OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization: Fragmentation and Missing Data	71
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models	20
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica	20
Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)	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
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia	18
Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven	17
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	15
On the Exploitation and Significance of Bivalve Shells at the Magdalenian Site of Petersfels (Southwestern Germany) Using an Integrated Approach	15
The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre	14
Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long-Term Perspective	14
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art	14
Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid): a Diachronic Approach Using Biological and Archaeological Variables	13
Comparative Analysis of Three Analytical Methodologies for Polychrome Design: Ceramic Typology, Design Elements/Styles, and Design Symmetries on Chihuahuan Polychromes	13
The Role of Palaeolithic Cave-Art: Estimating Social Investment in Symbolic Expressions Through the Making Cost	11
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
Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe	10
The Taphonomy of Status: The Creation of Group Identity and Social Inequality in Medieval Croatia	10
Hunting Pits as Temporal Manifestations of Landscape Domestication–Large-Scale Sampling to Identify Temporality in Land Use	9
Ethnoarchaeological Inductive Predictive Model: A Field Test in the Italian Alps	9
From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries	9
Stability Through Movement: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of Social Space in Central European Neolithic Lakeside Settlements	9
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	9
A ‘Family of Wear’: Traceological Patterns on Pebbles Used for Burnishing Pots and Processing Other Plastic Mineral Matters	8
Site-Seeing in Mallorca? Exploring the Visual Influence of Architecture and Location in Talayotic Iron Age Sites in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)	8

Estimating the Size and Density of the La Prele Site: Implications for Early Paleoindian Group Size	8
Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks	8
Minimum Animal Units and the Standardized Count Problem	8
Self-Organized Cultural Cycles and the Uncertainty of Archaeological Thought	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
Applications of Microct Imaging to Archaeobotanical Research	7
Archaeological and Experimental Lithic Microwear Classification Through 2D Textural Analysis and Machine Learning	6
Bowhunting with Poisoned Arrows in the Afrotropics from Recent Times to the Pleistocene	6
From Complex Techno-behaviour to Complex Attention Through the Genes of the Precuneus	6
Searching for the Individual: Characterising Knowledge Transfer and Skill in Prehistoric Personal Ornament Making	6
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timing and Zoogeography of Domesticated Horse Arrivals in Mongolia and China	6
Identifying the Impact of Soil Ingestion on Dental Microwear Textures Using a Wild Boar Experimental Model	6
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition	6
Making Rock Art: Correspondences, Rhythms, and Temporalities	6
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents	6
A Burning Platform? Critical Reflections on the Impact of Research on the Developing Bioarchaeology of Cremation	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)	5
Experimental Protocol for Cooking Rabbits and its Archaeological Implications	5
New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Kinematic Perspectives	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
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	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	4
Debunking Deterministic Narratives of Technological Development Through Experimentation: A Critical Review of the Prehistory of Tin Bronze Alloying	4
Paleolithic Human Responses to Changing Aridity at Üçağızlı I cave, southern-coastal Turkey: Application of a Novel Carbon Isotope-Based Method	4
Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis	4
Race, Gender, and Intersectionality in the Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora: Perspectives from Colonial Peru	4
The Temporality of Shapes: A Genealogy of Early Pottery-Making Practices in the Andean–Amazonian Borderland	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
Fringe Landscapes: A Hypothesis on the Dynamics of Settlement and Mobility in Iron Age Inner Asia	4
Building a Replicable Method for Analyzing Lithic Variability: A Revision of Tostevin’s Approach	4