OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Archaeology in Oceania 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Dingoes and domestication	9
Identifying archaeological parenchyma in three dimensions: Diagnostic assessment of five important food plant species in the Indo‐Pacific region	8
What painting? Encountering and interpreting the archaeological record in western Arnhem Land, northern Australia	6
Identifying marsupials from Australian archaeological sites: current methodological challenges and opportunities in zooarchaeological practice	5
MicroCT scanning and direct AMS dating of charred sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) fragments from Nombe rockshelter in the highlands of Papua New Guinea	5
Gilparrka Almira, a rock art site in Mithaka Country, southwest Queensland: cultural connections, dreaming tracks and trade routes	4
Toponyms from 3000 years ago? Implications for the history and structure of the Yolŋu social formation in north‐east Arnhem Land	4
Re‐evaluating the evidence for late‐surviving megafauna at Nombe rockshelter in the New Guinea highlands	4
Indigenous fish traps and fish weirs on the Darling (Baaka) River, south‐eastern Australia, and their influence on the ecology and morphology of the river and floodplains	4
Do Pleistocene rock paintings depict Sulawesi warty pigs (Sus celebensis) with a domestication character?	4
Costly signalling and the distribution of monumental mounds in Savai‘i and ‘Upolu, Sāmoa	4
Rock engravings and occupation sites in the Mount Bosavi Region, Papua New Guinea: Implications for our understanding of the human presence in the Southern Highlands	3
Archaeological identification of fragmented nuts and fruits from key Asia‐Pacific economic tree species using anatomical criteria: Comparative analysis of Canarium, Pandanus and Termi	3
Marquesan ceramics, palaeotsunami, and megalithic architecture: Ho‘oumi Beach site (NHo‐3) in regional perspective	3
Invisible or ignored: investigating the lack of thylacine‐based material culture in the Australian archaeological record	2
Resistance and remembering through rock art: Contact‐period rock art in Wardaman country, Northern Australia	2
Investigating hafting and composite tool repair as factors creating variability in backed artefacts: Evidence from Ngungara (Weereewa/Lake George), south‐eastern Australia	2
Archaeobotanical futures in the Indo‐Pacific	2
Village‐specific Kula partnerships revealed by obsidian sourcing on Tubetube Island, Papua New Guinea	2
Cosmo‐political landscapes of Torres Straitadhiandmisœristones: Closing the gap between Islander and non‐indigenous perspectives	2
The sacred stone from the sea. Archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on the ritual value of coral across the Pacific	2
A review of Philippine rock art and its regional context	1
An early (pre‐1500 BP) fishhook assemblage from Ofu and Olosega islands, Manu‘a Group, American Samoa: implications for technological evolution and cultural interaction	1
Aboriginal serrated and perforated shell artefacts from the Murray River, South Australia	1
Revising shell adze analysis in Oceania: a multifaceted approach to the study of a Solomon Islands’ collection	1

Putting the Dark Emu debate into context	1
The New Zealand bracken fern rhizome, Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst): a toxic food plant of pre‐European Māori	1
A New Melanesian Rock‐Art Style: Figurative Engravings at Roche Mauprat, Arama Chiefdom, New Caledonia	1
The ScMo‐350 site, Haumi, Moʻorea (Society Islands): Preliminary analysis of coastal occupation spanning the colonization phase to classic phase	1
A different paradigm for the colonisation of Sahul	1
Archaeology of animate ancestors and entanglement at Mayarnjarn in the Wellington Range region, Northern Territory	1
Resurrecting the power in the stones, developing a modern narrative of the agency and sentience of powerful stones, and recreating shared knowledge encounters at Gummingurru and its associated site ar	1
Stones, stories and ceremonies: A Gamilaraay, Arrernte, Luritja, Pitjantatjarra, Yankuntjatjarra perspective	1
Petroglyphs and place: complex histories at four sites in New Britain	1
The Dogs of Remote Oceania: an archaeological and ethnohistorical view of domestic dog introduction and loss in the South Pacific	1
Stones in Motion: monuments and chiefly title histories in central Vanuatu	1
The sailing performance of ancient Polynesian canoes and the early settlement of East Polynesia	1
Rock art on excavated monolithic statues (moai), Rano Raraku statue quarry, Rapa Nui (Easter Island): context, chronology and the crescent motif	1