OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Island & Coastal 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
Geoarchaeological insights into ancient ports of the northern Persian Gulf: A vanishing heritage	28
Review of herring and people of the North Pacific: sustaining a keystone species by Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss *Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sus*	10
Comment on “Shark fisheries during the second millennium BC in Gramalote, north coast of Peru”	8
Revisiting the evidence of the Arenal 1 site: Chronologies and human interactions in central southern Chile	6
Provenance and distribution networks of the earliest bronze in the Maritime Territory (Primorye), Russian Far East	6
Rescue recovery of the earliest known burials from Barbuda, West Indies (ca. 3560–3220 cal years BP)	5
Aotearoa New Zealand’s coastal archaeological heritage: A geostatistical overview of threatened sites	5
Examining trade routes through the Thai–Malay Peninsula: A simulation analysis	5
Burgiyana and Waraldi: A radiocarbon chronology for a selection of coastal and island archaeological sites on Yorke Peninsula/Guuranda, South Australia	4
Evidence of lithic blade technology in southwest Madagascar	4
Insular networks: An exploration of material distribution, insularity and island identity on the edge of Europe in the Shetland Neolithic	4
Contextualizing the influence of climate and culture on bivalve populations: Donax obesulus malacology from the north coast of Peru	4
Underwater Neolithic combustion features: A micro-geoarchaeological study in the submerged settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel	4
Living in a coast–grassland ecotone: Zooarchaeology of a late Holocene shell midden in the Uruguayan Atlantic Coast	4
From earth to sky: Large-scale archaeological settlement patterns in southernmost South America based on ground surveys, UAV LiDAR, and open access satellite imagery	4
Prehistoric reef-building coral occurrence in north Peru	4
“This is the way”: Knowledge networks and toolkit specialization in the circumpolar coastal landscapes of western Alaska and Tierra del Fuego	4
Archaeological research at the Early Pre-Latte Period site of San Roque on Saipan (ca. 1500–1100 BC)	3
Sailing the deep blue sea: The rock art of Wetang Island, Maluku Barat Daya, Indonesia	3
Landscape ecology, settlement, and land use in the Lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, México: An unusual case for coastal Mesoamerica	3
A preliminary consideration of craft production and settlement expansion on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, USA	3
Climate change and coastal archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: assessing past impacts and future threats	3
Feasting at coastal shellmounds in Guerrero, Mexico	3
Cille Pheadair: A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist	2
The indigenous paleolithic of the Western hemisphere	2

Portus and stationes along the Southwest Iberian Peninsula: Anchorages of the Huelva coast	2
Native American use of cetaceans in pre-contact Oregon: Biomolecular and taphonomic analyses illuminate human–cetacean relationships	2
Pollen and phytoliths in archaeological features from North Island, New Zealand, reveal landscape disturbance and cultivation of Polynesian-introduced Cordyline cf.	2
Intensive exploitation of marine crabs and sea urchins during the middle holocene in the eastern Arabian peninsula offers new perspectives on ancient maritime adaptations	2
The Hālawa dune site, Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Islands: New excavations, redating, and new interpretations	2
Agency amongst the entrepôts: Negotiating exchange associations between Motu hiri and Mailu seafaring exchange networks at Hood Bay on Papua New Guinea’s south coast	2
Massive offerings of marine fish at Salango, coastal Ecuador, during the Middle Guangala phase (AD 300–600)	2
Temporal patterns in the economization of obsidian use in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Obsidian in prehistoric complexes of the southern Kurile islands (the Russian Far East): A review of sources, their exploitation, and population movements	2
Sourcing Mississippian pottery among the complex maritime cultures of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast	2
A pre-European archaeology in Malvinas/Falkland Islands? A review	2
An archaeomalacological investigation of chitons on the Hane Dune site, Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands	2
Fish species richness, resourse availability, and human selectivity reflected in the fish bone material from a medieval Franciscan friary in the Baltic Sea	1
Review of Pleistocene Archaeology – Migration, Technology, and Adaptation	1
Size estimation based on Genidens barbus and Micropogonias furnieri otoliths. Exploring Late Holocene euryhaline fish capture techniques i	1
Mainland-coastal interactions in East Borneo: Inter-site comparison and Bayesian chronological models of two Late Pleistocene–Holocene sequences (Liang Abu and Kimanis rock shelters)	1
Love thy (Middle Bronze Age) neighbor: A network model for central and northern Greece	1
Study of dugout canoes from the coast of La Plata River and the islands of the Paraná Delta, Argentina	1
Use of plants by hunter-gatherers at coastal sites: The case of Cabo San Pablo 2017 (Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina)	1
Landscapes created by millennia of cultural land use in the Fleurieu Group of Islands, Tasmania—a knowledge baseline for current and future land management under changing climates	1
Settlement and the exploitation of aquatic resources in the Eastern Lower Papaloapan Basin, Veracruz, Mexico	1
Dry, leeward regions support Colonization Period sites: Stratigraphy, dating, and geomorphological setting of one of the earliest habitations in the Hawaiian Islands	1
Calusa socioecological histories and zooarchaeological indicators of environmental change during the Little Ice Age in southwestern Florida, USA	1
New insights into the daily and symbolic use of plants during initial occupations of Formentera (Balearic Islands, Spain)	1
Of missions and marshes: Stable isotope analysis of Mission-Era Guale oyster harvesting on St. Catherines Island, Georgia	1
A coastal occupation in Bénin, West Africa: Earthenwares and salt at the time of Atlantic entanglement	1
The “island laboratory” revisited: Integrating environmental and sociocultural approaches	1
Botanical remains of the last 1800 years from Tarawa, Republic of Kiribati, reveal ancient aroid ( Cyrtosperma merkusii and Colocasia esculenta	1
Correction	1
The Proyecto Costa Escondida: Historical ecology and the study of past coastal landscapes in the Maya area	1
Response to the Comment on “Shark fisheries during the second millennium BC in Gramalote, north coast of Peru” by Víctor F. Vásquez Sánchez, Teresa E. Rosales Tham, J. Netherly, and Tom D. Dillehay	1
Staple or delicacy: Sea urchin exploitation over the last 40,000 years at Makpan Cave, Alor Island	1
Bayesian assessment of northern Alaskan chronological issues: Implications for future research	1
Flooded mangrove landscapes hide ancient Maya coastal sites in Belize	1
Combining quantification, sex, age, and utility patterns to interpret two dugong bone mounds from Woeydhul Island (Western Torres Strait, Australia)	1
Coastal paleolandscapes of far southern Peru: Implications for Late Pleistocene human settlement	1