OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Levant 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A settlement-geology model for dolmen distribution in the Levant: revisiting the ‘great dolmen-field’ on the Irbid plateau	13
Setting the standard: the 1970 standard and ethical codes of archaeological organizations	12
Gerasa’s ‘Nymphaeum’: a reappraisal of its history and function	9
Beyond urbanization, regional settlement pattern in south-eastern Levant during the Early Bronze Age	9
The Late Bronze–Early Iron Age transition in Canaan: new insights from Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates	7
Ritual purity among the Phoenicians in the sacred precinct at Tel Dan in the Hellenistic and Roman periods	7
The Early Bronze Age I ritual landscape in the Middle Wadi az-Zarqa Valley, Jordan	7
A unique mother-of-pearl stamp seal from Late Iron Age Tel Ḥadid, Israel	7
Reframing the Desert. Studies in the Ancient Near East and North Arabia in Honour of David Kennedy	6
Wine Jars and Jar Makers of Cyprus: The Ethnoarchaeology of Pitharia	6
The role of highland regions in interregional connectivity: Upper Galilee in the Early Bronze Age	5
Avian depiction in the earliest Neolithic communities of the Near East	5
Beyond the battlefield: assessing cultural heritage damage in Tartus, Syria	5
Exploring Levantine megalithic building techniques: the case study of ST_004 from Menjez (Akkar, Lebanon)	5
Site custody activism in Jordan: introducing Sela and Alraqeem	4
Arslan Tash Palace: a reconsideration of the architecture, phases, chronology and use	4
Cognition, practice and social context in the making of ethnic identity during the Late Bronze–Early Iron Age transition in the northern Levant	4
Ḥorvat Tevet, the Jezreel Valley: a village and an Israelite royal estate	4
Beth-Shemesh between Judah and Philistia: geopolitical and cultural dynamics in the Iron Age IIB–C	4
Do the right thing	3
Different mint, same engraver: engraver-sharing at Caracalla tetradrachm mints in the southern Levant	3
Trade and commercial activity in Tarsus in Late Antiquity: evidence from Egyptian and Palestinian amphorae	3
Dolmens in context	3
Megalithic architecture in the Levant: broader perspectives for defining what we are talking about	3
Rediscovering the ‘Ain Braq aqueduct: new insights into Petra’s urban water management	2

The ethics of excavating: bioarchaeology and the case for rehabilitating legacy human skeletal collections in the Near East	2
Dolmens, standing stones and ritual in Murayghat	2
Not a place for respectable people, but the ends of the earth converge there: insights from Wisad Pools into the nature and context of Jordan’s Black Desert Neolithic	2
Towards a bottom-up approach for collaboration in cultural heritage: the case of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) Amman Institute and the JEA's Urban Heritage Preservation Committ	2
Exploringchaîne opératoiresof Hellenistic ceramic oil lamps from Nea Paphos, Cyprus	2
William Lancaster: anthropologist and ethnographic mentor	2
Illicit trafficking of cultural objects: the case of Cyprus	2
Beyond sealing: evidence of Middle Bronze Age stamps from the Kouris Valley, Cyprus	2
Two Phoenician white marble blocks from Tyre	2
The Louvre Museum terracotta ship-models from Tyre	2
Lajjun: forgotten provincial capital in Ottoman Palestine	1
Dolmens shaping the urban landscape: the case of Jebel al-Mutawwaq	1
Why so many? Analysing church multiplicity in Late Antique southern Levant	1
Cairn fields and other megaliths as cultural markers in the southern Levantine deserts	1
Uninscribed Late Bronze and Early Iron Age stone weights Dor, Israel	1
Assessment of the impact of the Syrian conflict on archaeological sites in the Daraa region	1
Memories of Hugh	1
Reconstructing the organization and agricultural capacity of the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit: a statistical and spatial modelling approach	1
Early Bronze Age IA mortuary practices and difference on the south-eastern Dead Sea Plain, Jordan	1
New evidence for long-distance trade in arsenical copper during the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant: analysis of weapons from the Nesher-Ramla cemetery	1
Shaded by wine routes. Defining the market between Western Cyprus and Cilicia in the light of the study of the late antique thin-walled cooking pottery	1
Subsistence practices in Phoenicia and beyond: faunal investigations at Tell el-Burak, Lebanon (c. 725–350 BCE)	1
Assembling columns: construction process through the masons’ marks from the Macellum of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)	1
Cultural continuity and asymmetry through the Levantine Early Bronze Age: a view from the desert	1
Contextualizing the social and ritual landscape of the megalith builders of Akkar in northern Lebanon	1
Ex-territorial rituals and inter-cultural encounters in the Early Bronze Age Levant: a reconsideration of the Mitzpe Shalem site cluster	1
Pottery craft in the early urban world: two EB IVA traditions in focus in Tell Mishrifeh-Qatna, Hypogeum IV (Syria)	1
Age and sex determination of fingerprints on ceramic objects from the Late Bronze Age Palace at Tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel	1
Interrelated communities of practice in the Late Bronze Age southern Levant: a ceramic perspective from the Shephelah	1
Building biographies of the Cypriot Chalcolithic	1