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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Rock Music: An Auditory Assessment of Knapping	18
A Trampling Experiment to Assess Fractures and Edge Damage in Quarry’s Lithic Assemblages	16
Archaeological and Experimental Data from the Bipolar-on-Anvil Debitage in the Middle Paleolithic Site of Los Aljezares (Aspe, Alicante, Spain)	16
Final Pleistocene-Early Holocene (∼40–8 ka) Lithic Industries in Southern China and Their Implications for Understanding the Prehistory of Mainland Southeast Asia	9
The Functional Use of Quartz Crystal Points in Clovis Technology	9
Exploring the Gross-Edge Curvature of Experimentally Produced Preferential Levallois Debitage	9
Contributions and Limitations of a Technomorphometric Approach for Cleavers: The Case of Lanne-Darré (Hautes-Pyrénées)	9
Chasing Mirages: Seeking Standardization among Prehistoric Stone Tools	8
Lithic residue analysis – a review and guide to techniques	7
The Influence of Tool Morphology on Visual Attention During the Interaction with Lower Palaeolithic Stone Tools	7
Geochemical and Petrographic Analyses on Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Cherts from the Central Region of Mediterranean Iberia	7
Projectile Point Stem Repairs: Some Examples from Southeastern South America	7
Standardization of Nubian Levallois Technology in Dhofar, Southern Arabia	6
Morphological Variability in Micoquian Convergent Tools: A Case Study in Mezmaiskaya Cave, Northwestern Caucasus	6
Description, Morphometrics, and Microwear of Two Paleoindian Fluted Points from Nebraska and Illinois	6
Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards: Evaluating the Roe Handaxe Methodology in the Twenty-first Century and the Introduction of a New ‘Roe-type’ Index	6
Introducing Pandado: a newly discovered Acheulean site in the central Narmada Valley (CNV), India	5
Nice and Oval: Early Upper Paleolithic Bifaces from IVb Cultural Layer of Kostenki 14	5
Early Evidence of Atlatl Use in the Titicaca Basin: A Lithic, Microwear, and Typological Analysis	4
Functional Perspectives on Lithic Standardization	4
New Evidence of Grinding Activities in Patagonian Steppe during the Late Holocene (ca. 2000 Years BP): the Laguna Azul Site (Somuncurá Plateau, Río Negro Province, Argentina)	4
Characteristics of Lithic Sound to Assess a Rock’s Predictability of Flaking	4
Analyzing skill in lithic dispersions using width, thickness and width-by-thickness ratio	4
Uniformity and Diversity in Handaxe Shape at the End of the Acheulean in Southwest Asia	4
Variable Perspectives on “ Standardization in the Stone Age ”	4

Canaanean Blade Production at Fazael 4 and the Tal`at `Amreh Quarry	4
Can One See the Wood for the Trees in Prehistoric Egypt? A Study of Fayum Neolithic Axes	4
Description, Microwear, and Morphometrics of Clovis and Possible-Clovis Lithic Artifacts from the Kasten Site, Erie County, Ohio, USA	3
How Surprising are Lithic Reduction Strategies? The Information Entropy of the Modes A-I Framework	3
Morphometric Characterization of Denticulate Edged Tools from the Northern Coast of the Santa Cruz Province, Argentine Patagonia	3
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	3
Burned Lithics: An Experimental Approach to Characterize the Effects of Fire on the Lithic Archaeological Record of Northern Patagonia, Argentina	2
Experimental Investigation of Knapping Characteristics of Dolerite and Implications for the Interpretation of Middle Stone Age Technologies	2
A Simple Experiment Challenges the Inference that Macro-fractures on Chipped-stone Tools are Clear Evidence of High-Velocity Impacts	2
A Flint Industry from the Pottery Neolithic Lodian Hamlet at Nahal Yarmuth 38, Central Israel	2
Intercomparison of Form, Size and Allometry in a Million-year-old and Modern Replicated Handaxe Set	2
Transformation and Sustainability Within Levallois Reduction Strategy of Sürmecik, Western Anatolia/Aegean	2
Understanding Chipped Stone Tools	2
The Knapping of Quartz Crystals during the Later Stone Age at Matupi Cave, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo	2
Heat Treatment of Chert in the Early Mesolithic at Rottenburg-Siebenlinden (Southwest Germany)	2
Another Traveler Design In Southern Patagonia: Long Edges (Knives and Side-Scrapers) Manufactured on Bifacial Blanks	2
Core Concept: Defining Cores in the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia	2
Evidence of Blade Technology in the Peruvian Highlands: The “Knife” of Huancarucma	2
Beyond the Mighty Projectile Point: Techno-functional Study in a Late Pleistocene Artifact, Pilauco Site, Osorno, Northwestern Chilean Patagonia	2
Using Fire for Woodworking: An Experimental Exploration of Use-Wear on Lithic Tools	2
Middle Holocene Lithic Technological Organization and Upland Land Use in the Upper Susitna River Basin, Alaska	2
The “Stubby” Deer Antler Billet: Examples from the Oklahoma Plains Woodland	2
Skill and Core Uniformity: An Experiment with Oldowan-like Flaking Systems	2
Recycling and Implications for Neanderthal Productive Strategies in the Stratigraphic Unit viii of the El Salt Rockshelter (Alcoi, Eastern Iberia)	2
Criteria for Identifying Knapping Skill Level Through the Analysis of Lithic Cores: An Example from Val Lastari, Late Palaeolithic, Italy	2
New Analysis of Unifacially Shaped Technology from the Tropical Lowlands of Colombia	2
Prehistoric stone tools of Eastern Africa: a guide	2