OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Field Archaeology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Run to the Hills: A Stratified Sampling Approach to Site Clustering on High Grounds in Ancient Samnium (Molise, Italy)	21
Rise of the Nomad Kings—Pastoral Polities in the Horn of Africa ( a.d. 650–1000)	16
Long Bones and Antlers for Artifact Production in the Final Late Bronze Age Settlement of Thessaloniki Toumba (Northern Greece, 1210–1040 cal b.c.)	14
Dating and Interpreting Landscapes of Livestock Herding: Excavation of a Hut Site and Enclosure in Southwestern Ireland	12
Jels 3, a New Late Palaeolithic Open-Air Site in Denmark, Sheds Light on the Pioneer Colonization of Northern Europe	11
Backdirting: Theorizing Backdirt through Time, Place, and Process	11
Toward Systematic Underwater Survey of Mediterranean Maritime Activity along the Southern Turkish Coast	9
Models of Grinding Stone Manufacture, Use, and Discard from Tigrai, Ethiopia: Opportunities for Cultural Comparisons and Implications for Usewear Analysis	9
Burial Histories, Bodies, and Pots: Mortuary Practices in the Southeastern Rainforests of the Andes during the 1st Millennium a.d. (El Cadillal, Argentina)	9
An Actualistic Experimental Study of Giant Quartzite Core Reduction Strategies: Implications for Large Flake Blank Production and Handaxe Manufacture at Amanzi Springs, South Africa	9
The Effect of Moral and Threat Appeals on Reducing Depreciative Behavior at Rock Imagery Sites	8
Urban Archaeology in the Lower Amazon: Fieldwork Uncovering Large Pre-Colonial Villages in Santarém City, Brazil	8
Searching for the Missing Graves of PoWs from the Second World War—an Example of Research Conducted in the Area of ⁣⁣Stalag VIII B (344) Lamsdorf	8
Drone Survey to Monitor Erosion Impacts on Coastal Archaeological Sites	8
The Social Construction of Backdirt in Chaco Archaeology	8
Metal Detecting in the Wake of 16th Century a.d. Spanish Expeditions	7
Monumental and Long-Lasting or Temporary and Performative? How did Neolithic Rondels Function? Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Modeling of the Rondel at Nowe Objezierze (Northwestern Pol	6
High-Resolution Spatial Analysis of Archaeobotanical Remains from a Kitchen Context in Imperial Late Antique (ca. a.d. 600) Dhiban, Jordan	6
Persian Paradises: Unveiling the Sasanian Dastgerd of Mohammadabad-Baghdasht, South of Jereh, Pars, Iran	6
Caving 16,000 Years Ago: Pleistocene Human Movement Within the Decorated Cave of Etxeberri, Western Pyrenees (France)	6
A Techno-Functional Analysis of Acheulean Backed Knives from Wonderboom, South Africa	6
Sacrifice, Subsistence, and Sacra in Stela Cave: Maya Ritual Practice in Patterns of Ceremonial Chipped Stone	6
Collaborative Science and Digital Tools: Monitoring Heritage at Risk during the People of Guana Project	6
A Symmetrical Archaeology Approach to Previously Excavated Sites: or, How I Learned to Appreciate Antiquarian Backdirt	6
Gone with the Wind, Waves, and Walking: Prioritizing Research at Vulnerable Archaeological Sites in Coastal Zones	5

Household Labor Practices and Dryland Agroforestry in Upland Kula, Maui Island	5
First Evidence of Burial Practices and Stone Constructions from the 15th Century a.d. Pre-Colonial Middle Cuanza River, Angola	5
In between the Sites: Understanding Late Holocene Manteño Agricultural Contexts in the Chongón-Colonche Mountains of Coastal Ecuador through UAV-Lidar and Excavation	5
Analyzing Low-Density Assemblages from Fieldwalking Surveys: Hellenistic and Roman Land Use in the Sibaritide (Calabria, Italy)	5
Human Ecology and the Southern Iberian Neolithic: An Approach from Archaeobotany and Archaeozoology	4
Human Adaptation to the High-Altitude Permafrost Zone at Daisetsuzan National Park, Japan	4
Social Landscapes of Euphorbia Kop: A K2 Farmer Settlement with a Forager Presence in Southern Africa	4
An Elite Bronze Age Double-Horse Burial from Western Ukraine and the Chariot Package Dissemination	4
Fools Rush In: Zooarchaeology as Slow Science and an Archaeology of Care in Late Nasca Peru ( a.d. 450–650)	4
Dirty Evidence: Multi-Method Identification of Daub, Animal Dung, or Human Excrement at Angel Mounds	4
Multi-Period Ore Exploitation in Upper Silesia, Central Europe	4
Social Dynamics, Knowledge Spheres, and Technological Transfers in Balearic Island Pottery during the 2nd Millennium b.c.	4
Laser-Aided Profile Measurement and Cluster Analysis of Ceramic Shapes	4
Minimally Invasive High-Resolution Investigation of Site Form and Disturbance at Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Ontario	4
Approaching Marginal Landscapes in Archaeology: the Case of Ravenna’s Reclaimed Wetlands	3
Introduction: How do we Think about Backdirt?	3
Mineralogy and Sourcing of a Stone Bead Industry Found in Communal Cemeteries Associated with Eastern Africa's First Pastoralists, ca. 5000b.p.	3
Temporal Analysis of Looting Activity in Tūwāneh (Southern Jordan)	3
Classifying Functional Areas at the Roman Villa of Mascherone (Manfredonia, Italy): Modeling Sparse Surface Survey Count Data using a Bayesian Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Model	3
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Unrecognized Contribution of the Survey of India in the Documentation of Ancient Settlements in Pakistan and India	3
Furrows Without Ridges: Evidence for an Agricultural Field at Angel Mounds (12Vg1), Southwestern Indiana, USA	3
Detection of Hunting Pits using Airborne Laser Scanning and Deep Learning	3
Unearthing Identity: the Role of Archaeology in Shaping English National Identity and Heritage Interpretation	3
Sherds and the City: Pottery Production, Society, and the Changing Urban Fabric of Fustat, Egypt	3
Revisiting the Acheulean at Namib IV in the Namib Desert, Namibia	2
What Lies Beyond Sight? Applications of Ultraportable Hyperspectral Imaging (VIS-NIR) for Archaeological Fieldwork	2
Multiscaled Archaeological Survey in Eastern Iberia: Ancient Settlement Dynamics, Agrarian Practices, and Rural Landscapes	2
Insights into Early Iron Age Social Structure in the Eastern Steppes: Excavation Results of the Chinge-Tey Western Chain Kurgan 1	2
Settlement Organization and Distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia: Utilizing Cumulative Viewshed Analysis and Spatial Statistics in the Sulcis Plain	2
Island Colonization and Human-Environment Interactions on the Edges of the Tropics: Archaeology of the Taíno Frontier (Northern Bahamas)	2
Stratagems and Back Spoils: Utilizing Backdirt in the Management of Archaeological Earthen Heritage	2
Niche Construction of Ban-nong ban-eoh in Southwestern Korea: Archaeobotanical Data from the Early Iron to Three Kingdoms Periods	2
Methodological Habitus: Complicating Categories, Taxonomies, and Scientism in Archaeology	2
Multimodal Remote Sensing Applications in the Etruscan-Roman City of Vulci	2
Pyramid Schemes: Resurrecting Tikal through the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex	2
The Enigmatic Softstone Vessels of Northern Madagascar: Petrological Investigations of a Medieval Quarry	2
Dryland Swale Farming and Long-term Land Use in Upland Kula, Maui, Hawaiʻi	2
Extending Maize Isotopic Evidence for Pre-contact Indigenous Agronomy to the Middle Connecticut River Valley, Connecticut, USA	2
The Final Bronze/Early Iron Age in the Old Zerafshan Delta, Uzbekistan: Pilot Investigations at Kimirek-kum-1	2
Monitoring Archaeological Sites Affected by Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards Using Multitemporal UAV-Photogrammetry: A Case Study from the Barranca Valleys, Peru	2
Integrating and Dividing in a Late Bronze Age Society: Internal Organization of Settlements of the Tisza Site Group in the Southern Carpathian Basin, 1600–1200 b.c.	2
Statement of Retraction: Pastoral Paleoclimate Palimpsests of the South-Central Andes: High-Altitude Herder Dwellings in the 2nd Millennium a.d.	2
Women in the Lab, Men in the Field? Correlations between Gender and Research Topics at Three Major Archaeology Conferences	2
Continuity and Change in the Cult of the Dead: Shaping Kin Formation in the Peruvian Andes (a.d. 1000–1600)	2
Heritage Education as a Tool of Social, Ethnic, and Religious Cohesion in Iraq: Empirical Insights	2
Embedded Household Specialization: The Bifaces from YāçkEtEl on the Northwest Coast	2
The Falcon’s Many Nests: Material Remains of Soviet Air Forces Tactical Aviation and Ground Organization during World War II	2
Backdirt as a Means of Deconstruction of Archaeological Procedure: The Case Study of Tel Burnat, The Occupied Palestinian Territories	2
It’s All in the Backfill: Scrap Heaps, Explosives, and Nausea. Stirring the Soil of a Former WWII Military Base	2
Chiaroscuro Photogrammetry: Revolutionizing 3D Modeling in Low Light Conditions for Archaeological Sites	2

Objects of Visual Representation and Local Cultural Idioms	1
Restoring their Identity—Archaeology, Ethnography, and the Missing PoWs of Stalag VIII B (344) Lamsdorf	1
Assessing Ancient Agricultural Regimes: a Case Study of the Egyptian Nile Delta	1
Surveying along the Slopes: Evaluating the Impact of Geomorphic Processes on Field Survey’s Site Discovery Effectiveness	1
Funding in the “Field:” An Analysis of Demographics and Methods in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants (1955–2020)	1
Fortified Communities in the South Caucasus: Insights from Mtsvane Gora and Dmanisis Gora	1
Craftmanship, Operation, and the Configuration of Social Space: The Case of the Middle Neolithic Pottery Workshop Site of Imvrou Pigadi, Thessaly, Greece	1
Utilizing SAR Imagery for Enhanced Archaeological Site Detection	1
Maliamuksi’k, Maliapdmu’k —It Takes Care of Us, So We Take Care of It: Indigenous Heritage Stewardship at Acadia National Park, Maine	1
A Discussion of Current Risk and Future Reward: An Ethnography of UK Developer-Funded Urban Archaeology and its 21st Century Construction Industry Context	1
Mortuary Practices, Rituality, and Commemorative Places: A View of Kohne Tepesi in the Southern Basin of the Araxes River, Iran	1
Domesticated Forest Landscapes in Central Scandinavia during the Iron Age: Resource Colonization for Iron and Subsistence Strategies based on Livestock	1
The Role of the Field Architect in the Digital Age: Integrating Human and Electronic Recording at the Villa Arianna in Roman Stabiae	1
3D Recording of Palaeolithic Rock Art through Different Techniques: a Critical Comparison and Evaluation	1
The Acoustics of Aggregation Sites: Listening to the Rock Art Landscape of Cuevas de la Araña (Spain)	1
Outro: A Practice of Backdirt	1
San Isidro, Sonsonate, El Salvador: Development of a Preclassic Settlement in Chronological and Geographic Context	1
Invisible Connections: Late Hellenistic Ephesian Fine Wares on Delos	1
Fieldwork in an Increasingly Variable Climate: The Kites in Context Project 2023 Field Season	1
Overlooked—Enigmatic—Underrated: The City Khar Khul Khaany Balgas in the Heartland of the Mongol World Empire	1
New Evidence for Prehistoric Textile Production and Social Complexity on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau, Southwestern China	1
Home Economics at Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B al-Khayran in West-Central Jordan: Reconstructing Residential Unit Economic and Mobility Behavior through Lithic Analysis	1
The High-Resolution Archaeology of Shared Courtyards at Old Dongola (14th–16th Century a.d., Sudan): an Intensive Approach to Domestic Open Spaces	1
Tracing a Source of Liangchengzhen’s Polished Stone Tools	1
Reproducibility and Archaeological Practice in the Journal of Field Archaeology	1
Correction	1
Holding Ground: Reconsidering the Sensitivity of Backdirt in the Context of NAGPRA	1
Gypsum Overlook: an Early Holocene Occupation in the Northern Tularosa Basin, New Mexico	1
Encounters with the Archaeological Archive	1
The Rise of Native Lordships at Pashash, a.d. 200–600, North Highlands of Ancash, Peru	1
Settlement Patterns and Built Environment at the Archaeological Site of Yalahau, Yucatan	1
Towards New Futures for Archaeological Data Production: Challenging Archaeonormativity through Storytelling	1
Bovid Bone Accumulation in Late Middle Palaeolithic Poland	1
Cultural Landscapes of Resilience and Vulnerability: The Selin Farm Site, Northeastern Honduras	1
Radiocarbon Dating of Late Bronze Age Burials from the Great Urals (Steppe Trans-Urals and Northern Kazakhstan) and Bayesian Modeling	1
Settlement Chronology and Subsistence Patterns in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico	1
Dung Microremains as Archaeological Evidence of Early Navajo Sheepherding: A Low Impact Methodological Exploration of Incipient Indigenous Pastoralism in the U.S. Southwest	1