OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Anthropological Archaeology is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Leilatepe phenomenon (3900–3600 cal. BCE): A ‘Middle Ground’ between the Near East and the Caucasus	33
Materiality of forager food insecurity in the archaeological record: A case study from the central Canadian Boreal Forest, ∼1100–1300 CE	32
Blood symbolism at the root of symbolic culture? African hunter-gatherer perspectives	22
Contrasting strategies: Social organization and interaction in the Early Bronze Age of northwestern Scandinavia	21
Collapse, complexity, and caprines: Zooarchaeological investigations of the Hittite state and its afters	19
Maize consumption out of the production areas in southern South America (Norpatagonia, Argentina): Occasional production, foreigner consumers, or exchange?	16
Mold-making technology at architectural compound 60 (CA-60): A newly discovered ceramic workshop at Huacas de Moche, Peru	16
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	15
Sociopolitical evolution, population clustering, and technology among early sedentary communities in northeastern Andes, Colombia	15
Remote sensing evidence for third millennium BCE urban form and hydrology at the Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba, Iraq)	15
Between the patio group and the plaza: Round platforms as stages for supra-household rituals in early Maya society	14
Geophysics elucidate long-term socio-ecological dynamics of foraging, pastoralism, and mixed subsistence strategies on SW Madagascar	14
The land of the last hunter-gatherer groups in the Ebro basin: Forgers of their own destiny	14
Color as a key characteristic in the terminal pleistocene fluted-point-period lithic economy in northeastern North America	13
From space to Place: The making of temples	12
Animals of the Serranía de la Lindosa: Exploring representation and categorisation in the rock art and zooarchaeological remains of the Colombian Amazon	12
Editorial Board	11
Deposition analysis and the hidden life of Bronze Age houses	11
Translocal identity construction among Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in northwestern China	11
Valencina: A copper age polity	11
Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650–1550): A multi-method chemical and petrographic approach	10
Diaspora, tradition, and progress: Archaeology of Alexandria, Virginia’s German Jewish community	10
Kinship as social strategy: A contextual biodistance analysis of the Early Mycenaean Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery, southern Greece	10
Understanding the intersection of Rapid climate change and subsistence Practices: An isotopic perspective from a Mediterranean Bell Beaker case study	10
Forager and food producer interrelationships in the zooarchaeological record: Lessons from Central Africa	9

Sociological landscape and evolutionary phenomena: a technological approach to the Neolithic southern Levant ceramic assemblages	9
Commodification of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in 17th century southern New England	9
Τhe domestication of southwest Asian ‘farmyard animals’: Possible insights from management of feral and free-range relatives in Greece	9
Extraction strategies and technological tradition at late pre-Hispanic quarries, southern Peru (ca. 1000–1532 CE)	9
Ancestral commons theorized: The entanglement of cosmology, community and landscape use in Bronze Age Northern Europe	9
The tapir in the room: Ancient Maya storage architecture	8
Revisiting cremation practices of the Pastoral Neolithic in Kenya	8
Painting personhood: Red pigment practices in southern Peru	8
Cranial injuries as evidence for violent conflict during the Gallinazo Phase in the Moche Valley of North Coastal Peru	8
The politics of provincial site planning and the architectural evolution of the Inka administrative center of Turi, northern Chile	7
The social dynamics of settling down	7
Demographic transitions, health, and population crises in the postcontact Western Hemisphere	7
Reconsidering narratives of household social inequality	7
Mapping human mobility and analyzing spatial memory: palimpsest landscapes of movement in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia	7
Considering the invisible in architecture: The contribution of traditional architecture to the study of pre-Hispanic mounds in the north-Andean region of Ecuador	7
Pastoral Workshops? Rethinking Iron Age bone production in the Eastern Tianshan region	7
Reconstructing and testing neighborhoods at the Maya city of Caracol, Belize	7
Economy, sharing strategies and community structure in the early Neolithic village of Chahai, Northeast China	7
Violence as a lens to Viking societies: A comparison of Norway and Denmark	7
Estimating two key dimensions of cultural transmission from archaeological data	7
The Empire Builders: A multi-isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains from the Llullaillaco volcano cemetery (Salta, Argentina)	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
Complicated endings: Household-based foodways and the demise of Early Bronze Age urban society in the southern Levant	7
Culinary chronicles of ancient Ebla: A multidisciplinary exploration of diet, nutrition, and health in a 3rd millennium BCE Syrian civilization	7
Regional household variation and inequality across the Maya landscape	7
Migration and state expansion: Archaeological and biochemical evidence from Pataraya, a wari outpost in Nasca, Peru (A.D. 650–1000)	6
Opting in and opting out of (proto-)urbanism: the Integration and disintegration of Hamoukar during the Late Chalcolithic 1 and 2 periods (4500–3900 BCE)	6
Editorial Board	6
Celts, Slabs, and Space: Organisation of lithic reduction strategies in Tamil Nadu, India	6
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	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
“An instrument of grace”: Archaeological and ethnographic studies of homegardens in the American Neotropics	6
Editorial Board	6
The Archaeology of Musical Bamboos: Native Bamboos and Pre-Hispanic Flutes on the Andean Altiplano around Lake Titicaca (A First Approximation)	6
A performance test of archaeological similarity-based network inference using New Guinean ethnographic data	6