OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Field Archaeology is 3. 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
Ritual Use of Limpets in Late Hawaiian Prehistory	10
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
Italy’s Hidden Hillforts: A Large-Scale Lidar-Based Mapping of Samnium	9
History Disappearing: The Rapid Loss of Australian Contact Period Rock Art	8
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
Querying Quarries: Stone Extraction Practices and Socioeconomic Organization in Three Sub-Regions of the Maya Lowlands	7
Drawing and Knowledge Construction in Archaeology: The Aide Mémoire Project	7
Urbanization and Imperial Integration at Angamuco, Michoacán, Mexico	6
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
Multi-Period Ore Exploitation in Upper Silesia, Central Europe	5
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
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
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
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