OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of World Archaeology is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconsidering domestication from a process archaeology perspective	37
European agricultural terraces and lynchets: from archaeological theory to heritage management	18
Landscape archaeology, sustainability and the necessity of change	16
The wind that shakes the barley: the role of East Asian cuisines on barley grain size	11
‘We hunt to share’: social dynamics and very large mammal butchery during the Oldowan–Acheulean transition	10
Alternatives to colonization and marginal identities in New Kingdom colonial Nubia (1550–1070 BCE)	10
Process archaeology	10
In defence of representation	9
Terminal Pleistocene emergence of maritime interaction networks across Wallacea	9
Continuity and variability in prehistoric fishing practices by Homo sapiens in Island Southeast Asia: new ichthyofaunal data from Asitau Kuru, Timor-Leste	8
Ancient Pets. The health, diet and diversity of cats, dogs and monkeys from the Red Sea port of Berenice (Egypt) in the 1^st-2^nd centuries AD	7
Representation and materiality in archaeology: A semiotic reconciliation	7
Pluralising power: ceramics and social differentiation in Bronze Age central Eurasia	6
Changing perceptions of rock art: storying prehistoric worlds	6
Making marks meaningful: new materialism and the microwear assemblage	5
Archaeology, process and time: beyond history versus memory	5
Centralisation and decentralisation processes and pottery production at Arslantepe (SE Anatolia) during the 4^th and early 3^rd millennium BCE	5
A confluence of communities: households and land use at the junction of the Upper Usumacinta and Lacantún Rivers, Chiapas, Mexico	5
Mapping agricultural assemblages in ancient Oaxaca from the domestication of maize to the collapse of Monte Albán	5
The fluid city, urbanism as process	5
Landscape change in the Nile Delta during the fourth millennium BC: a new perspective on the Egyptian Predynastic and Protodynastic periods	5
Anarchy, institutional flexibility, and containment of authority at Poverty Point (USA)	5
Making hands and tools: steps to a process archaeology of mind	5
Can birdstones sing? Rethinking material-semiotic approaches in contemporary archaeological theory	4
Material signs and relational meanings: reconsidering Ancestral Pueblo material dichotomies	4

Fragments of an anarchic society: Kura-Araxes territorialization in the third millennium BC town at Tel Bet Yerah	4
Re-evaluating terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene settlement patterns with Chirp subbottom data from around California’s Northern Channel Islands	4
Hunter-gatherer carbohydrate consumption: plant roots and rhizomes as staple foods in Mesolithic Europe	4
Conglomerate infrastructures: ordinary sites used for extraordinary regimes of power	4
Submerged Palaeolandscapes of the Southern Hemisphere (SPLOSH) – What is emerging from the Southern Hemisphere	4
Masks in context: representation, emergence, motility and self	3
The altitude of the depths: use of inland water archaeology for the reconstruction of inundated cultural landscapes in Lake Titicaca	3
The archaeology of a marginal neighborhood in Tehran, Iran: garbage, class, and identity	3
The Acheulean is a temporally cohesive tradition	3
Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey	3
A synthetic model of Palaeolithic seafaring in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan	3
Subaltern assemblages. The archaeology of marginal places and identities	3
Here be dragons: the untapped archaeological potential of São Tomé and Príncipe	3
Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea	3
The process of complex societies: dynamic models beyond site-size hierarchies	3
Social agency and prestige technology: serial production of gold appliqués in the early Iron Age north-west China and the Eurasian steppes	3
Let’s catch octopus for dinner: ancient inventions of octopus lures in the Mariana Islands of the remote tropical pacific	3
Archaeology and the silk road model	3