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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence?: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times	21
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)	16
Ottoman archaeology between the Self and the Other : archaeological ethnography and the transborder research potential of the SW Balkans	12
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th–20th centuries)	10
Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France	9
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity	7
Margins are central: identity and indigenous resistance to colonial globalization in Guam	7
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE	7
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations	6
Assessing the risks of northeastern African archaeological heritage and their relationship to human–environmental processes: a Bayesian network approach	6
Magic money: commodities and exchange in Bronze Age Europe	6
Global commodities: cosmology and value	6
Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea	6
Glass beads in a Dillybag: a cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia	6
Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond	5
From money to commodity: comparative case studies in demonetization	5
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: local concepts and global conversations	5
Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 1005	5
Longquan celadon: a quantitative archaeological analysis of a pan-Indian Ocean industry of the 12 ^th to 15 ^th centuries	4
Islands and hominin adaptation	4
Practice beyond category: archaeologies of labor	4
Entanglements, ontologies, and grinding stones at the medieval site of Handoga (Djibouti)	4
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?	4
Hominin adaptations in the Lesser Sunda Islands: exploring the vertebrate record to investigate fauna diversity before, during and after the Last Glacial Maximum	4
Projectile points, dangers and Amerindian ontologies at eastern Catamarca (Argentina) during the first millennium CE	4

Materializations of variable power strategies and inequalities in Polynesia	4
‘To make the emigrant a better colonist’: transforming women in the Female Immigration Depot, Hyde Park Barracks	4
Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery	3
Finding the remains of classical Bagan’s peri-urban support population: using ethnoarchaeological data to enhance archaeological excavation and interpretation	3
Illegal archaeological excavation crime in Jordanian law	3
Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean	3
Community archaeology and climate change	3
Submerged inland landscapes of the Aucilla basin, Northwest Florida, USA: populating the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene landscape	3
Submerged landscape evolution of the Beagle Channel: context of the first record of underwater archaeological evidence	3
Broken Buddhas, burials, and sanctuary-adjacent sanctuaries: the ancestral animist archaeologies of Angkor’s ancient places and things	3
Food as affirmative biopolitics at the border: liminality, eating practices, and migration in the Mediterranean	3
Counter-infrastructure in the US–Mexico borderlands: some archaeological perspectives	3
Labor, gender, and intercultural diplomacy: the emergence of Madame Montour as a professional interpreter in colonial North America	2
Living on the margin: an archaeology of a Swedish Roma camp	2
Hydraulic technology as means of Christian colonisation. Watermills and channels in the Lower Ebro (Catalonia)	2
Migration flows and concrete walls: an archaeological perspective on early migrant detention facilities. The C.P.T “Regina Pacis” (Italy, Puglia)	2
Islands of fertility: a multispecies ethnography of human-termite interactions and their implications for human ecology and the archaeology of gender in the tropics	2
Subaltern assemblages. The archaeology of marginal places and identities	2
Theory and methods of settlement archaeology – the Chinese contribution	2
Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey	2
Techno-aesthetic ceramic traditions and the effective communication of power on the North Coast of Peru	2
Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise	2
Understanding Chinese archaeology by statistical analysis of papers published by Chinese researchers in Chinese and World core journals during the past century (1920–2020)	2
Archaeobotany in an era of change and challenge: potential and fragility of macro- and micro-remains	2
The altitude of the depths: use of inland water archaeology for the reconstruction of inundated cultural landscapes in Lake Titicaca	2
Fame and recognition in historic and contemporary graffiti: examples from New York City (US), Richmond Castle and Bristol (UK)	2
Collectors, class and conflict at the lower palaeolithic discovery at Stoke Newington, 1878-1884	2
Making dolia and dolium makers	2
Editorial	2
Urban archaeology in Kaifeng, a capital city of dynastic China: progress and insights	2
Towards a political ecology of piracy in the Age of Sail	2
Alternatives to colonization and marginal identities in New Kingdom colonial Nubia (1550–1070 BCE)	1
Trickle down innovation? Creativity and innovation at the margins	1
Debating archaeological essentials: rethinking place, time, repetition, difference, and representation	1
Fit for purpose: investigating adaptations in late Pleistocene lithic technology to an island environment at Buang Merabak, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	1
Anarchy, institutional flexibility, and containment of authority at Poverty Point (USA)	1
Archaeology in a fragile environment: archaeology of the lower Yangtze Shanghai region	1
Reflections on archaeology and inequality. A foreword	1
Microhistories of an invisible punishment. For an archaeology of sexual exploitation in Spain	1
Negritos in Taiwan and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia: new discovery from the Xiaoma Caves	1
Archaeo-media: breaking the binary and building agency in archaeological news reporting	1
Landscape, upland-lowland, community, and economy of the mekong river (6th-8th century CE): case studies from the Pre-Angkorian centers of Thala Borivat and Sambor	1
Mining and metallurgical labor in Islamic period Southwest Asia	1
Scale, depth, multi-disciplinarity, and global integration: Chinese archaeology at 100 years	1
Terminal Pleistocene emergence of maritime interaction networks across Wallacea	1
Recognising inequality: ableism in Egyptological approaches to disability and bodily differences	1
The Acheulean is a temporally cohesive tradition	1
Portioning as the missing link in the conceptualization of weight in prehistory. A view from Europe	1
Contemporary regimes of disappearance and the unequal treatment of human remains	1
Unequal housing in Pompeii: using house size to measure inequality	1

Continuity and variability in prehistoric fishing practices by Homo sapiens in Island Southeast Asia: new ichthyofaunal data from Asitau Kuru, Timor-Leste	1
The exceptional environmental setting of the North Plaza, Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, USA	1
A synthetic model of Palaeolithic seafaring in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan	1
Submerged Palaeolandscapes of the Southern Hemisphere (SPLOSH) – What is emerging from the Southern Hemisphere	1
Let’s catch octopus for dinner: ancient inventions of octopus lures in the Mariana Islands of the remote tropical pacific	1
The archaeology of a marginal neighborhood in Tehran, Iran: garbage, class, and identity	1