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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence?: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times	24
Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France	15
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)	13
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th–20th centuries)	12
Ottoman archaeology between the Self and the Other : archaeological ethnography and the transborder research potential of the SW Balkans	11
Assessing the risks of northeastern African archaeological heritage and their relationship to human–environmental processes: a Bayesian network approach	10
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity	10
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE	7
Global commodities: cosmology and value	7
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations	7
Glass beads in a Dillybag: a cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia	7
Crafting and everyday archaeology at Chumnungwa	6
Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea	6
Cross-crafting in standardized and customized metallurgy. Some examples from Bronze Age Poland	6
Magic money: commodities and exchange in Bronze Age Europe	5
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: local concepts and global conversations	5
Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond	5
From present to past: universality in sheep/goat morphometric distinction?	5
Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 1005	5
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?	4
Practice beyond category: archaeologies of labor	4
Materializations of variable power strategies and inequalities in Polynesia	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
Entanglements, ontologies, and grinding stones at the medieval site of Handoga (Djibouti)	4
Archaeologies of crime and punishment: an introduction	4

From money to commodity: comparative case studies in demonetization	4
Broken Buddhas, burials, and sanctuary-adjacent sanctuaries: the ancestral animist archaeologies of Angkor’s ancient places and things	3
Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery	3
Projectile points, dangers and Amerindian ontologies at eastern Catamarca (Argentina) during the first millennium CE	3
Submerged landscape evolution of the Beagle Channel: context of the first record of underwater archaeological evidence	3
Longquan celadon: a quantitative archaeological analysis of a pan-Indian Ocean industry of the 12 ^th to 15 ^th centuries	3
Community archaeology and climate change	3
An archaeology of the crime and punishment of young convicts: a view from colonial Australia	3
Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean	3
Islands and hominin adaptation	3
‘Ribbon-decked poverty’: costume and performance in South Midlands morris dance	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
Theory and methods of settlement archaeology – the Chinese contribution	2
Evidence for punishment and execution on the foreshore: a unique early medieval burial (680–810 AD) from London	2
Illegal archaeological excavation crime in Jordanian law	2
Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise	2
Choreographic empathy beyond human and animal	2
Submerged inland landscapes of the Aucilla basin, Northwest Florida, USA: populating the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene landscape	2
Labor, gender, and intercultural diplomacy: the emergence of Madame Montour as a professional interpreter in colonial North America	2
Crucibles: material expressions of cross craft interaction	2
Collectors, class and conflict at the lower palaeolithic discovery at Stoke Newington, 1878-1884	2
Continuity and variability in prehistoric fishing practices by Homo sapiens in Island Southeast Asia: new ichthyofaunal data from Asitau Kuru, Timor-Leste	1
An approach to craft and craftworkers in process: re-examining late 3rd-6th century CE Roman carvings, inscriptions, and engraved symbols	1
Microhistories of an invisible punishment. For an archaeology of sexual exploitation in Spain	1
Unequal housing in Pompeii: using house size to measure inequality	1
Contemporary regimes of disappearance and the unequal treatment of human remains	1
Towards a political ecology of piracy in the Age of Sail	1
Mining and metallurgical labor in Islamic period Southwest Asia	1
The altitude of the depths: use of inland water archaeology for the reconstruction of inundated cultural landscapes in Lake Titicaca	1
Terminal Pleistocene emergence of maritime interaction networks across Wallacea	1
Fit for purpose: investigating adaptations in late Pleistocene lithic technology to an island environment at Buang Merabak, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	1
Recognising inequality: ableism in Egyptological approaches to disability and bodily differences	1
Reflections on archaeology and inequality. A foreword	1
Anarchy, institutional flexibility, and containment of authority at Poverty Point (USA)	1
Scale, depth, multi-disciplinarity, and global integration: Chinese archaeology at 100 years	1
The exceptional environmental setting of the North Plaza, Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, USA	1
“Everything begins with a dot” cupmarks, minerals and waters in South Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art	1
Understanding Chinese archaeology by statistical analysis of papers published by Chinese researchers in Chinese and World core journals during the past century (1920–2020)	1
Urban archaeology in Kaifeng, a capital city of dynastic China: progress and insights	1
Archaeo-media: breaking the binary and building agency in archaeological news reporting	1
The Acheulean is a temporally cohesive tradition	1
Portioning as the missing link in the conceptualization of weight in prehistory. A view from Europe	1
Submerged Palaeolandscapes of the Southern Hemisphere (SPLOSH) – What is emerging from the Southern Hemisphere	1
Negritos in Taiwan and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia: new discovery from the Xiaoma Caves	1
A synthetic model of Palaeolithic seafaring in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan	1
Debating archaeological essentials: rethinking place, time, repetition, difference, and representation	1
Archaeobotany in an era of change and challenge: potential and fragility of macro- and micro-remains	1
Gone with the wind. Urbanization and deurbanization processes in the medieval Muslim Horn of Africa: the case of Handoga (Djibouti)	1