OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of World 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconsidering domestication from a process archaeology perspective	37
European agricultural terraces and lynchets: from archaeological theory to heritage management	18
Landscape archaeology, sustainability and the necessity of change	16
The wind that shakes the barley: the role of East Asian cuisines on barley grain size	11
‘We hunt to share’: social dynamics and very large mammal butchery during the Oldowan–Acheulean transition	10
Alternatives to colonization and marginal identities in New Kingdom colonial Nubia (1550–1070 BCE)	10
Process archaeology	10
In defence of representation	9
Terminal Pleistocene emergence of maritime interaction networks across Wallacea	9
Continuity and variability in prehistoric fishing practices by Homo sapiens in Island Southeast Asia: new ichthyofaunal data from Asitau Kuru, Timor-Leste	8
Ancient Pets. The health, diet and diversity of cats, dogs and monkeys from the Red Sea port of Berenice (Egypt) in the 1^st-2^nd centuries AD	7
Representation and materiality in archaeology: A semiotic reconciliation	7
Changing perceptions of rock art: storying prehistoric worlds	6
Pluralising power: ceramics and social differentiation in Bronze Age central Eurasia	6
A confluence of communities: households and land use at the junction of the Upper Usumacinta and Lacantún Rivers, Chiapas, Mexico	5
Mapping agricultural assemblages in ancient Oaxaca from the domestication of maize to the collapse of Monte Albán	5
The fluid city, urbanism as process	5
Landscape change in the Nile Delta during the fourth millennium BC: a new perspective on the Egyptian Predynastic and Protodynastic periods	5
Anarchy, institutional flexibility, and containment of authority at Poverty Point (USA)	5
Making hands and tools: steps to a process archaeology of mind	5
Making marks meaningful: new materialism and the microwear assemblage	5
Archaeology, process and time: beyond history versus memory	5
Centralisation and decentralisation processes and pottery production at Arslantepe (SE Anatolia) during the 4^th and early 3^rd millennium BCE	5
Can birdstones sing? Rethinking material-semiotic approaches in contemporary archaeological theory	4
Material signs and relational meanings: reconsidering Ancestral Pueblo material dichotomies	4

Fragments of an anarchic society: Kura-Araxes territorialization in the third millennium BC town at Tel Bet Yerah	4
Re-evaluating terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene settlement patterns with Chirp subbottom data from around California’s Northern Channel Islands	4
Hunter-gatherer carbohydrate consumption: plant roots and rhizomes as staple foods in Mesolithic Europe	4
Conglomerate infrastructures: ordinary sites used for extraordinary regimes of power	4
Submerged Palaeolandscapes of the Southern Hemisphere (SPLOSH) – What is emerging from the Southern Hemisphere	4
Masks in context: representation, emergence, motility and self	3
The altitude of the depths: use of inland water archaeology for the reconstruction of inundated cultural landscapes in Lake Titicaca	3
The archaeology of a marginal neighborhood in Tehran, Iran: garbage, class, and identity	3
The Acheulean is a temporally cohesive tradition	3
Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey	3
A synthetic model of Palaeolithic seafaring in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan	3
Subaltern assemblages. The archaeology of marginal places and identities	3
Here be dragons: the untapped archaeological potential of São Tomé and Príncipe	3
Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea	3
The process of complex societies: dynamic models beyond site-size hierarchies	3
Social agency and prestige technology: serial production of gold appliqués in the early Iron Age north-west China and the Eurasian steppes	3
Let’s catch octopus for dinner: ancient inventions of octopus lures in the Mariana Islands of the remote tropical pacific	3
Archaeology and the silk road model	3
Food as affirmative biopolitics at the border: liminality, eating practices, and migration in the Mediterranean	2
Rethinking foreign influences on stone-carved tombs in early China	2
Digging up concrescences: a hermeneutics for process archaeology	2
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence?: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times	2
Unequal housing in Pompeii: using house size to measure inequality	2
You can’t perform the same ritual twice: minds, materials, automobiles, and the emergence of form	2
Reflections on archaeology and inequality. A foreword	2
Negritos in Taiwan and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia: new discovery from the Xiaoma Caves	2
Extensive, low-density Vietnamese urban settlements - 10th to 19th century CE: redefining ancestry and organization in a Southeast Asian urban tradition	2
Beyond meaning: skeuomorphy and the mediation of Shang things	2
Warrior graves reconsidered: metal, power and identity in Copper Age Italy	2
Balancing the scales: archaeological approaches to social inequality	2
Yup’ik masks in the precontact past and the contested present	2
Margins are central: identity and indigenous resistance to colonial globalization in Guam	2
Semiotic ideologies of stone in Andean and Khmer political landscapes	2
Blurred boundaries: Zoomorphic masking rituals and the human-animal relationship in ancient Cyprus	2
The organics revolution: new narratives and how we can achieve them	1
Privileged or dispossessed? Intersectional marginality in a forgotten working-class neighborhood in Finland	1
Hydraulic technology as means of Christian colonisation. Watermills and channels in the Lower Ebro (Catalonia)	1
Living on the margin: an archaeology of a Swedish Roma camp	1
Illegal archaeological excavation crime in Jordanian law	1
Inka special occasion food	1
The status of women in Neolithic & pre-Imperial China: How bioarchaeological evidence informs ongoing debate	1
Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes: pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range	1
Recognising inequality: ableism in Egyptological approaches to disability and bodily differences	1
The exceptional environmental setting of the North Plaza, Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, USA	1
Longquan celadon: a quantitative archaeological analysis of a pan-Indian Ocean industry of the 12^th to 15^th centuries	1
Submerged inland landscapes of the Aucilla basin, Northwest Florida, USA: populating the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene landscape	1
Understanding Chinese archaeology by statistical analysis of papers published by Chinese researchers in Chinese and World core journals during the past century (1920–2020)	1
Collectors, class and conflict at the lower palaeolithic discovery at Stoke Newington, 1878-1884	1
Materializations of variable power strategies and inequalities in Polynesia	1
(Im)material culture: towards an archaeology of cybercrime	1

Trickle down innovation? Creativity and innovation at the margins	1
Examining frequency and directionality of Palaeolithic sea-crossing over the Korea/Tsushima Strait: a synthesis	1
Charismatic megafauna, regional identity, and invasive species: what role does environmental archaeology play in contemporary conservation efforts?	1
Mummy false heads from Pachacamac and the ontology of the dead in ancient Peru	1
Finding the remains of classical Bagan’s peri-urban support population: using ethnoarchaeological data to enhance archaeological excavation and interpretation	1
No gentry but grave-makers: inequality beyond property accumulation at Neolithic Çatalhöyük	1
The embodied performance and affective presence of Iroquoian animal effigy pipes	1
Disease, demons and masks in the Iron Age Mediterranean	1
Flows of clay and site ontologies: towards a realist archaeology of congealment and emergence	1
Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise	1
Techno-aesthetic ceramic traditions and the effective communication of power on the North Coast of Peru	1
Representation and meaning in rock art: the case of Algonquian rock images	1
Hominin adaptations in the Lesser Sunda Islands: exploring the vertebrate record to investigate fauna diversity before, during and after the Last Glacial Maximum	1
Counter-infrastructure in the US–Mexico borderlands: some archaeological perspectives	1
Towards a Jōmon food database: construction, analysis and implications for Hokkaido and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan	1
Submerged landscape evolution of the Beagle Channel: context of the first record of underwater archaeological evidence	1
Changing to remain the same: everyday animal use at ancient Jecosh, north-central Peru	1
Peopling island rainforests: global trends from the Early Pleistocene to the Late Holocene	1
Archaeology and social justice in island worlds	1