OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of World Archaeology is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence?: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times	23
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
Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France	11
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)	11
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity	8
Assessing the risks of northeastern African archaeological heritage and their relationship to human–environmental processes: a Bayesian network approach	7
Global commodities: cosmology and value	7
Glass beads in a Dillybag: a cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia	7
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE	6
Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea	6
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations	6
Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond	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
Magic money: commodities and exchange in Bronze Age Europe	5
From money to commodity: comparative case studies in demonetization	5
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?	4
Practice beyond category: archaeologies of labor	4
Entanglements, ontologies, and grinding stones at the medieval site of Handoga (Djibouti)	4
Archaeologies of crime and punishment: an introduction	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
Submerged landscape evolution of the Beagle Channel: context of the first record of underwater archaeological evidence	3

Finding the remains of classical Bagan’s peri-urban support population: using ethnoarchaeological data to enhance archaeological excavation and interpretation	3
Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery	3
Islands and hominin adaptation	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
‘Ribbon-decked poverty’: costume and performance in South Midlands morris dance	3
Community archaeology and climate change	3
An archaeology of the crime and punishment of young convicts: a view from colonial Australia	3
Submerged inland landscapes of the Aucilla basin, Northwest Florida, USA: populating the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene landscape	3
Evidence for punishment and execution on the foreshore: a unique early medieval burial (680–810 AD) from London	3
Broken Buddhas, burials, and sanctuary-adjacent sanctuaries: the ancestral animist archaeologies of Angkor’s ancient places and things	3