OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Archaeological Review 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Giuseppina Mutri: Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya)	20
John W. Arthur: Beer: A Global Journey Through the Past and Present	16
The Tichitt Culture and the Malian Lakes Region	16
Farming with Hand and Hoe over the Last Millennia: Traditional Terracing and the Agricultural Economy in Konso Zone, Southern Ethiopia	12
Assimilations and Replacements of Early and Middle Holocene Ceramic Productions Across Spatial and Temporal Boundaries in Northern Sudan	10
A Window into the Nubian Diet: A Case Study of Food Crop Storage in the Kingdom of Dongola (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries CE), Northern Sudan	9
Households in Transition: Persistence and Change of Dwellings in the City of Old Dongola (Sudan, 14th–17th Century)	8
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	8
Alice Stevenson: Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum	8
Hunting by Farmers in the Central Lowveld of South Africa: The Late Iron Age Fauna from Mluwati	8
Deciphering Middle Stone Age Technological Behaviors: An Analysis of the Lithic Technology from Level VI-B at Mumba, Tanzania	7
Rethinking the Capsian: Lithic Variability Among Holocene Maghreb Hunter-Gatherers	7
Commentary on Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers	6
Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers	6
Lithic Techno-economics and OSL Chronology of the Later Stone Age at Chessungalane, Save River Valley, Mozambique	6
Geospatial Science	6
The Future of Human Origins and Modern Behavior in Africa	5
African Farmers, Not Stone Age Foragers: Reassessment of Human Remains from the Mumbwa Caves, Zambia	5
Phillip L. de Barros: La Métallurgie du Fer en Pays Bassar (Nord-Togo) Depuis 2400 Ans. Tome I: L’Âge du Fer Ancien (de 400 avant J.-C. à 130 après J.-C.)	5
“All the world's a stage…”: A Valedictory Note	5
Mark William Hauser and Julia John Haines: The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean	5
Correction: Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000-Year History	4
Andrea Manzo: Ancient Egypt in its African Context: Economic Networks, Social and Cultural Interactions	4
Wild Food: Plants, Fish and Small Animals on the Menu for Early Holocene Populations at al-Khiday, Central Sudan	4
John Kinehan: Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert	4

First Archaeological Excavations Along the Atlantic Ocean Coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Iron Age Sites at Muanda	4
When Communities Gather Around Their Past: Advancing Equitable Futures Through Collaborative Ethnoarchaeological Research in Ghana	4
Science, Not Black Magic: Metal and Glass Production in Africa	4
On the Validity of the Capsian and Iberomaurusian Entities (Northwest African Later Stone Age)	4
Institutionalizing a “developer pays” Principle for Commercial Archaeology as Part of Changing China-Africa Economic Relations	4
Preserving Heritage Amid War: A Protocol for Recording and Disseminating the Tomb of Djehutyhotep at the Sudan National Museum	4
Ethnoarchaeology	3
Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage Management in Kenya: The Impact of Changing Governance and Financing Landscapes on Developer-Led Archaeology	3
Africa’s Cultural Crossroads: Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Syncretism in Western Uganda from Western Kansyore, Transitional Urewe, and Bigo-Period Burials	3
How African Pasts Can Inspire Alternative Responses to Climate Change: a Creative Writing Experiment	3
A Review of the Turkwel Tradition: Cultural Variability and Social Change in the First Millennium CE East Africa	3
Expanding Space and Time at Igbo-Ukwu: Insights from Recent Fieldwork	3
Training and Collaboration in African Archaeology	3
Archaeology and Development: Pre-construction Archaeology in Benin, Nigeria	3
Results of Preparatory Surveys on the Tagant Escarpment, Mauritania	3
Durability, Context, and Pragmatics in Linguistic Histories	3
Replacement in Progress: Ethnoarchaeological Insights on Disappearing Pottery in Favour of Metal, Glass, and Plastic Containers in Lower Casamance, Senegal (Twentieth–Twenty-first Century AD)	3
New Insights on the Palaeo-archaeological Potential of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal	3
Past and Present Evidence of Loss and Replacements in African Pottery Traditions	3