OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environmental Archaeology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Determinants Shaping Human Preference for Thermal Springs in Palaeolithic Europe and Asia Minor	18
Paleoparasitological and Archaeobotanical Studies of Fecal Remains from the Argentine Puna (Pueblo Viejo de Tucute archaeological site, province of Jujuy, 11 ^th to 1	16
Killing Cattle –Age Selection of Cattle at Iron Age Central Places in Third–Eleventh Century AD Sweden based on Tooth Wear	15
Archaeobotanical Remains from Tel Gezer, Israel, and their Implications for the ‘Threshing Floors’ of Field VI	15
Late Bronze – Early Iron Age Agro-systems in Northern Greece: New Insights Through Stable Isotope Analysis from Methone, Pieria	11
Archaeorganics 2019. The First Italian Workshop on the Analysis of Archaeological Organic Remains: Introduction to the Special Issue	9
Gastrointestinal Parasites of Ancient Domestic Goats from the Archaeological Site Cueva Huenul 1, Patagonia, Argentina	9
Geoarchaeological Reconstruction of a Fluvial Plain in the Context of the Toumba Agia Paraskevi (Anthemous Valley, Northern Greece)	8
A Fluctuating Environment: Micromorphological and Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Early Iron Age Lakeshore Settlement at Traunkirchen (Upper Austria)	7
Assessing Iron Age Marsh-Forts: With Reference to the Stratigraphy and the Palaeoenvironment Surrounding The Berth, North Shropshire	6
Molluscs as Personal Adornment in a Gravettian Context from Cueva de Ardales (Málaga, Spain)	6
A Stable Isotope Approach to Roman Diet and Its Legacy in Late Antiquity in Hispania and the Western Empire	6
Diversity of Late Yangshao Agricultural Practices at Xishanping, NW China	6
Environmental Change Documented in the Fluvial Landscape: A Case Study of the Late Neolithic Bršadin–Pašnjak Pod Selom Site (NE Croatia)	5
Archaeobotanical and Dendrochronological Studies of a Spanish Colonial Settlement in Nahuel Huapi (Patagonia, Eighteenth Century)	5
Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Woodland in Northern Syria (4th–2nd Mill. BC): Evidence from Charcoal Assemblages and Oak Measurements	5
The Archaeology of Living Things (Vivifacts) in Virginia and Beyond	5
Agricultural Dynamics in Southwestern Mediterranean France from the End of the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages	5
A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Investigate Use-Related Biogenic Residues on Palaeolithic Ground Stone Tools	5
Gastrochaenolites as Palaeoenvironmental Information Traps: The Case of the Tholos of La Pastora (Valencina de la Concepción, SW Spain)	4
Islands of Difference: An Ecologically Explicit Model of Central European Neolithisation	4
Multiple Factors Affecting the Historical Development of Agriculture in the Hei River Basin, Northwestern China	4
The Outcrossing-Selfing Transition and Asian Rice Domestication	4
Late and Final Neolithic Land Use Reconstructions Based on Floodplain Deposits from the ‘Nachtweide’ Site in Hesse, Central Germany – a Challenge for Palynology	4
House of Plenty: Reassessing Food and Farming in Late Bronze Age Croatia	4

Evaluating Non-destructive Analysis and Sampling Methods for Identifying Plant and Animal Imprints in Late Pre-contact Wattle and Daub Rubble from the Yazoo Basin, Mississippi	4
Evaluating Dietary Diversity among Andean Central Altiplano Early Camelid Pastoralists Using Stable Isotope Analysis	4
Character and Evolution of Sunken Groundwater-Harvesting Agroecosystems in Aeolian Sand since Early Islamic Times, between Iran and Iberia	4
Nested Environments: A Biocultural Examination of Malaria, Disease Stress, and Mother-Infant Health in a Rural Community in Late Antique Umbria	4
Nature and Culture in Medieval Towns	4
Reindeer Demographics at Iarte VI, Iamal Peninsula, Arctic Siberia	4
Corded Ware Culture Plant Gathering at the Narva-Jõesuu IIB Settlement and Burial Site in Estonia	4
Unravelling Subsistence and Territorial Management Strategies in the Upper Solutrean at El Cierro Cave (Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain)	3
Environmental Challenges for the Medieval North Atlantic World	3
Small Carnivore Hunting in the Early Neolithic: A View from EPPNB Aḥihud (Western Galilee, Israel)	3
Pests of Society: Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Archaeobotany at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak): Aspects of Food Production in Early Urban and Diasporic Early Transcaucasian Communities of the Levant	3
High δ ¹⁵ N and δ ¹³ C Values in Aurochs, Cattle and Sheep Bones from Salt Marshes in the No	3
Exploring Pottery Function and Cooking Practices in Bronze Age Sicily: The Results of High-resolution GC-MS of Organic Residues	3
Archaeological Recovery of Late Pleistocene Hair and Environmental DNA from Interior Alaska	3
The Winter Solstice as a Roman Cultural Fingerprint from the Mythical Origins of Rome to Augustus	3
Landscapes through Time: Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Late Holocene Changes at Pefkakia, Thessaly	3
Correction	3
Shifting Shores and Stone Age Settlement: The Former Ventspils Lagoon Area, Latvia	3
Water Reservoirs in North-Western Hispania Roman Gold Mining: Technology, Chronology and Paleoenvironmental Evolution	3
Middle Neolithic Subsistence Strategies in Southwest Germany: The Site Reichenau-B33 at Lake Constance in Regional Context	2
Strontium Isotope Analysis and the Southern Mesopotamian City: Intraurban ⁸⁷ Sr/ ⁸⁶ Sr Variation and Diagenesis at Ur (Iraq)	2
Water as a Strategic Resource in the Western Samaria Region – The Unique Case of Deir Sam’an: The Water System that Has Been Operating for 1,500 Years	2
Coastal-Hinterland Exchange and Garden Hunting Practices Prior to the European Invasion of Hispaniola	2
Correction	2
Understanding the Collapse of the Longshan Culture (4400-3800 BP) and the 4.2 ka Event in the Haidai Region of China – from an Agricultural Perspective	2
Correction	2
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Human–Environmental Interactions at the Roman-Byzantine Ibida Fortress (Dobrogea, South-Eastern Romania)	2
Summer Camps Location and Distribution of Archaeological Sites in North Neuquén (Northwest Patagonia)	2
Under What Conditions do the Inflorescence Bract Phytoliths of Oat [ Avena sativa (L.)] Become Autofluorescent?	2
Ecological Landscape Structure and Game Management Strategy among the Upper Palaeolithic Societies of Southern Zagros Mountains	2
Charcoal Hearth Remains as Environmental Archives: An Interdisciplinary Study at Poggio di Montieri, Italy	2
Wood-Use Strategies at a Han Dynasty Military Outpost: New Archaeological Evidence from Shichengzi, Xinjiang	2
W8banaki Subsistence Patterns During the 18th and 19th Centuries at the Fort Odanak Site, Québec, Canada	2
Plant Remains and What Else? Environmental Archaeology of the Late Hellenistic Pit Fills of Sexaginta Prista, Northern Bulgaria	2
Beyond the ‘Principle of Least Effort’ – Culture and the Natural Environment in the Interpretation of Anthracological Data	1
Perinatal Remains of Livestock: An Under-utilised Line of Evidence for Animal Penning in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia	1
Modelling Resilience: Zooarchaeological Insights into Subsistence Diversity and Land Use Practices of the Ancient Maya in the Upper Belize River Valley	1
Hearth Residue Analysis Reveals Human Adaptation to the Younger Dryas on the Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	1
Correction	1
From Ponds to Pine Plantations in 9000 Years: The Environmental Archaeology of Beck Burn, Solway Moss, Cumbria	1
Applications of Micro-CT Imaging in Age-At-Death Estimates of Maya Dogs	1
‘The Color of the Grave is Green’ – Moss and Juniper in Early Medieval Graves at Toppolanmäki, Finland	1
Crop Husbandry at Gabii During the Iron Age and Archaic Period: The Archaeobotanical and Stable Isotope Evidence	1
Agricultural Terracing and Land Tenure in Late Medieval Southern Levant: The Case of Nahal Ein Karim, Jerusalem	1
Looking at Phytoliths in Archaeological Soil and Sediment Thin Sections	1
Innovation and Intensification: The Use of Cattle in the Roman Rhine Region	1
Investigation of Seasonal Settlement and Clam Harvest Pressure in the Sechelt Inlet System, British Columbia, Canada, Through Sclerochronology and Stable Oxygen Isotope Analyses	1
The Environment and its Exploitation Along the Lower Scheldt River During the Roman Period (Wichelen, Belgium – Late 1st to 3rd Centuries AD)	1
Climate Change and Indigenous Subsistence in the Thompson River Watershed (British Columbia) in the Late Holocene	1

The Economic Role of Animals Amid the Chaos of the Crumbling Roman Empire. A Look at the South-eastern Alpine Region in Late Antiquity Based on Archaeozoology and Ancient Literary Sources	1
Small Ripples in a Big Pond: Sea-level Change and Palaeoenvironmental Signatures at Formby, Merseyside	1
The Utilisation of Native Woodland in Norse Greenland	1
Living Through Change: The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions. Introduction to the Special Issue	1
Water Table Fluctuations and Degradation Risk Assessment at the Waterlogged Site of La Draga (Lake Banyoles, Spain)	1
Life, Death and Teeth of Late Neolithic Sheep and Red Deer Excavated at Ness of Brodgar, Orkney Islands (UK)	1
Ecological Constraints on Violence Avoidance Tactics in the Prehispanic Central Andes	1
Exploring the use of Wild Cereals at Takarkori (Central Sahara, Southwestern Libya) Through Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Prehistoric Desiccated Seeds	1
Human Agency and Coastal Landscape Transformation in Early Modern Atlantic Europe: An Interdisciplinary Research Approach in the Urola Estuary (Basque Coast)	1
Evaluation of the Rapid Phytolith Extraction Protocol to Identify the Fuel-mix Used at the Nineteenth-century Sugar Mill of El Progreso Plantation, Galápagos	1
Using Parasite Analysis to Investigate the Pathoecology of the Inhabitants of the City of Berezov in Western Siberia (Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)	1
War Horses and Equine Herd Feeding Management at the End of the Third Century BC: New Insights from Pech Maho (Southern France)	1
Mollusc Remains from an Archaeological Rock Shelter Site on the Buffalo National River, Arkansas, Southeastern USA	1
Animals, Crops and Dark Earth: An Interdisciplinary Study of Urban Development from the Late Roman Period to the Early Middle Ages in Cologne (Germany)	1