OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Archaeological Science 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Frozen motion: Contextualizing wheel rut data within and beyond the Pompeiian street grid	95
Experimental assessment of the impact of food processing on δ15N values in dietary meat – Implications for paleodietary reconstruction	74
Bulk-bone ancient metagenomics reveals the transport of South Asian fish across the Himalayas in the 8th century CE	42
Mosaic pattern of sustained rice domestication and its environmental and cultural implications in Neolithic East China	41
Multi-proxy investigations of Bronze Age diet and environment in the hyper-arid eastern Tarim Basin (Lop Nur), northwest China	34
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Pollen analysis of neolithic adhesives and comparative experimental archaeology: Insights from La Marmotta (Lake Bracciano, Rome)	28
Micro-photogrammetry and traceology: new on-site documentation approaches using portable digital microscopes	28
Reconstructing feast provisioning at Halaf Domuztepe: Evidence from radiogenic strontium analyses	27
A burning question – Using an intelligent grey literature search engine to change our views on early medieval burial practices in the Netherlands	26
Measuring allometry in dimensions of western North American Clovis points	26
Cultural influences on the castration age of cattle in the northern Baltic Sea region during the medieval and post-medieval periods	25
Multi-proxy analyses reveal regional cremation practices and social status at the Late Bronze Age site of Herstal, Belgium	25
Assessing the predictive taxonomic power of the bony labyrinth 3D shape in horses, donkeys and their F1-hybrids	24
Ancient DNA sequence quality is independent of fish bone weight	22
The archaeometry of ochre sensu lato: A review	22
The relationship between inclusion/void orientation and speed in wheel-thrown pots	21
Earliest Neolithic occupation and maritime adaptation on the West Pacific coast	20
Age estimation of archeological populations using secondary dentin analysis	20
ATR-FTIR to distinguish Holocene fumier facies. A perspective from bone diagenesis at El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)	19
Identification of age at death in red deer (Cervus elaphus) through the upper dentition: Eruption pattern, wear stage and crown heights	19
Classification of Bovidae fossils from Gladysvale, South Africa using elastic shape analysis	18
New chronology of the deposits from the inner chambers of the Guanyindong cave, southwestern China	18
Unravelling ancient drilling techniques: A case of pottery repair in the Early European Neolithic	18
Crafting illusions: Human-made composite coating used to simulate amber beads in prehistoric Iberia	18

Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data	18
Trade, recycling and mixing in local metal management strategies of the later Bronze Age south Carpathian Basin: Lead isotope and chemical analyses of hoarded metalwork	18
Deciphering ancient ‘recipes’ from charred cereal fragments: An integrated methodological approach using experimental, ethnographic and archaeological evidence	17
Model for ancient Greek and Roman coinage production	17
Moated site object detection using time series satellite imagery and an improved deep learning model in northeast Thailand	15
Deep learning-based detection of qanat underground water distribution systems using HEXAGON spy satellite imagery	15
Earthen architecture in the Mesoamerican classic period: A micromorphological approach to its manufacture process	14
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In a nutshell: Using structural and chemical changes to establish the charring conditions of archaeological hazelnut shells	14
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Experiments suggest rockfall an improbable cause for bone surface modification on 24,000-year-old bone at Bluefish Caves, Canada	14
Tin isotopes reveal changing patterns of tin trade, connectivity and consumption from Anatolia and Central Asia at Kültepe	14
A new method for the energetics analysis of polygonal masonry in Samnite hillforts (Italy)	14
Multiregional Pb isotopic linear patterns and diagenesis: Isotopes from ancient animal enamel show Native American “foreign war trophies” are local ancestors	13
A Bayesian networks approach to infer social changes from burials in northeastern Taiwan during the European colonization period	13
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Dunes, death, and datasets: Modelling funerary monument construction in remote arid landscapes using spaceborne stereo imagery	13
Architecture, wealth and status in Classic Maya urbanism revealed by airborne lidar mapping	13
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An FTIR-based model for the diagenetic alteration of archaeological bones	12
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Discriminating dietary behaviour between wild and domestic goats using dental microwear texture: first results from a modern reference set and early Neolithic goat exploitation in the southern Levant	12
Sorting the flock: Quantitative identification of sheep and goat from isolated third lower molars and mandibles through geometric morphometrics	12
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Cranial suture obliteration patterns as an ageing method for dog crania	12
Overkill and the North American archaeological record—not guilty by association? A comment on Wolfe and Broughton (2020)	12
Shanidar et ses fleurs? Reflections on the palynology of the Neanderthal ‘Flower Burial’ hypothesis	11
Bayesian mixing models as a tool to explore Bronze Age bitumen trade from Tell Lashkir (Erbil, Iraq)	11
Archaeological investigation of burials preluded by ground penetrating radar and geospatial technologies	11
Forensic toxicology backdates the use of coca plant (Erythroxylum spp.) in Europe to the early 1600s	11
Understanding Roman Gold Coinage Inside Out	11
Implementation of Red Ochre in Sinopia: Non-invasive characterization of the invisible frescos beneath Roman and Byzantine mosaics in Judea	11
Applying a mask R-CNN machine learning algorithm for segmenting electron microscope images of ceramic bronze-casting moulds	11
A method for defining dispersed community territories	11
Antlers far and wide: Biomolecular identification of Scandinavian hair combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720–900 CE	11
Developments in chemical and biological detection of organic additives in Chinese historic mortar: A review	11
Temporal and spatial patterns of domestic horse utilisation in northern China during the pre-Qin period	11
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Multiple luminescence dating on heated materials at the nanzuo archaeological site, central Chinese Loess Plateau	10
Portable ED-XRF as a tool for optimizing sampling strategy: The case study of a Hellenistic amphora assemblage from Paphos (Cyprus)	10
Exotic glass types and the intensity of recycling in the northwest Quarter of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)	10
Permanent signatures of birth and nursing initiation are chemically recorded in teeth	10
A new method for examining maritime mobility of direct crossings with contrary prevailing winds in the Mediterranean during antiquity	10
Trace element ratios in tooth enamel as palaeodietary indicators of seaweed consumption and coastal grazing, and their broader applicability	10
Time of occurrence and width of accentuated lines in the enamel of primary incisors from mediaeval skeletal remains from north-central Poland: A further contribution to the explanation of early childh	10
Visions of light: New reconstruction techniques of photometric data and visual perception inside Etruscan painted tombs	10
Locating submerged prehistoric settlements: A new underwater survey method using water-jet coring and micro-geoarchaeological techniques	10
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A safely green treatment of bio-deteriorated painted archaeological papyri by Wasabi	10
Zooarchaeological and ancient DNA identification of a non-local gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	9

Combining ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating data to increase chronological accuracy	9
Hormones and bile acids as biomarkers for the characterization of animal management in prehistoric sheepfold caves: El Mirador case (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)	9
Coupled archaeological and ecological analyses reveal ancient cultivation and land use in Nuchatlaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) territories, Pacific Northwest	9
Ancient mitochondrial genome reveals matrilineal genetic inheritance of Chinese goats	9
Unraveling Neolithic sharp-blunt cranial trauma: Experimental approach through synthetic analogues	9
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Corrigendum to “Ancient DNA analysis of a nineteenth century tobacco pipe from a Maryland slave quarter” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 105 (2019) 11–18]	9
Material characterization uncovers sophisticated mould-making techniques of the middle-Shang period (14th-13th BCE)	9
A deep variational convolutional Autoencoder for unsupervised features extraction of ceramic profiles. A case study from central Italy	9
Speiss at Amarna (Egypt, c. 1353–1336 BCE) – Exotic anachronism or cherished commodity?	9
A large-scale Sr and Nd isotope baseline for archaeological provenance in Silk Road regions and its application to plant-ash glass	9
Neolithic to Bronze Age economy and animal management revealed using analyses lipid residues of pottery vessels and faunal remains at El Portalón de Cueva Mayor (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)	9
Population dynamics in the Middle Ages in Central Europe: Reconstruction based on age-at-death distributions of skeletal samples	9
Provenancing wood used in the Norse Greenlandic settlements: A biogeochemical study using hydrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotopes	9
87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios in trees as an archaeological tracer: Limitations of linking plant-biomass and bedrock Sr isotope signatures	9
Integration of animal husbandry and millet agriculture in Bronze Age East-central Eurasia revealed by faunal stable isotopes at the Jirentai Goukou site, Xinjiang	9
Ancient DNA confirms crossbreeding of domestic South American camelids in two pre-conquest archaeological sites	8
Current methods and theory in quantitative zooarchaeology	8
The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes	8
Origins and manufacture of the glass mosaic tesserae from the great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus	8
Corrigendum to “Domesticating details: 3D geometric morphometrics for the zooarchaeological discrimination of wild, domestic and proto-domestic sheep (Ovis aries) and goat (Capra hircus) populations”	8
Sickle gloss texture analysis elucidates long-term change in plant harvesting during the transition to agriculture	8
Ancient glass: From crystal ball to seeing clear	8
Applications of deep learning to decorated ceramic typology and classification: A case study using Tusayan White Ware from Northeast Arizona	8
The Path to Porcelain: Innovation in Experimental White Stoneware from Luoyang	8
Experimental approach to evaluate the effect of growing conditions on cereal grain size and its relevance for interpreting archaeological cereal grain assemblages	8
Is it hot enough? A multi-proxy approach shows variations in cremation conditions during the Metal Ages in Belgium	8
Multi-stage experiments in Bronze Age spear combat: insights on wear formation, trauma, and combat contexts	8
Revealing primary forming techniques in wheel-made ceramics with X-ray microCT	8
Southeast Asian mainland archaeological science 1964–2034: Multiscalar relations between individuals, communities and neighbouring populations during the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages (early-3rd mil	8
Origins of medieval lead glass ornaments in Central Europe in the light of lead isotopic analysis of finds from Wrocław and Sypniewo (Poland)	8
The mosaic tesserae in the industrial Byzantine wine press, Yavne, Israel: A natural unusually hard chalk or a chemically transformed chalk?	8
Testing the feasibility of fiber identification for fine cordage artifacts from the Paisley Caves, Oregon	8
Drinking in the dark. A new method to distinguish use-alteration from natural alteration on Neolithic pots and evidence of acid liquid storage in karstic cave contexts	8
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A Middle Palaeolithic incised bear bone from the Dziadowa Skała Cave, Poland: the oldest marked object north of the Carpathian Mountains	7
The archaeology of overburden: Method within the madness at Švédův Stůl, Czech Republic	7
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Patterns on the landscape: Untangling pottery surface assemblages	7
ATR-FTIR pre-screening analyses for determining radiocarbon datable bone samples from the Kings' Valley, Egypt	7
More on overkill, the associational critique, and the North American megafaunal record: A reply to Grayson et al. (2021)	7
Unsupervised clustering of Roman potsherds via Variational Autoencoders	7
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Can transport costs explain the near absence of marmot bones at shoreline archaeological sites on Vancouver Island? Finding input values for central place modelling with biological scaling	7
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High performance mass spectrometry reveals possible kerogen substructures in persistent ancient human brain	7
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The identification of bird eggshell by scanning electron microscopy	7
Archaeology of the invisible: The scent of Kha and Merit	7
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Dogs and wolves on the northern plains: A look from beyond the site in Alberta	6
How is forgery of ancient silver identified? A reply to Elsayed-Ali (2021)	6
Early transhumance recorded by the microfossils of sheep coprolites in the Tongtian Cave, China	6
A multi-analytical approach reveals flexible compound adhesive technology at Steenbokfontein Cave, Western Cape	6
Testing the efficiency of Bronze Age axes: An interdisciplinary experiment	6
Earliest arrival of millet in the South China coast dating back to 5,500 years ago	6
Deep learning artificial neural networks for non-destructive archaeological site dating	6
Micro-computed tomography imaging and segmentation of the archaeological textiles from Valmarinniemi	6
Inter-visibility between settlements in pre-Hispanic Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. The relation between hierarchy and control of distant communications	6
Ancient DNA refines taxonomic classification of Roman equids north of the Alps, elaborated with osteomorphology and geometric morphometrics	6
Compositional analysis below the production region level: A case study of porcelain production at Dehua, Fujian, China	6
Skeletal manifestations of anemia in the sternum in a modern clinical sample: An initial investigation	6
Provenance study of the variscite artifacts of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia and approach to routes of pre-Hispanic exchange	6
A large-scale environmental strontium isotope baseline map of Portugal for archaeological and paleoecological provenance studies	6
Multiscale pollen-based reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change in Karula Upland, south Estonia	6
‘Why so high?’ Examining discrepancies between the Sr biosphere map and archaeological tooth data from the Peak District, England	6
Identification of archaeological barley grains using geometric morphometrics and experimental charring	6