OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Leilatepe phenomenon (3900–3600 cal. BCE): A ‘Middle Ground’ between the Near East and the Caucasus	35
Blood symbolism at the root of symbolic culture? African hunter-gatherer perspectives	34
Collapse, complexity, and caprines: Zooarchaeological investigations of the Hittite state and its afters	22
Materiality of forager food insecurity in the archaeological record: A case study from the central Canadian Boreal Forest, ∼1100–1300 CE	21
Remote sensing evidence for third millennium BCE urban form and hydrology at the Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba, Iraq)	19
Mold-making technology at architectural compound 60 (CA-60): A newly discovered ceramic workshop at Huacas de Moche, Peru	16
Maize consumption out of the production areas in southern South America (Norpatagonia, Argentina): Occasional production, foreigner consumers, or exchange?	16
Contrasting strategies: Social organization and interaction in the Early Bronze Age of northwestern Scandinavia	15
Translocal identity construction among Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in northwestern China	15
Sociopolitical evolution, population clustering, and technology among early sedentary communities in northeastern Andes, Colombia	15
Late Holocene tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) resource depression and distant patch use in central California: Faunal and isotopic evidence from King Brown and the Emeryville Shellmound	15
The land of the last hunter-gatherer groups in the Ebro basin: Forgers of their own destiny	14
From space to Place: The making of temples	14
Between the patio group and the plaza: Round platforms as stages for supra-household rituals in early Maya society	14
Color as a key characteristic in the terminal pleistocene fluted-point-period lithic economy in northeastern North America	13
Deposition analysis and the hidden life of Bronze Age houses	13
Valencina: A copper age polity	12
Geophysics elucidate long-term socio-ecological dynamics of foraging, pastoralism, and mixed subsistence strategies on SW Madagascar	12
Diaspora, tradition, and progress: Archaeology of Alexandria, Virginia’s German Jewish community	11
Forager and food producer interrelationships in the zooarchaeological record: Lessons from Central Africa	11
Understanding the intersection of Rapid climate change and subsistence Practices: An isotopic perspective from a Mediterranean Bell Beaker case study	11
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Extraction strategies and technological tradition at late pre-Hispanic quarries, southern Peru (ca. 1000–1532 CE)	11
Ancestral commons theorized: The entanglement of cosmology, community and landscape use in Bronze Age Northern Europe	11
Animals of the Serranía de la Lindosa: Exploring representation and categorisation in the rock art and zooarchaeological remains of the Colombian Amazon	11

Commodification of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in 17th century southern New England	10
Kinship as social strategy: A contextual biodistance analysis of the Early Mycenaean Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery, southern Greece	9
Sociological landscape and evolutionary phenomena: a technological approach to the Neolithic southern Levant ceramic assemblages	9
Τhe domestication of southwest Asian ‘farmyard animals’: Possible insights from management of feral and free-range relatives in Greece	9
Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650–1550): A multi-method chemical and petrographic approach	9
Painting personhood: Red pigment practices in southern Peru	9
The social dynamics of settling down	8
Pastoral Workshops? Rethinking Iron Age bone production in the Eastern Tianshan region	8
The tapir in the room: Ancient Maya storage architecture	8
Reconstructing and testing neighborhoods at the Maya city of Caracol, Belize	8
Revisiting cremation practices of the Pastoral Neolithic in Kenya	8
Cranial injuries as evidence for violent conflict during the Gallinazo Phase in the Moche Valley of North Coastal Peru	8
Crafting a shared history of learning: Pottery making and the building of agropastoral communities (Argentina, 200-850 CE)	8
Traction in Neolithic Çatalhöyük? Palaeopathological analysis of cattle and aurochs remains from the East and West Mounds	8
Demographic transitions, health, and population crises in the postcontact Western Hemisphere	7
Culinary chronicles of ancient Ebla: A multidisciplinary exploration of diet, nutrition, and health in a 3rd millennium BCE Syrian civilization	7
Estimating two key dimensions of cultural transmission from archaeological data	7
Violence as a lens to Viking societies: A comparison of Norway and Denmark	7
Economy, sharing strategies and community structure in the early Neolithic village of Chahai, Northeast China	7
The many lives of companion species: a zooarchaeological and isotopic research on Wari dog remains from Castillo de Huarmey, Peru	7
The origins and development of mobile containers: Biocultural perspectives on Pleistocene containment	7
Reconsidering narratives of household social inequality	7
Secondary burial as evidence for alternative pathways to social complexity in Neolithic China: the Shixia case	7
Urban structure, spatial equilibrium, and social inequality at Ancient Teotihuacan	7
The politics of provincial site planning and the architectural evolution of the Inka administrative center of Turi, northern Chile	7
Mapping human mobility and analyzing spatial memory: palimpsest landscapes of movement in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia	7
The Empire Builders: A multi-isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains from the Llullaillaco volcano cemetery (Salta, Argentina)	7
Regional household variation and inequality across the Maya landscape	6
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The Archaeology of Musical Bamboos: Native Bamboos and Pre-Hispanic Flutes on the Andean Altiplano around Lake Titicaca (A First Approximation)	6
Migration and state expansion: Archaeological and biochemical evidence from Pataraya, a wari outpost in Nasca, Peru (A.D. 650–1000)	6
“An instrument of grace”: Archaeological and ethnographic studies of homegardens in the American Neotropics	6
Complicated endings: Household-based foodways and the demise of Early Bronze Age urban society in the southern Levant	6
Potters’ technological choices in turbulent times: Exploring the transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain through communities of practice and technological investme	6
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Considering the invisible in architecture: The contribution of traditional architecture to the study of pre-Hispanic mounds in the north-Andean region of Ecuador	6
Craft Specialization in the Highland Longshan Society: Perspective from the Bone Needle Workshop on the Central Mound at the Shimao Site, Shaanxi, China	6
A performance test of archaeological similarity-based network inference using New Guinean ethnographic data	6
Celts, Slabs, and Space: Organisation of lithic reduction strategies in Tamil Nadu, India	6
Landesque capital and ideal distribution models: mapping agricultural suitability in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia	5
Diet, economy, and culinary practices at the height of precolonial Swahili urbanism	5
Palynological studies shed new light on the Neolithisation process in central Europe	5
Profiling the people behind clay figurines: Technological trace and fingerprint analysis applied to ancient Egypt (Lahun village, MBA II, c. 1800–1700 BC)	5
Societal segmentation and early urbanism in Mesopotamia: Biological distance analysis from Tell Brak using dental morphology	5
Just scratching the surface: Post-fire engravings as semasiographic writing in the ancient Andes	5
Plant use and peasant politics under Inka and Spanish rule at Ollantaytambo, Peru	5
Opting in and opting out of (proto-)urbanism: the Integration and disintegration of Hamoukar during the Late Chalcolithic 1 and 2 periods (4500–3900 BCE)	5
Transformations in the roles of men, women, and children in the ceramic industry at Early Bronze Age Hama, Syria and contemporary sites	5
Home, hearth, and housekeeping: Alternative methods for detecting migrants in the Wari Empire, Peru	5
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Daily life in a New Kingdom fortress town in Nubia: A reexamination of physical activity at Tombos	5
Past maize consumption correlates with population change in Central Western Argentina	5
‘Braiding Knowledge’ about the peopling of the River Murray (Rinta) in South Australia: Ancestral narratives, geomorphological interpretations and archaeological evidence	5
Hunting, Herding, and diet breadth. A landscape based approach to niche shifting in subsistence economies (Gobi Desert)	4
Red Queen in Australia	4
Classic Maya deity concurrence: Brides, gods, and inter-dynastic ritual exchange	4
In search of the origin of inequalities: Gender study and variability of social organization in the first farmers societies of western Europe (Linearbandkeramik culture)	4
Critiquing the logics of prestige in the interpretation of Cycladic Figurines: Towards an archaeological theory of value	4
Dearly De-Parted: Ancestors, body partibility, and making place at Dos Hombres, Belize	4
On the pathways. Inter-nodal archaeology in the Atacama desert Pampa (c. 7000 BP-400 BP)	4
Alternatives to interpretive binaries in archaeologies of migration	4
The case for schismogenesis between Late Developmental Northern Rio Grande and Chacoan communities in Northern New Mexico	4
Cosmology, ancestors and mortuary monuments: Principles of political authority in the Rapayán and Tantamayo region of the upper Marañón in the central Andes of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period	4
Superpositions and superimpositions in rock art studies: Reading the rock face at Pundawar Manbur, Kimberley, northwest Australia	4
A reappraisal of interaction spheres	4
Urbanizing food: New perspectives on food processing tools in the Early Bronze Age villages and early urban centers of the southern Levant	4
Hunting to herding on the Andean Altiplano: Zooarchaeological insights into Archaic Period subsistence in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru (9.0–3.5 ka)	4
Classic Maya figurines as materials of socialization: Evidence from Ceibal, Guatemala	4
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) castration in Fennoscandia: Domestication theory, archaeological methods, and interpretive perspectives	4
Earth construction from past to present: Initial results of the ethnoarchaeological program in the Gobaad Basin (Republic of Djibouti, Dikhil region)	4
Understanding multi-sited early village communities of the American Southeast through categorical identities and relational connections	4
Integrating cross-collections research and archival study: new insights on macaws and parrots from Chaco Canyon, NM	3
Costly signaling, cost shifting, and the Maya Classic-Postclassic transition: architecture and portable display media in the context of The Petén Lakes region, Guatemala	3
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Chronology and the evidence for war in the ancient Maya kingdom of Piedras Negras	3
Negotiating interaction during the Late Woodland-Mississippian transition in Southern Appalachia	3
The cultural macroevolution of lithic technological strategies in Northern and Western North America during the upper Pleistocene and Holocene	3
Ancient DNA and migrations: New understandings and misunderstandings	3
A crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Alps: Lithic technology, raw material procurement, and mobility in the Aurignacian of Riparo Bombrini	3
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Response to Emily Hammer’s article: “Multi-centric, Marsh-based urbanism at the early Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al Hiba, Iraq)”	3
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Archaeology sits in places	3
Ritual networks and the structure of moral communities in Classic Maya society	3
Marra philosophies of stone, and the stone artefacts of Walanjiwurru 1 rockshelter, Marra Country, northern Australia	3
Commensality as social integration in Neolithic Çatalhöyük: Pottery, faunal, and architectural approaches	3
Dogs under urbanization: Isotopic insight from the Bronze Age Central Plains of China (ca. 2000–1000 BCE)	3
New insights from Ecuador into Inca-style pottery production in the provinces	3
Social change and late Holocene hydroclimate variability in southwest Indiana	3
Archaeologies of people and space: Social network analysis of communities and neighborhoods in spatial context	2
Social networks and community features: Identifying neighborhoods in a WWII Japanese American incarceration center	2
Households, Community, and Crafting at Kanono: The archaeology of a 2nd millennium village in Western Zambia	2
Crafting the voice of God: ceramic waylla kepa shell horn technology in the Andes	2
Late Maritime Woodland period hunter-fisher-gatherer complexity in the Far Northeast: Toward an historical and contingent approach	2
Moving in and moving out: Explaining final Pleistocene-Early Holocene hunter-gatherer population dynamics on the Korean Peninsula	2
Rethinking agency in hiri exchange relationships on Papua New Guinea’s south coast: Oral traditions and archaeology	2
Variation in bioavailable lead, copper, and strontium concentrations in human skeletons from medieval to early modern Denmark	2
Intragroup social differentiation and household inequality in prehistoric Mumun settlements of Korea	2
Corrigendum to “A collaborative synthetic view of migration in archaeology: Addressing challenges for policymakers” [J. Anthropol. Archaeol. 78 (2025) 101667]	2
Animal power: Re-thinking cattle and caprines’ roles in Late Bronze Age political life in the South Caucasus	2
Social complexity of Early Neolithic sea transport; experimental archaeological and ethnographic evidence	2
Archaeology’s epistemological breadth: Collaborative-Indigenous and ontological turns in historical perspective	2
Costly signaling with ceramic tablewares in Spanish colonial America	2
The day the music died: Making and playing bone wind instruments at La Real in Middle Horizon, Peru (600–1000 CE)	2
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Diet, Status, and incipient social Inequality: Stable isotope data from three complex Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer sites in southern California	2
Modeling Archaic land use and mobility in north-central Belize	2
“Weaving” the tupi: The study of kʷaẽ language and the persistence of pottery-making knowledge among the Akuntsu women, southwestern Amazon	2
Being-with other predators: Cultural negotiations of Neanderthal-carnivore relationships in Late Pleistocene Europe	2
Traditional adhesive production systems in Zambia and their archaeological implications	2
Who made the Oldowan? Reviewing African hominin fossils and archaeological sites from 3.5 million years ago	2
Marks on the floor. Instant and memory in the foundation of an agro-pastoralist place in the Puna high desert, Northwest Argentina (ca. 1500 BP)	2
Weaponry for archaeologists	2
Short-distance hunting strategies of Late Quaternary foragers in the miombo woodlands of Malawi	2
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