OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Evolving Human Brains: Paleoneurology and the Fate of Middle Pleistocene	41
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	32
Four-Field Co-evolutionary Model for Human Cognition: Variation in the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic	29
Mark Making and Human Becoming	22
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Ecological Changes, Social Behaviour and Human Intergroup Tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP	22
Domestication as Enskilment: Harnessing Reindeer in Arctic Siberia	19
What Stimulated Rapid, Cumulative Innovation After 100,000 Years Ago?	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
Defining and Characterising Clusters in Palaeolithic Sites: a Review of Methods and Constraints	14
Scaling Laws of Paleoindian Projectile Point Design	14
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images	14
Semiotics and the Origin of Language in the Lower Palaeolithic	13
Motion and Gesture: Analysing Artistic Skills in Palaeolithic Art	13
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	13
Bronze Age Swordsmanship: New Insights from Experiments and Wear Analysis	12
A Study of Fractured Proboscidean Bones in Recent and Fossil Assemblages	12
Tracking Hunter-Gatherer Impact on Vegetation in Last Interglacial and Holocene Europe: Proxies and Challenges	12
Sexual Inequalities in the Early Neolithic? Exploring Relationships Between Sexes/Genders at the Cemetery of Vedrovice Using Use-Wear Analysis, Diet and Mobility	11
Household Inequality, Community Formation, and Land Tenure in Classic Period Lowland Maya Society	11
Materiality, Agency and Evolution of Lithic Technology: an Integrated Perspective for Palaeolithic Archaeology	11
Sandstone Ground Stone Technology: a Multi-level Use Wear and Residue Approach to Investigate the Function of Pounding and Grinding Tools	11
An Archaeology of Affect: Art, Ontology and the Carved Stone Balls of Neolithic Britain	11
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	11

Investigating the Anthropic Construction of Rock Art Sites Through Archaeomorphology: the Case of Borologa, Kimberley, Australia	9
Provisioning an Early City: Spatial Equilibrium in the Agricultural Economy at Angkor, Cambodia	9
Investigating Isotopic Niche Space: Using rKIN for Stable Isotope Studies in Archaeology	9
Joining the Circle: Native American Philosophy Applied to the Study of Late Archaic Shell Rings of the Southeast United States	9
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models—Best Practices for Data Acquisition	9
Hidden Sites, Hidden Images, Hidden Meanings: Does the Location and Visibility of Motifsand Sites Correlate to Restricted or Open Access?	9
Art (Pre)History: Ritual, Narrative and Visual Culture in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe	9
A Lithic Provisioning Model as a Proxy for Landscape Mobility in the Southern and Middle Kalahari	9
Constraining the Likely Technological Niches of Late Middle Pleistocene Hominins with Homo naledi as Case Study	8
Diet, Mobility, Technology, and Lithics: Neolithization on the Andean Altiplano, 7.0–3.5 ka	8
Numerical Reconstruction of Paleolithic Fires in the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave (Ardèche, France)	8
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?	8
An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past	7
Wealth and Well-being in an Ancient Maya Community	7
Application of Line of Sight and Potential Audience Analysis to Unravel the Spatial Organization of Palaeolithic Cave Art	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
Bloodletting in Ancient Central Mexico: Using Lithic Analyses to Detect Changes in Ritual Practices and Local Ontologies	7
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
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites	7
Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Variability of Bone Collagen to Determine the Number of Isotopically Distinct Specimens	7
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
Art in the Making: Recent Developments in the Study of Pleistocene and Holocene Images	6
The Role of Functional Efficiency in the Decline of North America’s Copper Culture (8000–3000 BP): an Experimental, Ecological, and Evolutionary Approach	6
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	6
The Effect of Raw Material on the Identification of Knapping Skill: a Case Study from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania	6