OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 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
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	21
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	20
If it was not climate change… palynological investigations in the Eurasian Steppe (southern Trans-Urals, Russia) since the Bronze Age	17
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	14
The importance of wild plant resources in the Neolithic: a case study of the Late Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Grandson-Corcelettes, Les Pins (Switzerland)	14
Introduction to the special issue on ‘Plant use and management during the emergence of farming in Southwest Asia: recent insights and new approaches’	13
Flax use, weeds and manuring in Viking Age Åland: archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis	13
Exploring palaeoecology in the Northern Territory: the Walanjiwurru rockshelter, vegetation dynamics and shifting social landscapes in Marra Country	13
Relative pollen productivity estimates for the dominant plant taxa in the Hoh Xil region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	12
Holocene vegetation dynamics, river valley evolution and human settlement of the upper Kama valley, Ural region, Russia	12
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce	12
Woodland management at the Swedish middle Neolithic site of Alvastra? A new perspective	11
List of critical referees, Volumes 32–33	11
The potential of REVEALS-based vegetation reconstructions using pollen records from alluvial floodplains	11
Intensive pastoralism facilitated the rise of the Tang Dynasty in China	10
The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology	10
Landscape of ice and fire – uniquely well-preserved Scots pine trunks reveal forest fires near the retreating Weichselian ice margin	9
Correction: New crops in the 1st millennium ce in northern Italy	9
Exploring prehistoric plant use by molecular analyses of Neolithic grave goods	9
Correction to: The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	8
Correction: Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	8
Modern pollen spectra from the east European forest steppe reflect land use patterns rather than a climatic gradient	8
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	7
Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	7
“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	7

Correction: Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	7
Agricultural resources in the Bronze Age city of Tel Lachish	7
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)	7
Plant use at Funnel Beaker sites: combined macro- and microremains analysis at the Early Neolithic site of Frydenlund, Denmark (ca. 3600 bce)	6
Recognizing Prunus persica (peach) and allied Rosaceae by the morphological characteristics of their fruitstones	6
Stable carbon isotope (δ13C) analysis of archaeobotanical remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı (western Anatolia) to investigate crop management	6
Which pulse is it? Identifying archaeological legumes seeds by means of biometric measurements and geometric morphometrics	6
Climate and agricultural history from the Petén Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya lowlands of southern Mexico	6
New perspectives on plant-use at neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria: an integrated phytolith and spherulite study	6
Holocene vegetation change at Grosssee, eastern Swiss Alps: effects of climate and human impact	6
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	6
A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)	6
Plants and early hunter-gatherers at Taguatagua 3: Microfossil evidence from stone tools at a late Pleistocene lake shore site in central Chile	6
A tale of new crops in the arid Arabian Peninsula oasis from antiquity to the early Islamic period	6
Archaeobotanical evidence and ethnobotanical interpretation of plants used as coffin pillow fillings in burials in Poland (17th-18/19th centuries)	6
Palynological evidence for the temporal stability of the plant community in the Yellow River Source Area over the last 7,400 years	6
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: a comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas	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
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	5
Palynological pairing of archaeological rock shelter and swamp deposits on the Arnhem Plateau: Holocene ecological changes at Nawarla Gabarnmang and Swamp 7, Northern Territory	5
Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)	5
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II	5
New evidence for food in the Late-Medieval Balkans: archaeobotany of Venetian houses at Butrint in southern Albania	5
Understanding the plant economy of the westernmost territory of the Roman state through waste: the wet site of O Areal (Vigo, Spain)	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
The disappearance of Capparis spinosa (the cultivated caper) from the southern Levant	5
First identification of plant remains in earthen architecture of Argentina: constructive and domestic archaeological data from early colonial contexts (16th and 17th centuries)	5
Advances in phytolith research in archaeology and paleoecology: developments and applications	5
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant	5