| Resource intensification and resource depression in the Pacific Northwest of North America: a zooarchaeological review VL Butler, SK Campbell Journal of World Prehistory 18, 327-405, 2004 | 313 | 2004 |
| Identification, classification and zooarchaeology JC Driver, K Bovy, VL Butler, KD Lupo, RL Lyman, C Otaola Ethnobiology letters 2, 19-39, 2011 | 249 | 2011 |
| Archaeological evidence for resilience of Pacific Northwest salmon populations and the socioecological system over the last~ 7,500 years SK Campbell, VL Butler Ecology and Society 15 (1), 2010 | 210 | 2010 |
| The role of bone density in structuring prehistoric salmon bone assemblages VL Butler, JC Chatters Journal of Archaeological Science 21 (3), 413-424, 1994 | 209 | 1994 |
| Archaeological data provide alternative hypotheses on Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) distribution, abundance, and variability I McKechnie, D Lepofsky, ML Moss, VL Butler, TJ Orchard, G Coupland, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (9), E807-E816, 2014 | 194 | 2014 |
| Resource depression on the northwest coast of North America VL Butler Antiquity 74 (285), 649-661, 2000 | 153 | 2000 |
| Human ecodynamics: A perspective for the study of long-term change in socioecological systems B Fitzhugh, VL Butler, KM Bovy, MA Etnier Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 23, 1077-1094, 2019 | 143 | 2019 |
| Changing fish use on Mangaia, southern Cook Islands: resource depression and the prey choice model VL Butler International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 11 (1‐2), 88-100, 2001 | 143 | 2001 |
| Anthropogenic habitat alteration leads to rapid loss of adaptive variation and restoration potential in wild salmon populations TQ Thompson, MR Bellinger, SM O’Rourke, DJ Prince, AE Stevenson, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (1), 177-186, 2019 | 141 | 2019 |
| Natural versus cultural salmonid remains: origin of the Dalles Roadcut bones, Columbia River, Oregon, USA VL Butler Journal of Archaeological Science 20 (1), 1-24, 1993 | 138 | 1993 |
| Do digestive processes leave diagnostic traces on fish bones? VL Butler, RA Schroeder Journal of Archaeological Science 25 (10), 957-971, 1998 | 131 | 1998 |
| Prehistory and human ecology in Eastern Polynesia: excavations at Tangatatau rockshelter, Mangaia, Cook Islands PV Kirch, DW Steadman, VL Butler, J Hather, MI Weisler Archaeology in Oceania 30 (2), 47-65, 1995 | 131 | 1995 |
| Fish feeding behaviour and fish capture: the case for variation in Lapita fishing strategies VL Butler Archaeology in Oceania 29 (2), 81-90, 1994 | 112 | 1994 |
| Tui Chub taphonomy and the importance of marsh resources in the western great basin of North America VL Butler American Antiquity 61 (4), 699-717, 1996 | 96 | 1996 |
| 9000 years of salmon fishing on the Columbia River, North America VL Butler, JE O'Connor Quaternary Research 62 (1), 1-8, 2004 | 95 | 2004 |
| Mussau Islands prehistory: results of the 1985-86 excavations PV Kirch, TL Hunt, M Weisler, V Butler, MS Allen Report of the Lapita Homeland Project 20, 144-163, 1991 | 85 | 1991 |
| A paleoscience approach to estimating the effects of climatic warming on salmonid fisheries of the Columbia River basin JC Chatters, VL Butler, MJ Scott, DM Anderson, DA Neitzel Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States), 1992 | 81 | 1992 |
| Lapita fishing strategies: The faunal evidence VL Butler Archaeology of the Lapita cultural complex: A critical review, 99-115, 1988 | 74 | 1988 |
| Distinguishing natural from cultural salmonid deposits in Pacific Northwest North America VL Butler University of Washington, 1990 | 72 | 1990 |
| Local and traditional knowledge and the historical ecology of Pacific herring in Alaska TF Thornton, ML Moss, VL Butler, J Hebert, F Funk Journal of Ecological Anthropology, 2010 | 71 | 2010 |
