OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization: Fragmentation and Missing Data	67
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models	19
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica	18
Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven	18
Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management	18
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	15
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art	14
Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)	14
The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre	14
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	14
Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long-Term Perspective	13
Comparative Analysis of Three Analytical Methodologies for Polychrome Design: Ceramic Typology, Design Elements/Styles, and Design Symmetries on Chihuahuan Polychromes	13
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
The Taphonomy of Status: The Creation of Group Identity and Social Inequality in Medieval Croatia	11
The Role of Palaeolithic Cave-Art: Estimating Social Investment in Symbolic Expressions Through the Making Cost	10
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	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
Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe	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
Estimating the Size and Density of the La Prele Site: Implications for Early Paleoindian Group Size	8
Site-Seeing in Mallorca? Exploring the Visual Influence of Architecture and Location in Talayotic Iron Age Sites in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)	8
The Time of the Stones: A Call for Palimpsest Dissection to Explore Lithic Record Formation Processes	8

Minimum Animal Units and the Standardized Count Problem	8
A ‘Family of Wear’: Traceological Patterns on Pebbles Used for Burnishing Pots and Processing Other Plastic Mineral Matters	8
Self-Organized Cultural Cycles and the Uncertainty of Archaeological Thought	8
Hunting Pits as Temporal Manifestations of Landscape Domestication–Large-Scale Sampling to Identify Temporality in Land Use	8
Applications of Microct Imaging to Archaeobotanical Research	8
Assessing the Utility of Strontium Isotopes in Fossil Dental Calculus	7
Searching for the Individual: Characterising Knowledge Transfer and Skill in Prehistoric Personal Ornament Making	7
Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks	7
Making Rock Art: Correspondences, Rhythms, and Temporalities	6
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
Archaeological and Experimental Lithic Microwear Classification Through 2D Textural Analysis and Machine Learning	6
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timing and Zoogeography of Domesticated Horse Arrivals in Mongolia and China	6
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	6
A Burning Platform? Critical Reflections on the Impact of Research on the Developing Bioarchaeology of Cremation	6
From Complex Techno-behaviour to Complex Attention Through the Genes of the Precuneus	6
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition	6
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective	5
Experimental Protocol for Cooking Rabbits and its Archaeological Implications	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
Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions	5
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: on the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores	5
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites	5
New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Kinematic Perspectives	5