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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization: Fragmentation and Missing Data	75
Development and Calibration of a Spatial Model for the Analysis of Paleolithic Archaeological Potential in the Duero Basin of the Iberian Peninsula	21
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia	20
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica	20
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models	20
Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven	19
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	18
On the Exploitation and Significance of Bivalve Shells at the Magdalenian Site of Petersfels (Southwestern Germany) Using an Integrated Approach	17
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	15
Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)	15
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art	15
The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre	14
Comparative Analysis of Three Analytical Methodologies for Polychrome Design: Ceramic Typology, Design Elements/Styles, and Design Symmetries on Chihuahuan Polychromes	13
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
Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long-Term Perspective	9
Hunting Pits as Temporal Manifestations of Landscape Domestication–Large-Scale Sampling to Identify Temporality in Land Use	9
Rethinking Persistent Places: Relationships, Affects, and Atmospheres	9
The Role of Palaeolithic Cave-Art: Estimating Social Investment in Symbolic Expressions Through the Making Cost	9
Ethnoarchaeological Inductive Predictive Model: A Field Test in the Italian Alps	9
Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid): a Diachronic Approach Using Biological and Archaeological Variables	9
From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries	9
Estimating the Size and Density of the La Prele Site: Implications for Early Paleoindian Group Size	8
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	8
Assessing the Utility of Strontium Isotopes in Fossil Dental Calculus	8

The Time of the Stones: A Call for Palimpsest Dissection to Explore Lithic Record Formation Processes	8
Stability Through Movement: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of Social Space in Central European Neolithic Lakeside Settlements	8
Minimum Animal Units and the Standardized Count Problem	8
Self-Organized Cultural Cycles and the Uncertainty of Archaeological Thought	8
Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe	8
Bowhunting with Poisoned Arrows in the Afrotropics from Recent Times to the Pleistocene	7
Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks	7
Identifying the Impact of Soil Ingestion on Dental Microwear Textures Using a Wild Boar Experimental Model	6
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents	6
Applications of Microct Imaging to Archaeobotanical Research	6
From Complex Techno-behaviour to Complex Attention Through the Genes of the Precuneus	6
Making Rock Art: Correspondences, Rhythms, and Temporalities	6
Site-Seeing in Mallorca? Exploring the Visual Influence of Architecture and Location in Talayotic Iron Age Sites in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)	6
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition	6
A Burning Platform? Critical Reflections on the Impact of Research on the Developing Bioarchaeology of Cremation	6
A ‘Family of Wear’: Traceological Patterns on Pebbles Used for Burnishing Pots and Processing Other Plastic Mineral Matters	6
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective	5
Archaeological and Experimental Lithic Microwear Classification Through 2D Textural Analysis and Machine Learning	5
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	5
Searching for the Individual: Characterising Knowledge Transfer and Skill in Prehistoric Personal Ornament Making	5
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: on the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores	5
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timing and Zoogeography of Domesticated Horse Arrivals in Mongolia and China	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)	4
Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis	4
Fringe Landscapes: A Hypothesis on the Dynamics of Settlement and Mobility in Iron Age Inner Asia	4
Experimental Protocol for Cooking Rabbits and its Archaeological Implications	4
Where the Shells Come From? A New Methodology for Establishing Collection Areas Applied to Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Shell Middens From Northern Iberia	4
Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions	4
New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Kinematic Perspectives	4
The Temporality of Shapes: A Genealogy of Early Pottery-Making Practices in the Andean–Amazonian Borderland	4
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites	4
Ancient Skeletons In Situ: Evaluating Bone Diagenesis at an Open-Air Archaeological Site and Community Museum in Central Thailand	3
Debunking Deterministic Narratives of Technological Development Through Experimentation: A Critical Review of the Prehistory of Tin Bronze Alloying	3
Race, Gender, and Intersectionality in the Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora: Perspectives from Colonial Peru	3
Predictive Modeling for Targeted Archaeological Survey of Arsacid Period Sites in the Iranian Borderland Region of the Araxes River Valley	3
Learning by Doing: Investigating Skill Through Techno-Functional Study of Recycled Lithic Items from Qesem Cave (Israel)	3
Locating Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherer Camps in the Carpathian Basin	3
Moments of Movement and Stillness for Senebtisi Since 1907	3
How Cultural Transmission Through Objects Impacts Inferences About Cultural Evolution	3
Paleolithic Human Responses to Changing Aridity at Üçağızlı I cave, southern-coastal Turkey: Application of a Novel Carbon Isotope-Based Method	3
Building a Replicable Method for Analyzing Lithic Variability: A Revision of Tostevin’s Approach	3
Toys as Teachers: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Object Use and Enskillment in Hunter–Gatherer Societies	3
Archaeo-Tempestites and Coastal Taphonomy of Shell-Bearing Sites: Native American Sites in Florida as a Case Study	3
From Barter to Market: an Agent-Based Model of Prehistoric Market Development	3
Technofunctional Analysis Reveals the Role of Carinated Artifacts and End-Scrapers in the Aurignacian of Vogelherd Cave	3
Low-Density Urbanisation: Prestate Settlement Growth in a Pacific Society	3
Construction, Maintenance and Ritual Practices on the Neolithic Rondel at Nowe Objezierze (Northwestern Poland): The chaîne opératoire of Rondel’s Architecture	3
Linking Up Bell Beakers in the Iberian Peninsula	3
The Beginning of the End: Abandonment Micro-histories in the Mississippian Vacant Quarter	3
Convergent Evolution of Prehistoric Technologies: the Entropy and Diversity of Limited Solutions	3

Correction to: (Sea)ways of Perception: an Integrated Maritime‑Terrestrial Approach to Modelling Prehistoric Seafaring	3
The Effect of Plant Food Treatment on Stable Isotopes and Their Relevance for Archaeological Studies: A Methodological Pilot Study	3
The Levantine Megalithic Building Techniques: A Groundbreaking Method Applied to Menjez’s Monuments (Akkar, Lebanon) from the 4th–3rd Millennium BCE	3
Correction to: Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long‑Term Perspective	2
Confronting Taphonomic Challenges from Excavation Through Curation of Human Remains	2
Dialogues Across Time? Conceptualising the Temporal Relationships of Palimpsests in the Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art of El Castillo (Cantabria, Spain)	2
Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory	2
A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production	2
Fuzzy Typological (Re)arrangement: a Prototype of Rethinking the Typology of Roman Tablewares from Sagalassos, Southwest Anatolia	2
Qualitative and Quantitative Use-Wear Analysis of Percussive Stone Tools from Nyayanga (Homa Peninsula, Kenya)	2
Biocultural Taphonomies and Analysis of an Emerging Terminal Classic (750–900 CE) Maya Deathway	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
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
From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production	2
The Archaeology of Cannibalism: a Review of the Taphonomic Traits Associated with Survival and Ritualistic Cannibalism	2
Deciphering the Public: An Integrated Analysis of Outdoor Spaces in the Neolithic Settlement of Kleitos 1 in Greece	2
Understanding Taphonomy Through 3D and 2D Records: A Case Study from the Tropical Maya Area	2
Archaeology and Kastom: Island Historicities and Transforming Religious Traditions in Southern Vanuatu	2
Modeling Cultural Transmission in Structured Populations Raises Important Questions for Archaeologists	2
Beyond the Surface: Exploring Ancient Plant Food Processing through Confocal Microscopy and 3D Texture Analysis on Ground Stone Tools	2
Death and Dichotomy: Exploring Varied Human and Animal Depositional Practices in the Iron Age at Battlesbury Bowl, UK, through Histotaphonomy	2
Dots on the Map: Issues in the Archaeological Analysis of Site Locations	2
Correction to: From Stars to State: Astral Patterns and the Rise of Pharaonic Egypt at Adaïma (Upper Egypt)	2
Imposed Form in the Early Acheulean? Evidence from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia	2
Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea	2
Quantifying Spatial Complexity of Settlement Plans Through Fractal Analysis	2
Rethinking Wear Rate Analysis: a New Dentin Exposure Proxy and its Applications to Ancient Chinese Populations	2
The Effects of Time-Averaging on Archaeological Networks	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	2
The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial	2
Water Flows and Water Accumulations on Bedrock as a Structuring Element of Rock Art	2
Traditions of Equality: The Archaeology of Egalitarianism and Egalitarian Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa (First and Second Millennium CE)	2
Irrigated Farming Among Mountain Agropastoralists: An Archaeobotanical Investigation at Mohuchahangoukou (Mid-First Millennium AD), Southern Tian Shan Foothills, Xinjiang, China	2