OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of World Archaeology is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate-responsive earthen architecture: multi-scale environmental analysis of passive house design in Classical Olynthos	21
Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE)	13
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th–20th centuries)	10
Insights into Late Ceramic Period lived experiences in Greater Coclé via human burials at Operation 5, Cerro Juan Díaz, Panamá	9
Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France	8
Global commodities: cosmology and value	8
Stone workshops between petrography and iconography: a preliminary study on Iron Age basalt carvings	8
Ottoman archaeology between the Self and the Other : archaeological ethnography and the transborder research potential of the SW Balkans	8
The Self-Representation of tomb builders in East China, 1st to 3rd Century CE	7
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity	7
Glass beads in a Dillybag: a cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia	7
Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations	5
Crafting and everyday archaeology at Chumnungwa	5
Tomb living: shaped-earth furniture in re-used tombs of Dra Abu el-Naga, Luxor	5
Cross-crafting in standardized and customized metallurgy. Some examples from Bronze Age Poland	5
Assessing the risks of northeastern African archaeological heritage and their relationship to human–environmental processes: a Bayesian network approach	5
Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond	4
From present to past: universality in sheep/goat morphometric distinction?	4
Magic money: commodities and exchange in Bronze Age Europe	4
Evocative imagery at whose expense? Critical perspectives on Viking Age mortuary reconstructions	4
Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 1005	4
Inserting the dead in living spaces in Bronze Age Southern Italy: the case of Coppa Nevigata	4
From money to commodity: comparative case studies in demonetization	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

Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: local concepts and global conversations	3
Archaeologies of crime and punishment: an introduction	2
Materializations of variable power strategies and inequalities in Polynesia	2
Projectile points, dangers and Amerindian ontologies at eastern Catamarca (Argentina) during the first millennium CE	2
Broken Buddhas, burials, and sanctuary-adjacent sanctuaries: the ancestral animist archaeologies of Angkor’s ancient places and things	2
The punctuated itineraries of purple porphyry	2
Deurbanization as lateral stratigraphy: Three thousand years of settlement relocation at Sisupalgarh/Bhubaneswar, India	2
Life and death with the sea in between: the Precolumbian Maya site of Marco Gonzalez, Belize	2
Entanglements, ontologies, and grinding stones at the medieval site of Handoga (Djibouti)	2
Community archaeology and climate change	2
Longquan celadon: a quantitative archaeological analysis of a pan-Indian Ocean industry of the 12 ^th to 15 ^th centuries	2
Inequality in life and death: bridging divides between domestic and funerary archaeology in Middle Bronze Age Transylvania	2
Practice beyond category: archaeologies of labor	2
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?	2
From kinship systems to kinwork and oddkin: a view from Scandinavia	2
An archaeology of the crime and punishment of young convicts: a view from colonial Australia	2
Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery	2
Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans	2