OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Lithic Technology 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance: An Experimental Assessment of Penetration Depth	32
Is it Time to Retire NASTIES in Southern Africa? Moving Beyond the Culture-Historical Framework for Middle Stone Age Lithic Assemblage Variability	25
Plant Foods and Different Uses of Grinding Tools at the Neolithic Site of Tanghu in Central China	15
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance II: An Experimental Assessment of Point, Haft, and Shaft Durability	14
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance III: An Experimental Assessment of Knife Cutting Efficiency	13
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	12
Techno-Functional Implication on the Production of Discoid and Levallois Backed Implements	10
Beyond the Mighty Projectile Point: Techno-functional Study in a Late Pleistocene Artifact, Pilauco Site, Osorno, Northwestern Chilean Patagonia	8
A Standardized Approach to the Origins of Lightweight-Javelin Hunting	7
Rethinking the Desirability of Quartz for the Manufacture of Standardized Retouched Flakes: An Example From Weereewaa (Lake George), South-eastern Australia	7
Thermal Alteration of Flint: An Experimental Approach to Investigate the Effect on Material Properties	6
“Knapping, My Child, is Made of Errors”: Apprentice Knappers at Swan Point and Little Panguingue Creek, Two Prehistoric Sites in Central Alaska	5
Rock Music: An Auditory Assessment of Knapping	5
Extrapolating Later Acheulian Handaxe Reduction Sequences in South Africa: A Case Study from the Cave of Hearths and Amanzi Springs	5
Filling in the Blanks: Standardization of Lithic Flake Production Throughout the Stone Age	5
How Surprising are Lithic Reduction Strategies? The Information Entropy of the Modes A-I Framework	5
First Results on Understanding the Shiny Surfaces of Heat-Treated Chert	5
Standardization of Nubian Levallois Technology in Dhofar, Southern Arabia	4
The Effect of Isometric Scaling on Flaked Stone Projectile Point Impact Durability: An Experimental Assessment	4
The Large Cutting Tools from Wonderboom, South Africa	4
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance IV: An Experimental Assessment of Knife Edge Effectiveness and Wear	4
The DISAPALE Project: A New Digital Repository of Lithic and Bone Artefacts	4
Using Dynamic Image Analysis as a Method for Discerning Microdebitage from Natural Soils in Archaeological Soil Samples	4
Revisiting the “Quartz Problem” in Lithic Studies: A Review and New, Open-access, Experimental Dataset	4
Quina Retouch Does Not Maintain Edge Angle Over Reduction	4

Lithic Arrowheads of the Nitra Culture – The Use of Actual and Experimental Use-Wear Analyses to Identify the Differential Effects of Quiver Transportation	4
Refining the Understanding of Large Cutting Tool Technology in the Baise Basin, South China	4
Limaces and Unifaces in the Paiján Industry, Peru, and the Early Prehistory of America	3
Predicting Flake Mass: A View from Machine Learning	3
A Prehistoric Rock Crystal Procurement Site at Fiescheralp (Valais, Switzerland)	3
Lithic Standardization and Behavioral Complexity in the Middle Stone Age – A Case Study From Sibhudu, South Africa	3
The Paleolithic Quartz Assemblages of Denizli (South Aegean, Western Anatolia): A Selection of Bipolar Knapping, Techno-Typological and Experimental Approaches	3
Lithic Technology in the Earliest Later Stone age at Nasera Rockshelter (Tanzania)	3
Adapting Polynesian Adze Technology to New Raw Material at Tiwai Point, Murihiku, New Zealand	3