OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Lithic Technology is 2. 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
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance II: An Experimental Assessment of Point, Haft, and Shaft Durability	17
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance III: An Experimental Assessment of Knife Cutting Efficiency	16
Reduction Sequences During the Hoabinhian Technocomplex in Cambodia and Thailand: A New Knapping Strategy in Southeast Asia from the Terminal Upper Pleistocene to mid Holocene	14
Techno-Functional Implication on the Production of Discoid and Levallois Backed Implements	11
A Standardized Approach to the Origins of Lightweight-Javelin Hunting	9
Filling in the Blanks: Standardization of Lithic Flake Production Throughout the Stone Age	8
Standardization of Nubian Levallois Technology in Dhofar, Southern Arabia	7
Beyond the Mighty Projectile Point: Techno-functional Study in a Late Pleistocene Artifact, Pilauco Site, Osorno, Northwestern Chilean Patagonia	7
A Trampling Experiment to Assess Fractures and Edge Damage in Quarry’s Lithic Assemblages	7
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance IV: An Experimental Assessment of Knife Edge Effectiveness and Wear	6
How Surprising are Lithic Reduction Strategies? The Information Entropy of the Modes A-I Framework	6
Extrapolating Later Acheulian Handaxe Reduction Sequences in South Africa: A Case Study from the Cave of Hearths and Amanzi Springs	6
Refining the Understanding of Large Cutting Tool Technology in the Baise Basin, South China	6
Rock Music: An Auditory Assessment of Knapping	5
Using Dynamic Image Analysis as a Method for Discerning Microdebitage from Natural Soils in Archaeological Soil Samples	5
The Effect of Isometric Scaling on Flaked Stone Projectile Point Impact Durability: An Experimental Assessment	5
New Evidence of a Late Pleistocene Occupation on the Southern Slopes of the Alborz Mountains	4
Using Cores as Tools: Use-wear Analysis of Neanderthal Recycling Processes in Level 4 at Prado Vargas (Cornejo, Merindad de Sotoscueva, Burgos, Spain)	4
A Review of Splintered Pieces from Two Lithic Assemblages in Mediterranean Europe: Grotta Della Serratura (Marina di Camerota, Italy) and Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, Spain)	4
Final Pleistocene-Early Holocene (∼40–8 ka) Lithic Industries in Southern China and Their Implications for Understanding the Prehistory of Mainland Southeast Asia	4
The Large Cutting Tools from Wonderboom, South Africa	4
Revisiting the “Quartz Problem” in Lithic Studies: A Review and New, Open-access, Experimental Dataset	4
The DISAPALE Project: A New Digital Repository of Lithic and Bone Artefacts	4
A Prehistoric Rock Crystal Procurement Site at Fiescheralp (Valais, Switzerland)	3
Predicting Flake Mass: A View from Machine Learning	3

Limaces and Unifaces in the Paiján Industry, Peru, and the Early Prehistory of America	3
Lithic Standardization and Behavioral Complexity in the Middle Stone Age – A Case Study From Sibhudu, South Africa	3
Technological and Social Strategies for the Acquisition and Exploitation of Long-Distance Lithic Raw Materials in the Central Pampean Dunefields of Argentina	3
The Paleolithic Quartz Assemblages of Denizli (South Aegean, Western Anatolia): A Selection of Bipolar Knapping, Techno-Typological and Experimental Approaches	3
Functional Perspectives on Lithic Standardization	2
The Neolithization Process in the Lower-Scheldt Basin (Belgium, mid-6th to mid-4th Millennium cal BC) from a Lithic Technological Perspective	2
Ghosts in the Room and Elephants in the Machine: Data Acquisition in Surface Texture Analysis of Stone Tools	2
Geochemical and Petrographic Analyses on Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Cherts from the Central Region of Mediterranean Iberia	2
“Tip of the Tongue”: Experimental Reconstruction of Handaxes at the Baise Basin (South China) and Implications for Lithic Standardization	2
Macanas in the Postclassic Maya Lowlands? A Preliminary Look	2
Is It Worth It? A Review of Plant Residue Analysis on Knapped Lithic Artifacts	2
A New Settlement from the Epi-Palaeolithic Period: The Operational Sequence and Techno-Typology of the Knapped Stone Industry at the Kızılin Site (Antalya, Turkey)	2
Morphologically Similar, but Regionally Distinct: Perdiz Arrow Points from Caddo Burial Contexts in the American Southeast	2
Seasonal Aggregation Site in Late Paleolithic – Intrasite Analysis of Large Hamburgian Encampment in Myszęcin, Western Poland	2
Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards: Evaluating the Roe Handaxe Methodology in the Twenty-first Century and the Introduction of a New ‘Roe-type’ Index	2
Geometric Morphometric Analyses of Levallois Points from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic do not Support Functional Specialization	2
Using Fire for Woodworking: An Experimental Exploration of Use-Wear on Lithic Tools	2
Intercomparison of Form, Size and Allometry in a Million-year-old and Modern Replicated Handaxe Set	2
Technological and Protein Residue Analysis on Ancient Stemmed Projectile Points of the Southern Andes Highlands	2
Analyzing skill in lithic dispersions using width, thickness and width-by-thickness ratio	2
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance V: An Experimental Assessment of Spear Thrusting Penetration Depth and Entry Wound Size	2
Can One See the Wood for the Trees in Prehistoric Egypt? A Study of Fayum Neolithic Axes	2
Mitigating Mishaps: Diachronic Trends in Handaxe Shaping and Knapping Error Management at Amanzi Springs Area 2 (Eastern Cape, South Africa)	2
When the Leafpoints are Missing: On the Possibility of Identifying of Jerzmanowician Assemblages based on the Small Debitage Alone	2
The Effect of Fire in the Distribution of Lithic Assemblages: An Experimental Approach	2
Principles of Modern Artistic Design in Late Pleistocene Clovis Stone Biface Technology	2
A Collaborative Model for Lithic Shape Digitization in Museum Settings	2
Comparing the Formation and Characteristics of Use-Wear Traces on Flint, Chert, Dolerite and Quartz	2
The Role of Side-Scrapers and Cortical Flakes in Late Acheulian Toolkits: Results of a Techno-functional Analysis from Revadim (Israel)	2
Lithic Production in the Final Mesolithic in the Cantabrian Mountains: Levels III and IV at La Uña Cave (León, N Spain)	2
Introducing Pandado: a newly discovered Acheulean site in the central Narmada Valley (CNV), India	2