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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Sociopolitical evolution, population clustering, and technology among early sedentary communities in northeastern Andes, Colombia	32
The Leilatepe phenomenon (3900–3600 cal. BCE): A ‘Middle Ground’ between the Near East and the Caucasus	28
Mold-making technology at architectural compound 60 (CA-60): A newly discovered ceramic workshop at Huacas de Moche, Peru	21
Blood symbolism at the root of symbolic culture? African hunter-gatherer perspectives	19
Contrasting strategies: Social organization and interaction in the Early Bronze Age of northwestern Scandinavia	16
Materiality of forager food insecurity in the archaeological record: A case study from the central Canadian Boreal Forest, ∼1100–1300 CE	15
Introduction: Alcohol, rituals, and politics in the ancient world	14
Collapse, complexity, and caprines: Zooarchaeological investigations of the Hittite state and its afters	14
Deposition analysis and the hidden life of Bronze Age houses	13
Remote sensing evidence for third millennium BCE urban form and hydrology at the Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba, Iraq)	13
Valencina: A copper age polity	13
Maize consumption out of the production areas in southern South America (Norpatagonia, Argentina): Occasional production, foreigner consumers, or exchange?	13
The land of the last hunter-gatherer groups in the Ebro basin: Forgers of their own destiny	12
Between the patio group and the plaza: Round platforms as stages for supra-household rituals in early Maya society	12
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	12
Toward a quantitative history of ancient Israel: Burials as a test case	12
From space to Place: The making of temples	11
Geophysics elucidate long-term socio-ecological dynamics of foraging, pastoralism, and mixed subsistence strategies on SW Madagascar	11
Color as a key characteristic in the terminal pleistocene fluted-point-period lithic economy in northeastern North America	11
Translocal identity construction among Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in northwestern China	11
Looking back, looking forward: Resilience and persistence in a Klamath tribal community	10
Kinship as social strategy: A contextual biodistance analysis of the Early Mycenaean Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery, southern Greece	10
Animals of the Serranía de la Lindosa: Exploring representation and categorisation in the rock art and zooarchaeological remains of the Colombian Amazon	10
Understanding the intersection of Rapid climate change and subsistence Practices: An isotopic perspective from a Mediterranean Bell Beaker case study	9
Editorial Board	9

Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650–1550): A multi-method chemical and petrographic approach	9
Ancestral commons theorized: The entanglement of cosmology, community and landscape use in Bronze Age Northern Europe	9
Diaspora, tradition, and progress: Archaeology of Alexandria, Virginia’s German Jewish community	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	8
Painting personhood: Red pigment practices in southern Peru	8
Extraction strategies and technological tradition at late pre-Hispanic quarries, southern Peru (ca. 1000–1532 CE)	8
Sociological landscape and evolutionary phenomena: a technological approach to the Neolithic southern Levant ceramic assemblages	8
Forager and food producer interrelationships in the zooarchaeological record: Lessons from Central Africa	8
Forager mobility, landscape learning and the peopling of Late Pleistocene North America	8
Traction in Neolithic Çatalhöyük? Palaeopathological analysis of cattle and aurochs remains from the East and West Mounds	7
Cranial injuries as evidence for violent conflict during the Gallinazo Phase in the Moche Valley of North Coastal Peru	7
Reconstructing and testing neighborhoods at the Maya city of Caracol, Belize	7
The social dynamics of settling down	7
Demographic transitions, health, and population crises in the postcontact Western Hemisphere	7
Revisiting cremation practices of the Pastoral Neolithic in Kenya	7
Urban structure, spatial equilibrium, and social inequality at Ancient Teotihuacan	7
The tapir in the room: Ancient Maya storage architecture	7
Economy, sharing strategies and community structure in the early Neolithic village of Chahai, Northeast China	6
Regional household variation and inequality across the Maya landscape	6
Reconsidering narratives of household social inequality	6
Culinary chronicles of ancient Ebla: A multidisciplinary exploration of diet, nutrition, and health in a 3rd millennium BCE Syrian civilization	6
Celts, Slabs, and Space: Organisation of lithic reduction strategies in Tamil Nadu, India	6
The Empire Builders: A multi-isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains from the Llullaillaco volcano cemetery (Salta, Argentina)	6
The politics of provincial site planning and the architectural evolution of the Inka administrative center of Turi, northern Chile	6
Meaningful choices and relational networks: Analysing western Arnhem Land’s Painted Hand rock art style using chaîne opératoire	6
Violence as a lens to Viking societies: A comparison of Norway and Denmark	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
A performance test of archaeological similarity-based network inference using New Guinean ethnographic data	6
Estimating two key dimensions of cultural transmission from archaeological data	6
Mapping human mobility and analyzing spatial memory: palimpsest landscapes of movement in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia	6
Complicated endings: Household-based foodways and the demise of Early Bronze Age urban society in the southern Levant	6
Editorial Board	6
“An instrument of grace”: Archaeological and ethnographic studies of homegardens in the American Neotropics	6
Editorial Board	5
Plant use and peasant politics under Inka and Spanish rule at Ollantaytambo, Peru	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
Societal segmentation and early urbanism in Mesopotamia: Biological distance analysis from Tell Brak using dental morphology	5
Migration and state expansion: Archaeological and biochemical evidence from Pataraya, a wari outpost in Nasca, Peru (A.D. 650–1000)	5
Cultural macroevolution in the middle to late Holocene Arctic of east Siberia and north America	5
Diet, economy, and culinary practices at the height of precolonial Swahili urbanism	5
Just scratching the surface: Post-fire engravings as semasiographic writing in the ancient Andes	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
Past maize consumption correlates with population change in Central Western Argentina	5
Home, hearth, and housekeeping: Alternative methods for detecting migrants in the Wari Empire, Peru	5
Hunting to herding on the Andean Altiplano: Zooarchaeological insights into Archaic Period subsistence in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru (9.0–3.5 ka)	5
Daily life in a New Kingdom fortress town in Nubia: A reexamination of physical activity at Tombos	5
Palynological studies shed new light on the Neolithisation process in central Europe	5
‘Braiding Knowledge’ about the peopling of the River Murray (Rinta) in South Australia: Ancestral narratives, geomorphological interpretations and archaeological evidence	5
Editorial Board	5

Transformations in the roles of men, women, and children in the ceramic industry at Early Bronze Age Hama, Syria and contemporary sites	5
The Archaeology of Musical Bamboos: Native Bamboos and Pre-Hispanic Flutes on the Andean Altiplano around Lake Titicaca (A First Approximation)	5