OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Anthropological Archaeology is 5. 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
The Leilatepe phenomenon (3900–3600 cal. BCE): A ‘Middle Ground’ between the Near East and the Caucasus	25
The evolution of agro-urbanism: A case study from Angkor, Cambodia	24
Remote sensing evidence for third millennium BCE urban form and hydrology at the Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba, Iraq)	24
Sociopolitical evolution, population clustering, and technology among early sedentary communities in northeastern Andes, Colombia	20
Collapse, complexity, and caprines: Zooarchaeological investigations of the Hittite state and its afters	19
Points of contention: Tradition, resistance, and arrow points in the California missions	19
Maize consumption out of the production areas in southern South America (Norpatagonia, Argentina): Occasional production, foreigner consumers, or exchange?	18
Introduction: Alcohol, rituals, and politics in the ancient world	18
Blood symbolism at the root of symbolic culture? African hunter-gatherer perspectives	18
Mold-making technology at architectural compound 60 (CA-60): A newly discovered ceramic workshop at Huacas de Moche, Peru	17
Toward a quantitative history of ancient Israel: Burials as a test case	15
From space to Place: The making of temples	14
Deposition analysis and the hidden life of Bronze Age houses	14
Keeping count: On interpreting record keeping in prehistory	14
Between the patio group and the plaza: Round platforms as stages for supra-household rituals in early Maya society	14
From Hangovers to Hierarchies: Beer production and use during the Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant – New evidence from Tel Tsaf and Peqi‘in Cave	14
Animals of the Serranía de la Lindosa: Exploring representation and categorisation in the rock art and zooarchaeological remains of the Colombian Amazon	13
Late Holocene tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) resource depression and distant patch use in central California: Faunal and isotopic evidence from King Brown and the Emeryville Shellmound	13
Color as a key characteristic in the terminal pleistocene fluted-point-period lithic economy in northeastern North America	13
Geophysics elucidate long-term socio-ecological dynamics of foraging, pastoralism, and mixed subsistence strategies on SW Madagascar	13
The land of the last hunter-gatherer groups in the Ebro basin: Forgers of their own destiny	13
Valencina: A copper age polity	13
Translocal identity construction among Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in northwestern China	12
Kinship as social strategy: A contextual biodistance analysis of the Early Mycenaean Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery, southern Greece	12
Imitation games: The exchange and emulation of fine orange pottery in central Chiapas, Mexico	11

Looking back, looking forward: Resilience and persistence in a Klamath tribal community	11
Understanding the intersection of Rapid climate change and subsistence Practices: An isotopic perspective from a Mediterranean Bell Beaker case study	11
Forager and food producer interrelationships in the zooarchaeological record: Lessons from Central Africa	11
Extraction strategies and technological tradition at late pre-Hispanic quarries, southern Peru (ca. 1000–1532 CE)	10
Violence among the first horticulturists in the atacama desert (1000 BCE – 600 CE)	10
Editorial Board	10
Ancestral commons theorized: The entanglement of cosmology, community and landscape use in Bronze Age Northern Europe	10
Population collapse or human resilience in response to the 9.3 and 8.2 ka cooling events: A multi-proxy analysis of Mesolithic occupation in the Scheldt basin (Belgium)	10
Painting personhood: Red pigment practices in southern Peru	10
Diaspora, tradition, and progress: Archaeology of Alexandria, Virginia’s German Jewish community	10
Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650–1550): A multi-method chemical and petrographic approach	10
Editorial Board	9
Space making and home making in the world’s first villages: Reconsidering the circular to rectangular architectural transition in the Central Anatolian Neolithic	9
Revisiting cremation practices of the Pastoral Neolithic in Kenya	9
Τhe domestication of southwest Asian ‘farmyard animals’: Possible insights from management of feral and free-range relatives in Greece	9
The Pueblo Bonito mounds: Formation history, architectural context and representational fields	9
Cranial injuries as evidence for violent conflict during the Gallinazo Phase in the Moche Valley of North Coastal Peru	9
Collaboration, not competition: A geoarchaeological approach to the social context of the earliest pottery	9
Revelatory locales: The ritual reuse of a Late Archaic shell ring in South Carolina	9
The tapir in the room: Ancient Maya storage architecture	8
Forager mobility, landscape learning and the peopling of Late Pleistocene North America	8
The social dynamics of settling down	8
Reconstructing and testing neighborhoods at the Maya city of Caracol, Belize	8
Beer, ritual, and identity: Ethnoarchaeological and archaeological study in Konso, southern Ethiopia	8
Taking the high ground: A model for lowland Maya settlement patterns	8
Economy, sharing strategies and community structure in the early Neolithic village of Chahai, Northeast China	7
Demographic transitions, health, and population crises in the postcontact Western Hemisphere	7
Meaningful choices and relational networks: Analysing western Arnhem Land’s Painted Hand rock art style using chaîne opératoire	7
Traction in Neolithic Çatalhöyük? Palaeopathological analysis of cattle and aurochs remains from the East and West Mounds	7
Urban structure, spatial equilibrium, and social inequality at Ancient Teotihuacan	7
Household lake exploitation and aquatic lifeways in postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico	7
The politics of provincial site planning and the architectural evolution of the Inka administrative center of Turi, northern Chile	7
Urbanization in the eastern seaboard (Haidai) area of northern China: Perspectives from the late Neolithic site of Liangchengzhen	7
Editorial Board	7
Mapping human mobility and analyzing spatial memory: palimpsest landscapes of movement in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia	7
Violence as a lens to Viking societies: A comparison of Norway and Denmark	6
Celts, Slabs, and Space: Organisation of lithic reduction strategies in Tamil Nadu, India	6
A performance test of archaeological similarity-based network inference using New Guinean ethnographic data	6
“An instrument of grace”: Archaeological and ethnographic studies of homegardens in the American Neotropics	6
Culinary chronicles of ancient Ebla: A multidisciplinary exploration of diet, nutrition, and health in a 3rd millennium BCE Syrian civilization	6
Regional household variation and inequality across the Maya landscape	6
The bow and arrow, population, environment, and seeds: Intensification in southwest Wyoming	6
Reconsidering narratives of household social inequality	6
Estimating two key dimensions of cultural transmission from archaeological data	6
Craft Specialization in the Highland Longshan Society: Perspective from the Bone Needle Workshop on the Central Mound at the Shimao Site, Shaanxi, China	6
Ritual dispositions, enclosures, and the passing of time: A biographical perspective on the Winchester Farm earthwork in Central Kentucky, USA	6
Editorial Board	5
Palynological studies shed new light on the Neolithisation process in central Europe	5
Beyond arrows on a map: The dynamics of Homo sapiens dispersal and occupation of Arabia during Marine Isotope Stage 5	5
Dietary continuity and change at Panama Viejo from an interdisciplinary perspective, C. 600–1671	5

Editorial Board	5
Strategies of survival? Change, continuity and the adaptive cycle across the middle to early late bronze age at Tell el-Dabˁa, Egypt	5
Potters’ technological choices in turbulent times: Exploring the transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain through communities of practice and technological investme	5
“To hell with everything”: Post-war nationalism and the “Old Slavic Sanctuary” at Ptuj Castle, Slovenia	5
‘Braiding Knowledge’ about the peopling of the River Murray (Rinta) in South Australia: Ancestral narratives, geomorphological interpretations and archaeological evidence	5
An integrative examination of elk imagery in Middle Holocene Cis-Baikal, Siberia	5
Editorial Board	5
Past maize consumption correlates with population change in Central Western Argentina	5
Migration and state expansion: Archaeological and biochemical evidence from Pataraya, a wari outpost in Nasca, Peru (A.D. 650–1000)	5
Profiling the people behind clay figurines: Technological trace and fingerprint analysis applied to ancient Egypt (Lahun village, MBA II, c. 1800–1700 BC)	5
Societal segmentation and early urbanism in Mesopotamia: Biological distance analysis from Tell Brak using dental morphology	5
Cultural macroevolution in the middle to late Holocene Arctic of east Siberia and north America	5
Predynastic beer production, distribution, and consumption at Hierakonpolis, Egypt	5
The Archaeology of Musical Bamboos: Native Bamboos and Pre-Hispanic Flutes on the Andean Altiplano around Lake Titicaca (A First Approximation)	5
Alcohol, ancestors, and the house: Exploring ritual use of beer at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso	5
Transformations in the roles of men, women, and children in the ceramic industry at Early Bronze Age Hama, Syria and contemporary sites	5