OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory is 7. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Evolving Human Brains: Paleoneurology and the Fate of Middle Pleistocene	42
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	34
Four-Field Co-evolutionary Model for Human Cognition: Variation in the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic	30
Mark Making and Human Becoming	24
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Ecological Changes, Social Behaviour and Human Intergroup Tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP	23
What Stimulated Rapid, Cumulative Innovation After 100,000 Years Ago?	20
Domestication as Enskilment: Harnessing Reindeer in Arctic Siberia	19
Probabilistic Modelling for Incorporating Uncertainty in Least Cost Path Results: a Postdictive Roman Road Case Study	18
Niche Construction Theory in Archaeology: A Critical Review	16
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models	16
Scaling Laws of Paleoindian Projectile Point Design	15
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images	15
Defining and Characterising Clusters in Palaeolithic Sites: a Review of Methods and Constraints	15
Using Radiocarbon Dates and Tool Design Principles to Assess the Role of Composite Slotted Bone Tool Technology at the Intersection of Adaptation and Culture-History	14
Semiotics and the Origin of Language in the Lower Palaeolithic	14
Motion and Gesture: Analysing Artistic Skills in Palaeolithic Art	13
Tracking Hunter-Gatherer Impact on Vegetation in Last Interglacial and Holocene Europe: Proxies and Challenges	13
Sandstone Ground Stone Technology: a Multi-level Use Wear and Residue Approach to Investigate the Function of Pounding and Grinding Tools	13
Household Inequality, Community Formation, and Land Tenure in Classic Period Lowland Maya Society	12
Sexual Inequalities in the Early Neolithic? Exploring Relationships Between Sexes/Genders at the Cemetery of Vedrovice Using Use-Wear Analysis, Diet and Mobility	12
A Study of Fractured Proboscidean Bones in Recent and Fossil Assemblages	12
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	11
An Archaeology of Affect: Art, Ontology and the Carved Stone Balls of Neolithic Britain	11
Materiality, Agency and Evolution of Lithic Technology: an Integrated Perspective for Palaeolithic Archaeology	11
Art (Pre)History: Ritual, Narrative and Visual Culture in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe	10

Constraining the Likely Technological Niches of Late Middle Pleistocene Hominins with Homo naledi as Case Study	10
Provisioning an Early City: Spatial Equilibrium in the Agricultural Economy at Angkor, Cambodia	10
Diet, Mobility, Technology, and Lithics: Neolithization on the Andean Altiplano, 7.0–3.5 ka	10
A Lithic Provisioning Model as a Proxy for Landscape Mobility in the Southern and Middle Kalahari	10
Investigating Isotopic Niche Space: Using rKIN for Stable Isotope Studies in Archaeology	9
Investigating the Anthropic Construction of Rock Art Sites Through Archaeomorphology: the Case of Borologa, Kimberley, Australia	9
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?	9
Numerical Reconstruction of Paleolithic Fires in the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave (Ardèche, France)	9
Hidden Sites, Hidden Images, Hidden Meanings: Does the Location and Visibility of Motifsand Sites Correlate to Restricted or Open Access?	9
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models—Best Practices for Data Acquisition	9
Joining the Circle: Native American Philosophy Applied to the Study of Late Archaic Shell Rings of the Southeast United States	9
Relationships Between Lipid Profiles and Use of Ethnographic Pottery: an Exploratory Study	8
Population Size Limits the Coefficient of Variation in Continuous Traits Affected by Proportional Copying Error (and Why This Matters for Studying Cultural Transmission)	7
Projectiles Under a New Angle: a Ballistic Analysis Provides an Important Building Block to Grasp Paleolithic Weapon Technology	7
Marks, Pictures and Art: Their Contribution to Revolutions in Communication	7
Wealth and Well-being in an Ancient Maya Community	7
Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Variability of Bone Collagen to Determine the Number of Isotopically Distinct Specimens	7
The Role of Functional Efficiency in the Decline of North America’s Copper Culture (8000–3000 BP): an Experimental, Ecological, and Evolutionary Approach	7
Bloodletting in Ancient Central Mexico: Using Lithic Analyses to Detect Changes in Ritual Practices and Local Ontologies	7
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites	7
Application of Line of Sight and Potential Audience Analysis to Unravel the Spatial Organization of Palaeolithic Cave Art	7
Non-Local Enemies or Local Subjects of Violence?: Using Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and Lead (206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb) Isobiographies to Reconstruct Geographic Origins and Early Childhood Mobi	7
The Art of Making Images: Technological Affordance, Design Variability and Labour Organization in the Production of Engraved Artefacts and Body Paintings in Tierra del Fuego (Southern South America)	7
An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past	7