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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate-responsive earthen architecture: multi-scale environmental analysis of passive house design in Classical Olynthos	19
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)	12
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th–20th centuries)	9
Ottoman archaeology between the Self and the Other : archaeological ethnography and the transborder research potential of the SW Balkans	8
Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France	8
Insights into Late Ceramic Period lived experiences in Greater Coclé via human burials at Operation 5, Cerro Juan Díaz, Panamá	8
Tomb living: shaped-earth furniture in re-used tombs of Dra Abu el-Naga, Luxor	7
Global commodities: cosmology and value	7
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE	7
Glass beads in a Dillybag: a cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia	7
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity	6
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations	5
Assessing the risks of northeastern African archaeological heritage and their relationship to human–environmental processes: a Bayesian network approach	5
Crafting and everyday archaeology at Chumnungwa	5
Magic money: commodities and exchange in Bronze Age Europe	4
From present to past: universality in sheep/goat morphometric distinction?	4
Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 1005	4
Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond	4
Cross-crafting in standardized and customized metallurgy. Some examples from Bronze Age Poland	4
Evocative imagery at whose expense? Critical perspectives on Viking Age mortuary reconstructions	4
From money to commodity: comparative case studies in demonetization	3
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: local concepts and global conversations	3
Inserting the dead in living spaces in Bronze Age Southern Italy: the case of Coppa Nevigata	3
The big bull: stone sculptures, ceremonial places and monumentality in Late Iron Age central Iberia	3
Introducing Lithikos 2 - a novel volumetric morphometric analyser via a volume-based approach to handaxe refinement	3

Broken Buddhas, burials, and sanctuary-adjacent sanctuaries: the ancestral animist archaeologies of Angkor’s ancient places and things	2
Longquan celadon: a quantitative archaeological analysis of a pan-Indian Ocean industry of the 12 ^th to 15 ^th centuries	2
Practice beyond category: archaeologies of labor	2
Materializations of variable power strategies and inequalities in Polynesia	2
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?	2
Community archaeology and climate change	2
Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery	2
Archaeologies of crime and punishment: an introduction	2
Projectile points, dangers and Amerindian ontologies at eastern Catamarca (Argentina) during the first millennium CE	2
Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans	2
An archaeology of the crime and punishment of young convicts: a view from colonial Australia	2
From kinship systems to kinwork and oddkin: a view from Scandinavia	2
Entanglements, ontologies, and grinding stones at the medieval site of Handoga (Djibouti)	2
Life and death with the sea in between: the Precolumbian Maya site of Marco Gonzalez, Belize	2
Deurbanization as lateral stratigraphy: Three thousand years of settlement relocation at Sisupalgarh/Bhubaneswar, India	2
Carving miniature worlds – landscape, environments, and Nordic Bronze Age rock art carvers	1
On the historical mode of existence of rock art: making, chaîne opératoire, and history	1
Anarchy, institutional flexibility, and containment of authority at Poverty Point (USA)	1
Unequal housing in Pompeii: using house size to measure inequality	1
Mining and metallurgical labor in Islamic period Southwest Asia	1
Urban archaeology in Kaifeng, a capital city of dynastic China: progress and insights	1
A kaleidoscope from a lost world: mesolithic harpoon morphology in Eastern Middle Sweden	1
Beyond bones: how biomolecular archaeology is challenging the definition of ancient human remains and its ethical implications	1
Crucibles: material expressions of cross craft interaction	1
5000 years of mudbrick at Arslantepe: ancient earthen architecture and modern sustainability	1
Archaeobotany in an era of change and challenge: potential and fragility of macro- and micro-remains	1
‘Ribbon-decked poverty’: costume and performance in South Midlands morris dance	1
Human remains, material culture and collections: an object-based perspective on ethical custodianship	1
Inequality in life and death: bridging divides between domestic and funerary archaeology in Middle Bronze Age Transylvania	1
Uncovering the time-depth of rock art: seriation and agency in the case of Levantine rock art of eastern Iberia	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
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
Dance	1
Revisiting Creswell Crags: applying digital methods to reassess the northernmost examples of Upper Palaeolithic cave art	1
Labor, gender, and intercultural diplomacy: the emergence of Madame Montour as a professional interpreter in colonial North America	1
20,000 hours rock art	1
Making dolia and dolium makers	1
Collectors, class and conflict at the lower palaeolithic discovery at Stoke Newington, 1878-1884	1
Getting into shape: computing continua of Middle Stone Age prepared core technology	1
A series of unfortunate events: deurbanization, agency, placemaking and the origins of city-states in Crete 1200–700 BC	1
Evidence for punishment and execution on the foreshore: a unique early medieval burial (680–810 AD) from London	1
The punctuated itineraries of purple porphyry	1
Theory and methods of settlement archaeology – the Chinese contribution	1
Choreographic empathy beyond human and animal	1
The living stones. Reassessing the Lombard group of megalithic monuments in the Copper Age	1
Towards a political ecology of piracy in the Age of Sail	1
Debating archaeological essentials: rethinking place, time, repetition, difference, and representation	1
Gone with the wind. Urbanization and deurbanization processes in the medieval Muslim Horn of Africa: the case of Handoga (Djibouti)	1
Migration flows and concrete walls: an archaeological perspective on early migrant detention facilities. The C.P.T “Regina Pacis” (Italy, Puglia)	1

Early settlers of Soba: strontium isotope evidence for population dynamics in medieval Nubia	1
Early medieval non-standard settlement graves: what they can or cannot tell us about the social status of a buried person?	1
Establishing a dialogue – settlement and funerary archaeology in northern Sudan	1
Re-carving meanings: negotiating social value and conservation in southwest China’s rock carvings	1
Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean	1