OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Open 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Archaeology of the Late Local Landscapes of the Hualfín Valley (Catamarca, Argentina): A Political Perspective from Cerro Colorado of La Ciénaga de Abajo	13
Raw Materials and Technological Choices: Case Study of Neolithic Black Pottery From the Middle Yangtze River Valley of China	10
Disentangling Technological Traditions: Comparative Analysis of Chaînes Opératoires of Painted Pre-Hispanic Ceramics From Nariño, Colombia	10
Conceiving Elements of Divinity: The Use of the Semantic Web for the Definition of Material Religiosity in the Levant During the Second Millennium BCE	9
The Origin, Development and Decline of Lengyel Culture Figurative Finds	8
Weak Ties on Old Roads: Inscribed Stopping-Places and Complex Networks in the Eastern Desert of Graeco-Roman Egypt	7
From Coastal Sites to Elevated Hinterland Locations in the Mesolithic – Discussing Human–Woodland Interaction in the Oslo Fjord Region, Southeast Norway	7
Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Czeladź Wielka – The Next Step Toward Determining the Habitation Model, Chronology, and Pottery of the Silesian-Greater Poland Tumulus Culture	7
The Ugly Duckling: Understanding the Making of an Early Copper Age Atypical Ceramic Vessel from the Great Hungarian Plain	7
The Time of the Last Hunters: Chronocultural Aspects of Early Holocene Societies in the Western Mediterranean	7
Wealth Consumption, Sociopolitical Organization, and Change: A Perspective from Burial Analysis on the Middle Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin	6
First Archaeological Record of the Torture and Mutilation of Indigenous Mapuche During the “War of Arauco,” Sixteenth Century	6
Bridging the Post-Excavation Gaps: Structured Guidance and Training for Post-Excavation in Archaeology	5
Early Neolithic Pottery Production in the Maltese Islands: Initiating a Għar Dalam and Skorba Pottery Fabric Classification	5
Listening in Sacred Spaces: The Sanctuary of Poseidonia and Selinunte’s Main Urban Sanctuary	5
Seeing Sacred for Centuries: Digitally Modeling Greek Worshipers’ Visualscapes at the Argive Heraion Sanctuary	5
Lessons From Ceramic Petrography: A Case of Technological Transfer During the Transition From Late to Inca Periods in Northwestern Argentina, Southern Andes	4
The Houses of al-Andalus: A Synthesis of a Domestic Model	4
Environment and Plant Use at La Tourasse (South-West France) at the Late Glacial–Holocene Transition	4
Mediterranean Trade Networks and the Diffusion and Syncretism of Art and Architecture Styles at Delos	4
Crafted Landscapes: The Uggurwala Tree (Ochroma pyramidale) as a Potential Cultural Keystone Species for Gunadule Communities	4
The Impact of Transportation on Pottery Industries in Roman Britain	4
Bigger Fish to Fry: Evidence (or Lack of) for Fish Consumption in Ancient Syracuse (Sicily)	4
The Chaîne Opératoire Approach for Interpreting Personal Ornament Production: Marble Beads in Copper Age Tuscany (Italy)	4
The BIAD Standards: Recommendations for Archaeological Data Publication and Insights From the Big Interdisciplinary Archaeological Database	4

Etched in Stone: The Kevermes Stone Stela From the Great Hungarian Plain	4
Reconsidering the Chaîne Opératoire: At the Crossroad Between People and Materials	4
The Role of the Road in Settling a Mountainous Region	3
Stations of the Publicum Portorium Illyrici are a Strong Predictor of the Mithraic Presence in the Danubian Provinces: Geographical Analysis of the Distribution of the Roman Cult of Mithras	3
Movement or Diaspora? Understanding a Multigenerational Puebloan and Ndee Community on the Central Great Plains	3
Music and Storytelling at Rock Art Sites? The Archaeoacoustics of the Urkosh Area (Russian Altai)	3
Monastic Estates in the Wachau Region: Nodes of Exchange in Past and Present Days	3
Corrigendum to “Plant Use and Cereal Cultivation Inferred from Integrated Archaeobotanical Analysis of an Ottoman Age Moat Sequence (Szigetvár, Hungary)”	3
Synopsis of a Treasure. A Transdisciplinary Study of Medieval Gold Workings Biographies	3
Rock-Cut Monuments at Macedonian Philippi – Taking Image Analysis to the Religioscape	3
Geophysical Prospection of the South-Western Quarter of the Hellenistic Capital Artaxata in the Ararat Plain (Lusarat, Ararat Province, Armenia): The South-West Quarter, City Walls and an Early Christ	3
Salt Production in Central Italy and Social Network Analysis Centrality Measures: An Exploratory Approach	3
One, Two, Three! Can Everybody Hear Me? Acoustics of Roman Contiones. Case Studies of the Capitoline Hill and the Temple of Bellona in Rome	3
Networks of Pots: The Usage of Ceramics in Network Analysis in Mediterranean Archaeology	3
Technical Transfers Between Chert Knappers: Investigating Gunflint Manufacture in the Eastern Egyptian Desert (Wadi Sannur, Northern Galala, Egypt)	3
Urban Success and Urban Adaptation Over the Long Run	3
Networks of Knowledge, Materials, and Practice in the Neolithic Zagros	3
Seriality and Individualization: Carving the Fluted Sarcophagi from Hierapolis of Phrygia	3
Contribution of the Microhistorical Approach to Landscape and Settlement Archaeology: Some French Examples	3
A Framework for Archaeological Involvement with Human Genetic Data for European Prehistory	3
Transport, Interaction, and Connectivity	3
Arab Migration During Early Islam: The Seventh to Eighth Century AD from an Archaeological Perspective	3
Female Microhistorical Archaeology	3
Earthen Architecture in Nordic Countries: Future Directions	3
Recording, Sharing and Linking Micromorphological Data: A Two-Pillar Database System	3
Investigating the Early-to-Late Mesolithic Transition in Northeastern Italy: A Multifaceted Regional Perspective	3