OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Evolving Human Brains: Paleoneurology and the Fate of Middle Pleistocene	42
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	34
Four-Field Co-evolutionary Model for Human Cognition: Variation in the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic	30
Mark Making and Human Becoming	24
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Ecological Changes, Social Behaviour and Human Intergroup Tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP	23
What Stimulated Rapid, Cumulative Innovation After 100,000 Years Ago?	20
Domestication as Enskilment: Harnessing Reindeer in Arctic Siberia	19
Probabilistic Modelling for Incorporating Uncertainty in Least Cost Path Results: a Postdictive Roman Road Case Study	18
Niche Construction Theory in Archaeology: A Critical Review	16
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models	16
Scaling Laws of Paleoindian Projectile Point Design	15
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images	15
Defining and Characterising Clusters in Palaeolithic Sites: a Review of Methods and Constraints	15
Using Radiocarbon Dates and Tool Design Principles to Assess the Role of Composite Slotted Bone Tool Technology at the Intersection of Adaptation and Culture-History	14
Semiotics and the Origin of Language in the Lower Palaeolithic	14
Motion and Gesture: Analysing Artistic Skills in Palaeolithic Art	13
Tracking Hunter-Gatherer Impact on Vegetation in Last Interglacial and Holocene Europe: Proxies and Challenges	13
Sandstone Ground Stone Technology: a Multi-level Use Wear and Residue Approach to Investigate the Function of Pounding and Grinding Tools	13
Household Inequality, Community Formation, and Land Tenure in Classic Period Lowland Maya Society	12
Sexual Inequalities in the Early Neolithic? Exploring Relationships Between Sexes/Genders at the Cemetery of Vedrovice Using Use-Wear Analysis, Diet and Mobility	12
A Study of Fractured Proboscidean Bones in Recent and Fossil Assemblages	12
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	11
An Archaeology of Affect: Art, Ontology and the Carved Stone Balls of Neolithic Britain	11
Materiality, Agency and Evolution of Lithic Technology: an Integrated Perspective for Palaeolithic Archaeology	11
Art (Pre)History: Ritual, Narrative and Visual Culture in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe	10

Constraining the Likely Technological Niches of Late Middle Pleistocene Hominins with Homo naledi as Case Study	10
Provisioning an Early City: Spatial Equilibrium in the Agricultural Economy at Angkor, Cambodia	10
Diet, Mobility, Technology, and Lithics: Neolithization on the Andean Altiplano, 7.0–3.5 ka	10
A Lithic Provisioning Model as a Proxy for Landscape Mobility in the Southern and Middle Kalahari	10
Joining the Circle: Native American Philosophy Applied to the Study of Late Archaic Shell Rings of the Southeast United States	9
Investigating Isotopic Niche Space: Using rKIN for Stable Isotope Studies in Archaeology	9
Investigating the Anthropic Construction of Rock Art Sites Through Archaeomorphology: the Case of Borologa, Kimberley, Australia	9
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?	9
Numerical Reconstruction of Paleolithic Fires in the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave (Ardèche, France)	9
Hidden Sites, Hidden Images, Hidden Meanings: Does the Location and Visibility of Motifsand Sites Correlate to Restricted or Open Access?	9
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models—Best Practices for Data Acquisition	9
Relationships Between Lipid Profiles and Use of Ethnographic Pottery: an Exploratory Study	8
Population Size Limits the Coefficient of Variation in Continuous Traits Affected by Proportional Copying Error (and Why This Matters for Studying Cultural Transmission)	7
Projectiles Under a New Angle: a Ballistic Analysis Provides an Important Building Block to Grasp Paleolithic Weapon Technology	7
Marks, Pictures and Art: Their Contribution to Revolutions in Communication	7
Wealth and Well-being in an Ancient Maya Community	7
Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Variability of Bone Collagen to Determine the Number of Isotopically Distinct Specimens	7
The Role of Functional Efficiency in the Decline of North America’s Copper Culture (8000–3000 BP): an Experimental, Ecological, and Evolutionary Approach	7
Bloodletting in Ancient Central Mexico: Using Lithic Analyses to Detect Changes in Ritual Practices and Local Ontologies	7
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites	7
Application of Line of Sight and Potential Audience Analysis to Unravel the Spatial Organization of Palaeolithic Cave Art	7
Non-Local Enemies or Local Subjects of Violence?: Using Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and Lead (206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb) Isobiographies to Reconstruct Geographic Origins and Early Childhood Mobi	7
The Art of Making Images: Technological Affordance, Design Variability and Labour Organization in the Production of Engraved Artefacts and Body Paintings in Tierra del Fuego (Southern South America)	7
An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past	7
Art in the Making: Recent Developments in the Study of Pleistocene and Holocene Images	6
The Effect of Raw Material on the Identification of Knapping Skill: a Case Study from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania	6
A Multivariate Approach to Investigate Metallurgical Technology: The Case of the Chinese Ritual Bronzes	6
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica	6
Self-Organized Cultural Cycles and the Uncertainty of Archaeological Thought	6
Compression and digestion as agents of vertebral deformation in Sciaenidae, Merlucidae and Gadidae remains: an experimental study to interpret archaeological assemblages	6
From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production	5
Scalar Effects in Ground Slate Technology and the Adaptive Consequences for Circumpolar Maritime Hunter-Gatherers	5
Stringing Together Cowrie Shells in the African Archaeological Record with Special Reference to Southern Africa	5
Entanglements: the Role of Finger Flutings in the Study of the Lived Lives of Upper Paleolithic Peoples	5
Quantifying Edge Sharpness on Stone Flakes: Comparing Mechanical and Micro-Geometric Definitions Across Multiple Raw Materials from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)	5
On the Reuse of Multiscale LiDAR Data to Investigate the Resilience in the Late Medieval Time: the Case Study of Basilicata in South of Italy	5
Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management	5
The Tip Cross-sectional Area (TCSA) Method Strengthened and Constrained with Ethno-historical Material from Sub-Saharan Africa	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
From Storage to Disposal: a Holistic Microbotanical Approach to Domestic Plant Preparation and Consumption Activities in Late Minoan Gypsades, Crete	5
A Simple Method for Quantifying Compositional Correspondence Between Zooarchaeological Assemblages Using Paired Similarity Indices	4
The Return of the Bricoleur? Emplotment, Intentionality, and Tradition in Paleolithic Art	4
A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production	4
Experimental Data from Lacaune and Merino Sheep Provide New Methodological and Theoretical Grounds to Investigate Autumn Lambing in Past Husbandries	4
Itinerant Assemblages and Material Networks: the Application of Assemblage Theory to Networks in Archaeology	4
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	4
The Technological Behaviours of Homo antecessor: Core Management and Reduction Intensity at Gran Dolina-TD6.2 (Atapuerca, Spain)	4
A Study of the Centuries-Long Reliance on Local Ceramics in Jerash Through Full Quantification and Simulation	4
Toys as Teachers: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Object Use and Enskillment in Hunter–Gatherer Societies	4
Tracking Occupational Intensity Using Archaeo-faunal Data: Case Studies from the Late Pleistocene in the Southern Cape of South Africa	4

Mappings of Potential Sailing Mobility in the Mediterranean During Antiquity	3
(Sea)ways of Perception: an Integrated Maritime-Terrestrial Approach to Modelling Prehistoric Seafaring	3
Scratching the Surface: Engraved Cortex as Portable Art in Pleistocene Sulawesi	3
Learning from Each Other: a Communities of Practice Approach to Decorative Traditions of Northern Iroquoian Communities in the Late Woodland	3
Not Just Counters: Clay Tokens and Ritual Materiality in the Ancient Near East	3
Broken Worlds: Towards an Archaeology of the Shatter Zone	3
On the Challenges of Soil Phosphorus Prospections in Heterogeneous Environments—a Case Study on the Iron Age Altenburg Hillfort (Niedenstein, Hesse, Germany)	3
Multiproxy Analysis of Adhered and Absorbed Food Residues Associated with Pottery	3
The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial	3
Dots on the Map: Issues in the Archaeological Analysis of Site Locations	3
Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification: Malthusian and Boserupian Dynamics	3
Replication in Rock Art Past and Present: a Case Study of Bronze and Iron Age Rock Art in the Altai, Eastern Eurasia	3
Weathering Stages of Proboscidean Bones: Relevance for Zooarchaeological Analysis	3
Revealing Evolutionary Patterns Behind Homogeneity: the Case of the Palaeolithic Assemblages from Notarchirico (Southern Italy)	3
Convergent Evolution of Prehistoric Technologies: the Entropy and Diversity of Limited Solutions	3
Ancient Recycling: Considerations of the Wasteful, Meaningful, and Practical from the Maya Site of Ucanal, Peten, Guatemala	3
Skill in Stone Knapping: an Ecological Approach	3
Prehistoric Art as a Boundary Object: Technology and Temporality of South African Petroglyphs	3
Ritual Closure: Rites De Passage and Apotropaic Magic in an Animate World	3
Exploratory Network Reconstruction with Sparse Archaeological Data and XTENT	3
Three-Dimensional Proxies to Dental Wear Characterization in a Known Age-at-Death Skeletal Collection	3
Digital Navigator on the Seas of the Selden Map of China: Sequential Least-Cost Path Analysis Using Dynamic Wind Data	2
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	2
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models	2
Thermal Influences on Shells: an Archaeological Experiment from the Tropical Indo-pacific	2
Pondering Privies: Construction, Use, Reuse, and Other Speculations About Cesspits in the Archaeological Record	2
A Human Behavioral Ecology of the Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes	2
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	2
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: on the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores	2
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective	2
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents	2
A ‘Family of Wear’: Traceological Patterns on Pebbles Used for Burnishing Pots and Processing Other Plastic Mineral Matters	2
Quantitative Dental Mesowear Analysis in Domestic Caprids: a New Method to Reconstruct Management Strategies	2
Comparative Analysis of Three Analytical Methodologies for Polychrome Design: Ceramic Typology, Design Elements/Styles, and Design Symmetries on Chihuahuan Polychromes	2
Genealogies and Juxtapositions: Traces of Potting Communities and Firing Facilities in Lake Titicaca Basin	2
Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement	2
Archaeology and Kastom: Island Historicities and Transforming Religious Traditions in Southern Vanuatu	2
Locating Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherer Camps in the Carpathian Basin	2
Entropology: an Information-Theoretic Approach to Understanding Archaeological Data	2
Applications of Microct Imaging to Archaeobotanical Research	2
Forging a New World Order? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Management of Metalworking and Ideological Change in the Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin	2
Exploring Relationality: Perspectives on the Research Narratives of the Rock Art of the Algonquian-Speaking Peoples of Central and Eastern Canada	2
He i‘a make ka ‘opihi: Optimal Foraging Theory, Food Choice, and the Fish of Death	2