OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of World Archaeology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence?: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times	23
Ottoman archaeology between the Self and the Other : archaeological ethnography and the transborder research potential of the SW Balkans	14
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th–20th centuries)	12
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)	11
Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France	11
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity	8
Glass beads in a Dillybag: a cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia	7
Assessing the risks of northeastern African archaeological heritage and their relationship to human–environmental processes: a Bayesian network approach	7
Global commodities: cosmology and value	7
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations	6
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE	6
Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea	6
Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond	5
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: local concepts and global conversations	5
Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 1005	5
Magic money: commodities and exchange in Bronze Age Europe	5
From money to commodity: comparative case studies in demonetization	5
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?	4
Practice beyond category: archaeologies of labor	4
Entanglements, ontologies, and grinding stones at the medieval site of Handoga (Djibouti)	4
Archaeologies of crime and punishment: an introduction	4
Hominin adaptations in the Lesser Sunda Islands: exploring the vertebrate record to investigate fauna diversity before, during and after the Last Glacial Maximum	4
Projectile points, dangers and Amerindian ontologies at eastern Catamarca (Argentina) during the first millennium CE	4
Materializations of variable power strategies and inequalities in Polynesia	4
Broken Buddhas, burials, and sanctuary-adjacent sanctuaries: the ancestral animist archaeologies of Angkor’s ancient places and things	3

Submerged landscape evolution of the Beagle Channel: context of the first record of underwater archaeological evidence	3
Finding the remains of classical Bagan’s peri-urban support population: using ethnoarchaeological data to enhance archaeological excavation and interpretation	3
Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery	3
Islands and hominin adaptation	3
Longquan celadon: a quantitative archaeological analysis of a pan-Indian Ocean industry of the 12 ^th to 15 ^th centuries	3
Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean	3
‘Ribbon-decked poverty’: costume and performance in South Midlands morris dance	3
Community archaeology and climate change	3
An archaeology of the crime and punishment of young convicts: a view from colonial Australia	3
Submerged inland landscapes of the Aucilla basin, Northwest Florida, USA: populating the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene landscape	3
Evidence for punishment and execution on the foreshore: a unique early medieval burial (680–810 AD) from London	3
Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise	2
Theory and methods of settlement archaeology – the Chinese contribution	2
Collectors, class and conflict at the lower palaeolithic discovery at Stoke Newington, 1878-1884	2
Illegal archaeological excavation crime in Jordanian law	2
Hydraulic technology as means of Christian colonisation. Watermills and channels in the Lower Ebro (Catalonia)	2
Understanding Chinese archaeology by statistical analysis of papers published by Chinese researchers in Chinese and World core journals during the past century (1920–2020)	2
Editorial	2
Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey	2
Making dolia and dolium makers	2
Migration flows and concrete walls: an archaeological perspective on early migrant detention facilities. The C.P.T “Regina Pacis” (Italy, Puglia)	2
Islands of fertility: a multispecies ethnography of human-termite interactions and their implications for human ecology and the archaeology of gender in the tropics	2
Labor, gender, and intercultural diplomacy: the emergence of Madame Montour as a professional interpreter in colonial North America	2
Techno-aesthetic ceramic traditions and the effective communication of power on the North Coast of Peru	2
Terminal Pleistocene emergence of maritime interaction networks across Wallacea	1
Continuity and variability in prehistoric fishing practices by Homo sapiens in Island Southeast Asia: new ichthyofaunal data from Asitau Kuru, Timor-Leste	1
The altitude of the depths: use of inland water archaeology for the reconstruction of inundated cultural landscapes in Lake Titicaca	1
Unequal housing in Pompeii: using house size to measure inequality	1
Fit for purpose: investigating adaptations in late Pleistocene lithic technology to an island environment at Buang Merabak, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	1
Archaeology and social justice in island worlds	1
Microhistories of an invisible punishment. For an archaeology of sexual exploitation in Spain	1
Reflections on archaeology and inequality. A foreword	1
Scale, depth, multi-disciplinarity, and global integration: Chinese archaeology at 100 years	1
Landscape, upland-lowland, community, and economy of the mekong river (6th-8th century CE): case studies from the Pre-Angkorian centers of Thala Borivat and Sambor	1
Towards a political ecology of piracy in the Age of Sail	1
Debating archaeological essentials: rethinking place, time, repetition, difference, and representation	1
Urban archaeology in Kaifeng, a capital city of dynastic China: progress and insights	1
The exceptional environmental setting of the North Plaza, Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, USA	1
Submerged Palaeolandscapes of the Southern Hemisphere (SPLOSH) – What is emerging from the Southern Hemisphere	1
Revisiting the collective burial debate: a case-study of Yanghai cemetery, Xinjiang	1
The Acheulean is a temporally cohesive tradition	1
Contemporary regimes of disappearance and the unequal treatment of human remains	1
Portioning as the missing link in the conceptualization of weight in prehistory. A view from Europe	1
Trickle down innovation? Creativity and innovation at the margins	1
A synthetic model of Palaeolithic seafaring in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan	1
Mining and metallurgical labor in Islamic period Southwest Asia	1
Archaeobotany in an era of change and challenge: potential and fragility of macro- and micro-remains	1
Archaeo-media: breaking the binary and building agency in archaeological news reporting	1
Negritos in Taiwan and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia: new discovery from the Xiaoma Caves	1
Archaeology in a fragile environment: archaeology of the lower Yangtze Shanghai region	1

Recognising inequality: ableism in Egyptological approaches to disability and bodily differences	1
Anarchy, institutional flexibility, and containment of authority at Poverty Point (USA)	1