OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Landscape-scale perspectives on Stone Age behavioural change from the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa	10
Hunter-gatherers on the basin’s edge: a preliminary look at Holocene human occupation of Nangara-Komba Shelter, Central African Republic	8
Local animal economies during the nineteenth-century caravan trade along the Lower Pangani, northeastern Tanzania: a zooarchaeological perspective	6
The final MSA of eastern South Africa: a comparative study between Umbeli Belli and Sibhudu	6
The Middle Stone Age in the Eastern Desert. EDAR 135 — a buried early MIS 5 horizon from Sudan	5
The Pre-Aksumite Period: indigenous origins and development in the Horn of Africa	5
The end of a long journey. Tumulus burials in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) in the second half of the first millennium AD	5
A reassessment of archaeological human remains recovered from rock shelters in Cathkin Peak, South Africa	4
‘Things of the outside teach me’: identity transfer and contextual transformation as expressions of persistent, syncretic cosmology in traditional spiritual and medicinal practice in the south-central	4
States, agency, and power on the ‘peripheries’: exploring the archaeology of the Later Iron Age societies in precolonial Mberengwa, CE 1300-1600s	4
The Carboneras Beach archaeological site on Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea): old data and new stories about a unique culture	4
Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 1: the southern Delta sites Mat82 and Matlapaneng plus Qogana on the region’s eastern margin	4
The devil’s in the detail: revisiting the ceiling panel at RSA CHI1, Kamberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	4
Southern African Stone Age archaeology and palaeontology in a mining context: the example of Gudrun Corvinus in the diamond mines of the Sperrgebiet, Namibia (1976–1980)	3
Using the radiocarbon dates of Central Africa for studying long-term demographic trends of the last 50,000 years: potential and pitfalls	3
Ruined towns in Nugaal: a forgotten medieval civilisation in interior Somalia	3
Rock art and performance in the Stormberg, South Africa	3
Imported ornaments of a Late Antiquity community in Christian Ethiopia	3
Stone point variability reveals spatial, chronological and environmental structuring of eastern African Middle Stone Age populations	3
Ecology and demography of early Homo sapiens : a synthesis of archaeological and climatic data from eastern Africa	3
The Diepkloof Rock Shelter foodplant fitness landscape, Western Cape, South Africa	3
Ship graffiti at the Zanzibar Gereza (Old Fort), Stone Town, Unguja, Tanzania	2
A generic MSA: what problems will it solve and what problems will it create?	2
Change and continuity in the lithic technologies from Final to Ceramic Final Later Stone Age, Limpopo Basin, southern Africa	2
Cloaks and torsos: image recognition, ethnography and male initiation events in the rock art of the Western Cape	2

The Last Glacial Maximum and acceleration of technological change in the Lesotho highlands	2
Exploring arrow poisons from Windvogel’s Country, Eastern Cape, South Africa: a discussion between Piet Windvogel and William Atherstone on 6 February 1846	2
Foragers during a period of social upheaval at Little Muck Shelter, southern Africa	2
‘No one remains living in the past’: the dynamics of pottery technological styles in southwestern Ethiopia	2
Was there a shift from Levallois to Still Bay point knapping at Hollow Rock Shelter, South Africa?	2
‘What sort of thing is an elephant?’ Reviewing the evidence for a ‘generic’ MSA in Central Africa	2
The other MSA: non-Aterian lithic assemblages in Algeria, characteristics and attribution	2
Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 3: Lotshitshi, a Later Stone Age/Bambata/Recent site on the Delta margin	2
Dwelling after Makuria: the organisation and function of space in houses of the Funj period in Old Dongola, Nubia	2
San rock paintings of women in the southern Maloti-Drakensberg and eastern Stormberg, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa: ritual specialists, potency and social conditioning	2