It's still tricky though. I mean are you talking about archaeology? If so anthropology will only help you with American papers. European, or to my knowledge most other places, anthropology and archaeology are entirely separate. I can't name a single anthropology paper and I've never seen one cited. And within archaeology I put anything that has to do with bones, rocks, soil, climate, any anthropogenic material remains, and aDNA (though this is somewhat debatable). And that's a pretty hefty chunk of research. Archaeological theory and methods have their own research though.

If you're looking for archaeological theory I recommend:

Trigger, Bruce G. (2007). A History of Archaeological Thought (Second Edition). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hodder, Ian; Hutson, Scott (2003). Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology (third edition). New York: Cambridge University Press.

If you're looking for archaeology as a whole just grab the beautiful

Renfrew, A.C. and Paul Bahn, 1991, Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, London: Thames and Hudson. (Sixth edition 2012).

That right there is like 700 pages of introduction to archaeology. I should actually re-read it myself since I've been working so much in the lab that when I go do field work I'm completely lost. People start talking about matrix this and stratigraphy that and I'm just going "So do you use Olympus or Zeiss in the field? Oh you can't put it on a slide? Never mind then, I'll be over here washing rocks."