OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization: Fragmentation and Missing Data	62
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models	27
Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven	18
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia	18
Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management	18
Uncovering Hidden Dynamics of Past Kinship and Exchange Relations on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast (650–300 cal BP) Through Scanning Electron Microscopy Automated Mineralogy Analyses of Pottery Sherd	17
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica	17
Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)	16
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	14
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art	13
Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid): a Diachronic Approach Using Biological and Archaeological Variables	13
The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre	12
Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long-Term Perspective	12
The Taphonomy of Status: The Creation of Group Identity and Social Inequality in Medieval Croatia	12
Rethinking Occupation Intensity during the Levantine Middle Epipalaeolithic: The use of Space and Site Formation Processes at the Geometric Kebaran site of Neve David, Israel	11
Comparative Analysis of Three Analytical Methodologies for Polychrome Design: Ceramic Typology, Design Elements/Styles, and Design Symmetries on Chihuahuan Polychromes	11
The Role of Palaeolithic Cave-Art: Estimating Social Investment in Symbolic Expressions Through the Making Cost	11
Quantitative Dental Mesowear Analysis in Domestic Caprids: a New Method to Reconstruct Management Strategies	9
Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe	9
Ethnoarchaeological Inductive Predictive Model: A Field Test in the Italian Alps	9
Stability Through Movement: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of Social Space in Central European Neolithic Lakeside Settlements	9
From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries	9
Self-Organized Cultural Cycles and the Uncertainty of Archaeological Thought	8
The Time of the Stones: A Call for Palimpsest Dissection to Explore Lithic Record Formation Processes	8
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	8

Estimating the Size and Density of the La Prele Site: Implications for Early Paleoindian Group Size	8
Assessing the Utility of Strontium Isotopes in Fossil Dental Calculus	7
Minimum Animal Units and the Standardized Count Problem	7
Applications of Microct Imaging to Archaeobotanical Research	7
Searching for the Individual: Characterising Knowledge Transfer and Skill in Prehistoric Personal Ornament Making	6
Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks	6
A Burning Platform? Critical Reflections on the Impact of Research on the Developing Bioarchaeology of Cremation	6
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents	6
Site-Seeing in Mallorca? Exploring the Visual Influence of Architecture and Location in Talayotic Iron Age Sites in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)	6
Identifying the Impact of Soil Ingestion on Dental Microwear Textures Using a Wild Boar Experimental Model	6
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timing and Zoogeography of Domesticated Horse Arrivals in Mongolia and China	6
Archaeological and Experimental Lithic Microwear Classification Through 2D Textural Analysis and Machine Learning	6
A ‘Family of Wear’: Traceological Patterns on Pebbles Used for Burnishing Pots and Processing Other Plastic Mineral Matters	6
Making Rock Art: Correspondences, Rhythms, and Temporalities	6
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition	6
Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis	5
Life Around the Elephant in Space and Time: an Integrated Approach to Study the Human-Elephant Interactions at the Late Lower Paleolithic Site of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (Rome, Italy)	5
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: on the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores	5
Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions	5
New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Kinematic Perspectives	5
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	5
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites	5
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective	5
Debunking Deterministic Narratives of Technological Development Through Experimentation: A Critical Review of the Prehistory of Tin Bronze Alloying	4
Construction, Maintenance and Ritual Practices on the Neolithic Rondel at Nowe Objezierze (Northwestern Poland): The chaîne opératoire of Rondel’s Architecture	4
Low-Density Urbanisation: Prestate Settlement Growth in a Pacific Society	4
Paleolithic Human Responses to Changing Aridity at Üçağızlı I cave, southern-coastal Turkey: Application of a Novel Carbon Isotope-Based Method	4
Ancient Skeletons In Situ: Evaluating Bone Diagenesis at an Open-Air Archaeological Site and Community Museum in Central Thailand	4
The Temporality of Shapes: A Genealogy of Early Pottery-Making Practices in the Andean–Amazonian Borderland	4
Race, Gender, and Intersectionality in the Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora: Perspectives from Colonial Peru	4
The Levantine Megalithic Building Techniques: A Groundbreaking Method Applied to Menjez’s Monuments (Akkar, Lebanon) from the 4th–3rd Millennium BCE	4
Convergent Evolution of Prehistoric Technologies: the Entropy and Diversity of Limited Solutions	3
Moments of Movement and Stillness for Senebtisi Since 1907	3
Correction to: (Sea)ways of Perception: an Integrated Maritime‑Terrestrial Approach to Modelling Prehistoric Seafaring	3
Toys as Teachers: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Object Use and Enskillment in Hunter–Gatherer Societies	3
From Barter to Market: an Agent-Based Model of Prehistoric Market Development	3
Linking Up Bell Beakers in the Iberian Peninsula	3
The Effect of Plant Food Treatment on Stable Isotopes and Their Relevance for Archaeological Studies: A Methodological Pilot Study	3
How Cultural Transmission Through Objects Impacts Inferences About Cultural Evolution	3
The Beginning of the End: Abandonment Micro-histories in the Mississippian Vacant Quarter	3
Learning by Doing: Investigating Skill Through Techno-Functional Study of Recycled Lithic Items from Qesem Cave (Israel)	3
Archaeo-Tempestites and Coastal Taphonomy of Shell-Bearing Sites: Native American Sites in Florida as a Case Study	3
Biocultural Taphonomies and Analysis of an Emerging Terminal Classic (750–900 CE) Maya Deathway	2
Understanding Taphonomy Through 3D and 2D Records: A Case Study from the Tropical Maya Area	2
An Open-Source Machine Learning–Based Methodological Approach for Processing High-Resolution UAS LiDAR Data in Archaeological Contexts: A Case Study from Epirus, Greece	2
The Archaeology of Cannibalism: a Review of the Taphonomic Traits Associated with Survival and Ritualistic Cannibalism	2
Correction to: Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long‑Term Perspective	2
Quantifying Spatial Complexity of Settlement Plans Through Fractal Analysis	2
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?	2
(Sea)ways of Perception: an Integrated Maritime-Terrestrial Approach to Modelling Prehistoric Seafaring	2

The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial	2
Dots on the Map: Issues in the Archaeological Analysis of Site Locations	2
Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea	2
Confronting Taphonomic Challenges from Excavation Through Curation of Human Remains	2
Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory	2
The Effects of Time-Averaging on Archaeological Networks	2
All Mixed Up: Investigating Mortuary Practice and Processes of Disarticulation Through Integrated Histotaphonomic Analysis at the Knowe of Rowiegar, Neolithic Chambered Cairn, Orkney, UK	2
Fuzzy Typological (Re)arrangement: a Prototype of Rethinking the Typology of Roman Tablewares from Sagalassos, Southwest Anatolia	2
A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production	2
From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production	2
Rethinking Wear Rate Analysis: a New Dentin Exposure Proxy and its Applications to Ancient Chinese Populations	2
Locating Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherer Camps in the Carpathian Basin	2
Deciphering the Public: An Integrated Analysis of Outdoor Spaces in the Neolithic Settlement of Kleitos 1 in Greece	2
Methodological Challenges to Tracking Zea mays (Maize) Historical Pathways Through Macrobotanical, Microbotanical, and Stable Isotope Evidence: Maize’s Adoption and Consumption by Precontact Populatio	1
Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction	1
‘A Complex Past’: Theory and Applications	1
“Open Sourcing” Workflow and Machine Learning Approaches for Attributing Obsidian Artifacts to Their Volcanic Origins: A Feasibility Study from the South Caucasus	1
The Trade Theory of Money: External Exchange and the Origins of Money	1
A Human Behavioral Ecology of the Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes	1
Thermal Influences on Shells: an Archaeological Experiment from the Tropical Indo-pacific	1
Determining the Postmortem Timing of Sharp Force Damage and the Pre-burning Condition of Burnt Bone	1
Bronze Age Stone Anchors as Material Metaphors: Applying Conceptual Blending Theory to Investigate Their Symbolic Value	1
Death and Dichotomy: Exploring Varied Human and Animal Depositional Practices in the Iron Age at Battlesbury Bowl, UK, through Histotaphonomy	1
Archaeology and Kastom: Island Historicities and Transforming Religious Traditions in Southern Vanuatu	1
Correction to: Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Variability of Bone Collagen to Determine the Number of Isotopically Distinct Specimens	1
Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification: Malthusian and Boserupian Dynamics	1
Revealing Evolutionary Patterns Behind Homogeneity: the Case of the Palaeolithic Assemblages from Notarchirico (Southern Italy)	1
A New Approach to the Quantitative Analysis of Bone Surface Modifications: the Bowser Road Mastodon and Implications for the Data to Understand Human-Megafauna Interactions in North America	1
Mappings of Potential Sailing Mobility in the Mediterranean During Antiquity	1
Editorial	1
Forging a New World Order? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Management of Metalworking and Ideological Change in the Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin	1
Beyond the Surface: Exploring Ancient Plant Food Processing through Confocal Microscopy and 3D Texture Analysis on Ground Stone Tools	1
A Review of Methods to Analyze Archaeological Lime Production: Investigating Raw Materials Selection and Firing Conditions	1
Water Flows and Water Accumulations on Bedrock as a Structuring Element of Rock Art	1
Multiproxy Analysis of Adhered and Absorbed Food Residues Associated with Pottery	1
Chipped-Stone Crescents from the Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene of Far Western North America and the Transverse Projectile Point Hypothesis	1
Rock Art Painting Taphonomy: the Role of Environmental and Technological Factors	1
The Archaeology of Awe: Monumental Architecture, Communal Ritual, and Community Formation at Poverty Point, USA	1
Stringing Together Cowrie Shells in the African Archaeological Record with Special Reference to Southern Africa	1
Ritual Closure: Rites De Passage and Apotropaic Magic in an Animate World	1
A Journey Begins with a Single Step: How Early Holocene Humans and Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Embarked on the Pathway to Domestication in the Eastern Fertile Crescent	1
Provisioning an Early City: Spatial Equilibrium in the Agricultural Economy at Angkor, Cambodia	1
“Slow” Network Research? A Mixed-Methods Approach Towards Funeral Status Representation in the Late Urnfield Period	1
Discrimination of Cereal Residue Adsorbed by Pottery Based on Metabolomics	1
Traditions of Equality: The Archaeology of Egalitarianism and Egalitarian Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa (First and Second Millennium CE)	1
Modeling Cultural Transmission in Structured Populations Raises Important Questions for Archaeologists	1