OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
African heritage in a changing climate	29
Landscape-scale perspectives on Stone Age behavioural change from the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa	9
Pits, pots and plants at Pangwari — Deciphering the nature of a Nok Culture site	7
Hunter-gatherers on the basin’s edge: a preliminary look at Holocene human occupation of Nangara-Komba Shelter, Central African Republic	7
Mauritian indentured labour and plantation household archaeology	6
Local animal economies during the nineteenth-century caravan trade along the Lower Pangani, northeastern Tanzania: a zooarchaeological perspective	5
The end of a long journey. Tumulus burials in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) in the second half of the first millennium AD	5
The Carboneras Beach archaeological site on Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea): old data and new stories about a unique culture	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
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 Pre-Aksumite Period: indigenous origins and development in the Horn of Africa	4
Runaway slaves, rock art and resistance in the Cape Colony, South Africa	4
No such thing as invisible people: toward an archaeology of slavery at the fifteenth-century Swahili site of Songo Mnara	4
The devil’s in the detail: revisiting the ceiling panel at RSA CHI1, Kamberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	4
The final MSA of eastern South Africa: a comparative study between Umbeli Belli and Sibhudu	4
Rock art and performance in the Stormberg, South Africa	3
Archaeological approaches to slavery and unfree labour in Africa	3
Why forget us? Developing the Three-Town enslaved relics as alternative sites of commemoration in southeastern Ghana	3
Maritime archaeology of slave ships: reviews and future directions for Mauritius and the Indian Ocean	3
The Kwena of Botswana and the cattle post institution	3
Hunter-gatherers of the high-altitude Afromontane forest – the Holocene occupation of Mount Dendi, Ethiopia	3
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)	2
Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 3: Lotshitshi, a Later Stone Age/Bambata/Recent site on the Delta margin	2
Imported ornaments of a Late Antiquity community in Christian Ethiopia	2
The Middle Stone Age in the Eastern Desert. EDAR 135 — a buried early MIS 5 horizon from Sudan	2

Ruined towns in Nugaal: a forgotten medieval civilisation in interior Somalia	2
Archaeological manifestations of cross-cultural encounters along the Dixcove coastline, Western Region, Ghana	2
Change and continuity in the lithic technologies from Final to Ceramic Final Later Stone Age, Limpopo Basin, southern Africa	2
‘No one remains living in the past’: the dynamics of pottery technological styles in southwestern Ethiopia	2
A reassessment of archaeological human remains recovered from rock shelters in Cathkin Peak, South Africa	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
Using the radiocarbon dates of Central Africa for studying long-term demographic trends of the last 50,000 years: potential and pitfalls	2
Cloaks and torsos: image recognition, ethnography and male initiation events in the rock art of the Western Cape	2
Hafting adhesives from the final Later Stone Age layers at Sehonghong, Lesotho: a case study and commentary on the use of imported resources by nineteenth-century San	1
‘Bushman’ bandits of the eastern borderlands: The rock art of raiders in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	1
Assessment of human skeletal remains from the Penhalonga district, Zimbabwe	1
New approach to the evaluation of internal variability in the Acheulean: a case study of Garba I (Melka Kunture, Ethiopia) (Contribution à l’évaluation de la variation interne des industries acheuléen	1
The Aterian site of Phacochères (northern Algeria): a zooarchaeological perspective	1
Re-examining Jebel Moya figurines: new directions for figurine studies in Sudan	1
Was there a shift from Levallois to Still Bay point knapping at Hollow Rock Shelter, South Africa?	1
The Rhino Early Iron Age site, Thabazimbi, South Africa	1
Archaeology and archaeometallurgy in Limpopo Province, South Africa: case studies of the Early Iron Age sites of Mutoti and Thomo	1
Early Kanem-Borno fired brick élite locations in Kanem, Chad: archaeological and historical implications	1
Prehistoric stone tools of eastern Africa: a guide	1
Stone point variability reveals spatial, chronological and environmental structuring of eastern African Middle Stone Age populations	1
The role of the Cape’s unique climatic boundaries in sustaining specialised pastoralists in southern Africa during the last 2000 years	1
Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 2: the Xaro sites in the Panhandle of the river-delta system	1
Slave sacrifices in the Upemba Depression? Reinterpreting Classic Kisalian graves in the light of new linguistic evidence	1
Human settlement successions and lithic technology in the Kalokol area (west Lake Turkana, Kenya) during the African Humid Period	1
Music and sound-related archaeological artefacts from southern Africa from the last 10,000 years	1
Escape and abscond: the use of ostrich potency by nineteenth-century rock artists in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	1
Editorial	1
States, agency, and power on the ‘peripheries’: exploring the archaeology of the Later Iron Age societies in precolonial Mberengwa, CE 1300-1600s	1
Ship graffiti at the Zanzibar Gereza (Old Fort), Stone Town, Unguja, Tanzania	1
Straight from the cow’s mouth: investigating procurement and management strategies in cattle supplied to Great Zimbabwe using a multi-isotopic approach	1
Foragers during a period of social upheaval at Little Muck Shelter, southern Africa	1
Dwelling after Makuria: the organisation and function of space in houses of the Funj period in Old Dongola, Nubia	1
Constellations of practice in copper ingots from Zambia and northern Zimbabwe, cal. AD 500–1700	1
Reconnaissance survey of Zulu kingdom period amakhanda in the emaKhosini Basin, South Africa	1
San rock paintings of women in the southern Maloti-Drakensberg and eastern Stormberg, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa: ritual specialists, potency and social conditioning	1