OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Archaeological Review 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
Transition From Wild to Domesticated Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Revealed in Ceramic Temper at Three Middle Holocene Sites in Northern Mali	32
Usable Pasts Forum: UNESCO and Heritage Tourism in Africa	11
Middle Stone Age Bifacial Technology and Pressure Flaking at the MIS 3 Site of Toumboura III, Eastern Senegal	10
Wood Charcoal from Border Cave’s Member 1RGBS: Evidence for the Environment and Plant Use During MIS 5	10
Review of Archaeological Research in Angola	9
Evidence of an Eleventh-Century AD Cola Nitida Trade into the Middle Niger Region	8
Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the Timing of Social and Subsistence Transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa	8
Networked Farmers, Ancestral Rituals, Regional Marketplaces, and Salt: New Insights into the Complexity of First Millennium BC/AD Farming Societies in West Africa	8
The Role of Different Raw Materials in Lithic Technology and Settlement Patterns During the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa	8
The Politics of Knowledge Production: Training and Practice of Archaeological Science in Africa	7
The 4.2 ka BP Climate Event in Egypt: Integration of Archaeological, Geoarchaeological, and Bioarchaeological Evidence	7
The Chronology of Kilwa Kisiwani, AD 800–1500	5
Taking Stock of Foodplants Growing in the Cradle of Humankind Fossil Hominin Site, South Africa	5
Teardrops at the Lake: Chemistry of New Kingdom to Makuria Glass Beads and Pendants Between the First and Second Nile Cataracts	5
Spatial Organization and Socio-Economic Differentiation at the Dhar Tichitt Center of Dakhlet el Atrouss I (Southeastern Mauritania)	5
African Farmers, Not Stone Age Foragers: Reassessment of Human Remains from the Mumbwa Caves, Zambia	4
Investigating the MIS2 Microlithic Assemblage of Umbeli Belli Rockshelter and Its Place Within the Chrono-cultural Sequence of the LSA Along the East Coast of Southern Africa	4
The 100,000–77,000-Year Old Middle Stone Age Micromammal Sequence from Blombos Cave, South Africa: Local Climatic Stability or a Tale of Predator Bias?	4
Wild Food: Plants, Fish and Small Animals on the Menu for Early Holocene Populations at al-Khiday, Central Sudan	4
“A Survey of Surveys” Revisited: Current Approaches to Landscape and Surface Archaeology in Southern Africa	4
Revisiting the Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic Transition in the Extreme NW of Africa: The Latest Results of the Chronological Sequence of the Cave of Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Tétouan, Morocco)	4
Sustainable Management and Conservation of Heritage Assets: A Case Study of the Lake Eyasi Basin, Northern Tanzania	4
Characterization of Glass, Shell, and Fishbone Beads on Ibo Island (Northern Mozambique) in the Context of the Indian Ocean Trade	4
Searching for the Right Color Palette: Source of Pigments of the Holocene Wadi Sura Paintings, Gilf Kebir, Western Desert (Egypt)	3
The Evolution of Lower Egyptian Culture During the Formative Stages of the Egyptian State at Tell el-Iswid: The Contribution of Ceramic Technology	3

Re-assessing Middle Nubian cultural constructs through ceramic petrography	3
Ritual and State Making in Precolonial Rwanda	3
The African Archaeological Review Turns Forty: Some Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future	3
Doing Archaeology in a Turbulent Time	3
Crafting Swahili Beads: Exploring a New Glass Bead Assemblage from Northern Zanzibar, Tanzania	3
Interdisciplinary Research into the Legacy of the Medieval Metropolis of Soba in a Modern Khartoum Suburb	3
Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan	3
The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, from the Eleventh Through Nineteenth Centuries CE	3
Record-Making, Research, and Removal: Mitigating Impacts on Rock Art in a CRM Context in Southern Africa—the Case of the Metolong Dam, Lesotho	2
Local Ceramics from the Islamic Trade Center of Harlaa, Eastern Ethiopia: Markers of Chronology and Contacts	2
Igbo-Ukwu at 50: A Symposium on Recent Archaeological Research and Analysis	2
The Oudierin Drainage Archaeological Project: New Perspectives on the Saloum Delta Shell Middens (Senegal)	2
New Insights on the Palaeo-archaeological Potential of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal	2
Genetics and Archaeology	2
Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC: Jebel Moya, Sudan	2
Patterns of Violence in the Pre-Neolithic Nile Valley	2
On Food, Pots, Gender, Iron, and Archaeological Theory: Interview with Professor Randi Haaland	2
Igbo-Ukwu Textiles: AMS Dating and Fiber Analysis	2
Zooarchaeology of the Middle Stone Age in Magubike Rockshelter, Iringa Region, Tanzania	2
Glass Beads from Songo Mnara, Tanzania: Chemical Composition and Evidence for Local Bead Manufacture	2