OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Anthropological Archaeology is 6. 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