OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Levant 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Dan IV: The Iron Age I Settlement. The Avraham Biran Excavations (1966–1999)	12
Ghazi Bisheh 1944–2022: an appreciation	7
The Ḥarrah’s epigraphic heritage: new safaitic inscriptions from the Black Desert in north-eastern Jordan and a Greek inscription referring to Zeus Kyrios	7
Gerasa’s ‘Nymphaeum’: a reappraisal of its history and function	6
Jebel al-Mutawwaq — A Fourth Millennium BCE Village and Dolmen Field Six Years of Spanish-Italian Excavations (2012–2018)	6
Revisiting the Late Bronze Age stratigraphy of Tel Lachish	5
Beyond urbanization, regional settlement pattern in south-eastern Levant during the Early Bronze Age	4
Yavne and the industrial production of Gaza and Ashqelon wines	4
Coins from south of the North Gate of Jerash	4
The long 7th century BCE at Tel Shiqmona (Israel): a high resolution chronological tool for the Levant and the Mediterranean	4
New evidence for long-distance trade in arsenical copper during the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant: analysis of weapons from the Nesher-Ramla cemetery	4
Academic ‘ethics’ and the Schøyen Collection Aramaic incantation bowls: a personal narrative	4
A unique Frankish-period object from Miʿilyā – Castellum Regis	3
New evidence for Neolithic occupation in north-west Arabia: Standing Stone Circles on the Harrat ‘Uwayrid	3
Assyrian conquest and ruralization: unveiling territorial dynamics in the provinces of Magiddû and Samerina	3
A micro-geoarchaeological look at adaptive and glocal socio-economic aspects: the case of Middle Bronze Age Tel Dor, Israel	3
Documenting heritage in the 21st century: the EAMENA project and its potential for ‘big data’ research in Levantine archaeology	2
Ostriches and people in archaeological contexts in the southern Levant and beyond	2
A numbers game: analyzing pottery usage patterns of 4th millennium BCE sites in the southern Levant	2
Setting the standard: the 1970 standard and ethical codes of archaeological organizations	2
Silence of the birds: avifauna exploitation during a period of increasing reliance on domesticates at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria	1
Cultural continuity and asymmetry through the Levantine Early Bronze Age: a view from the desert	1
The Late Bronze–Early Iron Age transition in Canaan: new insights from Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates	1
Ancestral origins: northern Levantine Funerary Palaces in the Middle Bronze Age	1
William Lancaster: anthropologist and ethnographic mentor	1

Not a place for respectable people, but the ends of the earth converge there: insights from Wisad Pools into the nature and context of Jordan’s Black Desert Neolithic	1
The Crusader Lordship of Transjordan (1100–1189): settlement forms, dynamics and significance	1
Regionalism, social boundaries and cultural interaction in the Levantine Early Bronze Age	1
Wine Jars and Jar Makers of Cyprus: The Ethnoarchaeology of Pitharia	1
The ‘Assyrian mill’. A case study on food processing technology and innovation in the Near East during the Neo-Assyrian period (c. 900–600 BC)	1
Philistine urban form at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: a magnetometric perspective	1
Levantine wines in Italy between the Early Empire and Late Antiquity	1
To whom does the water flow? A new aqueduct branch of Ayn Braq in Petra, Jordan	1
The Assyrian mill beyond Assyria: recent evidence for Assyrian influence in the Afşin-Elbistan plain	1
Assessing the MaDiH CKAN catalogue as an engagement tool for the Jordanian cultural heritage community	1
Lajjun: forgotten provincial capital in Ottoman Palestine	1
Funerary dining or offerings for the dead? An archaeobotanical analysis of remains from shaft tombs in Petra, Jordan	1
Olga Tufnell’s ‘Perfect Journey’: Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean	1
The use of remote sensing and digital tools for cultural heritage management and archaeological research	1
Notes on the architecture and history of the fortifications of the island of Arwad in Syria	1
Why so many? Analysing church multiplicity in Late Antique southern Levant	1
A late medieval synagogue at Ḥuqoq/Yaquq in Galilee?	1