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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence?: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times	24
Ottoman archaeology between the Self and the Other : archaeological ethnography and the transborder research potential of the SW Balkans	14
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th–20th centuries)	12
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)	11
Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France	11
Assessing the risks of northeastern African archaeological heritage and their relationship to human–environmental processes: a Bayesian network approach	9
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity	9
Glass beads in a Dillybag: a cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia	8
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations	7
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE	7
Global commodities: cosmology and value	7
Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea	6
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: local concepts and global conversations	5
Practice beyond category: archaeologies of labor	5
Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond	5
From present to past: universality in sheep/goat morphometric distinction?	5
From money to commodity: comparative case studies in demonetization	5
Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 1005	5
Hominin adaptations in the Lesser Sunda Islands: exploring the vertebrate record to investigate fauna diversity before, during and after the Last Glacial Maximum	5
Magic money: commodities and exchange in Bronze Age Europe	5
Entanglements, ontologies, and grinding stones at the medieval site of Handoga (Djibouti)	4
Archaeologies of crime and punishment: an introduction	4
Community archaeology and climate change	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

Islands and hominin adaptation	4
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?	4
Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery	3
Broken Buddhas, burials, and sanctuary-adjacent sanctuaries: the ancestral animist archaeologies of Angkor’s ancient places and things	3
‘Ribbon-decked poverty’: costume and performance in South Midlands morris dance	3
Submerged inland landscapes of the Aucilla basin, Northwest Florida, USA: populating the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene landscape	3
Longquan celadon: a quantitative archaeological analysis of a pan-Indian Ocean industry of the 12 ^th to 15 ^th centuries	3
Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean	3
Evidence for punishment and execution on the foreshore: a unique early medieval burial (680–810 AD) from London	3
An archaeology of the crime and punishment of young convicts: a view from colonial Australia	3
Submerged landscape evolution of the Beagle Channel: context of the first record of underwater archaeological evidence	3
Illegal archaeological excavation crime in Jordanian law	3
Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey	2
Labor, gender, and intercultural diplomacy: the emergence of Madame Montour as a professional interpreter in colonial North America	2
Migration flows and concrete walls: an archaeological perspective on early migrant detention facilities. The C.P.T “Regina Pacis” (Italy, Puglia)	2
Techno-aesthetic ceramic traditions and the effective communication of power on the North Coast of Peru	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
Theory and methods of settlement archaeology – the Chinese contribution	2
Making dolia and dolium makers	2
Hydraulic technology as means of Christian colonisation. Watermills and channels in the Lower Ebro (Catalonia)	2
Collectors, class and conflict at the lower palaeolithic discovery at Stoke Newington, 1878-1884	2
Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise	2
Negritos in Taiwan and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia: new discovery from the Xiaoma Caves	1
Towards a political ecology of piracy in the Age of Sail	1
Mining and metallurgical labor in Islamic period Southwest Asia	1
Archaeobotany in an era of change and challenge: potential and fragility of macro- and micro-remains	1
Debating archaeological essentials: rethinking place, time, repetition, difference, and representation	1
Archaeo-media: breaking the binary and building agency in archaeological news reporting	1
The Acheulean is a temporally cohesive tradition	1
Anarchy, institutional flexibility, and containment of authority at Poverty Point (USA)	1
Unequal housing in Pompeii: using house size to measure inequality	1
Contemporary regimes of disappearance and the unequal treatment of human remains	1
“Everything begins with a dot” cupmarks, minerals and waters in South Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art	1
A synthetic model of Palaeolithic seafaring in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan	1
Urban archaeology in Kaifeng, a capital city of dynastic China: progress and insights	1
Editorial	1
Trickle down innovation? Creativity and innovation at the margins	1
Archaeology in a fragile environment: archaeology of the lower Yangtze Shanghai region	1
Microhistories of an invisible punishment. For an archaeology of sexual exploitation in Spain	1
Portioning as the missing link in the conceptualization of weight in prehistory. A view from Europe	1
Submerged Palaeolandscapes of the Southern Hemisphere (SPLOSH) – What is emerging from the Southern Hemisphere	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
The altitude of the depths: use of inland water archaeology for the reconstruction of inundated cultural landscapes in Lake Titicaca	1
Terminal Pleistocene emergence of maritime interaction networks across Wallacea	1
Fit for purpose: investigating adaptations in late Pleistocene lithic technology to an island environment at Buang Merabak, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	1
Recognising inequality: ableism in Egyptological approaches to disability and bodily differences	1
Reflections on archaeology and inequality. A foreword	1
Scale, depth, multi-disciplinarity, and global integration: Chinese archaeology at 100 years	1