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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence?: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times	22
Ottoman archaeology between the Self and the Other : archaeological ethnography and the transborder research potential of the SW Balkans	13
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th–20th centuries)	11
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)	9
Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France	9
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
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE	7
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations	6
Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea	6
Magic money: commodities and exchange in Bronze Age Europe	6
Global commodities: cosmology and value	6
Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 1005	5
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: local concepts and global conversations	5
From money to commodity: comparative case studies in demonetization	5
Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond	5
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
Islands and hominin adaptation	4
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

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
Submerged landscape evolution of the Beagle Channel: context of the first record of underwater archaeological evidence	3
An archaeology of the crime and punishment of young convicts: a view from colonial Australia	3
Community archaeology and climate change	3
Finding the remains of classical Bagan’s peri-urban support population: using ethnoarchaeological data to enhance archaeological excavation and interpretation	3
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
Submerged inland landscapes of the Aucilla basin, Northwest Florida, USA: populating the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene landscape	3
Making dolia and dolium makers	2
Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey	2
Hydraulic technology as means of Christian colonisation. Watermills and channels in the Lower Ebro (Catalonia)	2
Collectors, class and conflict at the lower palaeolithic discovery at Stoke Newington, 1878-1884	2
Editorial	2
Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise	2
‘Ribbon-decked poverty’: costume and performance in South Midlands morris dance	2
Illegal archaeological excavation crime in Jordanian law	2
Labor, gender, and intercultural diplomacy: the emergence of Madame Montour as a professional interpreter in colonial North America	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
Evidence for punishment and execution on the foreshore: a unique early medieval burial (680–810 AD) from London	2
Techno-aesthetic ceramic traditions and the effective communication of power on the North Coast of Peru	2
Archaeobotany in an era of change and challenge: potential and fragility of macro- and micro-remains	2
Theory and methods of settlement archaeology – the Chinese contribution	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
Anarchy, institutional flexibility, and containment of authority at Poverty Point (USA)	1
Trickle down innovation? Creativity and innovation at the margins	1
A synthetic model of Palaeolithic seafaring in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan	1
The exceptional environmental setting of the North Plaza, Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, USA	1
Unequal housing in Pompeii: using house size to measure inequality	1
Continuity and variability in prehistoric fishing practices by Homo sapiens in Island Southeast Asia: new ichthyofaunal data from Asitau Kuru, Timor-Leste	1
Archaeology in a fragile environment: archaeology of the lower Yangtze Shanghai region	1
Portioning as the missing link in the conceptualization of weight in prehistory. A view from Europe	1
Contemporary regimes of disappearance and the unequal treatment of human remains	1
Scale, depth, multi-disciplinarity, and global integration: Chinese archaeology at 100 years	1
Towards a political ecology of piracy in the Age of Sail	1
Terminal Pleistocene emergence of maritime interaction networks across Wallacea	1
The altitude of the depths: use of inland water archaeology for the reconstruction of inundated cultural landscapes in Lake Titicaca	1
Mining and metallurgical labor in Islamic period Southwest Asia	1
Negritos in Taiwan and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia: new discovery from the Xiaoma Caves	1
Microhistories of an invisible punishment. For an archaeology of sexual exploitation in Spain	1
Let’s catch octopus for dinner: ancient inventions of octopus lures in the Mariana Islands of the remote tropical pacific	1
Submerged Palaeolandscapes of the Southern Hemisphere (SPLOSH) – What is emerging from the Southern Hemisphere	1
Reflections on archaeology and inequality. A foreword	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
Fit for purpose: investigating adaptations in late Pleistocene lithic technology to an island environment at Buang Merabak, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	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
Archaeo-media: breaking the binary and building agency in archaeological news reporting	1
Revisiting the collective burial debate: a case-study of Yanghai cemetery, Xinjiang	1

The Acheulean is a temporally cohesive tradition	1
Recognising inequality: ableism in Egyptological approaches to disability and bodily differences	1