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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Excising culture history from contemporary archaeology	33
An institutional approach for archaeology	30
The transition to a barley-dominant cultivation system in Tibet: First millennium BC archaeobotanical evidence from Bangga	27
Ancient Maya water management, agriculture, and society in the area of Chactún, Campeche, Mexico	24
Gardens on the coast: Considerations on food production by Brazilian shellmound builders	21
Top-down and bottom-up water management: A diachronic model of changing water management strategies at Angkor, Cambodia	21
Pastoralism, climate change, and the transformation of the Indus Civilization in Gujarat: Faunal analyses and biogenic isotopes	20
Communal drinking rituals and social formations in the Yellow River valley of Neolithic China	19
The importance of large prey animals during the Pleistocene and the implications of their extinction on the use of dietary ethnographic analogies	18
Beyond arrows on a map: The dynamics of Homo sapiens dispersal and occupation of Arabia during Marine Isotope Stage 5	17
New excavations in the MNK Skull site, and the last appearance of the Oldowan and Homo habilis at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania	16
Domesticated landscapes of the neotropics: Isotope signatures of human-animal relationships in pre-Columbian Panama	16
Landscape management and polyculture in the ancient gardens and fields at Joya de Cerén, El Salvador	16
Carnivores in the everyday life of Gravettian hunters-gatherers in Central Europe	15
The origin and use of shell bead money in California	15
Wealth-on-the-hoof and the low-power state: Caprines as capital in early Mesopotamia	15
Hunting dogs down under? On the Aboriginal use of tame dingoes in dietary game acquisition and its relevance to Australian prehistory	13
Earliest archaeological evidence for domesticated reindeer economy among the Sámi of Northeastern Fennoscandia AD 1300 onwards	13
Being-with other predators: Cultural negotiations of Neanderthal-carnivore relationships in Late Pleistocene Europe	12
Consuming Kero: Molle Beer and Wari social identity in Andean Peru	12
Investigating pre-Hispanic scarlet macaw origins through radiogenic strontium isotope analysis at Paquimé in Chihuahua, Mexico	12
The social dynamics of settling down	12
Walnuts, salmon and sika deer: Exploring the evolution and diversification of Jōmon “culinary” traditions in prehistoric Hokkaidō	12
Episodic complexity and the emergence of a coastal kingdom: Climate, cooperation, and coercion in Southwest Florida	12
Resilience and vulnerability to climate change in the Greek Dark Ages	12

Radiocarbon data may support a Malthus-Boserup model of hunter-gatherer population expansion	11
Friend or foe? Large canid remains from Pavlovian sites and their archaeozoological context	11
Taking the high ground: A model for lowland Maya settlement patterns	11
Literal niche construction: Built environments of hunter-gatherers and hunting architecture	11
The Paleolithic of the Iranian Plateau: Hominin occupation history and implications for human dispersals across southern Asia	11
Malthusian cycles among semi-sedentary Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers: The socio-economic and demographic history of Housepit 54, Bridge River site, British Columbia	10
Rethinking the emergence of bone grease procurement	10
Salt as a commodity or money in the Classic Maya economy	10
Violence among the first horticulturists in the atacama desert (1000 BCE – 600 CE)	10
Post-marital residence patterns in LBK: Comparison of different models	10
Between land and water: Hydraulic engineering in the Tlalixcoyan basin, Veracruz, Mexico	10
North and South in the ancient Central Andes: Contextualizing the archaeological record with evidence from linguistics and molecular anthropology	10
Pottery, practice, and place: A communities of practice approach to commoner interaction in the Late to Terminal Classic Belize River Valley	9
Migration, violence, and the “other”: A biogeochemical approach to identity-based violence in the Epiclassic Basin of Mexico	9
A zooarchaeological history of the Neolithic occupations at Franchthi Cave and paralia in southern Greece	9
Hunter-gatherer children in the past: An archaeological review	9
From local to regional and back again: Social transformation in a Coast Salish settlement, 1500–1000 BP	9
Red beer consumption and elite utensils: The emergence of competitive feasting in the Yangshao culture, North China	9
Social signatures in standardized ceramic production – A 3-D approach to ethnographic data	9
Residential patterns of Mexica human sacrifices at Mexico-Tenochtitlan and Mexico-Tlatelolco: Evidence from phosphate oxygen isotopes	9
Environment, climate and people: Exploring human responses to climate change	9
Wealth inequality, social stratification, and the built environment in Late Prehispanic Highland Mexico: A comparative analysis with special emphasis on Tlaxcallan	8
Diachronic trends in occupation intensity of the Epipaleolithic site of Neve David (Mount Carmel, Israel): A lithic perspective	8
A place for archaeology in the study of money, finance, and debt	8
Multi-centric, Marsh-based Urbanism at the early Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba, Iraq)	8
The evolution of agro-urbanism: A case study from Angkor, Cambodia	8
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)	8
Long-term economic change: Craft extensification in the Mesoamerican cotton textile industry	8
Endowment, investment, and the transforming coast: Long-term human-environment interactions and territorial proprietorship in the Prince Rupert Harbour, Canada	8
Isotopic proveniencing at Classic Copan and in the southern periphery of the Maya Area: A new perspective on multi-ethnic society	7
“Proposing a toast” from the first urban center in the north Loess Plateau, China: Alcoholic beverages at Shimao	7
Pitted ware culture: Isotopic evidence for contact between Sweden and Denmark across the Kattegat in the Middle Neolithic, ca. 3000 BC	7
Expedient lithic technology in complex sedentary societies: Use-wear, flake size, and edge angle on debitage from two ancient Maya sites	7
Domestic dogs and wild canids on the Northwest Coast of North America: Animal husbandry in a region without agriculture?	7
Cultural transmission and perception of vessel shapes among Hebron potters	7
Lithic technological organization of the “Elmenteitan” early herders in southern Kenya: Implications for mobility, exchange, and climatic resilience	7
The organization of production for Inka Polychrome pottery from Pachacamac, Peru	7
Archives of human-dog relationships: Genetic and stable isotope analysis of Arctic fur clothing	7
The collapse of Teotihuacan and the regeneration of Epiclassic societies: a Bayesian approach	7
Alcohol, ancestors, and the house: Exploring ritual use of beer at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso	7
Land use, climate change and ‘boom-bust’ sequences in agricultural landscapes: Interdisciplinary perspectives from the Peloponnese (Greece)	7
Mapping the middle ground between foragers and farmers	7
Sex/gender system and social hierarchization in Bell Beaker burials from Iberia	7
Urbanization in the eastern seaboard (Haidai) area of northern China: Perspectives from the late Neolithic site of Liangchengzhen	7
Is there Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Western Tian Shan? Example of an open-air site Katta Sai 2 (Uzbekistan)	7
Pottery technology as a revealer of cultural and symbolic shifts: Funerary and ritual practices in the Sion ‘Petit-Chasseur’ megalithic necropolis (3100–1600 BC, Western Switzerland)	7
Predynastic beer production, distribution, and consumption at Hierakonpolis, Egypt	7
Debt and inequality: Comparing the “means of specification” in the early cities of Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization	7
Revelatory locales: The ritual reuse of a Late Archaic shell ring in South Carolina	6
Human adaptation to Holocene environments: Perspectives and promise from China	6

Past maize consumption correlates with population change in Central Western Argentina	6
Household garden plant agency in the creation of Classic Maya social identities	6
Assembling the early expansionary state: Wari and the southern Peruvian coast	6
Diet, economy, and culinary practices at the height of precolonial Swahili urbanism	6
Inebriation and the early state: Beer and the politics of affect in Mesopotamia	6
Space making and home making in the world’s first villages: Reconsidering the circular to rectangular architectural transition in the Central Anatolian Neolithic	6
Rethinking the Estero Island Site: A possible satellite village of Mound Key	6
Did the use of bone flakes precede the use of knapped stone flakes in hominin meat processing and could this be detectable archaeologically?	6
Life, death, and the destruction of architecture: Hunter-gatherer mortuary behaviors in prehistoric Jordan	6
Ancient DNA studies: Use of ethnonyms and collaborative research in South America	6
Looking into Upper Paleolithic gear: The potential of an integrated techno-economic approach	6
Human remains, context, and place of origin for the Salme, Estonia, boat burials	6
Influential landscapes: Temporal trends in the agricultural use of rejolladas at Tahcabo, Yucatán, Mexico	6
Crafting power: New perspectives on the political economy of southern Africa, AD 900–1300	6