OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Archaeology is 3. 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
Living Through Change: The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions. Introduction to the Special Issue	12
Nature and Culture in Medieval Towns	12
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
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
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
Exploring Dietary Differentiation in the Roman Province of Macedonia: Isotopic Evidence from Pontokomi-Vrysi and Nea Kerdylia-Strovolos	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
Correction	6
High δ ¹⁵ N and δ ¹³ C Values in Aurochs, Cattle and Sheep Bones from Salt Marshes in the No	6
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
Mollusc Remains from an Archaeological Rock Shelter Site on the Buffalo National River, Arkansas, Southeastern USA	5
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
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
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
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