OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Levant is 0. 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
Shamanism at the transition from foraging to farming in Southwest Asia: sacra, ritual, and performance at Neolithic WF16 (southern Jordan)	8
British inter-war aerial photogrammetric mapping in the MENA region: archives, access and research potential	7
Documenting heritage in the 21st century: the EAMENA project and its potential for ‘big data’ research in Levantine archaeology	7
A stamped sealing from Middle Chalcolithic Tel Tsaf: implications for the rise of administrative practices in the Levant	7
Using the EAMENA database to document modern heritage: the Amman Heritage Houses, Jordan, case study	6
The use of remote sensing and digital tools for cultural heritage management and archaeological research	6
The EAMENA database and its potential impact on research and heritage management: a case study of Crusader heritage in Lebanon	5
Age and sex determination of fingerprints on ceramic objects from the Late Bronze Age Palace at Tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel	4
Worked sheep and gazelle foot bones as possible figurative representations: a 12,000-year-old cluster of artifacts from Shubayqa 6, Jordan	4
Regional mineralogical and technological characterization of Cypriot Iron Age pottery: a view from Tel Dor	4
Tracing the patterns: fields, villages, and burial places in Lebanon	4
Ostriches and people in archaeological contexts in the southern Levant and beyond	4
The late Ottoman defended landscapes along the Hijaz railway in southern Jordan	3
Snapshots from the past: discoveries and destruction in the Jericho Oasis	3
House of a king, house of a god? Situating and distinguishing palaces and temples within the architectonic landscape of the Middle and Late Bronze Age southern Levant	3
Raincheck: A new diachronic series of rainfall maps for Southwest Asia over the Holocene	3
The ethics of excavating: bioarchaeology and the case for rehabilitating legacy human skeletal collections in the Near East	2
Coins from south of the North Gate of Jerash	2
Building biographies of the Cypriot Chalcolithic	2
Avian depiction in the earliest Neolithic communities of the Near East	2
On Early Bronze Age Levantine combed vessels: the view from the south	2
Early Bronze Age IA mortuary practices and difference on the south-eastern Dead Sea Plain, Jordan	2
Constructed contrasts and manipulated experiences: the cathedral at Gerasa and its relationship with the adjacent Temple of Artemis complex	2
Discoid loom weights on Cyprus: new insights into textile tools and practical knowledge from the Aegean	1
The Frankish Castle of Dor	1

A unique lead ornament from Shivta: identification considerations	1
Ḥorvat Tevet, the Jezreel Valley: a village and an Israelite royal estate	1
A Late 4th millennium BCE cylinder-seal amulet from Tel Yaqush and its contribution to the understanding of EB I–II communities in the Central Jordan Valley	1
Lajjun: forgotten provincial capital in Ottoman Palestine	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
Yavne and the industrial production of Gaza and Ashqelon wines	1
The disappearing walls of Jerusalem? Observations on the Bronze and Iron Age fortifications and waterworks on the east slope of the City of David	1
Absolute chronology of Black Wheel Made Ware in the southern Levant and its synchronization with the northern Levant	1
Gaming and divination in the Hellenistic Levant: the case study of the astragalus assemblage from Maresha, Israel	1
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	1
Illicit trafficking of cultural objects: the case of Cyprus	1
Philistine urban form at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: a magnetometric perspective	1
Setting the standard: the 1970 standard and ethical codes of archaeological organizations	1
Beyond urbanization, regional settlement pattern in south-eastern Levant during the Early Bronze Age	1
Assembling columns: construction process through the masons’ marks from the Macellum of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)	1
Exploringchaîne opératoiresof Hellenistic ceramic oil lamps from Nea Paphos, Cyprus	1
Shattered glass of Beirut: collaboration between the Archaeological Museum (American University of Beirut) and international partners following the 2020 port explosion	1
The Early Bronze IV — Middle Bronze I transition in the southern Levant: analysis and assessment	1
A late medieval synagogue at Ḥuqoq/Yaquq in Galilee?	1
The ‘Assyrian mill’. A case study on food processing technology and innovation in the Near East during the Neo-Assyrian period (c. 900–600 BC)	1
New evidence for Neolithic occupation in north-west Arabia: Standing Stone Circles on the Harrat ‘Uwayrid	1
Academic ‘ethics’ and the Schøyen Collection Aramaic incantation bowls: a personal narrative	1
Michael Hamilton Burgoyne 1944–2021	0
Documenting the ḥarra’s epigraphic heritage: new Palmyrene inscriptions from the Jordanian ḥarra	0
The Crusader Lordship of Transjordan (1100–1189): settlement forms, dynamics and significance	0
An Early Bronze Age stone tool assemblage from al-Badʿ Oasis in northern Arabia: a technological and functional analysis	0
Notes on the architecture and history of the fortifications of the island of Arwad in Syria	0
Site custody activism in Jordan: introducing Sela and Alraqeem	0
Regionalism, social boundaries and cultural interaction in the Levantine Early Bronze Age	0
All Things Cypriot. Studies on Ancient Environment, Technology, and Society in Honor of Stuart Swiny	0
The Late Bronze–Early Iron Age transition in Canaan: new insights from Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates	0
Arslan Tash Palace: a reconsideration of the architecture, phases, chronology and use	0
Silence of the birds: avifauna exploitation during a period of increasing reliance on domesticates at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria	0
Visual affordances and social interactions at Early Iron Age Khirbat al-Mudayna al-ʽAliya, Jordan	0
A unique Frankish-period object from Miʿilyā – Castellum Regis	0
Standing at the crossroads — ‘En Ḥaẓeva in the Early Iron Age IIA	0
The long 7th century BCE at Tel Shiqmona (Israel): a high resolution chronological tool for the Levant and the Mediterranean	0
A marble Sarcophagus of Gadara (Umm Qais), Jordan: insights on its provenance	0
The Ḥarrah’s epigraphic heritage: new safaitic inscriptions from the Black Desert in north-eastern Jordan and a Greek inscription referring to Zeus Kyrios	0
For god, king and country: cult and territoriality in the Iron Age Levant	0
The EB II ‘metallic ware’ from Tell el-Far‘ah North (West Bank): typology, technology and petrography of a ceramic industry of the central hill country	0
Pottery craft in the early urban world: two EB IVA traditions in focus in Tell Mishrifeh-Qatna, Hypogeum IV (Syria)	0
Levantine wines in Italy between the Early Empire and Late Antiquity	0
Do the right thing	0
To whom does the water flow? A new aqueduct branch of Ayn Braq in Petra, Jordan	0
Ex-territorial rituals and inter-cultural encounters in the Early Bronze Age Levant: a reconsideration of the Mitzpe Shalem site cluster	0
Olga Tufnell’s ‘Perfect Journey’: Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean	0
Two Phoenician white marble blocks from Tyre	0
Funerary dining or offerings for the dead? An archaeobotanical analysis of remains from shaft tombs in Petra, Jordan	0
A numbers game: analyzing pottery usage patterns of 4th millennium BCE sites in the southern Levant	0

Uninscribed Late Bronze and Early Iron Age stone weights Dor, Israel	0
A micro-geoarchaeological look at adaptive and glocal socio-economic aspects: the case of Middle Bronze Age Tel Dor, Israel	0
Crisis in motion: the final days of Iron Age I Megiddo	0
The southern Levantine earthquake of 418/419 AD and the archaeology of Byzantine Petra	0
The Social Archaeology of the Levant. From Prehistory to the Present	0
Ghazi Bisheh 1944–2022: an appreciation	0
Dura Europos.	0
The role of highland regions in interregional connectivity: Upper Galilee in the Early Bronze Age	0
Assessing the MaDiH CKAN catalogue as an engagement tool for the Jordanian cultural heritage community	0
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	0
Remembering Neil Faulkner	0
William Lancaster: anthropologist and ethnographic mentor	0
Beyond sealing: evidence of Middle Bronze Age stamps from the Kouris Valley, Cyprus	0
Wine Jars and Jar Makers of Cyprus: The Ethnoarchaeology of Pitharia	0
Distribution patterns of Gaza wine vs. Cilician wine in the eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity	0
Cultural continuity and asymmetry through the Levantine Early Bronze Age: a view from the desert	0
Assyrian conquest and ruralization: unveiling territorial dynamics in the provinces of Magiddû and Samerina	0
A new inscribed Aramaic potsherd from Tell al-Assara, Jordan	0
Revisiting the Late Bronze Age stratigraphy of Tel Lachish	0
Cattle drivers from the north? Animal economy of a diasporic Kura-Araxes community at Tel Bet Yerah	0
Gerasa’s ‘Nymphaeum’: a reappraisal of its history and function	0
Subsistence practices in Phoenicia and beyond: faunal investigations at Tell el-Burak, Lebanon (c. 725–350 BCE)	0
Dan IV: The Iron Age I Settlement. The Avraham Biran Excavations (1966–1999)	0