OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of World Archaeology is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence?: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times	19
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)	12
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	9
Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France	8
Insights into Late Ceramic Period lived experiences in Greater Coclé via human burials at Operation 5, Cerro Juan Díaz, Panamá	8
Glass beads in a Dillybag: a cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia	8
Tomb living: shaped-earth furniture in re-used tombs of Dra Abu el-Naga, Luxor	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
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE	6
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity	6
Crafting and everyday archaeology at Chumnungwa	6
Cross-crafting in standardized and customized metallurgy. Some examples from Bronze Age Poland	6
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations	5
Evocative imagery at whose expense? Critical perspectives on Viking Age mortuary reconstructions	5
Magic money: commodities and exchange in Bronze Age Europe	5
From present to past: universality in sheep/goat morphometric distinction?	4
The big bull: stone sculptures, ceremonial places and monumentality in Late Iron Age central Iberia	4
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: local concepts and global conversations	4
Inserting the dead in living spaces in Bronze Age Southern Italy: the case of Coppa Nevigata	4
Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond	4
Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 1005	4
Introducing Lithikos 2 - a novel volumetric morphometric analyser via a volume-based approach to handaxe refinement	4
Practice beyond category: archaeologies of labor	3

Materializations of variable power strategies and inequalities in Polynesia	3
Archaeologies of crime and punishment: an introduction	3
Life and death with the sea in between: the Precolumbian Maya site of Marco Gonzalez, Belize	3
From money to commodity: comparative case studies in demonetization	3
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?	3
An archaeology of the crime and punishment of young convicts: a view from colonial Australia	2
From kinship systems to kinwork and oddkin: a view from Scandinavia	2
Longquan celadon: a quantitative archaeological analysis of a pan-Indian Ocean industry of the 12 ^th to 15 ^th centuries	2
The punctuated itineraries of purple porphyry	2
Evidence for punishment and execution on the foreshore: a unique early medieval burial (680–810 AD) from London	2
A series of unfortunate events: deurbanization, agency, placemaking and the origins of city-states in Crete 1200–700 BC	2
Entanglements, ontologies, and grinding stones at the medieval site of Handoga (Djibouti)	2
Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans	2
Broken Buddhas, burials, and sanctuary-adjacent sanctuaries: the ancestral animist archaeologies of Angkor’s ancient places and things	2
Inequality in life and death: bridging divides between domestic and funerary archaeology in Middle Bronze Age Transylvania	2
‘Ribbon-decked poverty’: costume and performance in South Midlands morris dance	2
Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery	2
Deurbanisation as lateral stratigraphy: Three thousand years of settlement relocation at Sisupalgarh/Bhubaneswar, India	2
Community archaeology and climate change	2
Projectile points, dangers and Amerindian ontologies at eastern Catamarca (Argentina) during the first millennium CE	2
Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean	2
Human remains, material culture and collections: an object-based perspective on ethical custodianship	2