OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Excising culture history from contemporary archaeology	36
The transition to a barley-dominant cultivation system in Tibet: First millennium BC archaeobotanical evidence from Bangga	29
Ancient Maya water management, agriculture, and society in the area of Chactún, Campeche, Mexico	25
Communal drinking rituals and social formations in the Yellow River valley of Neolithic China	23
The social dynamics of settling down	21
Gardens on the coast: Considerations on food production by Brazilian shellmound builders	20
Wealth-on-the-hoof and the low-power state: Caprines as capital in early Mesopotamia	19
New excavations in the MNK Skull site, and the last appearance of the Oldowan and Homo habilis at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania	17
Beyond arrows on a map: The dynamics of Homo sapiens dispersal and occupation of Arabia during Marine Isotope Stage 5	17
The origin and use of shell bead money in California	17
The Paleolithic of the Iranian Plateau: Hominin occupation history and implications for human dispersals across southern Asia	16
Being-with other predators: Cultural negotiations of Neanderthal-carnivore relationships in Late Pleistocene Europe	16
Literal niche construction: Built environments of hunter-gatherers and hunting architecture	15
Taking the high ground: A model for lowland Maya settlement patterns	15
Consuming Kero: Molle Beer and Wari social identity in Andean Peru	14
Earliest archaeological evidence for domesticated reindeer economy among the Sámi of Northeastern Fennoscandia AD 1300 onwards	14
Radiocarbon data may support a Malthus-Boserup model of hunter-gatherer population expansion	12
Resilience and vulnerability to climate change in the Greek Dark Ages	12
Episodic complexity and the emergence of a coastal kingdom: Climate, cooperation, and coercion in Southwest Florida	12
Walnuts, salmon and sika deer: Exploring the evolution and diversification of Jōmon “culinary” traditions in prehistoric Hokkaidō	12
Investigating pre-Hispanic scarlet macaw origins through radiogenic strontium isotope analysis at Paquimé in Chihuahua, Mexico	12
Violence among the first horticulturists in the atacama desert (1000 BCE – 600 CE)	12
Hunter-gatherer children in the past: An archaeological review	11
Salt as a commodity or money in the Classic Maya economy	11
Population collapse or human resilience in response to the 9.3 and 8.2 ka cooling events: A multi-proxy analysis of Mesolithic occupation in the Scheldt basin (Belgium)	11

Javelin use among Ethiopia’s last indigenous hunters: Variability and further constraints on tip cross-sectional geometry	11
Multi-centric, Marsh-based Urbanism at the early Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba, Iraq)	11
Alcohol, ancestors, and the house: Exploring ritual use of beer at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso	10
North and South in the ancient Central Andes: Contextualizing the archaeological record with evidence from linguistics and molecular anthropology	10
Social signatures in standardized ceramic production – A 3-D approach to ethnographic data	10
Urbanization in the eastern seaboard (Haidai) area of northern China: Perspectives from the late Neolithic site of Liangchengzhen	10
Past maize consumption correlates with population change in Central Western Argentina	10
Isotopic proveniencing at Classic Copan and in the southern periphery of the Maya Area: A new perspective on multi-ethnic society	10
Space making and home making in the world’s first villages: Reconsidering the circular to rectangular architectural transition in the Central Anatolian Neolithic	10
Environment, climate and people: Exploring human responses to climate change	10
Between land and water: Hydraulic engineering in the Tlalixcoyan basin, Veracruz, Mexico	10
A place for archaeology in the study of money, finance, and debt	9
Residential patterns of Mexica human sacrifices at Mexico-Tenochtitlan and Mexico-Tlatelolco: Evidence from phosphate oxygen isotopes	9
Land use, climate change and ‘boom-bust’ sequences in agricultural landscapes: Interdisciplinary perspectives from the Peloponnese (Greece)	9
“Proposing a toast” from the first urban center in the north Loess Plateau, China: Alcoholic beverages at Shimao	9
Migration, violence, and the “other”: A biogeochemical approach to identity-based violence in the Epiclassic Basin of Mexico	9
Red beer consumption and elite utensils: The emergence of competitive feasting in the Yangshao culture, North China	9
Traction in Neolithic Çatalhöyük? Palaeopathological analysis of cattle and aurochs remains from the East and West Mounds	9
Pitted ware culture: Isotopic evidence for contact between Sweden and Denmark across the Kattegat in the Middle Neolithic, ca. 3000 BC	9
From local to regional and back again: Social transformation in a Coast Salish settlement, 1500–1000 BP	9
Diachronic trends in occupation intensity of the Epipaleolithic site of Neve David (Mount Carmel, Israel): A lithic perspective	9
Lithic technological organization of the “Elmenteitan” early herders in southern Kenya: Implications for mobility, exchange, and climatic resilience	8
Diet, economy, and culinary practices at the height of precolonial Swahili urbanism	8
Is there Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Western Tian Shan? Example of an open-air site Katta Sai 2 (Uzbekistan)	8
Predynastic beer production, distribution, and consumption at Hierakonpolis, Egypt	8
Cultural transmission and perception of vessel shapes among Hebron potters	8
Sex/gender system and social hierarchization in Bell Beaker burials from Iberia	8
The organization of production for Inka Polychrome pottery from Pachacamac, Peru	8
Expedient lithic technology in complex sedentary societies: Use-wear, flake size, and edge angle on debitage from two ancient Maya sites	8
Understanding multi-sited early village communities of the American Southeast through categorical identities and relational connections	8
The evolution of agro-urbanism: A case study from Angkor, Cambodia	8
Assembling the early expansionary state: Wari and the southern Peruvian coast	8
Human adaptation to Holocene environments: Perspectives and promise from China	8
Domestic dogs and wild canids on the Northwest Coast of North America: Animal husbandry in a region without agriculture?	8
Mapping the middle ground between foragers and farmers	8
Debt and inequality: Comparing the “means of specification” in the early cities of Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization	7
Life, death, and the destruction of architecture: Hunter-gatherer mortuary behaviors in prehistoric Jordan	7
Looking into Upper Paleolithic gear: The potential of an integrated techno-economic approach	7
Household garden plant agency in the creation of Classic Maya social identities	7
Collective action and shellfish harvesting practices among Late Archaic villagers of the South Atlantic Bight	7
Basketry, cordage, and perishable artifact manufacture at Bonneville Estates Rockshelter: Diachronic technological variation	7
Inebriation and the early state: Beer and the politics of affect in Mesopotamia	7
Relational ontologies and performance: Identifying humans and nonhuman animals in the rock art from north-eastern Kimberley, Australia	7
Growing up Gravettian: Bioarchaeological perspectives on adolescence in the European Mid-Upper Paleolithic	7
The Agro-pastoralism debate in Central Eurasia: Arguments in favor of a nuanced perspective on socio-economy in archaeological context	7
The heterarchical life and spatial analyses of the historical Buddhist temples in the Chiang Saen Basin, Northern Thailand	7
Chicha and food for the Inka feasts: Their materiality in state production contexts in southern Tawantinsuyu	7
The bow and arrow in South America	7
Terminal Classic residential histories, migration, and foreigners at the Maya site of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala	6
Cultural macroevolution in the middle to late Holocene Arctic of east Siberia and north America	6

The grandeur of death – Monuments, societies, and diets in middle Neolithic Paris Basin	6
Revelatory locales: The ritual reuse of a Late Archaic shell ring in South Carolina	6
A constitutional approach to cacao money	6
Ancient DNA studies: Use of ethnonyms and collaborative research in South America	6
Did the use of bone flakes precede the use of knapped stone flakes in hominin meat processing and could this be detectable archaeologically?	6
Economy, sharing strategies and community structure in the early Neolithic village of Chahai, Northeast China	5
Bulk and amino acid isotope analyses of hair detail adult diets and infant feeding practices among pre- and post-maize populations of the northern Chilean coast of the Atacama Desert	5
Heterarchical political ecology: Commoner and elite (meta)physical access to water at the ancient Maya city of Aventura, Belize	5
Mediterranean polyculture revisited: Olive, grape and subsistence strategies at Palaikastro, East Crete, between the Late Neolithic and Late Bronze Age	5
Marra philosophies of stone, and the stone artefacts of Walanjiwurru 1 rockshelter, Marra Country, northern Australia	5
Household lake exploitation and aquatic lifeways in postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico	5
When dogs and people were buried together	5
Let’s get fiscal: The social relations of finance and technological change in Aztec and Colonial Mexico	5
Potting practices and social integration in the southern Andes during the late intermediate period: The case of Yavi-Chicha pottery	5
Societal segmentation and early urbanism in Mesopotamia: Biological distance analysis from Tell Brak using dental morphology	5
A taste for the unusual. Green, flat pebbles used by late Neanderthals	5
Geophyte field processing, storage, and women’s decision-making in hunter-gatherer societies: An archaeological case study from western North America	5
Moving in and moving out: Explaining final Pleistocene-Early Holocene hunter-gatherer population dynamics on the Korean Peninsula	5
Revisiting ‘Settlement’: A case study of terminology and Early Bronze Age southeast Arabia	5
When edges become centered: The ceramic social geography of early pottery communities of the American Southeast	5
Libation ritual and the performance of kingship in early China	5
From adaptation to niche construction: Weather as a winter site selection factor in northern Mongolia, the Quebec Lower North Shore, and the southern Urals	5
Collaboration, not competition: A geoarchaeological approach to the social context of the earliest pottery	5
Symbolism in action: Techno-typology, function, and human-artefact dynamics in figured/non-figured bone plaques from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Boncuklu Tarla, Turkey	5
The city as dissipative structure: The flow of agricultural production in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia	5
Thoughts on Neolithic fishing-based economies in coastal Eastern Arabia	4
Coastal foraging and transgressive sea levels during the terminal Pleistocene: Insights from the central west coast of South Africa	4
Middle Preclassic Nixtun-Ch'ich': A lowland Maya primate/ritual city	4
The ways of an empire: Continuity and change of route landscapes across the Taurus during the Hittite Period (ca. 1650–1200 BCE)	4
Intentional dental modification in Panamá: New support for a late introduction of African origin	4
Ritual dispositions, enclosures, and the passing of time: A biographical perspective on the Winchester Farm earthwork in Central Kentucky, USA	4
On the monumentality of ditches	4
Early postglacial hunter-gatherers show environmentally driven “false logistic” growth in a low productivity environment	4
Reassessing an inferred Iroquoian village removal sequence in the Mohawk River Basin, New York, USA	4
Women, residential patterns and early social complexity. From theory to practice in Copper Age Iberia	4
Shaping dietary histories: Exploring the relationship between cranial modification and childhood feeding in a high-altitude Andean population (1100–1450 CE)	4
Establishing a predictive model for rock art surveying: The case of Palaeolithic caves in Northern Spain	4
Keeping count: On interpreting record keeping in prehistory	4
The role of temple institutions in Wari imperial expansion at Pakaytambo, Peru	4
Forager mobility, landscape learning and the peopling of Late Pleistocene North America	4
Painting personhood: Red pigment practices in southern Peru	4
Trash reconsidered: A relational approach to deposition in the Pueblo Southwest	4
The bow and arrow, population, environment, and seeds: Intensification in southwest Wyoming	4
Rethinking agency in hiri exchange relationships on Papua New Guinea’s south coast: Oral traditions and archaeology	4
The resiliency of diet on the Copacabana Peninsula, Bolivia	3
Between the patio group and the plaza: Round platforms as stages for supra-household rituals in early Maya society	3
Deposition analysis and the hidden life of Bronze Age houses	3
Tenancy, finance, and access to commercial goods: Interpreting impoverished assemblages in Skagafjörður, Iceland, CE 1300–1900	3
The dead do not unbury themselves: Understanding posthumous engagement and ancestor veneration in coastal Peru (AD1450-1650)	3
Hunting and feasting in the pre-Columbian Andes: Exploring the nature and scale of early ceremonial aggregations in Tulan Ravine (5300 to 2400 yr cal. BP) through the circulation of obsidian artefacts	3
Open air laboratories: Amazonian home gardens as sites of experimentation, collaboration, and negotiation across time	3
Let's start with something Small: An evaluation of social learning and scaling practices in Great Lakes potting communities during the Late Woodland	3
Board games and social life in Iron Age southern Africa	3
Chronology and the evidence for war in the ancient Maya kingdom of Piedras Negras	3
“A pleasurable job”… Communities of women ceramicists and the long path of Paulistaware in São Paulo	3
How many people lived in the world’s earliest villages? Reconsidering community size and population pressure at Neolithic Çatalhöyük	3
From Hangovers to Hierarchies: Beer production and use during the Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant – New evidence from Tel Tsaf and Peqi‘in Cave	3
Small-scale bone working in a complex economy: The Daxinzhuang worked bone assemblage	3
Archaeological networks, community detection, and critical scales of interaction in the U.S. Southwest/Mexican Northwest	3
Early pastoral communities in the mountains of Sicily. Prehistoric evidence from Vallone Inferno (Scillato) in the palaeoenvironmental framework of the Madonie mountain range	3
Beer, ritual, and identity: Ethnoarchaeological and archaeological study in Konso, southern Ethiopia	3
The Pueblo Bonito mounds: Formation history, architectural context and representational fields	3
Ungulates butchering and transport by hunter gatherers with maritime economic orientation: The case of the south coast of Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)	3
The scale of social labor investments and social practices behind the construction of megalithic stele monuments in south Ethiopia	3
Landscape, typologies, and the social meaning of castles	3
Temporality of fishery taskscapes on the north-central Gulf of Mexico coast (USA) during the Middle/Late Woodland period (AD 325–1040)	3
Fermented maize beverages as ritual offerings: Investigating elite drinking during Classic Maya period at Copan, Honduras	3
A new approach to population: Using multiple measures to estimate the population of a protohistoric village in the western Great Lakes region, USA	3
Aesthetics or function in heat-treating? The influence of colour preference in lithic preparation on the Maritime Peninsula, Eastern Canada	3
Considering Urbanism at Mound Key (Caalus), the capital of the Calusa in the 16th Century, Southwest Florida, USA	3
Landscape bundling of ceremonial Earthworks: Incorporating ethnohistoric and contemporary Indigenous ontologies to revive Great Lakes archaeological legacy datasets	3
Red Queen in Australia	3
Archaeology sits in places	3
Technological persistence in ceramic production in the southeastern Hispaniola. The case study of El Cabo (600–1502 CE)	3
‘Braiding Knowledge’ about the peopling of the River Murray (Rinta) in South Australia: Ancestral narratives, geomorphological interpretations and archaeological evidence	3