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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

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	13
Transnational Landscapes of Sámi Reindeer: Domestication and Herding in Northernmost Europe 700–1800 A.D.	13
The Acoustics of Aggregation Sites: Listening to the Rock Art Landscape of Cuevas de la Araña (Spain)	11
Open Area, Open Data: Advances in Reflexive Archaeological Practice	10
Crop Dispersal and Lucayan Tool Use: Investigating the Creation of Transported Landscapes in the Central Bahamas through Starch Grain, Phytolith, Macrobotanical, and Artifact Studies	10
Between Anatolia and the Aegean: Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic Foragers of the Karaburun Peninsula	10
Big Data in Maritime Archaeology: Challenges and Prospects from the Middle East and North Africa	10
Up the Wadi: Development of an Iron Age Industrial Landscape in Faynan, Jordan	10
Urban Chronology at a Human Scale on the Coast of East Africa in the 1st Millennium a.d.	9
Pigs in Sight: Late Bronze Age Pig Husbandries in the Aegean and Anatolia	9
Kurgan Tunnug 1—New Data on the Earliest Horizon of Scythian Material Culture	9
A Multi-User Mobile GIS Solution for Documenting Large Surface Scatters: An Example from the Doring River, South Africa	9
Ritual Use of Limpets in Late Hawaiian Prehistory	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
Sharing Archaeological Knowledge: The Interactive Reporting System	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
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
Integrating Multi-Scalar Sampling Strategies for Archaeological Sediment Chemistry	5
Sacred Sites for Suburbanites: Organic Urban Growth and Neighborhood Formation at Preclassic Ceibal, Guatemala	5
Querying Quarries: Stone Extraction Practices and Socioeconomic Organization in Three Sub-Regions of the Maya Lowlands	5

Urbanization and Imperial Integration at Angamuco, Michoacán, Mexico	5
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
Italy’s Hidden Hillforts: A Large-Scale Lidar-Based Mapping of Samnium	4
What Lies Beyond Sight? Applications of Ultraportable Hyperspectral Imaging (VIS-NIR) for Archaeological Fieldwork	4
Funding in the “Field:” An Analysis of Demographics and Methods in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants (1955–2020)	4
A Multi-Method Approach to Dating: Persistent Occupation of the Alpine Tundra at Rollins Pass, Colorado	3
Deploying an Offline, Multi-User, Mobile System for Digital Recording in the Perachora Peninsula, Greece	3
Archaeological Survey in Guadalajara: Human Occupation in Central Spain during the Late Pleistocene	3
Digitally Recording Excavations on a Budget: A (Low-Cost) DIY Approach from Scotland	3
Of Watery Rocks and Slumbering Crocs: Reassessing Middle Preclassic Occupation at Altun Ha and Lamanai, Belize	3
Archaeology and Geophysics in Tandem on Crete	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
Qedesh in the Galilee: The Emergence of an Early Bronze Age Levantine Megasite	3
A Techno-Functional Analysis of Acheulean Backed Knives from Wonderboom, South Africa	3
On a Mountain High: Finding and Documenting Glacial Archaeological Sites During the Anthropocene	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
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
Carved in Stone: Field Trials of Virtual Reflectance Transformation Imaging (V-RTI) in Classical Telmessos (Fethiye)	3
An Analysis of Motif Clusters at the Nanguluwurr Rock Art Site, Kakadu National Park, N. T. Australia	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