OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Anthropological Archaeology is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Leilatepe phenomenon (3900–3600 cal. BCE): A ‘Middle Ground’ between the Near East and the Caucasus	27
Remote sensing evidence for third millennium BCE urban form and hydrology at the Mesopotamian city of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba, Iraq)	26
Sociopolitical evolution, population clustering, and technology among early sedentary communities in northeastern Andes, Colombia	26
Points of contention: Tradition, resistance, and arrow points in the California missions	20
Collapse, complexity, and caprines: Zooarchaeological investigations of the Hittite state and its afters	20
Introduction: Alcohol, rituals, and politics in the ancient world	19
Maize consumption out of the production areas in southern South America (Norpatagonia, Argentina): Occasional production, foreigner consumers, or exchange?	17
Blood symbolism at the root of symbolic culture? African hunter-gatherer perspectives	17
Mold-making technology at architectural compound 60 (CA-60): A newly discovered ceramic workshop at Huacas de Moche, Peru	16
Materiality of forager food insecurity in the archaeological record: A case study from the central Canadian Boreal Forest, ∼1100–1300 CE	15
Toward a quantitative history of ancient Israel: Burials as a test case	15
Contrasting strategies: Social organization and interaction in the Early Bronze Age of northwestern Scandinavia	15
The evolution of agro-urbanism: A case study from Angkor, Cambodia	15
Deposition analysis and the hidden life of Bronze Age houses	15
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	14
Translocal identity construction among Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in northwestern China	13
From space to Place: The making of temples	13
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	13
Color as a key characteristic in the terminal pleistocene fluted-point-period lithic economy in northeastern North America	12
Animals of the Serranía de la Lindosa: Exploring representation and categorisation in the rock art and zooarchaeological remains of the Colombian Amazon	12
The land of the last hunter-gatherer groups in the Ebro basin: Forgers of their own destiny	12
Keeping count: On interpreting record keeping in prehistory	12
Between the patio group and the plaza: Round platforms as stages for supra-household rituals in early Maya society	12
Forager and food producer interrelationships in the zooarchaeological record: Lessons from Central Africa	11
Valencina: A copper age polity	11

Understanding the intersection of Rapid climate change and subsistence Practices: An isotopic perspective from a Mediterranean Bell Beaker case study	11
Kinship as social strategy: A contextual biodistance analysis of the Early Mycenaean Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery, southern Greece	11
Looking back, looking forward: Resilience and persistence in a Klamath tribal community	11
Geophysics elucidate long-term socio-ecological dynamics of foraging, pastoralism, and mixed subsistence strategies on SW Madagascar	11
Editorial Board	10
Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650–1550): A multi-method chemical and petrographic approach	10
Violence among the first horticulturists in the atacama desert (1000 BCE – 600 CE)	10
Extraction strategies and technological tradition at late pre-Hispanic quarries, southern Peru (ca. 1000–1532 CE)	10
Diaspora, tradition, and progress: Archaeology of Alexandria, Virginia’s German Jewish community	10
Commodification of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in 17th century southern New England	10
Space making and home making in the world’s first villages: Reconsidering the circular to rectangular architectural transition in the Central Anatolian Neolithic	9
Τhe domestication of southwest Asian ‘farmyard animals’: Possible insights from management of feral and free-range relatives in Greece	9
Cranial injuries as evidence for violent conflict during the Gallinazo Phase in the Moche Valley of North Coastal Peru	9
Ancestral commons theorized: The entanglement of cosmology, community and landscape use in Bronze Age Northern Europe	9
Revelatory locales: The ritual reuse of a Late Archaic shell ring in South Carolina	9
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)	9
Painting personhood: Red pigment practices in southern Peru	9
Revisiting cremation practices of the Pastoral Neolithic in Kenya	9
The social dynamics of settling down	8
Beer, ritual, and identity: Ethnoarchaeological and archaeological study in Konso, southern Ethiopia	8
Taking the high ground: A model for lowland Maya settlement patterns	8
Forager mobility, landscape learning and the peopling of Late Pleistocene North America	8
Traction in Neolithic Çatalhöyük? Palaeopathological analysis of cattle and aurochs remains from the East and West Mounds	8
The Pueblo Bonito mounds: Formation history, architectural context and representational fields	8
Editorial Board	7
Economy, sharing strategies and community structure in the early Neolithic village of Chahai, Northeast China	7
Urban structure, spatial equilibrium, and social inequality at Ancient Teotihuacan	7
The tapir in the room: Ancient Maya storage architecture	7
Demographic transitions, health, and population crises in the postcontact Western Hemisphere	7
Reconstructing and testing neighborhoods at the Maya city of Caracol, Belize	7
Mapping human mobility and analyzing spatial memory: palimpsest landscapes of movement in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia	6
Culinary chronicles of ancient Ebla: A multidisciplinary exploration of diet, nutrition, and health in a 3rd millennium BCE Syrian civilization	6
Celts, Slabs, and Space: Organisation of lithic reduction strategies in Tamil Nadu, India	6
“An instrument of grace”: Archaeological and ethnographic studies of homegardens in the American Neotropics	6
Editorial Board	6
A performance test of archaeological similarity-based network inference using New Guinean ethnographic data	6
Regional household variation and inequality across the Maya landscape	6
Estimating two key dimensions of cultural transmission from archaeological data	6
The politics of provincial site planning and the architectural evolution of the Inka administrative center of Turi, northern Chile	6
The Archaeology of Musical Bamboos: Native Bamboos and Pre-Hispanic Flutes on the Andean Altiplano around Lake Titicaca (A First Approximation)	6
Reconsidering narratives of household social inequality	6
Meaningful choices and relational networks: Analysing western Arnhem Land’s Painted Hand rock art style using chaîne opératoire	6
Violence as a lens to Viking societies: A comparison of Norway and Denmark	6
Complicated endings: Household-based foodways and the demise of Early Bronze Age urban society in the southern Levant	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
Migration and state expansion: Archaeological and biochemical evidence from Pataraya, a wari outpost in Nasca, Peru (A.D. 650–1000)	6
Predynastic beer production, distribution, and consumption at Hierakonpolis, Egypt	6
‘Braiding Knowledge’ about the peopling of the River Murray (Rinta) in South Australia: Ancestral narratives, geomorphological interpretations and archaeological evidence	5
Transformations in the roles of men, women, and children in the ceramic industry at Early Bronze Age Hama, Syria and contemporary sites	5
“To hell with everything”: Post-war nationalism and the “Old Slavic Sanctuary” at Ptuj Castle, Slovenia	5

Palynological studies shed new light on the Neolithisation process in central Europe	5
Dietary continuity and change at Panama Viejo from an interdisciplinary perspective, C. 600–1671	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
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	5
Societal segmentation and early urbanism in Mesopotamia: Biological distance analysis from Tell Brak using dental morphology	5
Cultural macroevolution in the middle to late Holocene Arctic of east Siberia and north America	5
Home, hearth, and housekeeping: Alternative methods for detecting migrants in the Wari Empire, Peru	5
Strategies of survival? Change, continuity and the adaptive cycle across the middle to early late bronze age at Tell el-Dabˁa, Egypt	5
Past maize consumption correlates with population change in Central Western Argentina	5
Alcohol, ancestors, and the house: Exploring ritual use of beer at Kirikongo, Burkina Faso	5
Editorial Board	5
An integrative examination of elk imagery in Middle Holocene Cis-Baikal, Siberia	5
Editorial Board	5