OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Field Archaeology is 3. 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
A Novel Protocol for Reconstructing Depositional Histories of Anthropogenic, Sedimentary Records: the Case of the Holocene-Deep Kirkhellaren Cave Deposits in Coastal Arctic Norway	32
Statement of Retraction: Pastoral Paleoclimate Palimpsests of the South-Central Andes: High-Altitude Herder Dwellings in the 2nd Millennium a.d.	17
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.	14
Social Dynamics, Knowledge Spheres, and Technological Transfers in Balearic Island Pottery during the 2nd Millennium b.c.	13
Chiaroscuro Photogrammetry: Revolutionizing 3D Modeling in Low Light Conditions for Archaeological Sites	11
Settlement Patterns and Built Environment at the Archaeological Site of Yalahau, Yucatan	10
Critical Material Culture Analysis in US National Register of Historic Places Significance Statements	9
Run to the Hills: A Stratified Sampling Approach to Site Clustering on High Grounds in Ancient Samnium (Molise, Italy)	9
The Role of the Field Architect in the Digital Age: Integrating Human and Electronic Recording at the Villa Arianna in Roman Stabiae	8
Hidden Cycles of Time in the Layout of Mesoamerican Ballcourts	8
Untangling the Taphonomy of Charred Plant Remains in Ritual Contexts: Late Antique and Medieval Churches and Graves from Croatia	8
Sharing Archaeological Knowledge: The Interactive Reporting System	8
Backdirt Ecopoetics	6
Objects of Visual Representation and Local Cultural Idioms	6
Power, Status, and the Archaeology of the Atlantic Experience in Peki, Ghana	6
Stratagems and Back Spoils: Utilizing Backdirt in the Management of Archaeological Earthen Heritage	6
Human Ecology and the Southern Iberian Neolithic: An Approach from Archaeobotany and Archaeozoology	5
Towards an Integrated Approach to Studying the Stratified Ceramics from Dandanakan/Daş Rabat, Turkmenistan (9th–12th Centuries a.d. )	5
Exploring Landscape Archaeology and UAV-Based Survey in the Kochkor Valley, Kyrgyzstan	5
Settlement Discontinuities in Southwestern Arabia during the Middle and Late Holocene: The Bayḥān (Yemen) Region	5
An Elite Bronze Age Double-Horse Burial from Western Ukraine and the Chariot Package Dissemination	5
Revisiting the Chronology of Early Plain Handmade Ware in Southern Jordan (9th–12th Centuries a.d. )	5
Jels 3, a New Late Palaeolithic Open-Air Site in Denmark, Sheds Light on the Pioneer Colonization of Northern Europe	4
Minimally Invasive High-Resolution Investigation of Site Form and Disturbance at Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Ontario	4
Multi-Period Ore Exploitation in Upper Silesia, Central Europe	4

Laser-Aided Profile Measurement and Cluster Analysis of Ceramic Shapes	4
Craftmanship, Operation, and the Configuration of Social Space: The Case of the Middle Neolithic Pottery Workshop Site of Imvrou Pigadi, Thessaly, Greece	4
Area-Optimized, Rapid UAV-Borne Recording of Medieval Heritage in Central Asia	4
Tracking Emergent Spatial and Social Patterns across Terraced Landscapes in Polynesia	4
Revisiting Neolithic Ali Kosh: New Insights into Settlement Sustainability, Human Mobility, and Subsistence Strategies	4
Niche Construction of Ban-nong ban-eoh in Southwestern Korea: Archaeobotanical Data from the Early Iron to Three Kingdoms Periods	4
The Identification of the Sacred “Chiton” ( Sarapis ) of Pharaoh Alexander the Great in Tomb II at Vergina, Macedonia, Greece	4
Survey Techniques and Landscape Archaeology on the Banks of the Ancient Lacus Ligustinus (Southern Spain)	4
Why There is Still an Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects and What We Can Do About It	4
Dating and Interpreting Landscapes of Livestock Herding: Excavation of a Hut Site and Enclosure in Southwestern Ireland	4
It’s All in the Backfill: Scrap Heaps, Explosives, and Nausea. Stirring the Soil of a Former WWII Military Base	3
Unearthing Identity: the Role of Archaeology in Shaping English National Identity and Heritage Interpretation	3
Geochemical Analyses to Make the Invisible More Concrete: Cycles of Building Use and Roof Hatches at the Early Neolithic Site of Aşıklı Höyük	3
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Pastoral Paleoclimate Palimpsests of the South-Central Andes: High-Altitude Herder Dwellings in the 2nd Millennium a.d.	3
Rural Settlement Dynamics in a Rapidly Urbanizing Landscape: Insights from Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeological Field Surveys in Zanzibar, Tanzania	3
Early Neolithic Innovation: Ventilation Systems and the Built Environment	3
Mortuary Practices, Rituality, and Commemorative Places: A View of Kohne Tepesi in the Southern Basin of the Araxes River, Iran	3
Long Bones and Antlers for Artifact Production in the Final Late Bronze Age Settlement of Thessaloniki Toumba (Northern Greece, 1210–1040 cal b.c.)	3
Theorizing Backdirt: Between Contemporary Archaeology and a Meta-Critique	3
Domesticated Forest Landscapes in Central Scandinavia during the Iron Age: Resource Colonization for Iron and Subsistence Strategies based on Livestock	3
Backdirt as a Means of Deconstruction of Archaeological Procedure: The Case Study of Tel Burnat, The Occupied Palestinian Territories	3
Horse Teeth Shed Light on Seasonality in Scythian Mound Burials in Southern Russia	3