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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Exploring Division of Labor at the Jiaojia Site in the Late Neolithic Period, Eastern China Using Entheseal Changes as Proxy	17
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Blue fibers found in dental calculus from Maya sacrificial victims	12
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
Dental Stigmata and Skeletal Lesions of Congenital Treponematosis in Early Agricultural Vietnam (4000–3500 bp )	9
Notes on early childhood diets in early modern Oulu, Finland, based on the stable isotope case studies of archeological dentin	9
Therapeutic dentistry in prehistoric Maryland—New analyses from the Hughes (18MO1) archeological site	9
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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	9
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A bioarcheological contribution to the social history of Roman Macedonia: The Pontokomi‐Vrysi site in Kozani Prefecture, Greece	8
Dental wear in a marine economy: A case study from Philistine Ashkelon	8
Who Ate All the Thrushes? Roman Urban Street Food Consumers as well as Elites	8
Chickens consumed in early modern samurai residences: A study of bird remains from the Ichigaya Honmura‐cho site, Tokyo, Japan	7
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	7
Seasonal Exploitation of Migratory Waterfowl at Natufian el‐Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel	7
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	7
Neanderthals Among Bird Accumulators on French Mediterranean Coasts: The Case of Les Ramandils Cave (Port‐la‐Nouvelle, Aude, Southern France)	7
Sorting of Proximal and Distal Long Bone Fragments Using Diaphyseal Cross‐Sectional Geometric Properties	6
Bird bone artifact from the Late Eneolithic/Early Bronze Age site of Zók (Hungary)	6
Neolithic Lifeways at the Microlevel: Isobiographies From Italy	6
Nostalgia for the old country—A histological exploration of early childhood physiological stress experiences in colonial Otago, New Zealand	6
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Osteometry of Duck Species in Northwestern Europe—A Reassessment of Woelfle's (1967) Dataset	6

Diet and Cultural Transition in Sixth Century ad China: New Isotopic Studies on Multiple Elite and Commoner Individuals in the Chang'an Region	6
Only photos on my best side, please! Implications of bilateral asymmetry of the iliac auricular surface in non‐adult individuals for sex estimation	6
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Bird remains from ecclesiastical sites in medieval Hungary	6
Bird remains from Vilnius Lower Castle, Lithuania (13th–19th centuries) reveal changes in social status and unusual bird pathologies	5
Cuon Versus Canis : A Comparative Guide to the Morphological Distinction of Postcranial Bones and Its Archaeo‐Paleontological	5
Intergroup Craniometrical Variation From the Argentina Populations in the Context of Ancient and Modern World Populations	5
Living and Dying Down South: Dietary Analysis of Zhao Boyun (1155–1216 ce ), a Member of the Song Dynasty Imperial Household (China)	5
A child left behind: Malnutrition and chronic illness of a child from the Erie County Poorhouse Cemetery	5
Domestic Cattle ( Bos taurus ) Late Neolithic Burial at Krzczonowice, the Greater Trochanter of Fe	5
Cremated Bone in Archaeology: Ethical Considerations in the Excavation, Analysis, Storage, and Display of Cremated Bone in the United Kingdom	5
Paleodiets of hunter‐gatherers from the central Patagonian coast: Reviewing scopes and limitations of stable isotope analyses	5
Social Determinants of Spinal Pathology in Adolescents From Urban Centers in the Post‐Medieval Netherlands (1650–1850 CE )	5
Sex differences in mechanical stress and associated labor in Hellenistic–early Roman Menainon, Sicily	5
Archaeozoological Insights Into Avian Exploitation in the Magdalenian of Belgium at the Caves of Trou du Frontal and Trou des Nutons	5
The Zooarchaeology of an Iberian Medieval Jewish Community: The Castle of Lorca (Murcia, Spain)	5
Reconstructing Early Human Subsistence in Near Oceania: New Insights From Matenkupkum and Matenbek	4
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An unprecedented case of cranial surgery in Longobard Italy (6th–8th century) using a cruciform incision	4
Geometric morphometric approach to dental health in an 18th‐ to 19th‐century English infirmary	4
Archaeological and Biogeochemical Investigation of Past Human Relationships With Now‐Endangered Fish Species: Lake Sturgeon and American Eel in Southern Ontario, Canada	4
Beyond the Binary? A Multi‐Method Approach to Sexing Children at the Viking Age Site of Ihre, Gotland	4
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Identifying Industrial Accidents in Ancient Societies	4
Skeletal Dysplasia During the Bronze Age in Northeast Thailand (3000–2500 BP)	4
A Quantitative Approach to Record Skeletal Manifestations of Leprosy and Its Application to St Mary Magdalen Leprosarium, Winchester	4
Animals' paleopathology: Implications on human–animal interaction during the intensification of farming in the Southern Levant	4
Interpersonal violence in colonial era in Papua, Indonesia: A case study of trauma patterns of a Biak individual	4
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Roman Republican Subsistence Strategies: The Case of Compartment 2 at Castelo Velho de Safara, Portugal	4
Intra‐tooth isotopic analysis (δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N) of dentine collagen in high‐crowned teeth: A new experimental study with modern sheep specimens	4
Hyperostosis frontalis interna: A new perspective in burned individuals' analysis for determining age and sex from archeo‐anthropological and medicolegal contexts	4
An Odontoma in Domestic Cattle ( Bos taurus ) From the Early Neolithic Site of Međureč (Serbia): M	4
Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European accipitrid birds of prey	4
Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence: Domesticated and wild bovids in Neolithic Sudan	4
Some Highlights From 2024: A Year in Review at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology	4
The Association of Pregnancy and Scurvy in Indigenous Women and Their Children From the Late Holocene in California (USA)	4
The talus of the pre‐Hispanic population from Punta Azul (El Hierro, Canary Islands): Variability and sexual dimorphism of nonmetric traits	4
STARC OSTEOARCH: An open access resource for recording and sharing human osteoarchaeological data	3
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)	3
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	3
Primary double teeth in archeological medieval material from the area of Poland: A report on two cases	3
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A Dangerous Trade: Traumatic Injuries Likely Sustained From Turquoise Mining a Millenia Ago in the Atacama Desert, Chile	3
Chronic Disease and Disability in an 18th‐Century Portuguese Nun: An Integrative Multisource Approach	3
Juvenile sex estimation using the elevation of the auricular surface: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	3
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The great auk in Norway: From common to locally extinct	3
Complex skeletal foot malformation in a Samnite “warrior grave” from Abruzzo, southern Italy (8th–5th century BCE)	3
A natural death assemblage of fishes from an early modern archeological context in Antwerp (Belgium)	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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A fifth‐ to sixth‐century CE lynx (Lynx lynx L., 1758) skeleton from Hungary 2: Stature and archaeological interpretations	3
Assessing the Greater Sciatic Notch With 2‐D Shape Analysis for Sex Estimation	3
Female skeletal health and socioeconomic status in medieval Norway (11th–16th centuries AD): Analysis of bone mineral density and stature	3
The role of TV documentaries to disseminate osteoarchaeology more widely: The good, the bad, and the ugly	3
Bioarchaeological insights into the Late Helladic communities of South Kynouria, Peloponnese: The case of the LH IIIA2‐IIIB2 burial cluster of Socha	3
Fish out of water	3
Analysis of Organic Microremains in Extramasticatory Occlusal Dental Grooves: An Interpretative Challenge in Past Contexts	3
Sex estimation by discriminant function analysis of long bones in prehistoric Southeast Asian populations	3
Subsistence and animal management at Iron Age sites of Quanshuigou and Dumuduebudege in western Xinjiang, China	3
Occupational patterns in Anglo‐Saxon and Medieval East Midlands, England: Insights from activity‐related skeletal changes	3
The effect of age on entheseal changes: A study of modifications at appendicular attachment sites in a large sample of identified human skeletons	2
First Phalanx Morphometrics Reveals Camelid Morphotype Variability at Los Batanes (11^th/12^th c. ce), Southern Coastal Peru	2
Reconstructing the life histories of a noble couple from the Joseon period, Korea, based on skeletal evidence and historical records	2
From the Womb to the Tomb: Identifying Calving Deaths in Archaeology	2
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A community in transition: Analysis of health and well‐being in people living during and following aridification	2
Why did the chicken cross the Wallace Line? Archeological evidence suggests human‐mediated dispersal of Gallus to Flores first occurred at least ~2.25 ka cal. BP	2
A skeletal dysplasia leading to a perinatal death in 17th–19th century Lisbon, Portugal	2
Considering passenger pigeon abundance and distribution in the Late Woodland zooarchaeological record of southern Ontario, Canada	2
Bone Arrow Points Manufacturing in Prehispanic Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina	2
Animal diseases in the southern part of the Carpathian Basin during the medieval period	2
Predictive use of modern reference osteological collections for disentangling the shape of Eurasian equid cheek teeth and metapodials in archaeological material	2
Paleodietary reconstruction of endemic rodents from the precolumbian Dominican Republic: Discriminating wild feeding behavior from diets linked to human niche construction activities	2
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Accumulation agents and bird assemblages: The case of the TE9d level at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)	2
Neotaphonomic Analysis of Bone Accumulation by a Nocturnal Raptor (Bubo bubo): Evidence From Avian Remains in Oliva Mountain (Tarragona, Spain)	2
Early evidence of extra‐masticatory dental wear in a Neolithic community at Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan	2
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Maya Sequential Burials and Subsistence Change at the Prehispanic Site of Caledonia, Cayo District, Belize: The Radiocarbon Evidence	2
A Possible Case of Child Abuse at the Early Urban Centre of Tell Brak, NE Syria	2
Hypomineralization disorder in tropical Southeast Asia during the agricultural revolution: Analysis of morbidity and mortality	2
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First Identification of Bone Whistle‐Use in Dynastic Egypt	2
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
Growing up in the suburbs: Growth faltering and disease burden in the children from 16th to 18th century Tallinn, Estonia	2
A glimpse into the body shape and limb proportions of enslaved Africans from Lagos, Portugal (15th–17th centuries)	2
Gone Batty: A Newly Adapted Morphological Methodology for Bat Cranial Remains Within an Archaeological Setting	2
Weaponry and a Healed Wound From the Parthian Era (247 bce to 224 ce ): Insights From the Liyarsan	2
Sheep Ahoy: Exploring sheep management and its role in Viking Age economy through multiproxy analyses at Löddeköpinge, Sweden	2
Oral health and nonmolar dental attrition in the Siwa‐period individuals from the Bronze Age Mogou cemetery, Northwest China	2
Two cases of skeletal fluorosis from the historic cemetery at Zhangwan, Henan Province, China	2
The Role of Birds in Upper Paleolithic Contexts: An Analysis of the Griffon Vulture ( Gyps fulvus	2
Goffette, Q, Suarez Gonzalez, N, Vanmechelen, R, Verheyen, E, & Sonet, G (2022). Tracking the origin of worked elephant ivory of a medieval chess piece from Belgium through analysis of ancient DNA	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
Halal and Makruk: Muslim archaeological fish assemblages as cultural identifiers in the Iberian Middle Ages?	2
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A cattle mandible thong‐smoother from a grave: Strap production and cattle traction in the Late Copper Age in Hungary	2
Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European birds of prey: Falcons and owls	2
Human Use of Bird Resources in the Northeastern Coasts of the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego, Southern South America) During the Late Holocene	2
The Effect of Soft Tissues in Burnt Human Skeletal Remains	2
Statistical protocol for analyzing 3D muscle attachment sites based on the “Validated Entheses‐based Reconstruction of Activity” (VERA) approach	2
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	2
Ethics in Osteoarchaeology	2
Zooarchaeology of Ban Chiang and the rise of early farming communities in mainland Southeast Asia	2
A study of reviewing at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology: Accepting, declining, fairness, and responsibilities	2
Osseous harpoon heads of hunter‐gatherers from the lower Paraná wetland	2