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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring Division of Labor at the Jiaojia Site in the Late Neolithic Period, Eastern China Using Entheseal Changes as Proxy	19
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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
Blue fibers found in dental calculus from Maya sacrificial victims	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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First Detailed Examination of Macaca (Primates, Cercopithecidae) Remains From Roman Anatolia	9
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
Who Ate All the Thrushes? Roman Urban Street Food Consumers as well as Elites	8
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Modified Human Tooth Pendant From the Late Neolithic (5300/5200–4600/4500 cal bc ) Site of Jablanica, Serbia	8
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
Only photos on my best side, please! Implications of bilateral asymmetry of the iliac auricular surface in non‐adult individuals for sex estimation	7
Neanderthals Among Bird Accumulators on French Mediterranean Coasts: The Case of Les Ramandils Cave (Port‐la‐Nouvelle, Aude, Southern France)	7
Diet and Cultural Transition in Sixth Century ad China: New Isotopic Studies on Multiple Elite and Commoner Individuals in the Chang'an Region	7
Sorting of Proximal and Distal Long Bone Fragments Using Diaphyseal Cross‐Sectional Geometric Properties	7
Nostalgia for the old country—A histological exploration of early childhood physiological stress experiences in colonial Otago, New Zealand	7
Cranial Nonmetric Traits as Indicators of Regional Population Affinities Among Uralic‐Speaking Populations From European Russia to Western Siberia	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
Bird bone artifact from the Late Eneolithic/Early Bronze Age site of Zók (Hungary)	6
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Neolithic Lifeways at the Microlevel: Isobiographies From Italy	6
Dental wear in a marine economy: A case study from Philistine Ashkelon	6
Bird remains from ecclesiastical sites in medieval Hungary	6

Cremated Bone in Archaeology: Ethical Considerations in the Excavation, Analysis, Storage, and Display of Cremated Bone in the United Kingdom	6
Seasonal Exploitation of Migratory Waterfowl at Natufian el‐Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel	6
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Osteometry of Duck Species in Northwestern Europe—A Reassessment of Woelfle's (1967) Dataset	6
Cuon Versus Canis : A Comparative Guide to the Morphological Distinction of Postcranial Bones and Its Archaeo‐Paleontological	5
Sex differences in mechanical stress and associated labor in Hellenistic–early Roman Menainon, Sicily	5
Living and Dying Down South: Dietary Analysis of Zhao Boyun (1155–1216 ce ), a Member of the Song Dynasty Imperial Household (China)	5
Interpersonal violence in colonial era in Papua, Indonesia: A case study of trauma patterns of a Biak individual	5
Intergroup Craniometrical Variation From the Argentina Populations in the Context of Ancient and Modern World Populations	5
Domestic Cattle ( Bos taurus ) Late Neolithic Burial at Krzczonowice, the Greater Trochanter of Fe	5
The Zooarchaeology of an Iberian Medieval Jewish Community: The Castle of Lorca (Murcia, Spain)	5
Social Determinants of Spinal Pathology in Adolescents From Urban Centers in the Post‐Medieval Netherlands (1650–1850 CE )	5
Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence: Domesticated and wild bovids in Neolithic Sudan	5
Bird remains from Vilnius Lower Castle, Lithuania (13th–19th centuries) reveal changes in social status and unusual bird pathologies	5
Paleodiets of hunter‐gatherers from the central Patagonian coast: Reviewing scopes and limitations of stable isotope analyses	5
Archaeozoological Insights Into Avian Exploitation in the Magdalenian of Belgium at the Caves of Trou du Frontal and Trou des Nutons	5
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Hyperostosis frontalis interna: A new perspective in burned individuals' analysis for determining age and sex from archeo‐anthropological and medicolegal contexts	4
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Reconstructing Early Human Subsistence in Near Oceania: New Insights From Matenkupkum and Matenbek	4
Roman Republican Subsistence Strategies: The Case of Compartment 2 at Castelo Velho de Safara, Portugal	4
A GIS‐Based Approach to Modeling Carnivore Activity in the Pleistocene Site of Cova del Rinoceront (Iberian Peninsula)	4
Beyond the Binary? A Multi‐Method Approach to Sexing Children at the Viking Age Site of Ihre, Gotland	4
Female skeletal health and socioeconomic status in medieval Norway (11th–16th centuries AD): Analysis of bone mineral density and stature	4
Skeletal Dysplasia During the Bronze Age in Northeast Thailand (3000–2500 BP)	4
Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European accipitrid birds of prey	4
The talus of the pre‐Hispanic population from Punta Azul (El Hierro, Canary Islands): Variability and sexual dimorphism of nonmetric traits	4
Some Highlights From 2024: A Year in Review at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology	4
Exploitation of Rabbits at the Dawn of the Holocene: Evidence From the Font Voltada Site (Northeastern Iberia) Using Comparative Neotaphonomic Models	4
Archaeological and Biogeochemical Investigation of Past Human Relationships With Now‐Endangered Fish Species: Lake Sturgeon and American Eel in Southern Ontario, Canada	4
An unprecedented case of cranial surgery in Longobard Italy (6th–8th century) using a cruciform incision	4
An Odontoma in Domestic Cattle ( Bos taurus ) From the Early Neolithic Site of Međureč (Serbia): M	4
Animals' paleopathology: Implications on human–animal interaction during the intensification of farming in the Southern Levant	4
Geometric morphometric approach to dental health in an 18th‐ to 19th‐century English infirmary	4
The Association of Pregnancy and Scurvy in Indigenous Women and Their Children From the Late Holocene in California (USA)	4
Identifying Industrial Accidents in Ancient Societies	4
Diet and Oral Health of Scythian Populations in Ukraine (700–200 bce): Evidence for Grain Consumption and Food Processing	3
Bioarchaeological insights into the Late Helladic communities of South Kynouria, Peloponnese: The case of the LH IIIA2‐IIIB2 burial cluster of Socha	3
Considering passenger pigeon abundance and distribution in the Late Woodland zooarchaeological record of southern Ontario, Canada	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
Fish out of water	3
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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
Subsistence and animal management at Iron Age sites of Quanshuigou and Dumuduebudege in western Xinjiang, China	3
A fifth‐ to sixth‐century CE lynx (Lynx lynx L., 1758) skeleton from Hungary 2: Stature and archaeological interpretations	3
The role of TV documentaries to disseminate osteoarchaeology more widely: The good, the bad, and the ugly	3
STARC OSTEOARCH: An open access resource for recording and sharing human osteoarchaeological data	3
Assessing the Greater Sciatic Notch With 2‐D Shape Analysis for Sex Estimation	3
The great auk in Norway: From common to locally extinct	3

A Dangerous Trade: Traumatic Injuries Likely Sustained From Turquoise Mining a Millenia Ago in the Atacama Desert, Chile	3
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A natural death assemblage of fishes from an early modern archeological context in Antwerp (Belgium)	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
Sex estimation by discriminant function analysis of long bones in prehistoric Southeast Asian populations	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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A Quantitative Approach to Record Skeletal Manifestations of Leprosy and Its Application to St Mary Magdalen Leprosarium, Winchester	3
Complex skeletal foot malformation in a Samnite “warrior grave” from Abruzzo, southern Italy (8th–5th century BCE)	3
A skeletal dysplasia leading to a perinatal death in 17th–19th century Lisbon, Portugal	3
Human Use of Bird Resources in the Northeastern Coasts of the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego, Southern South America) During the Late Holocene	3
Primary double teeth in archeological medieval material from the area of Poland: A report on two cases	3
Asymmetrical Steps: Osteomorphological and Metric Patterns of Cattle Phalanges to Determine Anatomical Position	3
Analysis of Organic Microremains in Extramasticatory Occlusal Dental Grooves: An Interpretative Challenge in Past Contexts	3
Occupational patterns in Anglo‐Saxon and Medieval East Midlands, England: Insights from activity‐related skeletal changes	3
Reconstructing the Tang Royal Diet in China: Stable Isotope Analysis of the Skeletal Remains of Emperor Xizong (862–888 ce )	3
Imbalanced Sex Ratios in Sex Estimation Using Probabilistic Sex Diagnosis (Diagnose Sexuelle Probabiliste [DSP]): Implications for Paleodemographic Interpretations	3
A probable case of multiple osteochondromas in a Qing period (1644–1911) individual from Shandong, China	2
Zooarchaeology of Ban Chiang and the rise of early farming communities in mainland Southeast Asia	2
Dento‐Alveolar Infectious Diseases Among Hunter‐Gatherers From Northeast and Central Chubut Province (Argentina) During the Late Holocene	2
Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European birds of prey: Falcons and owls	2
Archaeology and ethnobiology of Late Holocene bird remains from the northern Oregon coast	2
Weaponry and a Healed Wound From the Parthian Era (247 bce to 224 ce ): Insights From the Liyarsan	2
The Effect of Soft Tissues in Burnt Human Skeletal Remains	2
Oral health and nonmolar dental attrition in the Siwa‐period individuals from the Bronze Age Mogou cemetery, Northwest China	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
New Isotopic Evidence of Increased Exploitation of C ₃ Plant Resources by Complex Hunter–Gatherers in the Early to Middle Neolithic Guangxi, South Ch	2
Gone Batty: A Newly Adapted Morphological Methodology for Bat Cranial Remains Within an Archaeological Setting	2
Hypomineralization disorder in tropical Southeast Asia during the agricultural revolution: Analysis of morbidity and mortality	2
Next‐Generation Paleopathology: Using Commercial AI in Bioarchaeological Diagnosis	2
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The Role of Birds in Upper Paleolithic Contexts: An Analysis of the Griffon Vulture ( Gyps fulvus	2
Halal and Makruk: Muslim archaeological fish assemblages as cultural identifiers in the Iberian Middle Ages?	2
Some Highlights From 2025: A Year in Review at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology	2
A Possible Case of Child Abuse at the Early Urban Centre of Tell Brak, NE Syria	2
Extending our understanding of past animal diet using stable isotope analysis	2
Animal diseases in the southern part of the Carpathian Basin during the medieval period	2
Dental disease reflects differential diets and changes in consumption over time at Knossos	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
Transformation processes in the osteoarchaeological record between the Iron Age and the Roman times with reference to the civitas Treverorum	2
Statistical protocol for analyzing 3D muscle attachment sites based on the “Validated Entheses‐based Reconstruction of Activity” (VERA) approach	2
Sheep Ahoy: Exploring sheep management and its role in Viking Age economy through multiproxy analyses at Löddeköpinge, Sweden	2
Accumulation agents and bird assemblages: The case of the TE9d level at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)	2
Early evidence of extra‐masticatory dental wear in a Neolithic community at Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan	2
First Phalanx Morphometrics Reveals Camelid Morphotype Variability at Los Batanes (11^th/12^th c. ce), Southern Coastal Peru	2
The effect of age on entheseal changes: A study of modifications at appendicular attachment sites in a large sample of identified human skeletons	2
Neotaphonomic Analysis of Bone Accumulation by a Nocturnal Raptor (Bubo bubo): Evidence From Avian Remains in Oliva Mountain (Tarragona, Spain)	2
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Elk in Medieval Towns of Rus': Meat, Hides, and Antler Economies	2
Growing up in the suburbs: Growth faltering and disease burden in the children from 16th to 18th century Tallinn, Estonia	2
A study of reviewing at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology: Accepting, declining, fairness, and responsibilities	2
Maya Sequential Burials and Subsistence Change at the Prehispanic Site of Caledonia, Cayo District, Belize: The Radiocarbon Evidence	2
From the Womb to the Tomb: Identifying Calving Deaths in Archaeology	2
Two Child Mummies From Qubbet el‐Hawa (Aswan, Egypt): A Paleoradiological Case‐Based Study	2
A cattle mandible thong‐smoother from a grave: Strap production and cattle traction in the Late Copper Age in Hungary	2
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Ethics in Osteoarchaeology	2
Lions as Bone Accumulators? Exploring Multi‐Predator Contributions to the Olduvai Carnivore Site (OCS) (Tanzania) Through AI and Metric Analyses	2
First Identification of Bone Whistle‐Use in Dynastic Egypt	2
A visual guide for the Brabant index to score dental macrowear quantity and direction	2
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A glimpse into the body shape and limb proportions of enslaved Africans from Lagos, Portugal (15th–17th centuries)	2
Paleodietary reconstruction of endemic rodents from the precolumbian Dominican Republic: Discriminating wild feeding behavior from diets linked to human niche construction activities	2
Bone Arrow Points Manufacturing in Prehispanic Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina	2
Osseous harpoon heads of hunter‐gatherers from the lower Paraná wetland	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
Two cases of skeletal fluorosis from the historic cemetery at Zhangwan, Henan Province, China	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
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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
Anthropological, Pathological, and Historical Analyses of a Mummified Cranium From Bolivia Hosted in the Museum of Cantonal Archaeology and History of Lausanne, Switzerland	2
Neo‐Taphonomic Analysis of Prey Bone Remains Accumulated by Golden Eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos ): A	2
Reconstructing the life histories of a noble couple from the Joseon period, Korea, based on skeletal evidence and historical records	2