OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Health, stress, and urbanism in the Hellenistic–Roman metropolis of Nea Paphos, Cyprus: A comparative analysis	15
Bioarchaeological insights into the Late Helladic communities of South Kynouria, Peloponnese: The case of the LH IIIA2‐IIIB2 burial cluster of Socha	14
Twins found in a Late Dynastic/Coptic Egyptian mummy	13
Conjoined first (atlas) and second (axis) cervical vertebrae in an eastern wapiti (Cervus canadensis canadensis) from the Angel Site (1000–1400 CE, Indiana, USA)	12
How dental wear can tell us about the lifestyles and trade specialization of the Philistine populations in the Iron Age Levant	12
Life history of a high‐class noblewoman from the late Shu state in the Chengdu Plain during the Eastern Zhou period (770–221 BC): Childhood stresses and stable life	12
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Illness and inclusion: Mobility histories of adolescents with leprosy from Anglo‐Scandinavian Norwich (Eastern England)	10
Animal Husbandry, Cultural Change, and Economic Networks: An Archaeozoological Perspective on the Transformation of Iron Age Oppida Societies	10
Mixed economy and dried foods: Dental indicators reveal Heishuiguo Han Dynasty population's environmental adaptation to the semi‐arid region of northwestern China	10
Anthropological, Palaeopathological, and Stable Isotope Analyses of the Early Medieval Population of Corte Romana (Cividale, NE Italy) During the Period of Langobard Rule (6th–7th centuries ad	10
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Developmental Anomalies of the Foot Bones: Coalitions and Bipartitions in the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection	9
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Urbanization and respiratory stress in the Northern Low Countries: A comparative study of chronic maxillary sinusitis in two early modern sites from the Netherlands (AD 1626–1866)	8
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Unusual find of osteolytic lesion on skeleton from the Middle Bronze Age—Possible case of peritoneal abscess	7
Investigating the dentoalveolar complex in archaeological human skull specimens: Additional findings with large volume micro‐CT compared to standard methods	7
How cranial surgery was performed in Italy during the centuries after the Roman Empire but before the rise of the medieval universities: Integrating paleopathology and medical history	7
Starch remains from human teeth reveal the Bronze and Early Iron Ages vegetal diet of Xinjiang, Northwest China	7
A bioarchaeological approach for the examination of two Lithuanian clergymen: Juozapas Arnulfas Giedraitis and Simonas Mykolas Giedraitis (18th–19th centuries AD)	7
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Notes on early childhood diets in early modern Oulu, Finland, based on the stable isotope case studies of archeological dentin	6
Blue fibers found in dental calculus from Maya sacrificial victims	6
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The role of status, diets, and mobility in understanding the impacts of urbanization in early medieval Bergen, Norway (St. Mary's Church): Insights from stable isotope analyses	6
They fought on horseback, didn't they?	6
Pastures and fodder for feeding equids 3000 years ago: The Can Roqueta site (Barcelona, Spain) as a model of equine herd management	6
Perinatal burials at pre‐Hispanic noncemetery sites in Gran Canaria: Tophet, infanticide, or natural mortality?	6
The role of TV documentaries to disseminate osteoarchaeology more widely: The good, the bad, and the ugly	5
The impact of pathological conditions on carbon and nitrogen isotopic values in the bone collagen of individuals with known biographic data and medical history	5
Who's to blame? The Mesolithic non‐anthropic leporids from Cueva de los Postes (Badajoz, Spain)	5
A test of the New Coimbra method of recording entheseal changes as applied to the foot skeleton	5
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A case of cholesteatoma in a medieval Hispano‐Mudejar population (13th–14th centuries ad)	5
DNA analysis of skeletal remains of an important historical figure from the period of mediaeval Bosnia	5
Therapeutic dentistry in prehistoric Maryland—New analyses from the Hughes (18MO1) archeological site	5
Life on the edge: Animal exploitation at the Shichengzi military fort (Xinjiang, China)	5
The rarest among the rare? Acrometastases and disability in the past and beyond	5
Analyzing entheseal changes in commingled human remains from Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in Portugal	5
Monastic meals: The role of birds in the diet of the Poor Clares at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes (Barcelona, Spain) from medieval to modern periods (14th to 19th centuries AD)	5
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Dental caries and breastfeeding in early childhood in the late Medieval and Modern populations from Radom, Poland	5
Utilization of validated criteria for diagnostic assessment in nonsynchronous, allopatric populations: Role in archeologic diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis and differentially distinguishing it from m	5
Nondestructive recognition and differentiation of quasi‐spherical structures of biologic interest	4
Evaluation of entheseal changes in a modern identified skeletal collection from Inden (Germany)	4
Subsistence and animal management at Iron Age sites of Quanshuigou and Dumuduebudege in western Xinjiang, China	4
In search of the ‘great horse’: A zooarchaeological assessment of horses from England (AD 300–1650)	4
A new laboratory‐based method to experimentally induce diagenetic modifications in human bone tissue using archaeological gravesoils	4
Animal diseases in the Central Balkan Eneolithic (ca. 4500–2500 BC)—A diachronic perspective on the site of Bubanj, south‐eastern Serbia	4
Assessment and improvement of sex estimation standards for application in Holocene San and Khoekhoe populations	4
Social interaction between the coast and the highlands of Chile's arid north (20°S) during the mid‐Holocene: The case of Vicugna vicugna (Molina, 1782) and Hippocamelus antis	4
Health in the Inca heartland: A paleopathological analysis of burials from the Cuzco region of Peru	4
Complex skeletal foot malformation in a Samnite “warrior grave” from Abruzzo, southern Italy (8th–5th century BCE)	4
Fish vertebrae as archeological biomarkers of past marine ecological conditions: Comparison of mercury levels in Chilean swordfish between the Middle Holocene and the modern period	4
Thalassemia major in a 49‐year‐old Thai female: Gross and X‐ray examination of dry bone	4
Severe traumatic lesions in the Late Neolithic cattle from the site of At‐Vršac, Serbia	4
The uncertain death. Estimating mortality structure by random sampling	4
Sex estimation by discriminant function analysis of long bones in prehistoric Southeast Asian populations	4
Differences in Dental Size Among the Indigenous Population of the Canary Islands	4
Violence and sharp force trauma in Nusaybin/Girnavaz Mound/Türkiye Late Roman–Early Islamic human remains	4
Applying the V.E.R.A. method to entheses of the humerus: An assessment of repeatability and reproducibility	4
Sturgeons in materials from archaeological sites of Ukraine: A review	4
Complex genetic landscape revealed by a population in the eastern Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang between the 8th and 11th centuries CE	4
A biocultural study of nasal fracture, violence, and gender using 19th–20th century skeletal remains from Portugal	4
An “Invisible” Child—A Case of a Child With Anthropogenic Modification Marks and Pathological Conditions in Early Neolithic China	4
Trauma patterns and injury prevalence in early medieval Säben‐Sabiona, Italy	3
Embodied labors during the state formation of Egypt and Nubia (ca. 4800–1750 BCE): Elucidating transformations in behavioral patterns with entheseal changes	3
Nostalgia for the old country—A histological exploration of early childhood physiological stress experiences in colonial Otago, New Zealand	3
Bioarchaeological insights into disability: Skeletal dysplasia from the Iron Age northern China	3
Bronze age horsemen: An evaluation of pathological and nonpathological changes for indicators of “horsemanship syndrome” of the Strzyżów culture population, Poland, 2000–1600 BC	3
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Considering passenger pigeon abundance and distribution in the Late Woodland zooarchaeological record of southern Ontario, Canada	3
The effect of age on entheseal changes: A study of modifications at appendicular attachment sites in a large sample of identified human skeletons	3

A bioarcheological contribution to the social history of Roman Macedonia: The Pontokomi‐Vrysi site in Kozani Prefecture, Greece	3
Reconstructing Cranial Modification Practices: Methods, Motivations, and Evolution of Occipital Modification in Prehistoric China	3
Cortical bone maintenance and loss in Colonial Mexico City: Analysis of sex‐ and age‐related differences	3
A 10 ka intentionally deformed human skull from Northeast Asia	3
Introduction of sugarcane in Al‐Andalus (Medieval Spain) and its impact on children's dental health	3
Neanderthal use of animal bones as retouchers at the Level XV of the Sopeña rock shelter (Asturias, northern Spain)	3
Perimortem cranial injury in the Bronze Age. A blunt object to the right parietal caused trauma in a preadolescent individual from Mokarta (Salemi‐Sicily)	3
The cultural roles of perforated fish vertebrae in prehistoric and historic Europe	3
Application of morphometric and stable isotope analyses for distinguishing domestic and wild geese	3
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Subsistence strategies in the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age in Nenjiang River Basin: A zooarchaeological and stable isotope analysis of faunal remains at Honghe site, Northeast China	3
Nonmetric population‐specific sex estimation based on the skull using logistic regression for Flemish samples	3
An analysis of interobserver variability in the recording of maxillary sinusitis in human osteoarchaeological remains	3
Marine bryozoan colonization of terrestrial biomineralized tissues: Taphonomic insights and forensic implications	3
In service to the sultan: Biological affinity analysis of Vlach Ottoman vassals from the Šarić Struga and Koprivno‐Križ sites in southern Croatia	3
An historical overview of the field of study of human remains in South Korean archaeology	3
Atypical dental wear in an enslaved individual from Lagos, Portugal	3
Taking from the dead: Grave disturbance of Sarmatian cemeteries in the Banat region	2
Only photos on my best side, please! Implications of bilateral asymmetry of the iliac auricular surface in non‐adult individuals for sex estimation	2
Application of the microtomography technique in density studies of prehistoric and historical human skeletal materials	2
The Rule Rather Than the Exception! Multi‐Predator Actualistic Accumulations From Cau del Duc (Lleida, Spain) and Their Implications for the Interpretation of the Archaeopaleontological Record	2
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Early childhood nurturing strategies in groups of the Yellow River's middle reaches from the late Yangshao culture (3500–2800 BCE): A stable isotope perspective	2
Eneolithic pile dwellers captured waterfowl in winter: Analysis of avian bone remains from two pile dwellings in Ljubljansko barje (Slovenia)	2
Ancient DNA reveals population trends of Lesser Rhea (Rhea pennata) in Northwestern Patagonia	2
Case study of a special burial resulting from obstetric death at the Sanbulijia site, Shandong Province, China	2
Osteoarchaeological Perspectives on Socioeconomic Changes in European Iron Age Societies: Some Introductory Remarks	2
What can osteometric analyses tell us about domestic dogs recovered from a multicomponent indigenous site in Vermont?	2
Chickens consumed in early modern samurai residences: A study of bird remains from the Ichigaya Honmura‐cho site, Tokyo, Japan	2
Spondylolysis in ancient Nubian skeletal populations	2
Two examples of anthropic manipulation and postmortem processing of human remains at megalithic sites in inland Iberia: La Cabaña and Los Zumacales (Spanish northern sub‐plateau)	2
From sacred symbolism to luxury display and consumption: The peacock in medieval Catalonia—Data from zooarcheological, iconographic, and literary evidences	2
A community in transition: Analysis of health and well‐being in people living during and following aridification	2
The dog of Los Chonos: First pre‐Hispanic record in western Patagonia (~43° to 47°S, Chile)	2
Ancient genomes reveal the origin and kinship burial patterns of human remains during the 11th to 13th centuries in northern China	2
The bare bones appearance of hyperparathyroidism: Distinguishing subperiosteal bone resorption from periosteal reaction	2
Transition Between Two Worlds: Morphological Continuity in Iron Age Cattle, Pig, and Sheep Populations (800–50 bc) of the Rhône Valley (France)	2
Fish out of water	2
Early Childhood in Precolonial South America: Breastfeeding, Infant Mortality, and Stable Isotopes Analysis in Southeastern Shell Mound Builders During the Middle Holocene (7th–5th Millennium BP)	2
A skeletal dysplasia leading to a perinatal death in 17th–19th century Lisbon, Portugal	2
Possible case of partial postmortem fetal extrusion: Preliminary observations on the mummified remains of a turn‐of‐the‐19th‐century noblewoman in Finland	2
Pigs in the Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: New evidence from Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan (7800–7100 BC)	2
Testing of morphological sex estimation traits with a sex‐known collection: Ottoman period skulls	2
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Primary double teeth in archeological medieval material from the area of Poland: A report on two cases	2
Dental wear in a marine economy: A case study from Philistine Ashkelon	2
A glimpse into the body shape and limb proportions of enslaved Africans from Lagos, Portugal (15th–17th centuries)	2
Specifying subsistence strategies of early farmers: New results from compound‐specific isotopic analysis of amino acids	2
Complexity of agricultural economies in the Yiluo region in the late Neolithic and bronze age (3500–221 BC): An integrated stable isotope and archeobotanical study from the Tumen site, North China	2
Growing up in the suburbs: Growth faltering and disease burden in the children from 16th to 18th century Tallinn, Estonia	2
First reported archaeological case of leprosy in Slovakia	2
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Pronounced hyperostosis frontalis interna and co‐occurring lesions in the skull base suggestive of a pituitary tumor in a woman from medieval Germany	2
A New Open‐Access Method Applying GIS Techniques to the Study of Slicing, Scraping, and Tooth Marks	2
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An Upper Paleolithic horse mandible with an embedded lithic projectile: Insights into 16,500 cal BP hunting strategies through a unique case of bone injury from Cantabrian Spain	2
A natural death assemblage of fishes from an early modern archeological context in Antwerp (Belgium)	2
A case report of possible Legg–Calve–Perthes disease on Roman dogs from Gaul (France)	2
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Predictive use of modern reference osteological collections for disentangling the shape of Eurasian equid cheek teeth and metapodials in archaeological material	2
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Violence in Hasmonean Judea: Skeletal evidence of a massacre from 2nd–1st century BCE Jerusalem	2
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Fishhooks, fishing spears, and weaving: The bone technology of Madjedbebe, Northern Australia	2
Withers height estimation in medieval horse samples from Poland: Comparing the internal cranial cavity‐based modified Wyrost and Kucharczyk method with existing methods	2