OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A model for the domestication of Panicum miliaceum (common, proso or broomcorn millet) in China	32
Tracking the history of grapevine cultivation in Georgia by combining geometric morphometrics and ancient DNA	28
NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform	22
Dung in the dumps: what we can learn from multi-proxy studies of archaeological dung pellets	21
The first comprehensive archaeobotanical analysis of prehistoric agriculture in Kyrgyzstan	19
The southern Central Asian mountains as an ancient agricultural mixing zone: new archaeobotanical data from Barikot in the Swat valley of Pakistan	19
8,000 years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy)	18
13,000 years of sociocultural plant use in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile	17
Pollen and plant diversity relationships in a Mediterranean montane area	16
Recent attestations of “new” glume wheat in Turkey: a reassessment of its role in the reconstruction of Neolithic agriculture	15
Increasing human activities during the past 2,100 years in southwest China inferred from a fossil pollen record	12
Phytolith evidence of water management for rice growing and processing between 8,500 and 7,500 cal years bp in the middle Huai river valley, China	11
Plants used in basketry production during the Early Neolithic in the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula	10
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet): evidence from Iron Age Kenya	10
Does site elevation determine the start and intensity of human impact? Pollen evidence from southern Germany	10
Microbotanical signatures of kreb: differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses	10
From Mesolithic hunters to Iron Age herders: a unique record of woodland use from eastern central Europe (Czech Republic)	10
A new way of seeing pulses: preliminary results of geometric morphometric analyses of Iron Age seeds from the site of La Font de la Canya (Barcelona, Spain)	9
At the origins of Pompeii: the plant landscape of the Sarno River floodplain from the first millennium bc to the ad 79 eruption	9
Intensification of agriculture in southwestern Germany between the Bronze Age and Medieval period, based on archaeobotanical data from Baden-Württemberg	9
Cultural landscape and plant use at the Phoenician site of Motya (Western Sicily, Italy) inferred from a disposal pit	8
Vegetation dynamics and their response to Holocene climate change derived from multi-proxy records from Wangdongyang peat bog in southeast China	8
Getting to the root of the problem: new evidence for the use of plant root foods in Mesolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence in Europe	8
Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia	8
New insights into agriculture in northwestern France from the Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age: a weed ecological approach	8

Prehistoric firewood gathering on the northeast Tibetan plateau: environmental and cultural determinism	7
Identification of archaeobotanical Pistacia L. fruit remains: implications for our knowledge on past distribution and use in prehistoric Cyprus	7
Pollen richness: a reflection of vegetation diversity or pollen-specific parameters?	7
Underwater archaeobotany: plant and wood analyses from the Vrouw Maria, a 1771 shipwreck in the Finnish Baltic Sea	7
Palynological evidence for the temporal stability of the plant community in the Yellow River Source Area over the last 7,400 years	7
Palaeoethnobotanical analysis of plant remains discovered in the graveyard of the Haihun Marquis, Nanchang, China	7
Human-woodland interactions during the Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite periods in northeastern Tigray, Ethiopia: insights from the wood charcoal analyses from Mezber and Ona Adi	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)	6
Multi-proxy analysis of waterlogged preserved Late Neolithic canine excrements	6
Holocene vegetation, fire and land use dynamics at Lake Svityaz, an agriculturally marginal site in northwestern Ukraine	6
Testing the potential of pollen assemblages to capture composition, diversity and ecological gradients of surrounding vegetation in two biogeographical regions of southeastern Europe	6
The potential of REVEALS-based vegetation reconstructions using pollen records from alluvial floodplains	6
Influence of taxonomic resolution on the value of anthropogenic pollen indicators	6
The environment they lived in: anthropogenic changes in local and regional vegetation composition in eastern Fennoscandia during the Neolithic	6
Crop cultivation of Middle Yayoi culture communities (fourth century bce–first century ce) in the Kanto region, eastern Japan, inferred from a radiocarbon-dated archaeobotanical record	6
Food in a colonial setting: the flora assemblage of a short-lived Seleucid-founded site in the Near East	6
Early to late Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics at the treeline in the Maritime Alps	6
The history of Abies pinsapo during the Holocene in southern Spain, based on pedoanthracological analysis	5
Modelling the potential ecological niche of domesticated buckwheat in China: archaeological evidence, environmental constraints and climate change	5
Performance of vegetation cover reconstructions using lake and soil pollen samples from the Tibetan Plateau	5
The use of Cornus sanguinea L. (dogwood) fruits in the Late Neolithic	5
Changes in vegetation and human-environment interactions during the Holocene in the Lake Pueyrredón area (Southern Patagonia)	5
14,500 years of vegetation and land use history in the upper continental montane zone at Lac de Champex (Valais, Switzerland)	5
Food, farming and trade on the Danube frontier: plant remains from Roman Aelia Mursa (Osijek, Croatia)	5
Plant use and rites at burnt offering sites in the Eastern Alps during the Bronze and Iron Ages	5
Understanding crop processing and its social meaning in the Xinzhai period (1850–1750 cal bce): a case study on the Xinzhai site, China	5
Iron Age plant subsistence in the Inner Congo Basin (DR Congo)	5
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	4
Starchy food residue on a potsherd from a late Holocene hunter-gatherer site in Argentine Patagonia: towards the visibility of wild underground storage organs	4
Middle Neolithic farming of open-air sites in SE France: new insights from archaeobotanical investigations of three wells found at Les Bagnoles (L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Dépt. Vaucluse, France)	4
Vegetation history of the Maharlou Lake basin (SW Iran) with special reference to the Achaemenid period (550–330 bc)	4
Legacies of past human activities on one of the largest old-growth forests in the south-east European mountains	4
Paleoethnobotanical identification criteria for bulbs of the North American Northwest	4
Should Bromus secalinus (rye brome) be considered a crop?: Analysis of Bromus rich assemblages from protohistoric and historic sites in northern France and textual references	4
Pre-Aksumite plant husbandry in the Horn of Africa	4
Differences in forest composition following two periods of settlement by pre-Columbian Native Americans	4
Landscape and environmental conditions for the late Holocene in the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition (Argentina): a phytolith analysis of the El Tigre archaeological site	4
Agricultural resources in the Bronze Age city of Tel Lachish	4
Environmental changes and plant use during the 5th-14th centuries in medieval Gdańsk, northern Poland	4