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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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’	19
Flax use, weeds and manuring in Viking Age Åland: archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis	17
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	14
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	13
If it was not climate change… palynological investigations in the Eurasian Steppe (southern Trans-Urals, Russia) since the Bronze Age	13
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	12
The importance of wild plant resources in the Neolithic: a case study of the Late Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Grandson-Corcelettes, Les Pins (Switzerland)	12
Holocene vegetation dynamics, river valley evolution and human settlement of the upper Kama valley, Ural region, Russia	12
The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology	11
Relative pollen productivity estimates for the dominant plant taxa in the Hoh Xil region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	11
Exploring palaeoecology in the Northern Territory: the Walanjiwurru rockshelter, vegetation dynamics and shifting social landscapes in Marra Country	10
The potential of REVEALS-based vegetation reconstructions using pollen records from alluvial floodplains	10
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
Woodland management at the Swedish middle Neolithic site of Alvastra? A new perspective	9
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce	9
Exploring prehistoric plant use by molecular analyses of Neolithic grave goods	9
List of critical referees, Volumes 32–33	9
Correction: New crops in the 1st millennium ce in northern Italy	9
Correction: Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	9
“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
Agricultural resources in the Bronze Age city of Tel Lachish	8
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	8
Correction: Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	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
Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	7
Modern pollen spectra from the east European forest steppe reflect land use patterns rather than a climatic gradient	7
Plant use at Funnel Beaker sites: combined macro- and microremains analysis at the Early Neolithic site of Frydenlund, Denmark (ca. 3600 bce)	6
Archaeobotanical evidence and ethnobotanical interpretation of plants used as coffin pillow fillings in burials in Poland (17th-18/19th centuries)	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
Climate and agricultural history from the Petén Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya lowlands of southern Mexico	6
A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)	5
New perspectives on plant-use at neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria: an integrated phytolith and spherulite study	5
Palynological evidence for the temporal stability of the plant community in the Yellow River Source Area over the last 7,400 years	5
Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)	5
The disappearance of Capparis spinosa (the cultivated caper) from the southern Levant	5
Food, farming and trade on the Danube frontier: plant remains from Roman Aelia Mursa (Osijek, Croatia)	5
Stable carbon isotope (δ13C) analysis of archaeobotanical remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı (western Anatolia) to investigate crop management	5
Which pulse is it? Identifying archaeological legumes seeds by means of biometric measurements and geometric morphometrics	5
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II	5
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant	5
Advances in phytolith research in archaeology and paleoecology: developments and applications	5
A tale of new crops in the arid Arabian Peninsula oasis from antiquity to the early Islamic period	5
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	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
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
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: a comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas	5
Microbotanical signatures of kreb: differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses	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
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
Comparison of image acquisition techniques and morphometric methods to distinguish between Vitis vinifera subspecies and cultivars	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
First identification of plant remains in earthen architecture of Argentina: constructive and domestic archaeological data from early colonial contexts (16th and 17th centuries)	4
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	4
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction through phytolith analysis in the Casa de Pedra shell mound archaeological site, São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil	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
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	4
The first comprehensive macroremains analysis of edible plants from Vichama, Peru (1800–1500 bce)	4
Late Holocene hemp (Cannabis sativa) retting in NE Hungary and the Holocene spread of hemp cultivation in eastern-central Europe	4
A new tool for formalised vegetation reconstruction from (sub)fossil records – the FEVER Index	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