OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Field 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Why There is Still an Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects and What We Can Do About It	20
Monumentality, Social Memory, and Territoriality in Neolithic–Chalcolithic Northwestern Arabia	14
The Acoustics of Aggregation Sites: Listening to the Rock Art Landscape of Cuevas de la Araña (Spain)	13
Transnational Landscapes of Sámi Reindeer: Domestication and Herding in Northernmost Europe 700–1800 A.D.	13
Open Area, Open Data: Advances in Reflexive Archaeological Practice	11
Big Data in Maritime Archaeology: Challenges and Prospects from the Middle East and North Africa	10
Kurgan Tunnug 1—New Data on the Earliest Horizon of Scythian Material Culture	10
Between Anatolia and the Aegean: Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic Foragers of the Karaburun Peninsula	10
Urban Chronology at a Human Scale on the Coast of East Africa in the 1st Millennium a.d.	10
A Multi-User Mobile GIS Solution for Documenting Large Surface Scatters: An Example from the Doring River, South Africa	9
Pigs in Sight: Late Bronze Age Pig Husbandries in the Aegean and Anatolia	9
Sharing Archaeological Knowledge: The Interactive Reporting System	8
A Window into the Early–Middle Stone Age Transition in Northeastern Africa—A Marine Isotope Stage 7a/6 Late Acheulean Horizon from the EDAR 135 Site, Eastern Sahara (Sudan)	8
Exploring Landscape Archaeology and UAV-Based Survey in the Kochkor Valley, Kyrgyzstan	8
Ritual Use of Limpets in Late Hawaiian Prehistory	8
Canine Economies of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean	7
History Disappearing: The Rapid Loss of Australian Contact Period Rock Art	6
Drawing and Knowledge Construction in Archaeology: The Aide Mémoire Project	6
Querying Quarries: Stone Extraction Practices and Socioeconomic Organization in Three Sub-Regions of the Maya Lowlands	6
Sacred Sites for Suburbanites: Organic Urban Growth and Neighborhood Formation at Preclassic Ceibal, Guatemala	6
Practicing Urban Archaeology in a Modern City: The Alessandrino Quarter of Rome	5
An Elite Bronze Age Double-Horse Burial from Western Ukraine and the Chariot Package Dissemination	5
Italy’s Hidden Hillforts: A Large-Scale Lidar-Based Mapping of Samnium	5
Integrating Multi-Scalar Sampling Strategies for Archaeological Sediment Chemistry	5
Urbanization and Imperial Integration at Angamuco, Michoacán, Mexico	5

What Lies Beyond Sight? Applications of Ultraportable Hyperspectral Imaging (VIS-NIR) for Archaeological Fieldwork	4
Deploying an Offline, Multi-User, Mobile System for Digital Recording in the Perachora Peninsula, Greece	4
Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy	4
Tracking Emergent Spatial and Social Patterns across Terraced Landscapes in Polynesia	4
Memory Work and Place-Making over theLongue Duréeat Jecosh, Peru (340 b.c.–a.d. 1630)	4
Funding in the “Field:” An Analysis of Demographics and Methods in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants (1955–2020)	4
Digitally Recording Excavations on a Budget: A (Low-Cost) DIY Approach from Scotland	3
Multi-Season Reproduction and Pastoralist Production Strategies: New Approaches to Birth Seasonality from the South Caucasus Region	3
Multiscaled Archaeological Survey in Eastern Iberia: Ancient Settlement Dynamics, Agrarian Practices, and Rural Landscapes	3
Single-Context Recording, Field Interpretation and Reflexivity: An Analysis of Primary Data In Context Sheets	3
A Changing Cityscape in Central Italy: The Gabii Project Excavations, 2012–2018	3
Archaeological Survey in Guadalajara: Human Occupation in Central Spain during the Late Pleistocene	3
A Techno-Functional Analysis of Acheulean Backed Knives from Wonderboom, South Africa	3
Carved in Stone: Field Trials of Virtual Reflectance Transformation Imaging (V-RTI) in Classical Telmessos (Fethiye)	3
Archaeology and Geophysics in Tandem on Crete	3
Women in Antiquity: An Analysis of Gender and Publishing in a Global Archaeology Journal	3
Core and Periphery: Obsidian Craft Production in Late Postclassic (a.d. 1250/1300–1519) Tlaxcallan, Mexico	3
Social Landscapes of Euphorbia Kop: A K2 Farmer Settlement with a Forager Presence in Southern Africa	3
Human Ecology and the Southern Iberian Neolithic: An Approach from Archaeobotany and Archaeozoology	3
An Analysis of Motif Clusters at the Nanguluwurr Rock Art Site, Kakadu National Park, N. T. Australia	3
On a Mountain High: Finding and Documenting Glacial Archaeological Sites During the Anthropocene	3
An Archaeobotanical Approach to Well-Being: Enslaved Plant Use at Estate Cane Garden, 19th Century St. Croix	3
Excavating Archaeological Texts: Applying Digital Humanities to the Study of Archaeological Thought and Banal Nationalism	3
A Multi-Method Approach to Dating: Persistent Occupation of the Alpine Tundra at Rollins Pass, Colorado	3
Qedesh in the Galilee: The Emergence of an Early Bronze Age Levantine Megasite	3
Tropical Foodways and Exchange along the Coastal Margin of Northeastern New Guinea	2
Wild and Domestic Cattle in the Ancient Nile Valley: Marks of Ecological Change	2
The Emergence and Transmission of Metallurgical Technology for Subsistence Activities in Daily Life in Northern Europe: A Microscopic Zooarchaeological Perspective	2
Last Glacial Maximum Microblade Production at Shizitan 29 and its Implications for North China Pressure Technology	2
Domesticated Forest Landscapes in Central Scandinavia during the Iron Age: Resource Colonization for Iron and Subsistence Strategies based on Livestock	2
Early Neolithic Innovation: Ventilation Systems and the Built Environment	2
“Invisible Burials” and Fragmentation Practices in Iron Age Europe: Excavations at the Monte Bernorio Necropolis (Northern Spain)	2
Systematic Versus Random Sampling in Approaches to Landscape Archaeology: The Umma Survey Project in Southern Mesopotamia	2
Before Meeting the Greeks: Kutaisi Influence in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Colchian Settlements	2
Multi-Period Ore Exploitation in Upper Silesia, Central Europe	2
Critical Material Culture Analysis in US National Register of Historic Places Significance Statements	2
“Your Mysterious Instruments”: American Devices and Imperial Designs in Cold War Archaeology	2
Rural Complexities: Comparative Investigations at Small Iron Age Sites in South-Central Cyprus	2
Site Organization and Mobility Strategies: The Early and Middle Holocene Stone Structures from Takarkori Rock Shelter (Southwestern Libya)	2
Jels 3, a New Late Palaeolithic Open-Air Site in Denmark, Sheds Light on the Pioneer Colonization of Northern Europe	2
The Enigmatic Softstone Vessels of Northern Madagascar: Petrological Investigations of a Medieval Quarry	1
The Most Discouraged Mycenaeans: Performing Emotion and Death in Late Bronze Age Tanagra, Greece	1
Social Buildings: Soil Geochemistry and Anthropogenic Patterns from Late Iron Age Finland	1
Social Lives of Monumental Walls: Hunting along the Upper Tigris	1
Minimally Invasive High-Resolution Investigation of Site Form and Disturbance at Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Ontario	1
Stylistic Change and Emic Cultural Continuity in Archaic-Period Anthropomorphs at No Bear, Montana	1
Revisiting the Acheulean at Namib IV in the Namib Desert, Namibia	1
Equality in the Periphery of Lamanai: Assessing a Maya Community in the 10th and 11th Centuries a.d.	1
Multimodal Remote Sensing Applications in the Etruscan-Roman City of Vulci	1
An Igluryuaq Unearthed: A Pre-Contact Inuvialuit Cruciform House from Arctic Canada	1

Bovid Bone Accumulation in Late Middle Palaeolithic Poland	1
Voluminous Evidence for an Elusive Period: Storage Pits and Surplus from Middle Chalcolithic Anatolia	1
Toward Systematic Underwater Survey of Mediterranean Maritime Activity along the Southern Turkish Coast	1
In Search of a Borderland: Material Culture Patterns on the Southern Limits of the North American Southwest	1
Long Bones and Antlers for Artifact Production in the Final Late Bronze Age Settlement of Thessaloniki Toumba (Northern Greece, 1210–1040 cal b.c.)	1
Radiocarbon and Artifactual Evidence for Early 17th Century A.D. Dutch Activity at the Site of Fort Orange, Albany, New York, USA	1
Untangling the Taphonomy of Charred Plant Remains in Ritual Contexts: Late Antique and Medieval Churches and Graves from Croatia	1
On the Presumed Clovis-Age Structure at the Paleo Crossing Site, Ohio	1
Obsidian on the Periphery: Importation, Production, and Raw Material Husbandry in Oaxaca	1
Fortified Communities in the South Caucasus: Insights from Mtsvane Gora and Dmanisis Gora	1
Embedded Household Specialization: The Bifaces from YāçkEtEl on the Northwest Coast	1
Exploring the Influence of Predation Risks on Oldowan Tool Use in South Africa	1
A Case Study of Cache Pit Construction, Use, and Abandonment from the Upper Great Lakes, USA	1
Scratching the Surface: Integrating Low-Visibility Zones and Large Rural Sites in Landscape Archaeology Using Point Sampling	1
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Pastoral Paleoclimate Palimpsests of the South-Central Andes: High-Altitude Herder Dwellings in the 2nd Millennium a.d.	1
Niche Construction of Ban-nong ban-eoh in Southwestern Korea: Archaeobotanical Data from the Early Iron to Three Kingdoms Periods	1
Indicators of Household Pottery Production: A Case-Study from the Chupicuaro Formative Culture	1
History and Hydrology: Engineering Canoe Canals in the Estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico	1
Overlooked—Enigmatic—Underrated: The City Khar Khul Khaany Balgas in the Heartland of the Mongol World Empire	1
Renaissance Rome and the Italian Glass Connection: 16th-Century a.d. Hospital Dumps in the Forum of Caesar	1