OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cambridge Archaeological Journal is 1. 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
What Difference Does Posthumanism Make?	23
Wealth Inequality in the Ancient Near East: A Preliminary Assessment Using Gini Coefficients and Household Size	18
The Evolution of Complementary Cognition: Humans Cooperatively Adapt and Evolve through a System of Collective Cognitive Search	16
The Elephant in the Handaxe: Lower Palaeolithic Ontologies and Representations	16
Cyprus, Sardinia and Sicily: A Maritime Perspective on Interaction, Connectivity and Imagination in Mediterranean Prehistory	16
Tales from the Supplementary Information: Ancestry Change in Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age Britain Was Gradual with Varied Kinship Organization	14
Upper Palaeolithic Installation Art: Topography, Distortion, Animation and Participation in the Production and Experience of Cantabrian Cave Art	12
Survival, Social Cohesion and Rock Art: The Painted Hands of Western Arnhem Land, Australia	11
Ethics, Not Objects	10
Posthumanism, New Humanism and Beyond	10
An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar	10
Posthumanism in Archaeology: An Introduction	9
Hominin Stone Flaking and the Emergence of ‘Top-down’ Design in Human Evolution	9
A Relational Marxist Critique of Posthumanism in Archaeology	8
Affirmation and Action: A Posthumanist Feminist Agenda for Archaeology	8
Posthuman Potentials: Considering Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology	8
Can We Decolonize the Ancient Past? Bridging Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory in Sudanese and Nubian Archaeology	7
Small Signals: Comprehending the Australian Microlithic as Public Signalling	7
Seeing Children in Prehistory: A View from Bronze Age Ireland	6
How the Cycladic Islanders Found Their Marbles: Material Engagement, Social Cognition and the Emergence of Keros	6
Beyond Tools and Function: The Selection of Materials and the Ontology of Hunter-Gatherers. Ethnographic Evidences and Implications for Palaeolithic Archaeology	6
Indigenous Theory is Theory: Whakapapa for Archaeologists	6
Memory Scrapers: Readymade Concepts and Techniques as Reflected in Collecting and Recycling Patinated Lower Palaeolithic Items at Qesem Cave, Israel	6
Prehistoric Pendants as Instigators of Sound and Body Movements: A Traceological Case Study from Northeast Europe, c. 8200 cal. bp	6
Staying Egalitarian and the Origins of Agriculture in the Middle East	6

Taking the Wrong Turn? Re-examining the Potential for Practice Approaches in Archaeology	5
Type and Token in the Prehistoric Origins of Numbers	5
The Predicament of Ontology	5
Finding symmetry? Archaeology, Objects, and Posthumanism	5
Iron Age Mnemonics: A Biographical Approach to Dwelling in Later Prehistoric Britain	5
Faces in the Stone: Further Finds of Anthropomorphic Engravings Suggest a Discrete Artistic Tradition Flourished in Timor-Leste in the Terminal Pleistocene	5
An Archaeology of the Aesthetic: Slavery and Politics at the Jesuit Vineyards of Nasca	5
Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology: Conceptual Challenges and an East African Case Study	4
Material Scientists: Learning the Importance of Colour and Brightness from Lithic Practitioners	4
Neolithization and Population Replacement in Britain: An Alternative View	4
The Metalworker as Social Agent: Alongue duréeApproach from Northwestern Iberia Atlantic Façade (Ninth–First Centuriesbce)	4
Using Topic Modelling to Reassess Heritage Values from a People-centred Perspective: Applications from the North of England	4
Naturalistic Parrots, Stylized Birds of Prey: Visual Symbolism of the Human–Animal Relationship in Pre-Hispanic Ceramic Art of the Paraná River Lowlands, South America	4
Project Holocene: The Clayful Phenomenology of Jōmon Flame Pots	4
Material and Sensory Experiences of Mesolithic Resinous Substances	4
‘Contact’ Rock Art and the Hybrid Economy Model: Interpreting Introduced Subject Matter from Marra Country, Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia	4
Crafting Idiosyncrasies. Early Social Complexity, Ivory and Identity-Making in Copper Age Iberia	4
Reflections on Posthuman Ethics. Grievability and the More-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia	4
‘They are all dead that I could ask’: Indigenous Innovation and the Micropolitics of the Field in Twentieth-century Southern Africa	3
Dung on the Wall. Ontology and Relationality in Qurna: The Case of TT123	3
Artefact Categories, Artefact Assemblages and Ontological Alterity	3
Reindeer Imagery in the Making at Ust’-Polui in Arctic Siberia	3
Aggregation, status competition and levelling mechanisms in prehistoric Chulmun, Korea	3
Agents of Death: Reassessing Social Agency and Gendered Narratives of Human Sacrifice in the Viking Age	3
Tending the ‘Contested’ Castle Garden: Sowing Seeds of Feminist Thought	3
Changes in Raw Material Selection and Use at 400,000 Years bp: A Novel, Symbolic Relationship between Humans and Their World. Discussing Technological, Social and Cognitive Arguments	3
Is Acheulean Handaxe Shape the Result of Imposed ‘Mental Templates’ or Emergent in Manufacture? Dissolving the Dichotomy through Exploring ‘Communities of Practice’ at Boxgrove, UK	3
Viewing the World through Cosmovision at Late Preclassic Noh K'uh in Chiapas, Mexico	3
Cultural Metallurgy—A Key Factor in the Transition from the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age in the Southern Levant	3
Rock Art and (Re)Production of Narratives: A Cassowary Bone Dagger Stencil Perspective from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea	3
‘I Have Done Hundreds of Rock Paintings’: On the Ongoing Rock Art Tradition among Samburu, Northern Kenya	3
Thinking Through Monuments: Levantine Monuments as Technologies of Community-Scale Motivated Social Cognition	3
Becoming Through Milling: Challenging Linear Economic Narratives in Medieval England	3
Bodily Entanglements: Gender, Archaeological Sciences and the More-than-ness of Archaeological Bodies	3
Connecting Architectures across the Landscape: A Visibility and Network Analysis in the Island of Mallorca during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age	3
Power, Personhood and Changing Emotional Engagement with Children's Burial during the Egyptian Predynastic	2
Filling the Void: Rock-art Continuity Over the Pleistocene–Holocene Boundary in Eastern Iberia	2
Soay Sheep: The Back-story	2
Theatres of Closure: Process and Performance in Inhumation Burial Rites in Early Medieval Britain	2
Earthen Architecture as a Community of Practice: A Case Study of Neolithic Earthen Production in the Eastern Mediterranean	2
Gymea and the Fishing Technologies of the New South Wales Coast, Australia	2
Error or Minority? The Identification of Non-binary Gender in Prehistoric Burials in Central Europe	2
Towards a Spatial Archaeology of Crafting Landscapes	2
Making Sense of the Transformation of Religious Practices: A Critical Long-term Perspective from Pre- and Proto-historic Japan	2
The Presence of Absence: Why Does the Post-contact Rock Art of Torres Strait (Northeastern Australia) Not Include Paintings of European Ships?	2
Revisiting the Chinese Room: Looking for Agency in a World Packed with Archaeological Things	2
Everyday Knowledge and Apothecary Craft: Pharmacopoeias of Ancient Northwestern Honduras	2
Singa Transitional: Rock-artSaywasMarking Boundaries of Identity and Socializing Landscape in Huánuco, Peru	2
Technology, Use and Reuse of Gold during the Middle Period: The Case of Casa Parroquial, Atacama Desert, Chile	2
Large Predator Hunting and Its Interpretation: Leopards, Bears and Lions in the Archaeological Record of the Southern Levant	2

Minds on Fire: Cognitive Aspects of Early Firemaking and the Possible Inventors of Firemaking Kits	2
Decapitated Heads as Elite Visual Culture in Late Shang China	2
Subaltern Debris: Archaeology and Marginalized Communities	2
Making a Mark: Process, Pattern and Change in the British and Irish Neolithic	2
Not All That Glitters is Gold? Rock Crystal in the Early British Neolithic at Dorstone Hill, Herefordshire, and the Wider British and Irish Context	1
The Political Economy of Livestock in Early States	1
What Makes a Mound? Earth-Sourced Materials in Late Iron Age Burial Mounds	1
Speaking With the Other and Not Only About the Other: Reflections for a Postcolonial Archaeology	1
Revealing the Earliest Animal Engravings in Scotland: The Dunchraigaig Deer, Kilmartin	1
Life and Death of the Macrolithic Tools from the Third-millennium cal. bc Necropolis of La Orden-Seminario in Southwest Spain	1
Learning About Death and Burial: Mortuary Ritual, Emotion and Communities of Practice in the Ancient Andes	1
Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean World at the Turn of the First Millennium ce: Networks, Commodities and Cultural Reception	1
A Nuclear Generator of Clouds: Accidents and Radioactive Contamination Identified on Declassified Satellite Photographs in the Mayak Chemical Combine, Southern Urals	1
Extraordinary Back-to-Back Human and Animal Figures in the Art of Western Arnhem Land, Australia: One of the World's Largest Assemblages	1
Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain)	1
A Partial Prehistory of the Southwest Silk Road: Archaeometallurgical Networks along the Sub-Himalayan Corridor	1
Photographic Insights from Engaged Archaeology: Yucatan and Beyond	1
Wealth in Livestock, Wealth in People, and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Jordan	1
Socializing the Materiality of Earthen Structures: TheChaîne Opératoireof Construction Practices at the Neolithic Site of Kleitos 2, Greece	1
An Archaeology of Traces	1
Colour and Directional Symbolism in Ancestral Pueblo Radial Offerings from Chaco Canyon	1
What Can A [Feminist] Body Do? Immanent and Emergent Capacities of Bodies at Chinchorro and Wor Barrow	1
The Geoglyph as a Medium for Anarchist Ritual	1
Finding Difference in Emotional Communities: New Feminisms of Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Centuryceand Sixth Millenniumbce	1
To Unite and Divide: Canals,Tinku, Liquids and Time in the Moche World	1
Exotica, Fashion and Immortality: The New Use of Gold in Han Dynasty China (206bce–ce220)	1
Insights into Natufian Social Identity: A Case Study from the Graveyard of Hayonim Cave	1
Out of Ruins: Contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Spectacle of Architectural Reuse	1
Revisiting the Past: Material Negotiations between the Classic Maya and an Entombed Sweat Bath at Xultun, Guatemala	1
Commensalism, Imaginaries and Early Urbanism: A Mezcala Sculpture in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico	1
Acheulean Handaxes in Medieval France: An Earlier ‘Modern’ Social History for Palaeolithic Bifaces	1
The Proceduralization of Hominin Knapping Skill: Memorizing Different Lithic Technologies	1