OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Anthropological Archaeology is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Corrigendum to “A collaborative synthetic view of migration in archaeology: Addressing challenges for policymakers” [J. Anthropol. Archaeol. 78 (2025) 101667]	24
Marks on the floor. Instant and memory in the foundation of an agro-pastoralist place in the Puna high desert, Northwest Argentina (ca. 1500 BP)	21
The materiality and temporality of St. Lawrence Iroquoian incorporation in late precolonial northern Iroquoia	19
Collapse, complexity, and caprines: Zooarchaeological investigations of the Hittite state and its afters	17
Superpositions and superimpositions in rock art studies: Reading the rock face at Pundawar Manbur, Kimberley, northwest Australia	16
Editorial Board	16
JAA and Archaeology: A forty year odyssey	16
Later stone age herd management strategies in western South Africa: Evaluating sheep demographics and faunal composition	16
Editorial Board	15
Stone tools, techniques, and spaces for the pottery chaîne opératoire. The case of the pottery workshop of Gird-i Bazar (c. 1200–800 BC) in the Autonomous region of Kurdistan, Iraq	15
Editorial Board	13
Remote sensing evidence for third millennium BCE urban form and hydrology at the Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba, Iraq)	13
Regional household variation and inequality across the Maya landscape	13
The evolution of agro-urbanism: A case study from Angkor, Cambodia	13
Constructing a borderlands in the ancient international four corners: Settlement layout, architecture, and mortuary practices in thirteenth through fifteenth century CE villages along the contemporary	13
Wool they, won’t they: Zooarchaeological perspectives on the political and subsistence economies of wool in northern Mesopotamia	12
Small-scale bone working in a complex economy: The Daxinzhuang worked bone assemblage	12
Emplacement and path dependence in the American Midsouth	12
Collective action and shellfish harvesting practices among Late Archaic villagers of the South Atlantic Bight	12
Violence as a lens to Viking societies: A comparison of Norway and Denmark	11
Reconsidering narratives of household social inequality	11
Archaeologies of people and space: Social network analysis of communities and neighborhoods in spatial context	11
Meaningful choices and relational networks: Analysing western Arnhem Land’s Painted Hand rock art style using chaîne opératoire	11
The Leilatepe phenomenon (3900–3600 cal. BCE): A ‘Middle Ground’ between the Near East and the Caucasus	11
The grandeur of death – Monuments, societies, and diets in middle Neolithic Paris Basin	10

Losing liminality: Turner’s theory of transition in the funerary archaeology of Prepalatial Crete	10
Mapping human mobility and analyzing spatial memory: palimpsest landscapes of movement in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia	10
Cultural transmission and perception of vessel shapes among Hebron potters	10
Archaeology and pre-Hispanic mining rituals in the south-central Andes (Puna of Salta, Northwestern Argentina)	10
Household lake exploitation and aquatic lifeways in postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico	10
On the monumentality of ditches	10
Points of contention: Tradition, resistance, and arrow points in the California missions	9
Literal niche construction: Built environments of hunter-gatherers and hunting architecture	9
In search of the origin of inequalities: Gender study and variability of social organization in the first farmers societies of western Europe (Linearbandkeramik culture)	9
The city as dissipative structure: The flow of agricultural production in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia	9
“We always remember for whom we make a tandyr”. Ethnoarchaeological research on tandyrs in southern Kyrgyzstan	8
Maize consumption out of the production areas in southern South America (Norpatagonia, Argentina): Occasional production, foreigner consumers, or exchange?	8
Mobility, site maintenance and archaeological formation processes: An ethnoarchaeological perspective	8
Blood symbolism at the root of symbolic culture? African hunter-gatherer perspectives	8
Moving in and moving out: Explaining final Pleistocene-Early Holocene hunter-gatherer population dynamics on the Korean Peninsula	8
Mapping the middle ground between foragers and farmers	8
Rethinking agency in hiri exchange relationships on Papua New Guinea’s south coast: Oral traditions and archaeology	8
Classic Maya deity concurrence: Brides, gods, and inter-dynastic ritual exchange	8
Making places in the world: An ethnographic review and archaeologic perspective on hunter-gatherer relationships with trees	8
The one-eyed Elder woman stitches an ornament: Needles, needle cases, and women from the Iamal-Nenets region of Arctic Siberia	8
Introduction: Alcohol, rituals, and politics in the ancient world	7
Red beer consumption and elite utensils: The emergence of competitive feasting in the Yangshao culture, North China	7
Sociopolitical evolution, population clustering, and technology among early sedentary communities in northeastern Andes, Colombia	7
The rise of idiôtês: Micro-politics of death and community reproduction in Bronze Age Hungary	7
Archaeologiques of sight: The visual world fosters the engagement between doing, seeing, and thinking	7
The politics of provincial site planning and the architectural evolution of the Inka administrative center of Turi, northern Chile	7
Actualistic butchery studies in zooarchaeology: Where we’ve been, where we are now, and where we want to go	7
The Agro-pastoralism debate in Central Eurasia: Arguments in favor of a nuanced perspective on socio-economy in archaeological context	6
“An instrument of grace”: Archaeological and ethnographic studies of homegardens in the American Neotropics	6
The day the music died: Making and playing bone wind instruments at La Real in Middle Horizon, Peru (600–1000 CE)	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
Estimating two key dimensions of cultural transmission from archaeological data	6
Fermented maize beverages as ritual offerings: Investigating elite drinking during Classic Maya period at Copan, Honduras	5
A performance test of archaeological similarity-based network inference using New Guinean ethnographic data	5
Growing up Gravettian: Bioarchaeological perspectives on adolescence in the European Mid-Upper Paleolithic	5
A new approach to population: Using multiple measures to estimate the population of a protohistoric village in the western Great Lakes region, USA	5
Marra philosophies of stone, and the stone artefacts of Walanjiwurru 1 rockshelter, Marra Country, northern Australia	5
Between the patio group and the plaza: Round platforms as stages for supra-household rituals in early Maya society	5
From space to Place: The making of temples	5
Surf & Turf: The role of intensification and surplus production in the development of social complexity in coastal vs terrestrial habitats	5
Being-with other predators: Cultural negotiations of Neanderthal-carnivore relationships in Late Pleistocene Europe	5
Earth construction from past to present: Initial results of the ethnoarchaeological program in the Gobaad Basin (Republic of Djibouti, Dikhil region)	5
The bow and arrow, population, environment, and seeds: Intensification in southwest Wyoming	5
Tumplines, baskets, and heavy burden? Interdisciplinary approach to load carrying in Bronze Age Abu Fatima, Sudan	5
Postclassic Maya population recovery and rural resilience in the aftermath of collapse in northern Yucatan	5
How many people lived in the world’s earliest villages? Reconsidering community size and population pressure at Neolithic Çatalhöyük	4
The Broad-Spectrum Revolution at 50: Increasing dietary diversity reflects the heterogeneity of domesticated landscapes	4
Editorial Board	4
Response to Germonpré et al. “Some comments on ‘Friend or Foe? Large canid remains from Pavlovian sites and their archaeozoological context’, a paper by Wilczyński et al. (2020)”	4
Traditional adhesive production systems in Zambia and their archaeological implications	4

Geophysics elucidate long-term socio-ecological dynamics of foraging, pastoralism, and mixed subsistence strategies on SW Madagascar	4
Environment, climate and people: Exploring human responses to climate change	4
Celts, Slabs, and Space: Organisation of lithic reduction strategies in Tamil Nadu, India	4
Keeping count: On interpreting record keeping in prehistory	4
Land use, climate change and ‘boom-bust’ sequences in agricultural landscapes: Interdisciplinary perspectives from the Peloponnese (Greece)	4
Animals of the Serranía de la Lindosa: Exploring representation and categorisation in the rock art and zooarchaeological remains of the Colombian Amazon	4
Geophyte field processing, storage, and women’s decision-making in hunter-gatherer societies: An archaeological case study from western North America	4
Late Maritime Woodland period hunter-fisher-gatherer complexity in the Far Northeast: Toward an historical and contingent approach	4
Protein metabolism and the archaeological record: Implications for ancient subsistence strategies	4
Deposition analysis and the hidden life of Bronze Age houses	4
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	4
Predynastic beer production, distribution, and consumption at Hierakonpolis, Egypt	4
Understanding multi-sited early village communities of the American Southeast through categorical identities and relational connections	4
Translocal identity construction among Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in northwestern China	4