| Five hundred years rediscovered: Southern African precedents and prospects N Swanepoel, A Esterhuysen, P Bonner NYU Press, 2008 | 82 | 2008 |
| Different Conversations about the Same Thing? Source Materials in the Recreation of a Nineteenth-Century Slave-Raiding Landscape, Northern Ghana N Swanepoel Slavery in Africa: Archaeology and Memory 168, 167, 2011 | 45 | 2011 |
| Painted slabs from Steenbokfontein Cave: the oldest known parietal art in southern Africa A Jerardino, N Swanepoel Current Anthropology 40 (4), 542-547, 1999 | 44 | 1999 |
| Historical archaeologies of Southern Africa: precedents and prospects J Behrens, N Swanepoel Five hundred years rediscovered: Southern African precedents and prospects …, 2008 | 34 | 2008 |
| Small change: Cowries, coins, and the currency transition in the northern territories of colonial Ghana N Swanepoel Materializing colonial encounters: archaeologies of African experience, 41-69, 2015 | 22 | 2015 |
| Mapungubwe matters N Swanepoel, MH Schoeman South African Archaeological Society, 2010 | 19 | 2010 |
| Socio-political change on a slave-raiding frontier: war, trade and'Big Men'in nineteenth century Sisalaland, Northern Ghana N Swanepoel Journal of Conflict Archaeology 1 (1), 265-293, 2005 | 19 | 2005 |
| Insights into past ritual practice at Yikpabongo, northern region, Ghana B Kankpeyeng, N Swanepoel, T Insoll, S Nkumbaan, S Amartey, M Saako African archaeological review 30, 475-499, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| Every periphery is its own center: sociopolitical and economic interactions in nineteenth-century northwestern Ghana N Swanepoel The International journal of African historical studies 42 (3), 411-432, 2009 | 15 | 2009 |
| “Too much power is not good”: War and trade in nineteenth-century Sisalaland, northern Ghana NJ Swanepoel Syracuse University, 2004 | 15 | 2004 |
| Capital letters: material dissent and place name change in the ‘new’South Africa, 2005–2006 N Swanepoel Anthropology Southern Africa 32 (3-4), 95-105, 2009 | 13 | 2009 |
| View from the village: changing settlement patterns in Sisalaland, northern Ghana N Swanepoel The International journal of African historical studies 41 (1), 1-27, 2008 | 12 | 2008 |
| At the crossroads of history: Street names as monuments in the South African cityscape N Swanepoel Image & Text: A Journal for Design 2012 (19), 80-91, 2012 | 11 | 2012 |
| Not built in a day: the evolving landscape of the Botshabelo Mission Station, South Africa, 1865–2015 N Swanepoel Journal of Southern African Studies 44 (4), 681-702, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Past imperfect, present tense: the archaeology of Africa's past 200 years N Swanepoel Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 51 (1), 3-23, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| The practice and substance of historical archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa N Swanepoel International handbook of historical archaeology, 565-581, 2009 | 7 | 2009 |
| Contexts of interaction: The archaeology of European exploration and expansion in western and southern Africa in comparative perspective N Swanepoel | 6 | 2013 |
| Living with heritage: the potentials of and pressures on the heritage landscape of Gwollu, Upper West Region, Ghana N Swanepoel Journal of field archaeology 35 (4), 400-411, 2010 | 5 | 2010 |
| The canary in the coal-mine: Archaeology and development in South Africa N Swanepoel South African Archaeological Bulletin 66 (194), 181-185, 2011 | 4 | 2011 |
| Many Worlds Colliding: Historical Archaeologies in South Africa J Behrens, N Swanepoel | 2 | 2014 |
