Archaeological theory

Archaeological theory - intellectual frameworks for interpreting archaeological data. Article “Archaeological theory” in English Wikipedia has 41.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 14 sections.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Archaeological theory”, its content was written by 60 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 222 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 171 times in English Wikipedia and cited 491 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #48819 in August 2016
• Global: #59363 in June 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #316349 in February 2014
• Global: #162266 in October 2013

There are 13 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Catalan (ca) Teoria arqueològica		68.2719
2	Spanish (es) Historia y teoría de la arqueología		55.2059
3	English (en) Archaeological theory		41.4409
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Arheološka teorija		39.7594
5	Chinese (zh) 考古學理論		36.9269
6	Serbian (sr) Археолошка теорија		26.1726
7	Arabic (ar) نظريات علم الآثار		25.3993
8	Hindi (hi) पुरातात्त्विक सिद्धांत		20.8518
9	Greek (el) Αρχαιολογική θεωρία		20.4345
10	Swedish (sv) Arkeologisk teori		11.9151

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Archaeological theory" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Historia y teoría de la arqueología		661 064
2	English (en) Archaeological theory		316 400
3	Hindi (hi) पुरातात्त्विक सिद्धांत		36 112
4	Swedish (sv) Arkeologisk teori		31 759
5	Portuguese (pt) Teoria arqueológica		23 083
6	Greek (el) Αρχαιολογική θεωρία		19 130
7	Norwegian (no) Arkeologisk teori		13 302
8	Arabic (ar) نظريات علم الآثار		10 897
9	Italian (it) Archeologia teorica		10 219
10	Catalan (ca) Teoria arqueològica		7 049

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Archaeological theory" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Archaeological theory		1 549
2	Spanish (es) Historia y teoría de la arqueología		326
3	Chinese (zh) 考古學理論		88
4	Norwegian (no) Arkeologisk teori		54
5	Hindi (hi) पुरातात्त्विक सिद्धांत		52
6	Portuguese (pt) Teoria arqueológica		35
7	Swedish (sv) Arkeologisk teori		32
8	Arabic (ar) نظريات علم الآثار		25
9	Greek (el) Αρχαιολογική θεωρία		25
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Arheološka teorija		15

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Archaeological theory" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Historia y teoría de la arqueología		69
2	English (en) Archaeological theory		60
3	Swedish (sv) Arkeologisk teori		16
4	Norwegian (no) Arkeologisk teori		15
5	Catalan (ca) Teoria arqueològica		11
6	Portuguese (pt) Teoria arqueológica		11
7	Greek (el) Αρχαιολογική θεωρία		10
8	Hindi (hi) पुरातात्त्विक सिद्धांत		9
9	Italian (it) Archeologia teorica		8
10	Serbian (sr) Археолошка теорија		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Archaeological theory" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) نظريات علم الآثار		0
2	Catalan (ca) Teoria arqueològica		0
3	Greek (el) Αρχαιολογική θεωρία		0
4	English (en) Archaeological theory		0
5	Spanish (es) Historia y teoría de la arqueología		0
6	Hindi (hi) पुरातात्त्विक सिद्धांत		0
7	Italian (it) Archeologia teorica		0
8	Norwegian (no) Arkeologisk teori		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Teoria arqueológica		0
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Arheološka teorija		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Archaeological theory" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Archaeological theory		171
2	Portuguese (pt) Teoria arqueológica		99
3	Arabic (ar) نظريات علم الآثار		56
4	Greek (el) Αρχαιολογική θεωρία		48
5	Spanish (es) Historia y teoría de la arqueología		37
6	Swedish (sv) Arkeologisk teori		25
7	Norwegian (no) Arkeologisk teori		23
8	Serbian (sr) Археолошка теорија		12
9	Italian (it) Archeologia teorica		8
10	Catalan (ca) Teoria arqueològica		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظريات علم الآثار
ca	Catalan Teoria arqueològica
el	Greek Αρχαιολογική θεωρία
en	English Archaeological theory
es	Spanish Historia y teoría de la arqueología
hi	Hindi पुरातात्त्विक सिद्धांत
it	Italian Archeologia teorica
no	Norwegian Arkeologisk teori
pt	Portuguese Teoria arqueológica
sh	Serbo-Croatian Arheološka teorija
sr	Serbian Археолошка теорија
sv	Swedish Arkeologisk teori
zh	Chinese 考古學理論

Best Rank

English: #316349 02.2014

Global: #162266 10.2013

Best Rank

English: #48819 08.2016

Global: #59363 06.2014

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