| The Chaco meridian: Centers of political power in the ancient Southwest SH Lekson Rowman Altamira, 1999 | 295 | 1999 |
| Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico SH Lekson National Park Service, US Department of the Interior, 1974 | 281 | 1974 |
| Dental evidence for prehistoric dietary change on the northern Channel Islands, California PL Walker, JM Erlandson American Antiquity 51 (2), 375-383, 1986 | 211 | 1986 |
| A history of the ancient Southwest SH Lekson (No Title), 2009 | 186 | 2009 |
| The archaeology of Chaco Canyon: an eleventh-century Pueblo regional center SH Lekson (No Title), 2006 | 146 | 2006 |
| War in the Southwest, War in the World SH Lekson American Antiquity 67 (4), 607-624, 2002 | 141 | 2002 |
| The outlier survey: A regional view of settlement in the San Juan Basin RP Powers, WB Gillespie, SH Lekson Division of Cultural Research, National Park Service, US Department of the …, 1983 | 137 | 1983 |
| The abandonment of Chaco Canyon, the Mesa Verde migrations, and the reorganization of the Pueblo world SH Lekson, CM Cameron Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14 (2), 184-202, 1995 | 128 | 1995 |
| Anasazi ritual landscapes JR Stein, SH Lekson Anasazi regional organization and the Chaco system 5, 87-100, 1992 | 126 | 1992 |
| Settlement patterns and the Chaco region SH Lekson Chaco and Hohokam: Prehistoric regional systems in the American Southwest, 31-55, 1991 | 121 | 1991 |
| The Chaco canyon community SH Lekson, TC Windes, JR Stein, WJ Judge Scientific American 259 (1), 100-109, 1988 | 119 | 1988 |
| The idea of the kiva in Anasazi archaeology SH Lekson Kiva 53 (3), 213-234, 1988 | 71 | 1988 |
| The Chaco meridian: one thousand years of political and religious power in the ancient Southwest SH Lekson Rowman and Littlefield, 1999 | 56 | 1999 |
| Chaco matters: an introduction SH Lekson The archaeology of Chaco Canyon: An eleventh-century Pueblo regional center …, 2006 | 53 | 2006 |
| The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico SH Lekson University of Utah Press, 2007 | 40 | 2007 |
| A study of southwestern archaeology SH Lekson University of Utah Press, 2019 | 36 | 2019 |
| The Chaco meridian: Centers of political power in the ancient Southwest. Walnut Creek SH Lekson Altamira Press. Lightfoot, DR (1996) The nature, history and distribution of …, 1999 | 36 | 1999 |
| Tenth century developments in Chaco Canyon WJ Judge, WB Gillespie, SH Lekson, HW Toll Collected papers in the honor of Erik Kellerman Reed. Santa Fe …, 1981 | 35 | 1981 |
| The Architecture and Dendrochronology of Chetro Ketl, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico SH Lekson, JS Dean, PJ McKenna, RL Warren (No Title), 1983 | 33 | 1983 |
| Migrations in the Southwest: Pinnacle Ruin, Southwestern New Mexico SH Lekson, CP Nepstad-Thornberry, BE Yunker, TS Laumbach, DP Cain, ... Kiva 68 (2), 73-101, 2002 | 31 | 2002 |
