 |
| An efficient, inexpensive arid lands flotation system P Minnis, S LeBlanc American Antiquity 41 (4), 491-493, 1976 | 47 | 1976 |
| Corn, crops, and cultivation in the North American Southwest SK Fish, PE Minnis People and Plants in Ancient Western North America, 115-166, 2004 | 40 | 2004 |
| The local and the distant in the origin of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico ME Whalen, PE Minnis American Antiquity 68 (2), 314-332, 2003 | 38 | 2003 |
| Ancient Paquimé and the Casas Grandes World PE Minnis, ME Whalen University of Arizona Press, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
