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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Run to the Hills: A Stratified Sampling Approach to Site Clustering on High Grounds in Ancient Samnium (Molise, Italy)	38
Untangling the Taphonomy of Charred Plant Remains in Ritual Contexts: Late Antique and Medieval Churches and Graves from Croatia	17
Dating and Interpreting Landscapes of Livestock Herding: Excavation of a Hut Site and Enclosure in Southwestern Ireland	14
Long Bones and Antlers for Artifact Production in the Final Late Bronze Age Settlement of Thessaloniki Toumba (Northern Greece, 1210–1040 cal b.c.)	14
Rise of the Nomad Kings—Pastoral Polities in the Horn of Africa ( a.d. 650–1000)	12
Jels 3, a New Late Palaeolithic Open-Air Site in Denmark, Sheds Light on the Pioneer Colonization of Northern Europe	11
Backdirting: Theorizing Backdirt through Time, Place, and Process	10
Burial Histories, Bodies, and Pots: Mortuary Practices in the Southeastern Rainforests of the Andes during the 1st Millennium a.d. (El Cadillal, Argentina)	9
An Actualistic Experimental Study of Giant Quartzite Core Reduction Strategies: Implications for Large Flake Blank Production and Handaxe Manufacture at Amanzi Springs, South Africa	9
Big Data in Maritime Archaeology: Challenges and Prospects from the Middle East and North Africa	8
Models of Grinding Stone Manufacture, Use, and Discard from Tigrai, Ethiopia: Opportunities for Cultural Comparisons and Implications for Usewear Analysis	8
Drone Survey to Monitor Erosion Impacts on Coastal Archaeological Sites	8
Toward Systematic Underwater Survey of Mediterranean Maritime Activity along the Southern Turkish Coast	8
Mapping Pre-Contact KeahuamanonoHeiauin Haleakalā National Park, Maui, Hawai‘i	6
Metal Detecting in the Wake of 16th Century a.d. Spanish Expeditions	6
Analyzing Low-Density Assemblages from Fieldwalking Surveys: Hellenistic and Roman Land Use in the Sibaritide (Calabria, Italy)	6
Drawing and Knowledge Construction in Archaeology: The Aide Mémoire Project	6
Persian Paradises: Unveiling the Sasanian Dastgerd of Mohammadabad-Baghdasht, South of Jereh, Pars, Iran	6
High-Resolution Spatial Analysis of Archaeobotanical Remains from a Kitchen Context in Imperial Late Antique (ca. a.d. 600) Dhiban, Jordan	6
Urban Archaeology in the Lower Amazon: Fieldwork Uncovering Large Pre-Colonial Villages in Santarém City, Brazil	6
The Social Construction of Backdirt in Chaco Archaeology	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
Gone with the Wind, Waves, and Walking: Prioritizing Research at Vulnerable Archaeological Sites in Coastal Zones	5
A Techno-Functional Analysis of Acheulean Backed Knives from Wonderboom, South Africa	5
Household Labor Practices and Dryland Agroforestry in Upland Kula, Maui Island	5

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	5
Collaborative Science and Digital Tools: Monitoring Heritage at Risk during the People of Guana Project	5
A Symmetrical Archaeology Approach to Previously Excavated Sites: or, How I Learned to Appreciate Antiquarian Backdirt	5
In between the Sites: Understanding Late Holocene Manteño Agricultural Contexts in the Chongón-Colonche Mountains of Coastal Ecuador through UAV-Lidar and Excavation	5
An Elite Bronze Age Double-Horse Burial from Western Ukraine and the Chariot Package Dissemination	4
Laser-Aided Profile Measurement and Cluster Analysis of Ceramic Shapes	4
Unearthing Identity: the Role of Archaeology in Shaping English National Identity and Heritage Interpretation	4
Exploring Landscape Archaeology and UAV-Based Survey in the Kochkor Valley, Kyrgyzstan	4
Social Landscapes of Euphorbia Kop: A K2 Farmer Settlement with a Forager Presence in Southern Africa	4
Minimally Invasive High-Resolution Investigation of Site Form and Disturbance at Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Ontario	4
Social Dynamics, Knowledge Spheres, and Technological Transfers in Balearic Island Pottery during the 2nd Millennium b.c.	4
Human Ecology and the Southern Iberian Neolithic: An Approach from Archaeobotany and Archaeozoology	4
Deploying an Offline, Multi-User, Mobile System for Digital Recording in the Perachora Peninsula, Greece	4
Multi-Period Ore Exploitation in Upper Silesia, Central Europe	3
Temporal Analysis of Looting Activity in Tūwāneh (Southern Jordan)	3
Systematic Versus Random Sampling in Approaches to Landscape Archaeology: The Umma Survey Project in Southern Mesopotamia	3
Furrows Without Ridges: Evidence for an Agricultural Field at Angel Mounds (12Vg1), Southwestern Indiana, USA	3
Scratching the Surface: Integrating Low-Visibility Zones and Large Rural Sites in Landscape Archaeology Using Point Sampling	3
Before Meeting the Greeks: Kutaisi Influence in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Colchian Settlements	3
Insights into Early Iron Age Social Structure in the Eastern Steppes: Excavation Results of the Chinge-Tey Western Chain Kurgan 1	3
Introduction: How do we Think about Backdirt?	3
Mineralogy and Sourcing of a Stone Bead Industry Found in Communal Cemeteries Associated with Eastern Africa's First Pastoralists, ca. 5000b.p.	3
Sherds and the City: Pottery Production, Society, and the Changing Urban Fabric of Fustat, Egypt	3
Detection of Hunting Pits using Airborne Laser Scanning and Deep Learning	3
Multimodal Remote Sensing Applications in the Etruscan-Roman City of Vulci	2
Multiscaled Archaeological Survey in Eastern Iberia: Ancient Settlement Dynamics, Agrarian Practices, and Rural Landscapes	2
Women in the Lab, Men in the Field? Correlations between Gender and Research Topics at Three Major Archaeology Conferences	2
Querying Quarries: Stone Extraction Practices and Socioeconomic Organization in Three Sub-Regions of the Maya Lowlands	2
Pyramid Schemes: Resurrecting Tikal through the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex	2
The Enigmatic Softstone Vessels of Northern Madagascar: Petrological Investigations of a Medieval Quarry	2
Continuity and Change in the Cult of the Dead: Shaping Kin Formation in the Peruvian Andes (a.d. 1000–1600)	2
Embedded Household Specialization: The Bifaces from YāçkEtEl on the Northwest Coast	2
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)	2
What Lies Beyond Sight? Applications of Ultraportable Hyperspectral Imaging (VIS-NIR) for Archaeological Fieldwork	2
Heritage Education as a Tool of Social, Ethnic, and Religious Cohesion in Iraq: Empirical Insights	2
The Acoustics of Aggregation Sites: Listening to the Rock Art Landscape of Cuevas de la Araña (Spain)	1
On the Presumed Clovis-Age Structure at the Paleo Crossing Site, Ohio	1
Surveying along the Slopes: Evaluating the Impact of Geomorphic Processes on Field Survey’s Site Discovery Effectiveness	1
The Final Bronze/Early Iron Age in the Old Zerafshan Delta, Uzbekistan: Pilot Investigations at Kimirek-kum-1	1
Why There is Still an Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects and What We Can Do About It	1
Revisiting the Acheulean at Namib IV in the Namib Desert, Namibia	1
San Isidro, Sonsonate, El Salvador: Development of a Preclassic Settlement in Chronological and Geographic Context	1
Holding Ground: Reconsidering the Sensitivity of Backdirt in the Context of NAGPRA	1
Settlement Patterns and Built Environment at the Archaeological Site of Yalahau, Yucatan	1
Restoring their Identity—Archaeology, Ethnography, and the Missing PoWs of Stalag VIII B (344) Lamsdorf	1
Encounters with the Archaeological Archive	1
The Most Discouraged Mycenaeans: Performing Emotion and Death in Late Bronze Age Tanagra, Greece	1
Niche Construction of Ban-nong ban-eoh in Southwestern Korea: Archaeobotanical Data from the Early Iron to Three Kingdoms Periods	1
It’s All in the Backfill: Scrap Heaps, Explosives, and Nausea. Stirring the Soil of a Former WWII Military Base	1
Chiaroscuro Photogrammetry: Revolutionizing 3D Modeling in Low Light Conditions for Archaeological Sites	1

Memory Work and Place-Making over theLongue Duréeat Jecosh, Peru (340 b.c.–a.d. 1630)	1
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.	1
Backdirt as a Means of Deconstruction of Archaeological Procedure: The Case Study of Tel Burnat, The Occupied Palestinian Territories	1
The Rise of Native Lordships at Pashash, a.d. 200–600, North Highlands of Ancash, Peru	1
3D Recording of Palaeolithic Rock Art through Different Techniques: a Critical Comparison and Evaluation	1
Towards New Futures for Archaeological Data Production: Challenging Archaeonormativity through Storytelling	1
Outro: A Practice of Backdirt	1
Fortified Communities in the South Caucasus: Insights from Mtsvane Gora and Dmanisis Gora	1
Island Colonization and Human-Environment Interactions on the Edges of the Tropics: Archaeology of the Taíno Frontier (Northern Bahamas)	1
Stratagems and Back Spoils: Utilizing Backdirt in the Management of Archaeological Earthen Heritage	1
Statement of Retraction: Pastoral Paleoclimate Palimpsests of the South-Central Andes: High-Altitude Herder Dwellings in the 2nd Millennium a.d.	1
Settlement Organization and Distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia: Utilizing Cumulative Viewshed Analysis and Spatial Statistics in the Sulcis Plain	1
Funding in the “Field:” An Analysis of Demographics and Methods in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants (1955–2020)	1
Critical Material Culture Analysis in US National Register of Historic Places Significance Statements	1