OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Archaeological Science is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Frozen motion: Contextualizing wheel rut data within and beyond the Pompeiian street grid	42
Multiple luminescence dating on heated materials at the nanzuo archaeological site, central Chinese Loess Plateau	38
Combining ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating data to increase chronological accuracy	31
A new method for examining maritime mobility of direct crossings with contrary prevailing winds in the Mediterranean during antiquity	31
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Provenancing wood used in the Norse Greenlandic settlements: A biogeochemical study using hydrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotopes	27
Population dynamics in the Middle Ages in Central Europe: Reconstruction based on age-at-death distributions of skeletal samples	27
87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios in trees as an archaeological tracer: Limitations of linking plant-biomass and bedrock Sr isotope signatures	27
Time of occurrence and width of accentuated lines in the enamel of primary incisors from mediaeval skeletal remains from north-central Poland: A further contribution to the explanation of early childh	26
Measuring allometry in dimensions of western North American Clovis points	25
Current methods and theory in quantitative zooarchaeology	25
Ancient DNA confirms crossbreeding of domestic South American camelids in two pre-conquest archaeological sites	24
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Ancient DNA refines taxonomic classification of Roman equids north of the Alps, elaborated with osteomorphology and geometric morphometrics	23
The identification of bird eggshell by scanning electron microscopy	23
Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya	21
Examining the thermal synthesis conditions of Maya blue: Insights into colors, stability and clay-dye interactions	21
The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes	21
Theoretical and observed C/N ratios in human bone collagen	19
Revealing primary forming techniques in wheel-made ceramics with X-ray microCT	19
Use of thermogravimetric analysis to estimate collagen and hydroxyapatite contents in archaeological bone	19
New chronology evidence of prehistoric human activities indicated by pottery luminescence dating in the humid subtropical mountains of South China	18

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Integration of animal husbandry and millet agriculture in Bronze Age East-central Eurasia revealed by faunal stable isotopes at the Jirentai Goukou site, Xinjiang	18
Reconstructing infant mortality in Iberian Iron Age populations from tooth histology	18
An ethnographic framework for identifying dog sledding in the archaeological record	17
Could carbohydrates from food-animals have supported a balanced diet for Neanderthals?	16
A new archaeological method to reveal the arrival of cereal farming: Development of a new method to extract and date of carbonised material in pottery and its application to the Japanese archaeologica	16
Ancient DNA-based sex determination of bison hide moccasins indicates Promontory cave occupants selected female hides for footwear	16
Climate-driven early agricultural origins and development in the Nile Delta, Egypt	15
Cattle domestication revisited: Middle Nile evidence suggests independent origins in Africa 10,000 years ago	15
Hydrogen isotope measurements of bone and dental tissues from archaeological human and animal samples and their use as climatic and diet proxies	15
Palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Main Harbour of the ancient city of Delos (Greece)	15
The tempo of the Iberian megalithic rituals in the European context: The cemetery of Panoría	15
End-to-end Bayesian analysis for summarizing sets of radiocarbon dates	15
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Visual sensing on marine robotics for the 3D documentation of Underwater Cultural Heritage: A review	14
A method for constructing demographic profiles of Capra aegagrus/C. hircus using logarithm size index scaling	14
On the past and future of discussing, teaching, and learning the hows and whys of archaeological systematics	14
Are crucible steel ingots isotopically homogenous? AMS radiocarbon measurements on ingots from Telangana, India	14
Food and diet of the pre-Columbian mound builders of the Patos Lagoon region in southern Brazil with stable isotope analysis	14
Understanding mammal resource choices and subsistence strategies during the Holocene Climate Optimum: Integration of evidence from palaeodistribution modelling, animal bones and archaeological remains	14
Geochemical and mineralogical characterisation of vitrified waste material discovered in large quantities on Roman salt production sites along the southern North Sea coast	13
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Identifying intentional flake production at the dawn of technology: A technological and 3D geometric morphometric study	13
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A comparative approach to GIS modelling of terrestrial mobility in archaeological sites. The iron age hillfort of Villasviejas del Tamuja as a study case	13
Botanical collections as an opportunity to explore nature through the time: An untargeted metabolomic study in historical and modern Nicotiana leaves	13
What kind of calcite? Disclosing the origin of sparry calcite temper in ancient ceramics	12
Narrowing provenance for ancient Greek silver coins using Ag isotopes and Sb contents of potential ores	12
'JSDNE': A novel R package for estimating age quantitatively with the auricular surface by Dirichlet normal energy	12
Erratum to “Seasonality of birth and diet of pigs from stable isotope analyses of tooth enamel (δ18O, δ13C): A modern reference data set from Corsica, France” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 39 (7) (2012) 2023–203	12
The historical ecology of subsistence and early commercial fisheries in mangrove systems in Brazil	12
3D visualization of bioerosion in archaeological bone	12
Past rainfall patterns in Southeast Asia revealed by microanalysis of δ18O values in human teeth	12
Lithic utility and risk: Examining mid to late Holocene stone points from Australia with a utility model	12
Tooth cementum annulation: Confounding difficulties remain when inferring life history parameters from archeological tooth samples	12
Comparative study of Bronze Age ceramic moulds reveals diachronic and spatial change in mould material processing in the Central Plain of China, c. 13th-3rd century BCE	12
Evidence of temporal changes in the marine 14C reservoir in the South Pacific and implications for improved dating resolution across a radiocarbon plateau (2600-2350 cal BP)	12
Dating dry-stone walls with rock surface luminescence: A case study from the Italian Alps	11
A multi-scalar reassessment of dietary isotopic variability in bioarchaeology: Differentiating secular and inter-individual variation	11
Reliability and validity in determining the relative chronology between neighbouring scars on flint artefacts	11
Inequality, networks, and the financing of Classic Maya political power	11
From archival historiography to 3D modelling: An accurate reconstruction of the Palaeolithic landscape in El Castillo Cave to explore the spatial dynamics of hand stencil dispersion	11
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Reconstructing the full temporal range of archaeological phenomena from sparse data	11
Method for generating foodplant fitness landscapes: With a foodplant checklist for southern Africa and its application to Klasies River Main Site	11
Multi-sensor drone survey of ancestral agricultural landscapes at Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico	11
An unexpected demographic regime: The western necropolis of the Greek colony of Himera (Sicily, Italy) (550-409 BCE)	11
Utilization and exchange of jade in western China during the late Longshan Era (2300∼1800 BC): Evidence from Lajia site, Minhe County, Qinghai Province	11
Corrigendum to “Improved thermoluminescence dating for heterogeneous, multilayered, and overlapped architectures: A case study with the Oc Eo archaeological site in Vietnam” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 155 (20	11
Physicochemical analysis of grey pigments from pre-Columbian archaeological ceramics from the sites of Alto del Cardal and Nuevo Corinto (Costa Rica): First identification of fired bone mixtures in Ce	11

Introducing SourceXplorer, an open-source statistical tool for guided lithic sourcing	10
Life, death and environment at Lagore Crannog: Parasites, land-use and a royal residence in later prehistoric and early medieval Ireland	10
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Estimating the scale-dependent influence of natural terrestrial corridors on the positioning of settlements: A multi-scale study of Roman forts in Wales	10
What were the colors of the Parthenon? Investigation of the entablature's cornice blocks	10
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Preservation of bone organic fraction is not predictive of the preservation of bone inorganic fraction when assessing stable isotope analysis sample quality control measures	10
Tracking 4000 years of raptor diets through isotope analysis reveals urban scavenging with implications for conservation	10
A filter for characterizing the ridge-drainage continuum in digital elevation models	10
Multi-site archaeobotanical analysis reveals wood-fuel supply, woodland impact and land use around Roman urban centres: The case of Barcino (Barcelona, NE Iberia)	9
Temporal and spatial patterns of domestic horse utilisation in northern China during the pre-Qin period	9
Hormones and bile acids as biomarkers for the characterization of animal management in prehistoric sheepfold caves: El Mirador case (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)	9
Dunes, death, and datasets: Modelling funerary monument construction in remote arid landscapes using spaceborne stereo imagery	9
Discriminating dietary behaviour between wild and domestic goats using dental microwear texture: first results from a modern reference set and early Neolithic goat exploitation in the southern Levant	9
Identification of age at death in red deer (Cervus elaphus) through the upper dentition: Eruption pattern, wear stage and crown heights	9
A forgotten technology: The production of artificial millstones for windmills in Sistan, southeastern Iran	9
Human ecological impacts on islands: Exemplified by a dwarf deer (Cervidae: Mazama sp.) on Pedro Gonzalez Island, Pearl Island Archipelago, Pacific Panama (6.2–5.6 kya)	9
Moated site object detection using time series satellite imagery and an improved deep learning model in northeast Thailand	9
Experimental assessment of the impact of food processing on δ15N values in dietary meat – Implications for paleodietary reconstruction	9
Visions of light: New reconstruction techniques of photometric data and visual perception inside Etruscan painted tombs	9
Micro-photogrammetry and traceology: new on-site documentation approaches using portable digital microscopes	9
Zooarchaeological and ancient DNA identification of a non-local gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	9
Morphological and dietary adaptations to different socio-economic systems in Chalcolithic dogs	9
Permanent signatures of birth and nursing initiation are chemically recorded in teeth	9
Coupled archaeological and ecological analyses reveal ancient cultivation and land use in Nuchatlaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) territories, Pacific Northwest	9
Tin isotopes reveal changing patterns of tin trade, connectivity and consumption from Anatolia and Central Asia at Kültepe	9
Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data	9
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Early transhumance recorded by the microfossils of sheep coprolites in the Tongtian Cave, China	8
Multi-stage experiments in Bronze Age spear combat: insights on wear formation, trauma, and combat contexts	8
Earthen architecture in the Mesoamerican classic period: A micromorphological approach to its manufacture process	8
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Compositional analysis below the production region level: A case study of porcelain production at Dehua, Fujian, China	8
Sickle gloss texture analysis elucidates long-term change in plant harvesting during the transition to agriculture	8
Southeast Asian mainland archaeological science 1964–2034: Multiscalar relations between individuals, communities and neighbouring populations during the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages (early-3rd mil	8
An FTIR-based model for the diagenetic alteration of archaeological bones	8
Origins of medieval lead glass ornaments in Central Europe in the light of lead isotopic analysis of finds from Wrocław and Sypniewo (Poland)	8
Testing the efficiency of Bronze Age axes: An interdisciplinary experiment	8
Deep learning artificial neural networks for non-destructive archaeological site dating	8
Age estimation of archeological populations using secondary dentin analysis	8
ATR-FTIR pre-screening analyses for determining radiocarbon datable bone samples from the Kings' Valley, Egypt	8
Studying seriality in material culture by geometric morphometrics–gold wild boars from the Arzhan-2 barrow, Tuva	8
Vitamin D deficiency, pregnancy, and childbirth in early medieval Milan	7
aDNA, ethnography, and facial approximations of the Teouma Lapita burials (c. 3000BP)	7
Anemia, cribra cranii and elemental composition using portable X-ray fluorescence: A study in individuals from the Coimbra Identified Osteological Collections	7
Bioarchaeological perspectives on the ancient Han-Xiongnu war: Insights from the Iron Age site of Bayanbulag	7
Diet of Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens from macrowear analysis of mandibular molars	7
The oldest dress of the Netherlands? Recovering a now-vanished, colour pattern from an Early Iron Age fabric in an elite burial	7
Written in ‘her’ bones: Cremation and identity in Roman Beirut	7
Archaeological obsidian sourcing: Looking from the first 60 years to the next	7
A large-scale environmental strontium isotope baseline map of Portugal for archaeological and paleoecological provenance studies	7
Earliest arrival of millet in the South China coast dating back to 5,500 years ago	7
Analyzing historic human-suid relationships through dental microwear texture and geometric morphometric analyses of archaeological suid teeth in the Ryukyu Islands	7
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On interdisciplinarity in the humanities: A comment on Fanta et al. (2020) on the bias in dating obtained from historical sources	7
n-Alkanes and their carbon isotopes (δ13C) reveal seasonal foddering and long-term corralling of pastoralist livestock in eastern Mongolia	7
NOthing goes to WAste (NOWA): A protocol to optimise sampling of ancient teeth	7
The 12th century bronze doors of Bonanno di Pisa in Monreale and Pisa: Materials and manufacture	7
Utilising ancient DNA to understand crop population dynamics across a millennium: A case study of archaeological barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) from Gran Canaria, Spain	7
Putting South-West England on the (strontium isotope) map: A possible origin for highly radiogenic 87Sr/86Sr values from southern Britain	7
Mixed Sources of Pb and Sn in late Bronze Age European tin ingots provide insights into production processes	7
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Evidence for a mid-Holocene drowning from the Atacama Desert coast of Chile	7
Stressful times for women - Reply to Edinborough et al. (2021)	7