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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Why There is Still an Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects and What We Can Do About It	20
Transnational Landscapes of Sámi Reindeer: Domestication and Herding in Northernmost Europe 700–1800 A.D.	13
Monumentality, Social Memory, and Territoriality in Neolithic–Chalcolithic Northwestern Arabia	13
The Acoustics of Aggregation Sites: Listening to the Rock Art Landscape of Cuevas de la Araña (Spain)	11
Big Data in Maritime Archaeology: Challenges and Prospects from the Middle East and North Africa	10
Up the Wadi: Development of an Iron Age Industrial Landscape in Faynan, Jordan	10
Open Area, Open Data: Advances in Reflexive Archaeological Practice	10
Crop Dispersal and Lucayan Tool Use: Investigating the Creation of Transported Landscapes in the Central Bahamas through Starch Grain, Phytolith, Macrobotanical, and Artifact Studies	10
Between Anatolia and the Aegean: Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic Foragers of the Karaburun Peninsula	10
Pigs in Sight: Late Bronze Age Pig Husbandries in the Aegean and Anatolia	9
Kurgan Tunnug 1—New Data on the Earliest Horizon of Scythian Material Culture	9
A Multi-User Mobile GIS Solution for Documenting Large Surface Scatters: An Example from the Doring River, South Africa	9
Urban Chronology at a Human Scale on the Coast of East Africa in the 1st Millennium a.d.	9
A Window into the Early–Middle Stone Age Transition in Northeastern Africa—A Marine Isotope Stage 7a/6 Late Acheulean Horizon from the EDAR 135 Site, Eastern Sahara (Sudan)	8
Exploring Landscape Archaeology and UAV-Based Survey in the Kochkor Valley, Kyrgyzstan	8
Sharing Archaeological Knowledge: The Interactive Reporting System	8
Ritual Use of Limpets in Late Hawaiian Prehistory	8
Canine Economies of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean	7
History Disappearing: The Rapid Loss of Australian Contact Period Rock Art	6
Drawing and Knowledge Construction in Archaeology: The Aide Mémoire Project	6
Integrating Multi-Scalar Sampling Strategies for Archaeological Sediment Chemistry	5
Sacred Sites for Suburbanites: Organic Urban Growth and Neighborhood Formation at Preclassic Ceibal, Guatemala	5
Querying Quarries: Stone Extraction Practices and Socioeconomic Organization in Three Sub-Regions of the Maya Lowlands	5
Urbanization and Imperial Integration at Angamuco, Michoacán, Mexico	5
Practicing Urban Archaeology in a Modern City: The Alessandrino Quarter of Rome	5

An Elite Bronze Age Double-Horse Burial from Western Ukraine and the Chariot Package Dissemination	5
Italy’s Hidden Hillforts: A Large-Scale Lidar-Based Mapping of Samnium	4
What Lies Beyond Sight? Applications of Ultraportable Hyperspectral Imaging (VIS-NIR) for Archaeological Fieldwork	4
Funding in the “Field:” An Analysis of Demographics and Methods in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants (1955–2020)	4
Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy	4
Tracking Emergent Spatial and Social Patterns across Terraced Landscapes in Polynesia	4
Memory Work and Place-Making over theLongue Duréeat Jecosh, Peru (340 b.c.–a.d. 1630)	4
A Techno-Functional Analysis of Acheulean Backed Knives from Wonderboom, South Africa	3
On a Mountain High: Finding and Documenting Glacial Archaeological Sites During the Anthropocene	3
Multi-Season Reproduction and Pastoralist Production Strategies: New Approaches to Birth Seasonality from the South Caucasus Region	3
Multiscaled Archaeological Survey in Eastern Iberia: Ancient Settlement Dynamics, Agrarian Practices, and Rural Landscapes	3
Core and Periphery: Obsidian Craft Production in Late Postclassic (a.d. 1250/1300–1519) Tlaxcallan, Mexico	3
Social Landscapes of Euphorbia Kop: A K2 Farmer Settlement with a Forager Presence in Southern Africa	3
Human Ecology and the Southern Iberian Neolithic: An Approach from Archaeobotany and Archaeozoology	3
Carved in Stone: Field Trials of Virtual Reflectance Transformation Imaging (V-RTI) in Classical Telmessos (Fethiye)	3
An Analysis of Motif Clusters at the Nanguluwurr Rock Art Site, Kakadu National Park, N. T. Australia	3
An Archaeobotanical Approach to Well-Being: Enslaved Plant Use at Estate Cane Garden, 19th Century St. Croix	3
Excavating Archaeological Texts: Applying Digital Humanities to the Study of Archaeological Thought and Banal Nationalism	3
A Multi-Method Approach to Dating: Persistent Occupation of the Alpine Tundra at Rollins Pass, Colorado	3
Deploying an Offline, Multi-User, Mobile System for Digital Recording in the Perachora Peninsula, Greece	3
Archaeological Survey in Guadalajara: Human Occupation in Central Spain during the Late Pleistocene	3
Digitally Recording Excavations on a Budget: A (Low-Cost) DIY Approach from Scotland	3
Of Watery Rocks and Slumbering Crocs: Reassessing Middle Preclassic Occupation at Altun Ha and Lamanai, Belize	3
Archaeology and Geophysics in Tandem on Crete	3
Single-Context Recording, Field Interpretation and Reflexivity: An Analysis of Primary Data In Context Sheets	3
A Changing Cityscape in Central Italy: The Gabii Project Excavations, 2012–2018	3
Qedesh in the Galilee: The Emergence of an Early Bronze Age Levantine Megasite	3
Last Glacial Maximum Microblade Production at Shizitan 29 and its Implications for North China Pressure Technology	2
Site Organization and Mobility Strategies: The Early and Middle Holocene Stone Structures from Takarkori Rock Shelter (Southwestern Libya)	2
Domesticated Forest Landscapes in Central Scandinavia during the Iron Age: Resource Colonization for Iron and Subsistence Strategies based on Livestock	2
“Invisible Burials” and Fragmentation Practices in Iron Age Europe: Excavations at the Monte Bernorio Necropolis (Northern Spain)	2
The Emergence and Transmission of Metallurgical Technology for Subsistence Activities in Daily Life in Northern Europe: A Microscopic Zooarchaeological Perspective	2
Rural Complexities: Comparative Investigations at Small Iron Age Sites in South-Central Cyprus	2
Multi-Period Ore Exploitation in Upper Silesia, Central Europe	2
Critical Material Culture Analysis in US National Register of Historic Places Significance Statements	2
Wild and Domestic Cattle in the Ancient Nile Valley: Marks of Ecological Change	2
Systematic Versus Random Sampling in Approaches to Landscape Archaeology: The Umma Survey Project in Southern Mesopotamia	2
Before Meeting the Greeks: Kutaisi Influence in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Colchian Settlements	2
Jels 3, a New Late Palaeolithic Open-Air Site in Denmark, Sheds Light on the Pioneer Colonization of Northern Europe	2
Tropical Foodways and Exchange along the Coastal Margin of Northeastern New Guinea	2
“Your Mysterious Instruments”: American Devices and Imperial Designs in Cold War Archaeology	2
Fortified Communities in the South Caucasus: Insights from Mtsvane Gora and Dmanisis Gora	1
Bovid Bone Accumulation in Late Middle Palaeolithic Poland	1
On the Presumed Clovis-Age Structure at the Paleo Crossing Site, Ohio	1
Exploring the Influence of Predation Risks on Oldowan Tool Use in South Africa	1
An Igluryuaq Unearthed: A Pre-Contact Inuvialuit Cruciform House from Arctic Canada	1
The Most Discouraged Mycenaeans: Performing Emotion and Death in Late Bronze Age Tanagra, Greece	1
Social Lives of Monumental Walls: Hunting along the Upper Tigris	1
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Pastoral Paleoclimate Palimpsests of the South-Central Andes: High-Altitude Herder Dwellings in the 2nd Millennium a.d.	1
Stylistic Change and Emic Cultural Continuity in Archaic-Period Anthropomorphs at No Bear, Montana	1

Embedded Household Specialization: The Bifaces from YāçkEtEl on the Northwest Coast	1
The Enigmatic Softstone Vessels of Northern Madagascar: Petrological Investigations of a Medieval Quarry	1
Equality in the Periphery of Lamanai: Assessing a Maya Community in the 10th and 11th Centuries a.d.	1
Toward Systematic Underwater Survey of Mediterranean Maritime Activity along the Southern Turkish Coast	1
A Case Study of Cache Pit Construction, Use, and Abandonment from the Upper Great Lakes, USA	1
Long Bones and Antlers for Artifact Production in the Final Late Bronze Age Settlement of Thessaloniki Toumba (Northern Greece, 1210–1040 cal b.c.)	1
Minimally Invasive High-Resolution Investigation of Site Form and Disturbance at Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Ontario	1
Untangling the Taphonomy of Charred Plant Remains in Ritual Contexts: Late Antique and Medieval Churches and Graves from Croatia	1
Multimodal Remote Sensing Applications in the Etruscan-Roman City of Vulci	1
Renaissance Rome and the Italian Glass Connection: 16th-Century a.d. Hospital Dumps in the Forum of Caesar	1
History and Hydrology: Engineering Canoe Canals in the Estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico	1
Voluminous Evidence for an Elusive Period: Storage Pits and Surplus from Middle Chalcolithic Anatolia	1
Obsidian on the Periphery: Importation, Production, and Raw Material Husbandry in Oaxaca	1
Women in Antiquity: An Analysis of Gender and Publishing in a Global Archaeology Journal	1
Scratching the Surface: Integrating Low-Visibility Zones and Large Rural Sites in Landscape Archaeology Using Point Sampling	1
Early Neolithic Innovation: Ventilation Systems and the Built Environment	1
Radiocarbon and Artifactual Evidence for Early 17th Century A.D. Dutch Activity at the Site of Fort Orange, Albany, New York, USA	1
Indicators of Household Pottery Production: A Case-Study from the Chupicuaro Formative Culture	1