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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Run to the Hills: A Stratified Sampling Approach to Site Clustering on High Grounds in Ancient Samnium (Molise, Italy)	22
Long Bones and Antlers for Artifact Production in the Final Late Bronze Age Settlement of Thessaloniki Toumba (Northern Greece, 1210–1040 cal b.c.)	19
Dating and Interpreting Landscapes of Livestock Herding: Excavation of a Hut Site and Enclosure in Southwestern Ireland	17
An Integrated Approach to Understanding the Occupational Trajectory of Mercadal in Southern Aragon, Spain	12
Rise of the Nomad Kings—Pastoral Polities in the Horn of Africa ( a.d. 650–1000)	11
Backdirting: Theorizing Backdirt through Time, Place, and Process	11
The Oldest Earthen Construction Techniques and Their Variants in Early Neolithic Wall Construction in the Northern Levant	11
Stratigraphy as Behavior: A Systemic Approach to Complex Settlement Sequences and Land Use Transformation at the Daxie Site, Coastal China	11
Burial Histories, Bodies, and Pots: Mortuary Practices in the Southeastern Rainforests of the Andes during the 1st Millennium a.d. (El Cadillal, Argentina)	10
Models of Grinding Stone Manufacture, Use, and Discard from Tigrai, Ethiopia: Opportunities for Cultural Comparisons and Implications for Usewear Analysis	10
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
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	7
Urban Archaeology in the Lower Amazon: Fieldwork Uncovering Large Pre-Colonial Villages in Santarém City, Brazil	7
Drone Survey to Monitor Erosion Impacts on Coastal Archaeological Sites	7
Metal Detecting in the Wake of 16th Century a.d. Spanish Expeditions	6
The Social Construction of Backdirt in Chaco Archaeology	6
In between the Sites: Understanding Late Holocene Manteño Agricultural Contexts in the Chongón-Colonche Mountains of Coastal Ecuador through UAV-Lidar and Excavation	6
Sacrifice, Subsistence, and Sacra in Stela Cave: Maya Ritual Practice in Patterns of Ceremonial Chipped Stone	6
Ritual Patterns and Material Practice: Identifying Blemmyan Mortuary Rites at Berenike (Eastern Desert of Egypt)	6
Collaborative Science and Digital Tools: Monitoring Heritage at Risk during the People of Guana Project	6
Persian Paradises: Unveiling the Sasanian Dastgerd of Mohammadabad-Baghdasht, South of Jereh, Pars, Iran	6
A Symmetrical Archaeology Approach to Previously Excavated Sites: or, How I Learned to Appreciate Antiquarian Backdirt	6
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
Analyzing Low-Density Assemblages from Fieldwalking Surveys: Hellenistic and Roman Land Use in the Sibaritide (Calabria, Italy)	5

First Evidence of Burial Practices and Stone Constructions from the 15th Century a.d. Pre-Colonial Middle Cuanza River, Angola	5
Household Labor Practices and Dryland Agroforestry in Upland Kula, Maui Island	5
Caving 16,000 Years Ago: Pleistocene Human Movement Within the Decorated Cave of Etxeberri, Western Pyrenees (France)	5
A Techno-Functional Analysis of Acheulean Backed Knives from Wonderboom, South Africa	5
High-Resolution Spatial Analysis of Archaeobotanical Remains from a Kitchen Context in Imperial Late Antique (ca. a.d. 600) Dhiban, Jordan	4
Laser-Aided Profile Measurement and Cluster Analysis of Ceramic Shapes	4
Fools Rush In: Zooarchaeology as Slow Science and an Archaeology of Care in Late Nasca Peru ( a.d. 450–650)	4
Gone with the Wind, Waves, and Walking: Prioritizing Research at Vulnerable Archaeological Sites in Coastal Zones	4
Social Dynamics, Knowledge Spheres, and Technological Transfers in Balearic Island Pottery during the 2nd Millennium b.c.	4
Multi-Period Ore Exploitation in Upper Silesia, Central Europe	4
Human Adaptation to the High-Altitude Permafrost Zone at Daisetsuzan National Park, Japan	4
An Elite Bronze Age Double-Horse Burial from Western Ukraine and the Chariot Package Dissemination	4
Human Ecology and the Southern Iberian Neolithic: An Approach from Archaeobotany and Archaeozoology	4
Unearthing Identity: the Role of Archaeology in Shaping English National Identity and Heritage Interpretation	3
Introduction: How do we Think about Backdirt?	3
Temporal Analysis of Looting Activity in Tūwāneh (Southern Jordan)	3
Detection of Hunting Pits using Airborne Laser Scanning and Deep Learning	3
Dirty Evidence: Multi-Method Identification of Daub, Animal Dung, or Human Excrement at Angel Mounds	3
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Unrecognized Contribution of the Survey of India in the Documentation of Ancient Settlements in Pakistan and India	3
Approaching Marginal Landscapes in Archaeology: the Case of Ravenna’s Reclaimed Wetlands	3
Sherds and the City: Pottery Production, Society, and the Changing Urban Fabric of Fustat, Egypt	3
Multimodal Remote Sensing Applications in the Etruscan-Roman City of Vulci	3
Minimally Invasive High-Resolution Investigation of Site Form and Disturbance at Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Ontario	3
Mineralogy and Sourcing of a Stone Bead Industry Found in Communal Cemeteries Associated with Eastern Africa's First Pastoralists, ca. 5000b.p.	3
Furrows Without Ridges: Evidence for an Agricultural Field at Angel Mounds (12Vg1), Southwestern Indiana, USA	3
Insights into Early Iron Age Social Structure in the Eastern Steppes: Excavation Results of the Chinge-Tey Western Chain Kurgan 1	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
Monitoring Archaeological Sites Affected by Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards Using Multitemporal UAV-Photogrammetry: A Case Study from the Barranca Valleys, Peru	2
Niche Construction of Ban-nong ban-eoh in Southwestern Korea: Archaeobotanical Data from the Early Iron to Three Kingdoms Periods	2
Backdirt as a Means of Deconstruction of Archaeological Procedure: The Case Study of Tel Burnat, The Occupied Palestinian Territories	2
Methodological Habitus: Complicating Categories, Taxonomies, and Scientism in Archaeology	2
What Lies Beyond Sight? Applications of Ultraportable Hyperspectral Imaging (VIS-NIR) for Archaeological Fieldwork	2
Continuity and Change in the Cult of the Dead: Shaping Kin Formation in the Peruvian Andes (a.d. 1000–1600)	2
Revisiting the Acheulean at Namib IV in the Namib Desert, Namibia	2
A Longue Durée Perspective of Household Sustainability in the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant: Groundstone Recycling at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel	2
The Acoustics of Aggregation Sites: Listening to the Rock Art Landscape of Cuevas de la Araña (Spain)	2
Funding in the “Field:” An Analysis of Demographics and Methods in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants (1955–2020)	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
Dryland Swale Farming and Long-term Land Use in Upland Kula, Maui, Hawaiʻi	2
Women in the Lab, Men in the Field? Correlations between Gender and Research Topics at Three Major Archaeology Conferences	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
Extending Maize Isotopic Evidence for Pre-contact Indigenous Agronomy to the Middle Connecticut River Valley, Connecticut, USA	2
Outro: A Practice of Backdirt	2
San Isidro, Sonsonate, El Salvador: Development of a Preclassic Settlement in Chronological and Geographic Context	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
Statement of Retraction: Pastoral Paleoclimate Palimpsests of the South-Central Andes: High-Altitude Herder Dwellings in the 2nd Millennium a.d.	2
Settlement Organization and Distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia: Utilizing Cumulative Viewshed Analysis and Spatial Statistics in the Sulcis Plain	2
Heritage Education as a Tool of Social, Ethnic, and Religious Cohesion in Iraq: Empirical Insights	2

Pyramid Schemes: Resurrecting Tikal through the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex	2
The Final Bronze/Early Iron Age in the Old Zerafshan Delta, Uzbekistan: Pilot Investigations at Kimirek-kum-1	2
The Falcon’s Many Nests: Material Remains of Soviet Air Forces Tactical Aviation and Ground Organization during World War II	2
The Role of the Field Architect in the Digital Age: Integrating Human and Electronic Recording at the Villa Arianna in Roman Stabiae	1
Objects of Visual Representation and Local Cultural Idioms	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
Holding Ground: Reconsidering the Sensitivity of Backdirt in the Context of NAGPRA	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
Assessing Ancient Agricultural Regimes: a Case Study of the Egyptian Nile Delta	1
New Evidence for Prehistoric Textile Production and Social Complexity on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau, Southwestern China	1
Domesticated Forest Landscapes in Central Scandinavia during the Iron Age: Resource Colonization for Iron and Subsistence Strategies based on Livestock	1
Evaluating Earth Oven Technological Variation and Forager Return Rates Using Experimental Archaeology	1
Entangled Pasts: Tracing Forager-Farmer Interactions at Mbere Shelter in the Middle Limpopo Valley, Southern Africa	1
Bovid Bone Accumulation in Late Middle Palaeolithic Poland	1
Craftmanship, Operation, and the Configuration of Social Space: The Case of the Middle Neolithic Pottery Workshop Site of Imvrou Pigadi, Thessaly, Greece	1
Invisible Connections: Late Hellenistic Ephesian Fine Wares on Delos	1
Restoring their Identity—Archaeology, Ethnography, and the Missing PoWs of Stalag VIII B (344) Lamsdorf	1
Inka Freeze-Dried Potatoes from Tambo Viejo, Acarí Valley, Perú	1
Correction	1
Utilizing SAR Imagery for Enhanced Archaeological Site Detection	1
Mortuary Practices, Rituality, and Commemorative Places: A View of Kohne Tepesi in the Southern Basin of the Araxes River, Iran	1
Reproducibility and Archaeological Practice in the Journal of Field Archaeology	1
Settlement Patterns and Built Environment at the Archaeological Site of Yalahau, Yucatan	1
Geolocation of Old Photographs and Rephotography in the Field: Contribution to a New Understanding of the al-ʿŪla Oasis in the Early 20th Century a.d.	1
Towards New Futures for Archaeological Data Production: Challenging Archaeonormativity through Storytelling	1
Gypsum Overlook: an Early Holocene Occupation in the Northern Tularosa Basin, New Mexico	1
Surveying along the Slopes: Evaluating the Impact of Geomorphic Processes on Field Survey’s Site Discovery Effectiveness	1
Settlement Chronology and Subsistence Patterns in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico	1
Encounters with the Archaeological Archive	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
3D Recording of Palaeolithic Rock Art through Different Techniques: a Critical Comparison and Evaluation	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
Tracing a Source of Liangchengzhen’s Polished Stone Tools	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