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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Why There is Still an Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects and What We Can Do About It	28
Monumentality, Social Memory, and Territoriality in Neolithic–Chalcolithic Northwestern Arabia	16
Transnational Landscapes of Sámi Reindeer: Domestication and Herding in Northernmost Europe 700–1800 A.D.	14
The Acoustics of Aggregation Sites: Listening to the Rock Art Landscape of Cuevas de la Araña (Spain)	13
Exploring Landscape Archaeology and UAV-Based Survey in the Kochkor Valley, Kyrgyzstan	12
Urban Chronology at a Human Scale on the Coast of East Africa in the 1st Millennium a.d.	11
Open Area, Open Data: Advances in Reflexive Archaeological Practice	11
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)	10
Big Data in Maritime Archaeology: Challenges and Prospects from the Middle East and North Africa	10
Ritual Use of Limpets in Late Hawaiian Prehistory	10
Italy’s Hidden Hillforts: A Large-Scale Lidar-Based Mapping of Samnium	9
Canine Economies of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean	8
What Lies Beyond Sight? Applications of Ultraportable Hyperspectral Imaging (VIS-NIR) for Archaeological Fieldwork	8
Sharing Archaeological Knowledge: The Interactive Reporting System	8
History Disappearing: The Rapid Loss of Australian Contact Period Rock Art	8
Drawing and Knowledge Construction in Archaeology: The Aide Mémoire Project	7
Querying Quarries: Stone Extraction Practices and Socioeconomic Organization in Three Sub-Regions of the Maya Lowlands	7
Sacred Sites for Suburbanites: Organic Urban Growth and Neighborhood Formation at Preclassic Ceibal, Guatemala	6
Memory Work and Place-Making over theLongue Duréeat Jecosh, Peru (340 b.c.–a.d. 1630)	6
Human Ecology and the Southern Iberian Neolithic: An Approach from Archaeobotany and Archaeozoology	6
Urbanization and Imperial Integration at Angamuco, Michoacán, Mexico	6
Tracking Emergent Spatial and Social Patterns across Terraced Landscapes in Polynesia	5
An Elite Bronze Age Double-Horse Burial from Western Ukraine and the Chariot Package Dissemination	5
Deploying an Offline, Multi-User, Mobile System for Digital Recording in the Perachora Peninsula, Greece	5
A Techno-Functional Analysis of Acheulean Backed Knives from Wonderboom, South Africa	5

Multi-Period Ore Exploitation in Upper Silesia, Central Europe	5
Multiscaled Archaeological Survey in Eastern Iberia: Ancient Settlement Dynamics, Agrarian Practices, and Rural Landscapes	4
Women in Antiquity: An Analysis of Gender and Publishing in a Global Archaeology Journal	4
A Changing Cityscape in Central Italy: The Gabii Project Excavations, 2012–2018	4
Digitally Recording Excavations on a Budget: A (Low-Cost) DIY Approach from Scotland	4
Toward Systematic Underwater Survey of Mediterranean Maritime Activity along the Southern Turkish Coast	4
Before Meeting the Greeks: Kutaisi Influence in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Colchian Settlements	4
Social Landscapes of Euphorbia Kop: A K2 Farmer Settlement with a Forager Presence in Southern Africa	4
Fortified Communities in the South Caucasus: Insights from Mtsvane Gora and Dmanisis Gora	4
Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy	4
Funding in the “Field:” An Analysis of Demographics and Methods in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants (1955–2020)	4
Archaeological Survey in Guadalajara: Human Occupation in Central Spain during the Late Pleistocene	3
An Analysis of Motif Clusters at the Nanguluwurr Rock Art Site, Kakadu National Park, N. T. Australia	3
Multi-Season Reproduction and Pastoralist Production Strategies: New Approaches to Birth Seasonality from the South Caucasus Region	3
Excavating Archaeological Texts: Applying Digital Humanities to the Study of Archaeological Thought and Banal Nationalism	3
Site Organization and Mobility Strategies: The Early and Middle Holocene Stone Structures from Takarkori Rock Shelter (Southwestern Libya)	3
Domesticated Forest Landscapes in Central Scandinavia during the Iron Age: Resource Colonization for Iron and Subsistence Strategies based on Livestock	3
On a Mountain High: Finding and Documenting Glacial Archaeological Sites During the Anthropocene	3
Single-Context Recording, Field Interpretation and Reflexivity: An Analysis of Primary Data In Context Sheets	3
The Rise of Native Lordships at Pashash, a.d. 200–600, North Highlands of Ancash, Peru	3
A Multi-Method Approach to Dating: Persistent Occupation of the Alpine Tundra at Rollins Pass, Colorado	3
Early Neolithic Innovation: Ventilation Systems and the Built Environment	3
The Emergence and Transmission of Metallurgical Technology for Subsistence Activities in Daily Life in Northern Europe: A Microscopic Zooarchaeological Perspective	3
A Case Study of Cache Pit Construction, Use, and Abandonment from the Upper Great Lakes, USA	3
Core and Periphery: Obsidian Craft Production in Late Postclassic (a.d. 1250/1300–1519) Tlaxcallan, Mexico	3
Qedesh in the Galilee: The Emergence of an Early Bronze Age Levantine Megasite	3
“Invisible Burials” and Fragmentation Practices in Iron Age Europe: Excavations at the Monte Bernorio Necropolis (Northern Spain)	2
Systematic Versus Random Sampling in Approaches to Landscape Archaeology: The Umma Survey Project in Southern Mesopotamia	2
Niche Construction of Ban-nong ban-eoh in Southwestern Korea: Archaeobotanical Data from the Early Iron to Three Kingdoms Periods	2
Wild and Domestic Cattle in the Ancient Nile Valley: Marks of Ecological Change	2
Last Glacial Maximum Microblade Production at Shizitan 29 and its Implications for North China Pressure Technology	2
Jels 3, a New Late Palaeolithic Open-Air Site in Denmark, Sheds Light on the Pioneer Colonization of Northern Europe	2
Revisiting the Acheulean at Namib IV in the Namib Desert, Namibia	2
“Your Mysterious Instruments”: American Devices and Imperial Designs in Cold War Archaeology	2
Rural Complexities: Comparative Investigations at Small Iron Age Sites in South-Central Cyprus	2
Critical Material Culture Analysis in US National Register of Historic Places Significance Statements	2
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Pastoral Paleoclimate Palimpsests of the South-Central Andes: High-Altitude Herder Dwellings in the 2nd Millennium a.d.	1
Radiocarbon and Artifactual Evidence for Early 17th Century A.D. Dutch Activity at the Site of Fort Orange, Albany, New York, USA	1
Stylistic Change and Emic Cultural Continuity in Archaic-Period Anthropomorphs at No Bear, Montana	1
Forensic Traceable Liquid for Deterring Trafficking in Cultural Property: Pilot Implementation in Iraq	1
On the Presumed Clovis-Age Structure at the Paleo Crossing Site, Ohio	1
Overlooked—Enigmatic—Underrated: The City Khar Khul Khaany Balgas in the Heartland of the Mongol World Empire	1
History and Hydrology: Engineering Canoe Canals in the Estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico	1
Bovid Bone Accumulation in Late Middle Palaeolithic Poland	1
Detection of Hunting Pits using Airborne Laser Scanning and Deep Learning	1
In Search of a Borderland: Material Culture Patterns on the Southern Limits of the North American Southwest	1
Social Lives of Monumental Walls: Hunting along the Upper Tigris	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
Towards an Integrated Approach to Studying the Stratified Ceramics from Dandanakan/Daş Rabat, Turkmenistan (9th–12th Centuries a.d. )	1
Untangling the Taphonomy of Charred Plant Remains in Ritual Contexts: Late Antique and Medieval Churches and Graves from Croatia	1

Household Labor Practices and Dryland Agroforestry in Upland Kula, Maui Island	1
Embedded Household Specialization: The Bifaces from YāçkEtEl on the Northwest Coast	1
Equality in the Periphery of Lamanai: Assessing a Maya Community in the 10th and 11th Centuries a.d.	1
Renaissance Rome and the Italian Glass Connection: 16th-Century a.d. Hospital Dumps in the Forum of Caesar	1
Multimodal Remote Sensing Applications in the Etruscan-Roman City of Vulci	1
The Islamic Conquest or Flooding? Sasanian Settlements and Irrigation Systems Collapse in Mughan, Iranian Azerbaijan	1
Scratching the Surface: Integrating Low-Visibility Zones and Large Rural Sites in Landscape Archaeology Using Point Sampling	1
Island Colonization and Human-Environment Interactions on the Edges of the Tropics: Archaeology of the Taíno Frontier (Northern Bahamas)	1
Minimally Invasive High-Resolution Investigation of Site Form and Disturbance at Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Ontario	1
Laser-Aided Profile Measurement and Cluster Analysis of Ceramic Shapes	1
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	1
Metal Detecting in the Wake of 16th Century a.d. Spanish Expeditions	1
Settlement Organization and Distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia: Utilizing Cumulative Viewshed Analysis and Spatial Statistics in the Sulcis Plain	1
The Enigmatic Softstone Vessels of Northern Madagascar: Petrological Investigations of a Medieval Quarry	1
Voluminous Evidence for an Elusive Period: Storage Pits and Surplus from Middle Chalcolithic Anatolia	1
The Most Discouraged Mycenaeans: Performing Emotion and Death in Late Bronze Age Tanagra, Greece	1
Social Buildings: Soil Geochemistry and Anthropogenic Patterns from Late Iron Age Finland	1