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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timing and Zoogeography of Domesticated Horse Arrivals in Mongolia and China	58
Tales of Multifunctionality: a Systematic Quantitative Literature Review of Boomerangs Used as Retouchers in Australian Aboriginal Cultures	24
Methodological Challenges to Tracking Zea mays (Maize) Historical Pathways Through Macrobotanical, Microbotanical, and Stable Isotope Evidence: Maize’s Adoption and Consumption by Precontact Populatio	18
Beyond the Surface: Exploring Ancient Plant Food Processing through Confocal Microscopy and 3D Texture Analysis on Ground Stone Tools	17
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	16
Archaeological and Experimental Lithic Microwear Classification Through 2D Textural Analysis and Machine Learning	15
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization: Fragmentation and Missing Data	15
Weathering Stages of Proboscidean Bones: Relevance for Zooarchaeological Analysis	14
Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management	14
Broken Worlds: Towards an Archaeology of the Shatter Zone	14
Archaeology and Kastom: Island Historicities and Transforming Religious Traditions in Southern Vanuatu	13
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition	12
‘A Complex Past’: Theory and Applications	12
Revealing Evolutionary Patterns Behind Homogeneity: the Case of the Palaeolithic Assemblages from Notarchirico (Southern Italy)	11
The Archaeology of Awe: Monumental Architecture, Communal Ritual, and Community Formation at Poverty Point, USA	11
Archaeology in the Fourth Dimension: Studying Landscapes with Multitemporal PlanetScope Satellite Data	11
Scaling in Pompeii: Preliminary Evidence for the Occurrence of Scaling Phenomena Within an Ancient Built Environment	10
Searching for the Individual: Characterising Knowledge Transfer and Skill in Prehistoric Personal Ornament Making	10
The Effect of Plant Food Treatment on Stable Isotopes and Their Relevance for Archaeological Studies: A Methodological Pilot Study	9
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents	9
Traditions of Equality: The Archaeology of Egalitarianism and Egalitarian Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa (First and Second Millennium CE)	9
Making Rock Art: Correspondences, Rhythms, and Temporalities	9
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models	9
Stringing Together Cowrie Shells in the African Archaeological Record with Special Reference to Southern Africa	8
Locating Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherer Camps in the Carpathian Basin	8

Correction to: Paleo Storage, Paleo Surplus, and Paleo Inequality in the Périgord	8
Death and Dichotomy: Exploring Varied Human and Animal Depositional Practices in the Iron Age at Battlesbury Bowl, UK, through Histotaphonomy	8
Correction to: (Sea)ways of Perception: an Integrated Maritime‑Terrestrial Approach to Modelling Prehistoric Seafaring	7
A Burning Platform? Critical Reflections on the Impact of Research on the Developing Bioarchaeology of Cremation	7
“Slow” Network Research? A Mixed-Methods Approach Towards Funeral Status Representation in the Late Urnfield Period	6
Rock Art Painting Taphonomy: the Role of Environmental and Technological Factors	6
New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Kinematic Perspectives	6
Landscape Chambers: Towards an Archaeology of the Cognitive Landscape	6
Identifying the Impact of Soil Ingestion on Dental Microwear Textures Using a Wild Boar Experimental Model	6
Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory	6
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)	6
Discrimination of Cereal Residue Adsorbed by Pottery Based on Metabolomics	5
To Err Is Human: Knapping Expertise and Technological Variability at the Middle Palaeolithic Site of Nesher Ramla, Israel	5
Exploratory Network Reconstruction with Sparse Archaeological Data and XTENT	5
Investigating Isotopic Niche Space: Using rKIN for Stable Isotope Studies in Archaeology	5
Determining the Postmortem Timing of Sharp Force Damage and the Pre-burning Condition of Burnt Bone	5
A Review of Methods to Analyze Archaeological Lime Production: Investigating Raw Materials Selection and Firing Conditions	5
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia	5
Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement	5
Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)	5
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica	4
Bronze Age Stone Anchors as Material Metaphors: Applying Conceptual Blending Theory to Investigate Their Symbolic Value	4
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	4
Defining and Characterising Clusters in Palaeolithic Sites: a Review of Methods and Constraints	4
Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven	4
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: on the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores	4
Digital Navigator on the Seas of the Selden Map of China: Sequential Least-Cost Path Analysis Using Dynamic Wind Data	4
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites	4
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	4
Ancient Conflagration: a Reconstruction of a Middle Formative Fire at the Chiripa Mound, Bolivia	3
The Taphonomy of Status: The Creation of Group Identity and Social Inequality in Medieval Croatia	3
A History of Graphing Zooarchaeological Data (Taxonomic Heterogeneity, Demography and Mortality, Seasonality, Bone Survivorship, Butchering, etc.): Toward the Design of Effective and Efficient Zooarch	3
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective	3
The Knossian Kamares Style as Transgenerational Memory	3
Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification: Malthusian and Boserupian Dynamics	3
Ritual Closure: Rites De Passage and Apotropaic Magic in an Animate World	3
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art	3
Original Design and Allometric Variation in Kirk Points of the Central Ohio Archaeological Digitization Survey	3
The Importance of Energetics in Archaeological Least Cost Analysis	3
The Technological Behaviours of Homo antecessor: Core Management and Reduction Intensity at Gran Dolina-TD6.2 (Atapuerca, Spain)	3
Confronting Taphonomic Challenges from Excavation Through Curation of Human Remains	3
Comparative Analysis of Three Analytical Methodologies for Polychrome Design: Ceramic Typology, Design Elements/Styles, and Design Symmetries on Chihuahuan Polychromes	2
Chipped-Stone Crescents from the Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene of Far Western North America and the Transverse Projectile Point Hypothesis	2
“A Network of Mutualities of Being”: Socio-material Archaeological Networks and Biological Ties at Çatalhöyük	2
The Archaeology of Cannibalism: a Review of the Taphonomic Traits Associated with Survival and Ritualistic Cannibalism	2
Quantifying Edge Sharpness on Stone Flakes: Comparing Mechanical and Micro-Geometric Definitions Across Multiple Raw Materials from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)	2
Experimental Data from Lacaune and Merino Sheep Provide New Methodological and Theoretical Grounds to Investigate Autumn Lambing in Past Husbandries	2
From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production	2
From Novices to Experts: Skill Development and Knowledge Transmission in Prehistory	2
Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction	2

Quantifying Spatial Complexity of Settlement Plans Through Fractal Analysis	2
Deciphering the Public: An Integrated Analysis of Outdoor Spaces in the Neolithic Settlement of Kleitos 1 in Greece	2
Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea	2
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	2
Rethinking Wear Rate Analysis: a New Dentin Exposure Proxy and its Applications to Ancient Chinese Populations	2
The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre	2
“Taphonomic Trajectories: Funerary Taphonomy and Preservation at the Medieval Site of Largo Cândido dos Reis, Portugal”	2
Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions	2
An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past	2
Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid): a Diachronic Approach Using Biological and Archaeological Variables	2
Catching a Glimpse of Mesolithic Settlement Patterns and Site Re-occupation Through Lithic Refitting, Raw Material Characterizations and Absolute Dating	1
James Matthew Skibo, 1960–2023: a Personal Remembrance	1
The Effects of Time-Averaging on Archaeological Networks	1
Shining Light on Dark Matter: Advancing Functional Analysis of Obsidian Tools with Confocal Scanning Microscopy	1
Stability Through Movement: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of Social Space in Central European Neolithic Lakeside Settlements	1
Skill in Stone Knapping: an Ecological Approach	1
Projectiles Under a New Angle: a Ballistic Analysis Provides an Important Building Block to Grasp Paleolithic Weapon Technology	1
A Spatial Connectivity Approach to Landscapes of Conflict: Julius Caesar and the Assault to Puig Ciutat (NE Iberian Peninsula)	1
Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe	1
Taphonomic Approach to the Interpretation of Isolated Human Skulls: Distinguishing Natural from Intentional Deposition	1
The Temporality of Shapes: A Genealogy of Early Pottery-Making Practices in the Andean–Amazonian Borderland	1
Provisioning an Early City: Spatial Equilibrium in the Agricultural Economy at Angkor, Cambodia	1
Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long-Term Perspective	1
Reassessing the Interpretative Potential of Ethnographic Collections for Early Hunting Technologies	1
Compression and digestion as agents of vertebral deformation in Sciaenidae, Merlucidae and Gadidae remains: an experimental study to interpret archaeological assemblages	1
A Human Behavioral Ecology of the Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes	1
Understanding Taphonomy Through 3D and 2D Records: A Case Study from the Tropical Maya Area	1
Quantitative Dental Mesowear Analysis in Domestic Caprids: a New Method to Reconstruct Management Strategies	1
Islands without Iron. Strategies for Manufacturing Prehistoric Rotary Querns without Metal Tools in the Canary Islands: Working Hypotheses and Experimentation	1
Debunking Deterministic Narratives of Technological Development Through Experimentation: A Critical Review of the Prehistory of Tin Bronze Alloying	1
Finger Fluting in Prehistoric Caves: A Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Children, Sexing and Tracing of Individuals	1
Comparing Summed Probability Distributions of Shoreline and Radiocarbon Dates from the Mesolithic Skagerrak Coast of Norway	1
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	1
A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production	1
Techné of Rock Engravings—the Timna Case Study	1
Forging a New World Order? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Management of Metalworking and Ideological Change in the Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin	1
Investigating Human Activities in Caves Through the Study of Broken Stalagmite Structures: The Case of the Saint-Marcel Cave (France) During the Early Holocene	1
Notational Sequences Theory from Its Introduction to Present Day	1
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?	1