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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Improved quality control criteria for stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements of ancient bone collagen	78
A call for caution in the analysis of lipids and other small biomolecules from archaeological contexts	61
Deep learning reveals extent of Archaic Native American shell-ring building practices	36
Applications of deep learning to decorated ceramic typology and classification: A case study using Tusayan White Ware from Northeast Arizona	33
Ancient DNA typing indicates that the “new” glume wheat of early Eurasian agriculture is a cultivated member of the Triticum timopheevii group	32
Local domestication or diffusion? Insights into viticulture in Greece from Neolithic to Archaic times, using geometric morphometric analyses of archaeological grape seeds	30
All about wood ash: Long term fire experiments reveal unknown aspects of the formation and preservation of ash with critical implications on the emergence and use of fire in the past	28
The origins of agriculture: Intentions and consequences	27
Snapshots in time: MicroCT scanning of pottery sherds determines early domestication of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in East Africa	26
Wine consumption in Bronze Age Italy: combining organic residue analysis, botanical data and ceramic variability	25
The archaeometry of ochre sensu lato: A review	25
Examining collagen preservation through glutamine deamidation at Denisova Cave	25
Earliest arrival of millet in the South China coast dating back to 5,500 years ago	25
Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya	24
Debasement of silver throughout the Late Bronze – Iron Age transition in the Southern Levant: Analytical and cultural implications	24
Searching for hidden activities: Percussive tools from the Oldowan and Acheulean of West Turkana, Kenya (2.3–1.76 Ma)	23
Weapons in transition: Reappraisal of the origin of complex projectiles in the Levant based on the Boker Tachtit stratigraphic sequence	21
Direct dating of the earliest domesticated cattle and caprines in northwestern China reveals the history of pastoralism in the Gansu-Qinghai region	21
Lipid residues in pottery from the Indus Civilisation in northwest India	21
The sources of Baltic oak	21
Use of non-traditional heavy stable isotopes in archaeological research	20
The preservation of ancient DNA in archaeological fish bone	20
Archaeological herbivore δ13C and δ34S provide a marker for saltmarsh use and new insights into the process of 15N-enrichment in coastal plants	20
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	20
New findings of ancient Greek silver sources	19

Deep learning artificial neural networks for non-destructive archaeological site dating	19
Management systems of adhesive materials throughout the Neolithic in the North-West Mediterranean	19
It's getting hot in here – Microcontextual study of a potential pit hearth at the Middle Paleolithic site of El Salt, Spain	19
A large-scale environmental strontium isotope baseline map of Portugal for archaeological and paleoecological provenance studies	19
Permanent signatures of birth and nursing initiation are chemically recorded in teeth	19
End-to-end Bayesian analysis for summarizing sets of radiocarbon dates	18
Microbotanical evidence for the spread of cereal use during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Southeastern Europe (Danube Gorges): Data from dental calculus analysis	17
Two independent methods for dating rock art: Age determination of paint and oxalate layers at Eagle Cave, TX	17
From peaks to ports: Insights into tin provenance, production, and distribution from adapted applications of lead isotopic analysis of the Uluburun tin ingots	17
Starch taphonomy, equifinality and the importance of context: Some notes on the identification of food processing through starch grain analysis	16
Neolithic to Bronze Age economy and animal management revealed using analyses lipid residues of pottery vessels and faunal remains at El Portalón de Cueva Mayor (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)	16
Manure for millet: Grain δ15N values as indicators of prehistoric cropping intensity of Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica	16
Sorting the flock: Quantitative identification of sheep and goat from isolated third lower molars and mandibles through geometric morphometrics	16
Theoretical and observed C/N ratios in human bone collagen	16
Age estimation of archaeological dogs using pulp cavity closure ratios	15
Re-examining the use of the LSI technique in zooarchaeology	15
Factors affecting molar size in Sus scrofa	15
Multi-proxy analyses reveal regional cremation practices and social status at the Late Bronze Age site of Herstal, Belgium	15
Aminoisoscapes and palaeodiet reconstruction: New perspectives on millet-based diets in China using amino acid δ13C values	15
Portable ED-XRF as a tool for optimizing sampling strategy: The case study of a Hellenistic amphora assemblage from Paphos (Cyprus)	15
Beyond Least Cost Paths: Circuit theory, maritime mobility and patterns of urbanism in the Roman Adriatic	14
Architectural energetics for rammed-earth compaction in the context of Neolithic to early Bronze Age urban sites in Middle Yellow River Valley, China	14
Sickle gloss texture analysis elucidates long-term change in plant harvesting during the transition to agriculture	14
High-precision U-series dating of the late Pleistocene – early Holocene rock paintings at Tiger Leaping Gorge, Jinsha River valley, southwestern China	14
Exotic glass types and the intensity of recycling in the northwest Quarter of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)	14
Deciphering ancient ‘recipes’ from charred cereal fragments: An integrated methodological approach using experimental, ethnographic and archaeological evidence	13
Geochronology of a long Pleistocene sequence at Kilombe volcano, Kenya: from the Oldowan to Middle Stone Age	13
Geometric morphometrics sheds new light on the identification and domestication status of ‘new glume wheat’ at Neolithic Çatalhöyük	13
Mapping burial mounds based on UAV-derived data in the Suusamyr Plateau, Kyrgyzstan	13
A pottery workshop in Pompeii unveils new insights on the Roman ceramics crafting tradition and raw materials trade	13
Delayed demographic transition following the adoption of cultivated plants in the eastern La Plata Basin and Atlantic coast, South America	13
Coupled archaeological and ecological analyses reveal ancient cultivation and land use in Nuchatlaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) territories, Pacific Northwest	13
Gendered burial practices of early Bronze Age children align with peptide-based sex identification: A case study from Franzhausen I, Austria	13
Isotopic evidence of millet consumption in the Middle Bronze Age of East-Central Europe	13
Pollution and human mobility in the southern Levant during the Iron Age using chemical and isotopic analysis of human tooth enamel	12
Hormones and bile acids as biomarkers for the characterization of animal management in prehistoric sheepfold caves: El Mirador case (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)	12
Compound-specific radiocarbon dating of lipid residues in pottery vessels: A new approach for detecting the exploitation of marine resources	12
A small change revolution. Weight systems and the emergence of the first Pan-European money	12
Provenancing wood used in the Norse Greenlandic settlements: A biogeochemical study using hydrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotopes	12
Metal provenance of Iron Age Hacksilber hoards in the southern Levant	12
Understanding Roman Gold Coinage Inside Out	12
Bone degradation at five Arctic archaeological sites: Quantifying the importance of burial environment and bone characteristics	12
Optimizing multiple non-invasive techniques (PXRF, pMS, IA) to characterize coarse-grained igneous rocks used as building stones	11
First evidence of Pleistocene ochre production from bacteriogenic iron oxides. A case study of the Upper Palaeolithic site at the San Teodoro Cave (Sicily, Italy)	11
The application of Local Indicators for Categorical Data (LICD) to explore spatial dependence in archaeological spaces	11
Reconstructing the full temporal range of archaeological phenomena from sparse data	11
Historical classification of ridge and furrow cultivation at selected locations in Northern and central Germany using a multi-dating approach and historical sources	11
Development of a novel minimally invasive sampling and analysis technique using skin sampling tape strips for bioarchaeological proteomics	11
On the use of Machine Learning methods in rock art research with application to automatic painted rock art identification	11
Human diets, crop patterns, and settlement hierarchies in third millennium BC China: Bioarchaeological perspectives in Zhengluo region	11

AMELY deletion is not detected in systematically sampled reference populations: A Reply to Štamfelj	11
What kind of calcite? Disclosing the origin of sparry calcite temper in ancient ceramics	10
Proteomic analysis of archaeological ceramics from Tell Khaiber, southern Iraq	10
A new method for examining maritime mobility of direct crossings with contrary prevailing winds in the Mediterranean during antiquity	10
Christian-Muslim contacts across the Mediterranean: Byzantine glass mosaics in the Great Umayyad Mosque of Córdoba (Spain)	10
Quantifying accessibility to Palaeolithic rock art: Methodological proposal for the study of human transit in Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain)	10
Interpreting gaps: A geoarchaeological point of view on the Gravettian record of Ach and Lone valleys (Swabian Jura, SW Germany)	10
Climatic change and diet of the pre-Hispanic population of Gran Canaria (Canary Archipelago, Spain) during the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age	10
Direct evidence for the co-manufacturing of early iron and copper-alloy artifacts in the Caucasus	10
Food and diet of the pre-Columbian mound builders of the Patos Lagoon region in southern Brazil with stable isotope analysis	10
Earthen architecture in the Mesoamerican classic period: A micromorphological approach to its manufacture process	10
A non-linear prediction model for ageing foetal and neonatal sheep reveals basic issues in early neolithic husbandry	10
The earliest silver currency hoards in the Southern Levant: Metal trade in the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age	9
Method for generating foodplant fitness landscapes: With a foodplant checklist for southern Africa and its application to Klasies River Main Site	9
Narrowing provenance for ancient Greek silver coins using Ag isotopes and Sb contents of potential ores	9
Virtual technical analysis of archaeological textiles by synchrotron microtomography	9
Human origins in Southern African palaeo-wetlands? Strong claims from weak evidence	9
Black carbon traces of human activities in stalagmites from Turkey	9
Determining the Sr isotopic composition of waterlogged wood – Cleaning more is not always better	9
An isotopic and genetic study of multi-cultural colonial New Zealand	9
Bronze Alloying Practice in ancient China - Evidence from Pre-Qin Coin Analyses	9
Not a bathtub: A consideration of sea-level physics for archaeological models of human migration	9
The tempo of the Iberian megalithic rituals in the European context: The cemetery of Panoría	9
Use of thermogravimetric analysis to estimate collagen and hydroxyapatite contents in archaeological bone	9
Combining ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating data to increase chronological accuracy	9
Turning up the heat: Assessing the impact of charring regime on the morphology and stable isotopic values of cereal grains	9
Inequality, networks, and the financing of Classic Maya political power	9
Making and working Egyptian blue – a review of the archaeological evidence	9
Direct isotopic evidence for human millet consumption in the Middle Mumun period: Implication and importance of millets in early agriculture on the Korean Peninsula	9
Diagenesis of juvenile skeletal remains: A multimodal and multiscale approach to examine the post-mortem decay of children's bones	9
Unsupervised clustering of Roman potsherds via Variational Autoencoders	9
Assessing the predictive taxonomic power of the bony labyrinth 3D shape in horses, donkeys and their F1-hybrids	9
Sex estimation based on the analysis of enamel peptides: False assignments due to AMELY deletion	8
Inca water channel flow analysis based on 3D models from terrestrial and UAV laser scanning at the Chachabamba archaeological site (Machu Picchu National Archaeological Park, Peru)	8
Lead and strontium isotopes as tracers for Early Formative pottery exchange in ancient Mexico	8
Mapping spatiotemporal variations of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements in the Gansu-Qinghai region, China: Scale grade, chronological development, and social organization	8
Patterns in pottery use reveal different adaptive strategies between lower and higher altitude regions on the Tibetan Plateau: Chemical evidence from pottery residues	8
Is it hot enough? A multi-proxy approach shows variations in cremation conditions during the Metal Ages in Belgium	8
Archaeology of the invisible: The scent of Kha and Merit	8
Sustainable harvest or resource depression? Using ancient DNA to study the population dynamics of guanaco in western Argentina during the Holocene	8
Introducing SourceXplorer, an open-source statistical tool for guided lithic sourcing	8
Machine learning ATR-FTIR spectroscopy data for the screening of collagen for ZooMS analysis and mtDNA in archaeological bone	8
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	8
Genomic sex identification of ancient pinnipeds using the dog genome	8
What were the colors of the Parthenon? Investigation of the entablature's cornice blocks	8
Revealing the invisible dead: integrated bio-geoarchaeological profiling exposes human and animal remains in a seemingly ‘empty’ Viking-Age burial	8
Modelling a scale-based strontium isotope baseline for Hungary	8
Ramped pyroxidation: A new approach for radiocarbon dating of lime mortars	8
Climate-driven early agricultural origins and development in the Nile Delta, Egypt	8
Population pressure and prehistoric violence in the Yayoi period of Japan	7
A late 2nd/early 1st millennium BC interaction arc between Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest China: Archaeometallurgical data from Hebosuo and Shangxihe, Yunnan	7
An application of zooms to identify archaeological avian fauna from Teotihuacan, Mexico	7
High-throughput microCT and ZooMS collagen fingerprinting of Scombrid bone from the Marquesas Islands	7
The mules that are not mules - metrics, morphology, archaeogenomics and mtDNA d-loop diversity in equids from Roman Switzerland	7
A burning question – Using an intelligent grey literature search engine to change our views on early medieval burial practices in the Netherlands	7
The impact of the transition from broad-spectrum hunting to sheep herding on human meat consumption: Multi-isotopic analyses of human bone collagen at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey	7
Reconstructing the social, economic and demographic trends of Palmyra's elite from funerary data	7
A database of lead isotopic signatures of copper and lead ores for Europe and the Near East	7
Provenance study of oyster shells by LA-ICP-MS	7
Identification of prehistoric malting and partial grain germination from starch granules in charred barley grains	7
Argaric craftswomen: Sex-based division of labor in the Bronze Age southeastern Iberia	7
Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists’ age estimation through cave art hand stencils	7
Modeling avian eggshell microstructure to predict ontogenetic age and reveal patterns of human-avifauna interaction	7
Copper production and supra-regional exchange networks – Cu-matte smelting in the Balkans between 2000 and 1500 BC	7
Compositional analysis below the production region level: A case study of porcelain production at Dehua, Fujian, China	7
Measuring allometry in dimensions of western North American Clovis points	7