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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Run to the Hills: A Stratified Sampling Approach to Site Clustering on High Grounds in Ancient Samnium (Molise, Italy)	20
Untangling the Taphonomy of Charred Plant Remains in Ritual Contexts: Late Antique and Medieval Churches and Graves from Croatia	16
Jels 3, a New Late Palaeolithic Open-Air Site in Denmark, Sheds Light on the Pioneer Colonization of Northern Europe	13
Long Bones and Antlers for Artifact Production in the Final Late Bronze Age Settlement of Thessaloniki Toumba (Northern Greece, 1210–1040 cal b.c.)	13
Dating and Interpreting Landscapes of Livestock Herding: Excavation of a Hut Site and Enclosure in Southwestern Ireland	11
An Actualistic Experimental Study of Giant Quartzite Core Reduction Strategies: Implications for Large Flake Blank Production and Handaxe Manufacture at Amanzi Springs, South Africa	10
Burial Histories, Bodies, and Pots: Mortuary Practices in the Southeastern Rainforests of the Andes during the 1st Millennium a.d. (El Cadillal, Argentina)	10
Rise of the Nomad Kings—Pastoral Polities in the Horn of Africa ( a.d. 650–1000)	10
Models of Grinding Stone Manufacture, Use, and Discard from Tigrai, Ethiopia: Opportunities for Cultural Comparisons and Implications for Usewear Analysis	9
Backdirting: Theorizing Backdirt through Time, Place, and Process	9
Toward Systematic Underwater Survey of Mediterranean Maritime Activity along the Southern Turkish Coast	8
The Effect of Moral and Threat Appeals on Reducing Depreciative Behavior at Rock Imagery Sites	8
Drone Survey to Monitor Erosion Impacts on Coastal Archaeological Sites	8
Big Data in Maritime Archaeology: Challenges and Prospects from the Middle East and North Africa	7
The Social Construction of Backdirt in Chaco Archaeology	7
Urban Archaeology in the Lower Amazon: Fieldwork Uncovering Large Pre-Colonial Villages in Santarém City, Brazil	7
Metal Detecting in the Wake of 16th Century a.d. Spanish Expeditions	6
Searching for the Missing Graves of PoWs from the Second World War—an Example of Research Conducted in the Area of ⁣⁣Stalag VIII B (344) Lamsdorf	6
A Symmetrical Archaeology Approach to Previously Excavated Sites: or, How I Learned to Appreciate Antiquarian Backdirt	6
Persian Paradises: Unveiling the Sasanian Dastgerd of Mohammadabad-Baghdasht, South of Jereh, Pars, Iran	6
Household Labor Practices and Dryland Agroforestry in Upland Kula, Maui Island	6
Monumental and Long-Lasting or Temporary and Performative? How did Neolithic Rondels Function? Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Modeling of the Rondel at Nowe Objezierze (Northwestern Pol	6
Gone with the Wind, Waves, and Walking: Prioritizing Research at Vulnerable Archaeological Sites in Coastal Zones	6
In between the Sites: Understanding Late Holocene Manteño Agricultural Contexts in the Chongón-Colonche Mountains of Coastal Ecuador through UAV-Lidar and Excavation	5
Collaborative Science and Digital Tools: Monitoring Heritage at Risk during the People of Guana Project	5

Analyzing Low-Density Assemblages from Fieldwalking Surveys: Hellenistic and Roman Land Use in the Sibaritide (Calabria, Italy)	5
Human Ecology and the Southern Iberian Neolithic: An Approach from Archaeobotany and Archaeozoology	4
An Elite Bronze Age Double-Horse Burial from Western Ukraine and the Chariot Package Dissemination	4
Human Adaptation to the High-Altitude Permafrost Zone at Daisetsuzan National Park, Japan	4
Caving 16,000 Years Ago: Pleistocene Human Movement Within the Decorated Cave of Etxeberri, Western Pyrenees (France)	4
High-Resolution Spatial Analysis of Archaeobotanical Remains from a Kitchen Context in Imperial Late Antique (ca. a.d. 600) Dhiban, Jordan	4
Social Dynamics, Knowledge Spheres, and Technological Transfers in Balearic Island Pottery during the 2nd Millennium b.c.	4
A Techno-Functional Analysis of Acheulean Backed Knives from Wonderboom, South Africa	4
Laser-Aided Profile Measurement and Cluster Analysis of Ceramic Shapes	3
Multi-Period Ore Exploitation in Upper Silesia, Central Europe	3
Furrows Without Ridges: Evidence for an Agricultural Field at Angel Mounds (12Vg1), Southwestern Indiana, USA	3
Mineralogy and Sourcing of a Stone Bead Industry Found in Communal Cemeteries Associated with Eastern Africa's First Pastoralists, ca. 5000b.p.	3
Minimally Invasive High-Resolution Investigation of Site Form and Disturbance at Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Ontario	3
Unearthing Identity: the Role of Archaeology in Shaping English National Identity and Heritage Interpretation	3
Sherds and the City: Pottery Production, Society, and the Changing Urban Fabric of Fustat, Egypt	3
Social Landscapes of Euphorbia Kop: A K2 Farmer Settlement with a Forager Presence in Southern Africa	3
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Unrecognized Contribution of the Survey of India in the Documentation of Ancient Settlements in Pakistan and India	3
Classifying Functional Areas at the Roman Villa of Mascherone (Manfredonia, Italy): Modeling Sparse Surface Survey Count Data using a Bayesian Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Model	3
Introduction: How do we Think about Backdirt?	3
Temporal Analysis of Looting Activity in Tūwāneh (Southern Jordan)	2
Women in the Lab, Men in the Field? Correlations between Gender and Research Topics at Three Major Archaeology Conferences	2
Island Colonization and Human-Environment Interactions on the Edges of the Tropics: Archaeology of the Taíno Frontier (Northern Bahamas)	2
What Lies Beyond Sight? Applications of Ultraportable Hyperspectral Imaging (VIS-NIR) for Archaeological Fieldwork	2
Extending Maize Isotopic Evidence for Pre-contact Indigenous Agronomy to the Middle Connecticut River Valley, Connecticut, USA	2
Revisiting the Acheulean at Namib IV in the Namib Desert, Namibia	2
The Enigmatic Softstone Vessels of Northern Madagascar: Petrological Investigations of a Medieval Quarry	2
Multimodal Remote Sensing Applications in the Etruscan-Roman City of Vulci	2
Scratching the Surface: Integrating Low-Visibility Zones and Large Rural Sites in Landscape Archaeology Using Point Sampling	2
Continuity and Change in the Cult of the Dead: Shaping Kin Formation in the Peruvian Andes (a.d. 1000–1600)	2
Memory Work and Place-Making over theLongue Duréeat Jecosh, Peru (340 b.c.–a.d. 1630)	2
It’s All in the Backfill: Scrap Heaps, Explosives, and Nausea. Stirring the Soil of a Former WWII Military Base	2
Integrating and Dividing in a Late Bronze Age Society: Internal Organization of Settlements of the Tisza Site Group in the Southern Carpathian Basin, 1600–1200 b.c.	2
Statement of Retraction: Pastoral Paleoclimate Palimpsests of the South-Central Andes: High-Altitude Herder Dwellings in the 2nd Millennium a.d.	2
Stratagems and Back Spoils: Utilizing Backdirt in the Management of Archaeological Earthen Heritage	2
Multiscaled Archaeological Survey in Eastern Iberia: Ancient Settlement Dynamics, Agrarian Practices, and Rural Landscapes	2
Detection of Hunting Pits using Airborne Laser Scanning and Deep Learning	2
Approaching Marginal Landscapes in Archaeology: the Case of Ravenna’s Reclaimed Wetlands	2
Systematic Versus Random Sampling in Approaches to Landscape Archaeology: The Umma Survey Project in Southern Mesopotamia	2
Pyramid Schemes: Resurrecting Tikal through the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex	2
Chiaroscuro Photogrammetry: Revolutionizing 3D Modeling in Low Light Conditions for Archaeological Sites	2
Methodological Habitus: Complicating Categories, Taxonomies, and Scientism in Archaeology	2
Settlement Organization and Distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia: Utilizing Cumulative Viewshed Analysis and Spatial Statistics in the Sulcis Plain	2
Embedded Household Specialization: The Bifaces from YāçkEtEl on the Northwest Coast	2
Heritage Education as a Tool of Social, Ethnic, and Religious Cohesion in Iraq: Empirical Insights	2
Insights into Early Iron Age Social Structure in the Eastern Steppes: Excavation Results of the Chinge-Tey Western Chain Kurgan 1	2
3D Recording of Palaeolithic Rock Art through Different Techniques: a Critical Comparison and Evaluation	1
Surveying along the Slopes: Evaluating the Impact of Geomorphic Processes on Field Survey’s Site Discovery Effectiveness	1
Reproducibility and Archaeological Practice in the Journal of Field Archaeology	1
Assessing Ancient Agricultural Regimes: a Case Study of the Egyptian Nile Delta	1
The High-Resolution Archaeology of Shared Courtyards at Old Dongola (14th–16th Century a.d., Sudan): an Intensive Approach to Domestic Open Spaces	1

Backdirt as a Means of Deconstruction of Archaeological Procedure: The Case Study of Tel Burnat, The Occupied Palestinian Territories	1
Dung Microremains as Archaeological Evidence of Early Navajo Sheepherding: A Low Impact Methodological Exploration of Incipient Indigenous Pastoralism in the U.S. Southwest	1
San Isidro, Sonsonate, El Salvador: Development of a Preclassic Settlement in Chronological and Geographic Context	1
Domesticated Forest Landscapes in Central Scandinavia during the Iron Age: Resource Colonization for Iron and Subsistence Strategies based on Livestock	1
Towards New Futures for Archaeological Data Production: Challenging Archaeonormativity through Storytelling	1
Critical Material Culture Analysis in US National Register of Historic Places Significance Statements	1
The Role of the Field Architect in the Digital Age: Integrating Human and Electronic Recording at the Villa Arianna in Roman Stabiae	1
Restoring their Identity—Archaeology, Ethnography, and the Missing PoWs of Stalag VIII B (344) Lamsdorf	1
New Evidence for Prehistoric Textile Production and Social Complexity on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau, Southwestern China	1
Encounters with the Archaeological Archive	1
Settlement Chronology and Subsistence Patterns in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico	1
The Rise of Native Lordships at Pashash, a.d. 200–600, North Highlands of Ancash, Peru	1
Utilizing SAR Imagery for Enhanced Archaeological Site Detection	1
Niche Construction of Ban-nong ban-eoh in Southwestern Korea: Archaeobotanical Data from the Early Iron to Three Kingdoms Periods	1
Gypsum Overlook: an Early Holocene Occupation in the Northern Tularosa Basin, New Mexico	1
Craftmanship, Operation, and the Configuration of Social Space: The Case of the Middle Neolithic Pottery Workshop Site of Imvrou Pigadi, Thessaly, Greece	1
Funding in the “Field:” An Analysis of Demographics and Methods in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants (1955–2020)	1
Holding Ground: Reconsidering the Sensitivity of Backdirt in the Context of NAGPRA	1
Objects of Visual Representation and Local Cultural Idioms	1
Fortified Communities in the South Caucasus: Insights from Mtsvane Gora and Dmanisis Gora	1
A Discussion of Current Risk and Future Reward: An Ethnography of UK Developer-Funded Urban Archaeology and its 21st Century Construction Industry Context	1
Outro: A Practice of Backdirt	1
Sacred Sites for Suburbanites: Organic Urban Growth and Neighborhood Formation at Preclassic Ceibal, Guatemala	1
The Acoustics of Aggregation Sites: Listening to the Rock Art Landscape of Cuevas de la Araña (Spain)	1
Mortuary Practices, Rituality, and Commemorative Places: A View of Kohne Tepesi in the Southern Basin of the Araxes River, Iran	1
The Final Bronze/Early Iron Age in the Old Zerafshan Delta, Uzbekistan: Pilot Investigations at Kimirek-kum-1	1
Settlement Patterns and Built Environment at the Archaeological Site of Yalahau, Yucatan	1