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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Determinants Shaping Human Preference for Thermal Springs in Palaeolithic Europe and Asia Minor	18
Medieval Urban Environment: Between Mental and Material Practices	14
Wood-Use Strategies at a Han Dynasty Military Outpost: New Archaeological Evidence from Shichengzi, Xinjiang	13
Animals, Crops and Dark Earth: An Interdisciplinary Study of Urban Development from the Late Roman Period to the Early Middle Ages in Cologne (Germany)	12
Living Through Change: The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions. Introduction to the Special Issue	12
Nature and Culture in Medieval Towns	12
Climate Change and the Migration of a Pastoralist People c. 3500 cal. Years BP Inferred from Palaeofire and Lipid Biomarker Records in the Montane Western Ghats, India	9
Exploring Dietary Differentiation in the Roman Province of Macedonia: Isotopic Evidence from Pontokomi-Vrysi and Nea Kerdylia-Strovolos	8
Killing Cattle –Age Selection of Cattle at Iron Age Central Places in Third–Eleventh Century AD Sweden based on Tooth Wear	8
Archaeobotanical Remains from Tel Gezer, Israel, and their Implications for the ‘Threshing Floors’ of Field VI	8
Taphonomic Analysis and Morphotypical Characterisation of the Medieval Dog from the Castle of Santa Severa (Latium, Italy)	7
Paleoparasitological and Archaeobotanical Studies of Fecal Remains from the Argentine Puna (Pueblo Viejo de Tucute archaeological site, province of Jujuy, 11 ^th to 1	7
High δ ¹⁵ N and δ ¹³ C Values in Aurochs, Cattle and Sheep Bones from Salt Marshes in the No	6
Correction	6
Mollusc Remains from an Archaeological Rock Shelter Site on the Buffalo National River, Arkansas, Southeastern USA	5
Subsistence Strategies of the Sarmatians in the Central Region of the Carpathian Basin in the fourth–fifth centuries AD	5
Finding Medieval Medicine Through Archaeobotany: An Ontological Approach	5
Evaluating Dietary Diversity among Andean Central Altiplano Early Camelid Pastoralists Using Stable Isotope Analysis	5
Reindeer Demographics at Iarte VI, Iamal Peninsula, Arctic Siberia	4
Summer Camps Location and Distribution of Archaeological Sites in North Neuquén (Northwest Patagonia)	4
Plant Remains and What Else? Environmental Archaeology of the Late Hellenistic Pit Fills of Sexaginta Prista, Northern Bulgaria	4
W8banaki Subsistence Patterns During the 18th and 19th Centuries at the Fort Odanak Site, Québec, Canada	4
The Sicilian Countryside in the Early Middle Ages: Human–Environment Interactions at Contrada Castro	4
Agropastoral Economies and Land Use in Bronze Age Western Anatolia	4
Food and Farming Systems in the Neolithic – an Impossible Vista?	4

Multiple Factors Affecting the Historical Development of Agriculture in the Hei River Basin, Northwestern China	4
Socioecological Dynamics Structuring the Spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region	4
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	3
Agricultural Terracing and Land Tenure in Late Medieval Southern Levant: The Case of Nahal Ein Karim, Jerusalem	3
Consequences of Lake Expansion and Disappearance for the Complex of Bronze and Iron Age Settlements at Bruszczewo (Western Poland, Central Europe)	3
Archaeorganics 2019. The First Italian Workshop on the Analysis of Archaeological Organic Remains: Introduction to the Special Issue	3
An Investigation of Ancient Water Collection and Storage Systems Near the Karahantepe Neolithic Site Using UAV and GIS	3
Exploring Pottery Function and Cooking Practices in Bronze Age Sicily: The Results of High-resolution GC-MS of Organic Residues	3
Wood Technology: Production Sequences and Use of Woody Raw Materials among Hunter-Gatherer Patagonian Groups (Argentina)	3
War Horses and Equine Herd Feeding Management at the End of the Third Century BC: New Insights from Pech Maho (Southern France)	3
Using Deer Stable Isotope Data to Test a Niche Construction Hypothesis for an Increase in Prehistoric Human Maize Consumption in the Eastern Woodlands of the United States	3
Gastrointestinal Parasites of Ancient Domestic Goats from the Archaeological Site Cueva Huenul 1, Patagonia, Argentina	3
Cultivating the Hills and the Sands: A Comparative Archaeobotanical Investigation of Early Islamic Agriculture in Palestine	3
Correction	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
‘The Color of the Grave is Green’ – Moss and Juniper in Early Medieval Graves at Toppolanmäki, Finland	2
Mangrove Archives: Unravelling Human-environment Interactions from Deeply Buried Deposits at the Site Anse Trabaud, Martinique, Lesser Antilles (1290–780 cal BP)	2
Garbage, Storage or a Mussel Oven? a Case Study of a Shell Midden from Western Poland	2
Using Phytolith, Geochemical and Ethnographic Analysis to Inform on Site Construction and Activities in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia: Case Studies from Wadi Faynan 16 and ‘Ain Ghazal, Jordan	2
Caprine Mobility on the Balearic Islands During the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600–850 BC): First Results Based on Strontium Isotopes (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr)	2
The Utilisation of Native Woodland in Norse Greenland	2
Island Life: A Zooarchaeological Study of the Daxie Site, China	2
Vegetation History and Diversity of Archaeological Contexts at the Roztoky Site from the Anthracological Perspective	2
Coastal-Hinterland Exchange and Garden Hunting Practices Prior to the European Invasion of Hispaniola	2
Recession or Resilience: Evidence for Neolithic Agriculture in Updated Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructions from Lairg, Sutherland	2
Under What Conditions do the Inflorescence Bract Phytoliths of Oat [ Avena sativa (L.)] Become Autofluorescent?	2
Environmental Challenges for the Medieval North Atlantic World	2
The Archaeology of Living Things (Vivifacts) in Virginia and Beyond	1
Livestock Subsistence Strategies in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Lesser Poland	1
A Fluctuating Environment: Micromorphological and Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Early Iron Age Lakeshore Settlement at Traunkirchen (Upper Austria)	1
Hearth Residue Analysis Reveals Human Adaptation to the Younger Dryas on the Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	1
Molluscs as Personal Adornment in a Gravettian Context from Cueva de Ardales (Málaga, Spain)	1
Small Ripples in a Big Pond: Sea-level Change and Palaeoenvironmental Signatures at Formby, Merseyside	1
The Environment and its Exploitation Along the Lower Scheldt River During the Roman Period (Wichelen, Belgium – Late 1st to 3rd Centuries AD)	1
Pollen-Analytical Perspectives on the End of Roman Britain	1
Water Reservoirs in North-Western Hispania Roman Gold Mining: Technology, Chronology and Paleoenvironmental Evolution	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
Pests of Society: Introduction to the Special Issue	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
Flax, Bupleurum and Other Plants at Early Bronze Age Yenibademli Höyük (Gökçeada), NW Turkey	1
Pollen Evidence in Exploring Settlement Dynamics, Land Use, and Subsistence Strategies in the Åland Islands through Multiproxy Analyses from the Lake Dalkarby Träsk Sediment Record	1
Palaeoenvironmental Framing of theO ArealRoman Saltworks and Related Anthropogenic Activities in North-western Iberia	1
New Microfossil Approaches and Multi-Proxy Analysis Reveal Precontact Polynesian Translocations and Plant Use, Marquesas Islands	1
Correction	1
First Direct Evidence of Agrarian Practices in the Alava Plateau (Northern Iberia) During the Middle Ages Through Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Analyses of Charred Seeds	1
Animal Indoor Penning in the Eastern Pyrenees: The Case-study of Late Iron Age Tossal de Baltarga, Cerdanya	1
Bioarchaeological Characteristics of the Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Consumed at Different Parts of the Early Medieval Settlement Agglomeration of Mikulčice-Kopčany (9th–10th Century AD, Czech Re	1
Assessing Iron Age Marsh-Forts: With Reference to the Stratigraphy and the Palaeoenvironment Surrounding The Berth, North Shropshire	1
Castles of the Mind in Old Norse Culture: Archeological and Literary Evidence of St. Clement’s Church in Niðaróss	1
Feeding Shimao: Archaeobotanical and Isotopic Investigation into Early Urbanism (4200-3000 BP) on the Northern Loess Plateau, China	1

Human Agency and Coastal Landscape Transformation in Early Modern Atlantic Europe: An Interdisciplinary Research Approach in the Urola Estuary (Basque Coast)	1
Applications of Micro-CT Imaging in Age-At-Death Estimates of Maya Dogs	1
A Stable Isotope Approach to Roman Diet and Its Legacy in Late Antiquity in Hispania and the Western Empire	1
Diversity of Late Yangshao Agricultural Practices at Xishanping, NW China	1
Animal Husbandry During Late Antiquity: Archaeozoological Analysis and Regional Comparison of the 4th to 6th Century AD Small Rural Settlement in Podersdorf am See (Burgenland, Austria)	1
Archaeobotanical and Dendrochronological Studies of a Spanish Colonial Settlement in Nahuel Huapi (Patagonia, Eighteenth Century)	1
Rebooting the Study of Forager Plant Economies: The Potential of Submerged Archaeological Sites	1