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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Transition From Wild to Domesticated Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Revealed in Ceramic Temper at Three Middle Holocene Sites in Northern Mali	27
New Excavations at Umhlatuzana Rockshelter, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a Stratigraphic and Taphonomic Evaluation	12
Amy ty lilin-draza’ay: Building Archaeological Practice on Principles of Community	12
Variability of Early Iron Production in the Falémé Valley Region, Eastern Senegal	12
Middle Stone Age Bifacial Technology and Pressure Flaking at the MIS 3 Site of Toumboura III, Eastern Senegal	10
Usable Pasts Forum: UNESCO and Heritage Tourism in Africa	10
Wood Charcoal from Border Cave’s Member 1RGBS: Evidence for the Environment and Plant Use During MIS 5	9
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives for Reimaging and Reimagining Archaeological Practice	9
Archaeological Ochres of the Rock Art Site of Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia): Looking for Later Stone Age Sociocultural Behaviors	8
An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Cultivation in the Canary Islands	8
Review of Archaeological Research in Angola	8
The Politics of Knowledge Production: Training and Practice of Archaeological Science in Africa	7
Backed Pieces and Their Variability in the Later Stone Age of the Horn of Africa	7
Use-Wear Analysis Brings “Vanished Technologies” to Light	7
Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the Timing of Social and Subsistence Transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa	7
The Role of Different Raw Materials in Lithic Technology and Settlement Patterns During the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa	6
Evidence of an Eleventh-Century AD Cola Nitida Trade into the Middle Niger Region	5
Networked Farmers, Ancestral Rituals, Regional Marketplaces, and Salt: New Insights into the Complexity of First Millennium BC/AD Farming Societies in West Africa	5
Spatial Organization and Socio-Economic Differentiation at the Dhar Tichitt Center of Dakhlet el Atrouss I (Southeastern Mauritania)	5
Enset (Ensete ventricosum) and the Archaeology of Southwestern Ethiopia	5
African Farmers, Not Stone Age Foragers: Reassessment of Human Remains from the Mumbwa Caves, Zambia	5
Fourteen Years of Archaeological and Heritage Research in the Iringa Region, Tanzania	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
Characterization of Glass, Shell, and Fishbone Beads on Ibo Island (Northern Mozambique) in the Context of the Indian Ocean Trade	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

The Chronology of Kilwa Kisiwani, AD 800–1500	4
The 4.2 ka BP Climate Event in Egypt: Integration of Archaeological, Geoarchaeological, and Bioarchaeological Evidence	4
Taking Stock of Foodplants Growing in the Cradle of Humankind Fossil Hominin Site, South Africa	4
Food and Ornament: Use of Shellfish at Ifri Oudadane, a Holocene Settlement in NE Morocco	4
Teardrops at the Lake: Chemistry of New Kingdom to Makuria Glass Beads and Pendants Between the First and Second Nile Cataracts	4
Milling Cereals/Legumes and Stamping Bread in Mauretanian Tamuda (Morocco): An Interdisciplinary Study	4
Forests of History: Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeological Survey in Southern Ghana	3
Disease as a Factor in the African Archaeological Record	3
The African Archaeological Review Turns Forty: Some Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future	3
A Conversation with Peter Ridgway Schmidt, the Ṣango of African Archaeology	3
Re-assessing Middle Nubian cultural constructs through ceramic petrography	3
Crafting Swahili Beads: Exploring a New Glass Bead Assemblage from Northern Zanzibar, Tanzania	3
On COVID-19 and Matters Arising	3
Doing Archaeology in a Turbulent Time	3
Issues Emerging: Thoughts on the Reflective Articles on Coronavirus (COVID-19) and African Archaeology	3
Wild Food: Plants, Fish and Small Animals on the Menu for Early Holocene Populations at al-Khiday, Central Sudan	3
Sustainable Management and Conservation of Heritage Assets: A Case Study of the Lake Eyasi Basin, Northern Tanzania	3
Ritual and State Making in Precolonial Rwanda	2
Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC: Jebel Moya, Sudan	2
Glass Beads from Songo Mnara, Tanzania: Chemical Composition and Evidence for Local Bead Manufacture	2
The Oudierin Drainage Archaeological Project: New Perspectives on the Saloum Delta Shell Middens (Senegal)	2
Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan	2
Cooking, Serving, and Storage: Ceramic Vessel Function and Use Contexts at Schroda	2
Igbo-Ukwu at 50: A Symposium on Recent Archaeological Research and Analysis	2
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	2
“A Survey of Surveys” Revisited: Current Approaches to Landscape and Surface Archaeology in Southern Africa	2
Local Ceramics from the Islamic Trade Center of Harlaa, Eastern Ethiopia: Markers of Chronology and Contacts	2
On Food, Pots, Gender, Iron, and Archaeological Theory: Interview with Professor Randi Haaland	2
Searching for the Right Color Palette: Source of Pigments of the Holocene Wadi Sura Paintings, Gilf Kebir, Western Desert (Egypt)	2
Zooarchaeology of the Middle Stone Age in Magubike Rockshelter, Iringa Region, Tanzania	2
Archaeology of Two Pandemics and Teranga Aesthetic	2
New Insights on the Palaeo-archaeological Potential of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal	2