OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the special issue on ‘Plant use and management during the emergence of farming in Southwest Asia: recent insights and new approaches’	46
Survival during the 4.2 ka event by Jomon hunter–gatherers with management and use of plant resources at the Denotame site in central Japan	17
Flax use, weeds and manuring in Viking Age Åland: archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis	17
The importance of wild plant resources in the Neolithic: a case study of the Late Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Grandson-Corcelettes, Les Pins (Switzerland)	13
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	13
If it was not climate change… palynological investigations in the Eurasian Steppe (southern Trans-Urals, Russia) since the Bronze Age	13
Holocene vegetation dynamics, river valley evolution and human settlement of the upper Kama valley, Ural region, Russia	12
The potential of REVEALS-based vegetation reconstructions using pollen records from alluvial floodplains	12
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	12
The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology	12
List of critical referees, Volumes 32–33	11
Exploring palaeoecology in the Northern Territory: the Walanjiwurru rockshelter, vegetation dynamics and shifting social landscapes in Marra Country	11
Woodland management at the Swedish middle Neolithic site of Alvastra? A new perspective	10
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce	10
Correction: New crops in the 1st millennium ce in northern Italy	9
Exploring prehistoric plant use by molecular analyses of Neolithic grave goods	9
Intensive pastoralism facilitated the rise of the Tang Dynasty in China	9
Correction to: The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	9
Landscape of ice and fire – uniquely well-preserved Scots pine trunks reveal forest fires near the retreating Weichselian ice margin	9
Relative pollen productivity estimates for the dominant plant taxa in the Hoh Xil region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	9
Correction: Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	9
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet): evidence from Iron Age Kenya	8
“It’s all just barley and figs!” Identifying patterns of plant waste accumulation in House 169, Elephantine Island, Egypt (1750–1650 bc) using machine learning	8
Agriculture and crop dispersal in the western periphery of the Old World: the Amazigh/Berber settling of the Canary Islands (ca. 2nd–15th centuries ce)	8
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	8

Agricultural resources in the Bronze Age city of Tel Lachish	8
Climate and agricultural history from the Petén Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya lowlands of southern Mexico	7
Correction: Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	7
Changes in vegetation and human-environment interactions during the Holocene in the Lake Pueyrredón area (Southern Patagonia)	7
Modern pollen spectra from the east European forest steppe reflect land use patterns rather than a climatic gradient	7
Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	7
New perspectives on plant-use at neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria: an integrated phytolith and spherulite study	6
Plant use at Funnel Beaker sites: combined macro- and microremains analysis at the Early Neolithic site of Frydenlund, Denmark (ca. 3600 bce)	6
A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)	6
Recognizing Prunus persica (peach) and allied Rosaceae by the morphological characteristics of their fruitstones	6
Holocene vegetation change at Grosssee, eastern Swiss Alps: effects of climate and human impact	6
A tale of new crops in the arid Arabian Peninsula oasis from antiquity to the early Islamic period	5
Archaeobotanical evidence and ethnobotanical interpretation of plants used as coffin pillow fillings in burials in Poland (17th-18/19th centuries)	5
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant	5
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II	5
Which pulse is it? Identifying archaeological legumes seeds by means of biometric measurements and geometric morphometrics	5
Stable carbon isotope (δ13C) analysis of archaeobotanical remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı (western Anatolia) to investigate crop management	5
Food, farming and trade on the Danube frontier: plant remains from Roman Aelia Mursa (Osijek, Croatia)	5
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: a comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas	5
Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)	5
Palynological evidence for the temporal stability of the plant community in the Yellow River Source Area over the last 7,400 years	5
The impact of Lusatian Urnfield and subsequent prehistoric cultures on lake and woodland ecosystems: insights from multi-proxy palaeoecological investigations at Bruszczewo, western Poland	5
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	5
Colourful rivers: archaeobotanical remains of dye plants from urban fluvial deposits in the southern Low Countries (Belgium)	5
Iron Age plant subsistence in the Inner Congo Basin (DR Congo)	5
First identification of plant remains in earthen architecture of Argentina: constructive and domestic archaeological data from early colonial contexts (16th and 17th centuries)	4
Late Holocene hemp (Cannabis sativa) retting in NE Hungary and the Holocene spread of hemp cultivation in eastern-central Europe	4
Microbotanical signatures of kreb: differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses	4
Agricultural development in the southeastern Baltic region from the late Bronze Age to the medieval period: a case study of Kernavė, southeast Lithuania	4
Plant macrofossils as indicators of vegetation and climate change in the Northern Black Forest of Germany during the last millennium - with focus on the Little Ice Age	4
Advances in phytolith research in archaeology and paleoecology: developments and applications	4
The first comprehensive macroremains analysis of edible plants from Vichama, Peru (1800–1500 bce)	4
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction through phytolith analysis in the Casa de Pedra shell mound archaeological site, São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil	4
A new tool for formalised vegetation reconstruction from (sub)fossil records – the FEVER Index	4
Morphometrics shed new light on the first archaeobotanical evidence for the cultivation and breeding of Vicia faba var. equina (horse bean) and var. major (broad bean) in medieval southern Italy	4
New evidence for food in the Late-Medieval Balkans: archaeobotany of Venetian houses at Butrint in southern Albania	4
Understanding the plant economy of the westernmost territory of the Roman state through waste: the wet site of O Areal (Vigo, Spain)	4
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	4
Comparison of image acquisition techniques and morphometric methods to distinguish between Vitis vinifera subspecies and cultivars	4
Development of crop growing from the late Yangshao to early Longshan period in the Zhengluo region of central China: phytolith evidence from the Shuanghuaishu site	4
Mosses recognized as glacial relicts from their postglacial distribution in Poland	3
Surviving on the edge: the role of medieval and modern age charcoal production in the stand composition of colline beech woodlands in NE Hungary (EC Europe)	3
Hunter-gatherer farming during the first millennium bce in inland, boreal landscapes: new pollen analytical and archaeological evidence from Dalarna, central Sweden	3
Afromontane forests and human impact after the African Humid Period: wood charcoal from the Sodicho rock shelter, SW Ethiopian highlands	3
Pre-Hispanic use of edible Geoffroea decorticans fruits in central Argentina - first approximations based on an integrated morphoanatomical and archaeobotanical approach	3
Isotopic insights into quinoa agriculture at an Andean hillfort town (cal ad 1250–1450)	3
Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia	3
Vegetation dynamics and land-use change at the Neolithic lakeshore settlement site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia	3
Differences in forest composition following two periods of settlement by pre-Columbian Native Americans	3
The first annually resolved analysis of slash-and-burn practices in the boreal Eurasia suggests their strong climatic and socio-economic controls	3

Correction: Genomic analysis of emmer wheat shows a complex history with two distinct domestic groups and evidence of differential hybridization with wild emmer from the western Fertile Crescent	3
Botanical composition of meadows and pastures and their role in the functioning of early medieval semi-artificial lake islands in Ziemia Lubuska (Lubusz land), western Poland	3
Correction: Pollen signal of modern vegetation registered in surface soil samples along an elevation gradient from Iztaccíhuatl volcano, central Mexico	3
Wild foods, woodland fuels, and cultivation through the Ceramic and Early Historical periods in Araucanía, Southern Chile (400–1850 ce)	3
Inventions, innovations and the origins of spelt wheat	3
Possible climatically driven, later prehistoric woodland decline on Ben Lomond, central Scotland	2
Grape (Vitis vinifera) use in the early modern Low Countries: a tentative combination of aDNA-analysis and historical sources	2
Transformation of West-Carpathian primeval woodlands into high-altitude grasslands from as early as the Bronze Age	2
Water and landscape management for 3,000 years in a mid-mountain area: evolution of the Gourgon mires complex (Massif Central, France) under anthropogenic and climate forcing	2
Neolithic landscape and firewood use: charcoal analysis of domestic and funerary contexts at La Dehesilla (Andalusia, Spain)	2
Potential late glacial maximum refugial areas of Alaska-Yukon postglacial migrant plants	2
Natural conditions and sociocultural development in the Mid-Kama region (cis-Ural, Russia) over the last ten millennia: insights from the Shabunichi-1 peat core	2
Were prehistoric cereal fields in western Norway manured? Evidence from stable isotope values (δ15N) of charred modern and fossil cereals	2
Wood fuel consumption in the city of Barcelona in the medieval and early modern periods. An overview based on archaeological wood charcoal analysis	2
Modern vegetation and its pollen spectra in the Cantabrian mountains, northern Iberian Peninsula, compared with fossil pollen records	2
The role of fire in the Medieval and Early Modern landscape of Bad Waldsee within the broader context of the pre-Alpine forelands of south-western Germany	2
Processing and storage of tree fruits, cereals and pulses at PPNA Sharara, southern Jordan	2
The introduction history of Hordeum vulgare var. nudum (naked barley) into Fennoscandia	2
Examining climate and composition differences in eastern North American temperate forests using pollen ratios and pollen assemblage cluster analysis	2
Plant ways in Middle Bronze Age Anatolia—an archaeological interpretation of phytoliths and other plant remains from Zincirli Höyük, Türkiye	2
Seeing the fields through the weeds: introducing the WeedEco R package for comparing past and present arable farming systems using functional weed ecology	2
Performance of vegetation cover reconstructions using lake and soil pollen samples from the Tibetan Plateau	2
Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: a case study of Ashkelon	2
Cultivating diversity at the onset of agriculture: insights from the Lower Yangtze in the 10th millennium bp	2
Vegetation changes in the Grote Nete valley (Campine region, Belgium) during the Boreal: a response to the 9.3 ka event?	2
Saga, settlement and sediments at Helgafell, western Iceland	2
Sieving the weeds from the grains: an R based package for classifying archaeobotanical samples of cereals and pulses according to crop processing stages	2
Late Bronze Age millet farmers at Arnbjerg N: an archaeobotanical analysis and a review of Late Bronze Age millet in Denmark	2
Grain impressions in ceramic vessels illustrate the extent of 1st millennium bc agriculture across the northern Central Asian steppe	2
Combined archaeobotanical and linguistic evidence does not support the early domestication of Brassica rapa varieties	2
Reconstruction of the environmental conditions for the past 2,000 years in the Perico River basin (NW Argentina) based on fossil pollen records	2
Environmental dynamics of the western European Mediterranean landscape during the Pleistocene to Holocene transition	2