OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Lithic Technology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Archaeological and Experimental Data from the Bipolar-on-Anvil Debitage in the Middle Paleolithic Site of Los Aljezares (Aspe, Alicante, Spain)	19
Rock Music: An Auditory Assessment of Knapping	16
Contributions and Limitations of a Technomorphometric Approach for Cleavers: The Case of Lanne-Darré (Hautes-Pyrénées)	12
The Functional Use of Quartz Crystal Points in Clovis Technology	11
Exploring the Gross-Edge Curvature of Experimentally Produced Preferential Levallois Debitage	9
Final Pleistocene-Early Holocene (∼40–8 ka) Lithic Industries in Southern China and Their Implications for Understanding the Prehistory of Mainland Southeast Asia	9
Geochemical and Petrographic Analyses on Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Cherts from the Central Region of Mediterranean Iberia	8
Chasing Mirages: Seeking Standardization among Prehistoric Stone Tools	8
Projectile Point Stem Repairs: Some Examples from Southeastern South America	7
The Influence of Tool Morphology on Visual Attention During the Interaction with Lower Palaeolithic Stone Tools	7
Lithic residue analysis – a review and guide to techniques	7
Standardization of Nubian Levallois Technology in Dhofar, Southern Arabia	6
The Sound of Success in the Early Palaeolithic: Better Knapping is Brighter, Clearer and More Attention Grabbing	6
Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards: Evaluating the Roe Handaxe Methodology in the Twenty-first Century and the Introduction of a New ‘Roe-type’ Index	6
Uniformity and Diversity in Handaxe Shape at the End of the Acheulean in Southwest Asia	6
Description, Morphometrics, and Microwear of Two Paleoindian Fluted Points from Nebraska and Illinois	6
Nice and Oval: Early Upper Paleolithic Bifaces from IVb Cultural Layer of Kostenki 14	6
New Evidence of Grinding Activities in Patagonian Steppe during the Late Holocene (ca. 2000 Years BP): the Laguna Azul Site (Somuncurá Plateau, Río Negro Province, Argentina)	5
Morphological Variability in Micoquian Convergent Tools: A Case Study in Mezmaiskaya Cave, Northwestern Caucasus	5
Functional Perspectives on Lithic Standardization	5
Analyzing skill in lithic dispersions using width, thickness and width-by-thickness ratio	4
Early Evidence of Atlatl Use in the Titicaca Basin: A Lithic, Microwear, and Typological Analysis	4
Reduction Sequences During the Hoabinhian Technocomplex in Cambodia and Thailand: A New Knapping Strategy in Southeast Asia from the Terminal Upper Pleistocene to mid Holocene	4
First Evidence for Adhesive and Composite-tool Use During the Upper Palaeolithic in South China	4
Morphometric Characterization of Denticulate Edged Tools from the Northern Coast of the Santa Cruz Province, Argentine Patagonia	4

Variable Perspectives on “ Standardization in the Stone Age ”	4
Introducing Pandado: a newly discovered Acheulean site in the central Narmada Valley (CNV), India	4
Characteristics of Lithic Sound to Assess a Rock’s Predictability of Flaking	4
How Surprising are Lithic Reduction Strategies? The Information Entropy of the Modes A-I Framework	4
A Simple Experiment Challenges the Inference that Macro-fractures on Chipped-stone Tools are Clear Evidence of High-Velocity Impacts	3
Experimental Investigation of Knapping Characteristics of Dolerite and Implications for the Interpretation of Middle Stone Age Technologies	3
Skill and Core Uniformity: An Experiment with Oldowan-like Flaking Systems	3
Description, Microwear, and Morphometrics of Clovis and Possible-Clovis Lithic Artifacts from the Kasten Site, Erie County, Ohio, USA	3
Heat Treatment of Chert in the Early Mesolithic at Rottenburg-Siebenlinden (Southwest Germany)	3
Middle Holocene Lithic Technological Organization and Upland Land Use in the Upper Susitna River Basin, Alaska	3
Recycling and Implications for Neanderthal Productive Strategies in the Stratigraphic Unit viii of the El Salt Rockshelter (Alcoi, Eastern Iberia)	3
The Knapping of Quartz Crystals during the Later Stone Age at Matupi Cave, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo	3