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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Perinatal burials at pre‐Hispanic noncemetery sites in Gran Canaria: Tophet, infanticide, or natural mortality?	13
Illness and inclusion: Mobility histories of adolescents with leprosy from Anglo‐Scandinavian Norwich (Eastern England)	13
Unusual find of osteolytic lesion on skeleton from the Middle Bronze Age—Possible case of peritoneal abscess	12
Pastures and fodder for feeding equids 3000 years ago: The Can Roqueta site (Barcelona, Spain) as a model of equine herd management	12
Therapeutic dentistry in prehistoric Maryland—New analyses from the Hughes (18MO1) archeological site	12
Blue fibers found in dental calculus from Maya sacrificial victims	12
In search of the ‘great horse’: A zooarchaeological assessment of horses from England (AD 300–1650)	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)	11
Notes on early childhood diets in early modern Oulu, Finland, based on the stable isotope case studies of archeological dentin	11
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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	10
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Chickens consumed in early modern samurai residences: A study of bird remains from the Ichigaya Honmura‐cho site, Tokyo, Japan	9
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	9
A 10 ka intentionally deformed human skull from Northeast Asia	9
The cultural roles of perforated fish vertebrae in prehistoric and historic Europe	8
First reported archaeological case of leprosy in Slovakia	8
Dental wear in a marine economy: A case study from Philistine Ashkelon	8
Only photos on my best side, please! Implications of bilateral asymmetry of the iliac auricular surface in non‐adult individuals for sex estimation	7
Nostalgia for the old country—A histological exploration of early childhood physiological stress experiences in colonial Otago, New Zealand	7
A bioarcheological contribution to the social history of Roman Macedonia: The Pontokomi‐Vrysi site in Kozani Prefecture, Greece	7
Bird bone artifact from the Late Eneolithic/Early Bronze Age site of Zók (Hungary)	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

Who Ate All the Thrushes? Roman Urban Street Food Consumers as well as Elites	7
Bird remains from ecclesiastical sites in medieval Hungary	6
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Sex differences in mechanical stress and associated labor in Hellenistic–early Roman Menainon, Sicily	6
Sheep (Ovis aries) of Venda speakers during the second millennium AD in South Africa	6
A child left behind: Malnutrition and chronic illness of a child from the Erie County Poorhouse Cemetery	6
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Study on the dietary pattern and local isotopes of the Xiaoshuangqiao Shang Dynasty (1400 bc) site in China	5
Geometric morphometric approach to dental health in an 18th‐ to 19th‐century English infirmary	5
Diet of the Chanyu and his people: Stable isotope analysis of the human remains from Xiongnu burials in western and northern Mongolia	5
Paleodiets of hunter‐gatherers from the central Patagonian coast: Reviewing scopes and limitations of stable isotope analyses	5
Intra‐tooth isotopic analysis (δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N) of dentine collagen in high‐crowned teeth: A new experimental study with modern sheep specimens	5
First application of a puberty estimation method to skeletons of young pregnant females: A case for the reevaluation of maternal–fetal burials	5
Hyperostosis frontalis interna: A new perspective in burned individuals' analysis for determining age and sex from archeo‐anthropological and medicolegal contexts	5
An unprecedented case of cranial surgery in Longobard Italy (6th–8th century) using a cruciform incision	5
The Zooarchaeology of an Iberian Medieval Jewish Community: The Castle of Lorca (Murcia, Spain)	5
Social stratification during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty of China (771–476 bce): Mortuary and stable isotopic analyses of the Shangshihe cemetery	5
Interpersonal violence in colonial era in Papua, Indonesia: A case study of trauma patterns of a Biak individual	5
Some Highlights From 2024: A Year in Review at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology	5
Female skeletal health and socioeconomic status in medieval Norway (11th–16th centuries AD): Analysis of bone mineral density and stature	5
Recovery lines in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Computed tomography investigations in European museums	5
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The talus of the pre‐Hispanic population from Punta Azul (El Hierro, Canary Islands): Variability and sexual dimorphism of nonmetric traits	5
Animals' paleopathology: Implications on human–animal interaction during the intensification of farming in the Southern Levant	5
Bird remains from Vilnius Lower Castle, Lithuania (13th–19th centuries) reveal changes in social status and unusual bird pathologies	5
Cremated Bone in Archaeology: Ethical Considerations in the Excavation, Analysis, Storage, and Display of Cremated Bone in the United Kingdom	5
Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence: Domesticated and wild bovids in Neolithic Sudan	5
Assessing the Greater Sciatic Notch With 2‐D Shape Analysis for Sex Estimation	5
Analysis of periosteal lesions from commingled human remains at the Xagħra Circle hypogeum reveals the first case of probable scurvy from Neolithic Malta	5
Abnormal bone loss in the external auditory canal of two adult humans from the medieval period of Germany—An attempt at differential diagnosis	5
The great auk in Norway: From common to locally extinct	5
Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European accipitrid birds of prey	5
Bioarchaeological insights into the Late Helladic communities of South Kynouria, Peloponnese: The case of the LH IIIA2‐IIIB2 burial cluster of Socha	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
A fifth‐ to sixth‐century CE lynx (Lynx lynx L., 1758) skeleton from Hungary 2: Stature and archaeological interpretations	4
The impact of pathological conditions on carbon and nitrogen isotopic values in the bone collagen of individuals with known biographic data and medical history	4
Complex skeletal foot malformation in a Samnite “warrior grave” from Abruzzo, southern Italy (8th–5th century BCE)	4
The dog of Los Chonos: First pre‐Hispanic record in western Patagonia (~43° to 47°S, Chile)	4
The role of TV documentaries to disseminate osteoarchaeology more widely: The good, the bad, and the ugly	4
Occupational patterns in Anglo‐Saxon and Medieval East Midlands, England: Insights from activity‐related skeletal changes	4
STARC OSTEOARCH: An open access resource for recording and sharing human osteoarchaeological data	4
Animal diseases in the Central Balkan Eneolithic (ca. 4500–2500 BC)—A diachronic perspective on the site of Bubanj, south‐eastern Serbia	4
Subsistence and animal management at Iron Age sites of Quanshuigou and Dumuduebudege in western Xinjiang, China	4
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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	4
Juvenile sex estimation using the elevation of the auricular surface: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	4
Sex estimation by discriminant function analysis of long bones in prehistoric Southeast Asian populations	4
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)	4
Statistical protocol for analyzing 3D muscle attachment sites based on the “Validated Entheses‐based Reconstruction of Activity” (VERA) approach	4
A glimpse into the body shape and limb proportions of enslaved Africans from Lagos, Portugal (15th–17th centuries)	3

Introduction of sugarcane in Al‐Andalus (Medieval Spain) and its impact on children's dental health	3
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A cattle mandible thong‐smoother from a grave: Strap production and cattle traction in the Late Copper Age in Hungary	3
Predictive use of modern reference osteological collections for disentangling the shape of Eurasian equid cheek teeth and metapodials in archaeological material	3
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	3
Employing radiography (X‐rays) to localize lesions in human skeletal remains from past populations to allow accurate biopsy, using examples of cancer metastases	3
Accumulation agents and bird assemblages: The case of the TE9d level at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)	3
Considering passenger pigeon abundance and distribution in the Late Woodland zooarchaeological record of southern Ontario, Canada	3
Growing up in the suburbs: Growth faltering and disease burden in the children from 16th to 18th century Tallinn, Estonia	3
Fish out of water	3
Early evidence of extra‐masticatory dental wear in a Neolithic community at Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan	3
Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European birds of prey: Falcons and owls	3
Ethics in Osteoarchaeology	3
Gastroliths in archaeology: A note of caution	3
Animal diseases in the southern part of the Carpathian Basin during the medieval period	3
A reflection of the unfavorable living conditions caused by the First World War in the diet and health of a 10‐year‐old boy (1907–1917) from Vetlá cemetery, Bohemia	3
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)	3
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Primary double teeth in archeological medieval material from the area of Poland: A report on two cases	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 skeletal dysplasia leading to a perinatal death in 17th–19th century Lisbon, Portugal	3
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	3
Zooarchaeology of Ban Chiang and the rise of early farming communities in mainland Southeast Asia	3
A comparative study of malocclusion and its severity in the Ottoman period and modern populations	3
Reconstructing the life histories of a noble couple from the Joseon period, Korea, based on skeletal evidence and historical records	3
Detection of cancerous lesions in skeletal remains using visual methods and radiographs	3
A community in transition: Analysis of health and well‐being in people living during and following aridification	3
A natural death assemblage of fishes from an early modern archeological context in Antwerp (Belgium)	3
Withers height estimation in medieval horse samples from Poland: Comparing the internal cranial cavity‐based modified Wyrost and Kucharczyk method with existing methods	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
Developmental Anomalies of the Foot Bones: Coalitions and Bipartitions in the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection	2
Investigating the dentoalveolar complex in archaeological human skull specimens: Additional findings with large volume micro‐CT compared to standard methods	2
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	2
A visual guide for the Brabant index to score dental macrowear quantity and direction	2
Applying the V.E.R.A. method to entheses of the humerus: An assessment of repeatability and reproducibility	2
A study of reviewing at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology: Accepting, declining, fairness, and responsibilities	2
Extending our understanding of past animal diet using stable isotope analysis	2
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A photographic atlas for European freshwater and migratory fish remains and key considerations for their analysis	2
Death at distance: Mobility, memory, and place among the late precontact Oneota in the central Illinois River Valley	2
Oral health and nonmolar dental attrition in the Siwa‐period individuals from the Bronze Age Mogou cemetery, Northwest China	2
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Horse‐riding as a habitual activity among the early medieval Avar population of the cemetery of Csokorgasse (Vienna): Sex and chronological differences	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
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Nonmetric population‐specific sex estimation based on the skull using logistic regression for Flemish samples	2
A Method for Detecting Bias in Human Archaeological Cemetery Samples	2
Sheep Ahoy: Exploring sheep management and its role in Viking Age economy through multiproxy analyses at Löddeköpinge, Sweden	2
Analyzing entheseal changes in commingled human remains from Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in Portugal	2
Sturgeons in materials from archaeological sites of Ukraine: A review	2
Transformation processes in the osteoarchaeological record between the Iron Age and the Roman times with reference to the civitas Treverorum	2
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Dental disease reflects differential diets and changes in consumption over time at Knossos	2
How we can learn from analysing trauma in past societies	2
Bone spearheads from the Late Prehispanic Period of Sierras of Cordoba (Argentina)	2
Maxillary abnormality in the medieval Blessed friar Egidio from Laurenzana (Basilicata, southern Italy)	2
Halal and Makruk: Muslim archaeological fish assemblages as cultural identifiers in the Iberian Middle Ages?	2
Two cases of skeletal fluorosis from the historic cemetery at Zhangwan, Henan Province, China	2
It runs in the family: Kinship analysis using foot anomalies in the cemetery of Middenbeemster (Netherlands, 17th to 19th century)	2
Paleodiet reconstruction of human and animal bones at the Dalujiao cemetery in Early Iron Age Xinjiang, China	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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Marine bryozoan colonization of terrestrial biomineralized tissues: Taphonomic insights and forensic implications	2
Twins found in a Late Dynastic/Coptic Egyptian mummy	2
DNA analysis of skeletal remains of an important historical figure from the period of mediaeval Bosnia	2
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Complex genetic landscape revealed by a population in the eastern Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang between the 8th and 11th centuries CE	2
Dento‐Alveolar Infectious Diseases Among Hunter‐Gatherers From Northeast and Central Chubut Province (Argentina) During the Late Holocene	2
An “Invisible” Child—A Case of a Child With Anthropogenic Modification Marks and Pathological Conditions in Early Neolithic China	2
A probable case of multiple osteochondromas in a Qing period (1644–1911) individual from Shandong, China	2
Archaeology and ethnobiology of Late Holocene bird remains from the northern Oregon coast	2
Hypomineralization disorder in tropical Southeast Asia during the agricultural revolution: Analysis of morbidity and mortality	2
Two cases of cystic echinococcosis reported from al‐Andalus cemeteries (southern Iberia): Insights into zoonotic diseases in Islamic Medieval Europe	2
Osseous harpoon heads of hunter‐gatherers from the lower Paraná wetland	2
Editorial: A tribute to Debra Martin	2
From the Atlantic coast to the lowland forests: Stable isotope analysis of the diet of forager–horticulturists in southern Brazil	2
Diet and urbanisation in medieval Holland. Studying dietary change through carious lesions and stable isotope analysis	2
Skeletal evidence for two external auditory canal disorder cases from medieval China	2