OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Archaeological Science 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Frozen motion: Contextualizing wheel rut data within and beyond the Pompeiian street grid	33
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Population dynamics in the Middle Ages in Central Europe: Reconstruction based on age-at-death distributions of skeletal samples	31
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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	29
Provenance study of the official architectural glazed tiles of Wudang Mountain in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 CE): Insights from Wulong Palace and Laojun Hall	29
87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios in trees as an archaeological tracer: Limitations of linking plant-biomass and bedrock Sr isotope signatures	29
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Combining ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating data to increase chronological accuracy	23
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Multiple luminescence dating on heated materials at the nanzuo archaeological site, central Chinese Loess Plateau	23
Current methods and theory in quantitative zooarchaeology	21
Revealing primary forming techniques in wheel-made ceramics with X-ray microCT	21
Examining the thermal synthesis conditions of Maya blue: Insights into colors, stability and clay-dye interactions	21
Ancient DNA confirms crossbreeding of domestic South American camelids in two pre-conquest archaeological sites	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	19
New chronology evidence of prehistoric human activities indicated by pottery luminescence dating in the humid subtropical mountains of South China	19
Ancient DNA refines taxonomic classification of Roman equids north of the Alps, elaborated with osteomorphology and geometric morphometrics	18
Reconstructing infant mortality in Iberian Iron Age populations from tooth histology	17
Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia	17
An ethnographic framework for identifying dog sledding in the archaeological record	17
Integration of animal husbandry and millet agriculture in Bronze Age East-central Eurasia revealed by faunal stable isotopes at the Jirentai Goukou site, Xinjiang	17

Millet dominance and rice resilience at the Shang's eastern frontier: Climate, cultural interaction, and agricultural adaptation (1300–1046 BCE)	17
The glaze is less opaque on the other side: The development of Egyptian and southern Levantine glazed ceramic production from the early Islamic to Crusader periods	16
Use of thermogravimetric analysis to estimate collagen and hydroxyapatite contents in archaeological bone	16
The identification of bird eggshell by scanning electron microscopy	16
Assessing the impact of Nile water level fluctuations on the structural stability of the Philae temples in Aswan, Egypt	16
Could carbohydrates from food-animals have supported a balanced diet for Neanderthals?	16
Evidence for large-scale rice utilization in the Guanzhong region during the final Neolithic (ca. 4600-4000 B.P.): A case study of the Yangyuan site, Xi'an	16
The tempo of the Iberian megalithic rituals in the European context: The cemetery of Panoría	16
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Understanding mammal resource choices and subsistence strategies during the Holocene Climate Optimum: Integration of evidence from palaeodistribution modelling, animal bones and archaeological remains	15
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Hydrogen isotope measurements of bone and dental tissues from archaeological human and animal samples and their use as climatic and diet proxies	15
Are crucible steel ingots isotopically homogenous? AMS radiocarbon measurements on ingots from Telangana, India	15
Ancient DNA-based sex determination of bison hide moccasins indicates Promontory cave occupants selected female hides for footwear	15
Cattle domestication revisited: Middle Nile evidence suggests independent origins in Africa 10,000 years ago	14
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	14
Palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Main Harbour of the ancient city of Delos (Greece)	14
Identifying intentional flake production at the dawn of technology: A technological and 3D geometric morphometric study	14
Visual sensing on marine robotics for the 3D documentation of Underwater Cultural Heritage: A review	14
Climate-driven early agricultural origins and development in the Nile Delta, Egypt	14
Food and diet of the pre-Columbian mound builders of the Patos Lagoon region in southern Brazil with stable isotope analysis	14
Geochemical and mineralogical characterisation of vitrified waste material discovered in large quantities on Roman salt production sites along the southern North Sea coast	14
End-to-end Bayesian analysis for summarizing sets of radiocarbon dates	13
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	13
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Trauma or taphonomy? A forensic reassessment of perimortem cranial trauma in burials from the Phaleron cemetery (Archaic Athens, Greece)	13
A method for constructing demographic profiles of Capra aegagrus/C. hircus using logarithm size index scaling	13
Botanical collections as an opportunity to explore nature through the time: An untargeted metabolomic study in historical and modern Nicotiana leaves	13
Introducing the Post-Glacial Land Adjustment Regenerator (GLARE) for simulating the Final Pleistocene/Holocene geographic change in North Europe	13
Palynology, landscape and land use: retrospect, prospect and research agendas	13
Lithic utility and risk: Examining mid to late Holocene stone points from Australia with a utility model	13
The historical ecology of subsistence and early commercial fisheries in mangrove systems in Brazil	12
Tooth cementum annulation: Confounding difficulties remain when inferring life history parameters from archeological tooth samples	12
Narrowing provenance for ancient Greek silver coins using Ag isotopes and Sb contents of potential ores	12
3D visualization of bioerosion in archaeological bone	11
Understanding the human settlement of the Pacific – Are we there yet?	11
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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
A comparative approach to GIS modelling of terrestrial mobility in archaeological sites. The iron age hillfort of Villasviejas del Tamuja as a study case	11
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)	11
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Reliability and validity in determining the relative chronology between neighbouring scars on flint artefacts	11
The afterlife of Roman roads in England: insights from the fifteenth-century Gough map of Great Britain	11
FTIR spectra combined with machine learning to reveal the amber trade during the Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE)	11
A method for constructing demographic profiles of Ovis orientalis/O. aries using Logarithm Size Index scaling	11
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	11
Identify the genus origin of animal glue used in Chinese historical mortars using a new DNA mini-barcoding method	11
Dating dry-stone walls with rock surface luminescence: A case study from the Italian Alps	10
Past rainfall patterns in Southeast Asia revealed by microanalysis of δ18O values in human teeth	10
Method for generating foodplant fitness landscapes: With a foodplant checklist for southern Africa and its application to Klasies River Main Site	10

Introducing SourceXplorer, an open-source statistical tool for guided lithic sourcing	10
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	10
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	10
An unexpected demographic regime: The western necropolis of the Greek colony of Himera (Sicily, Italy) (550-409 BCE)	10
Reconstructing the full temporal range of archaeological phenomena from sparse data	10
'JSDNE': A novel R package for estimating age quantitatively with the auricular surface by Dirichlet normal energy	10
Inequality, networks, and the financing of Classic Maya political power	9
Life, death and environment at Lagore Crannog: Parasites, land-use and a royal residence in later prehistoric and early medieval Ireland	9
A forgotten technology: The production of artificial millstones for windmills in Sistan, southeastern Iran	9
Material characterisation of the Neo-Assyrian writing boards from Nimrud	9
Preservation of bone organic fraction is not predictive of the preservation of bone inorganic fraction when assessing stable isotope analysis sample quality control measures	9
A multi-scalar reassessment of dietary isotopic variability in bioarchaeology: Differentiating secular and inter-individual variation	9
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Tracking 4000 years of raptor diets through isotope analysis reveals urban scavenging with implications for conservation	9
Multi-sensor drone survey of ancestral agricultural landscapes at Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico	9
Utilization and exchange of jade in western China during the late Longshan Era (2300∼1800 BC): Evidence from Lajia site, Minhe County, Qinghai Province	9
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Permanent signatures of birth and nursing initiation are chemically recorded in teeth	8
Estimating the scale-dependent influence of natural terrestrial corridors on the positioning of settlements: A multi-scale study of Roman forts in Wales	8
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)	8
Applying habitat suitability modelling to establish the species identity of ambiguous animal depictions in archaeology: new insights into the wild bovids of ancient Egypt	8
Ostrich eggshell bead size variation: The impacts of material and technology on bead diameter	8
Decoding hunter-gatherer-knowledge and selective choice of lithic raw materials during the Middle and Later Stone Age in Eswatini	8
Visions of light: New reconstruction techniques of photometric data and visual perception inside Etruscan painted tombs	8
Moated site object detection using time series satellite imagery and an improved deep learning model in northeast Thailand	8
Multi-site archaeobotanical analysis reveals wood-fuel supply, woodland impact and land use around Roman urban centres: The case of Barcino (Barcelona, NE Iberia)	8
A filter for characterizing the ridge-drainage continuum in digital elevation models	8
Nets hidden in pottery:Resurrected fishing nets in the Jomon period, Japan	8
Temporal and spatial patterns of domestic horse utilisation in northern China during the pre-Qin period	8
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Experimental assessment of the impact of food processing on δ15N values in dietary meat – Implications for paleodietary reconstruction	8
Dunes, death, and datasets: Modelling funerary monument construction in remote arid landscapes using spaceborne stereo imagery	8
What were the colors of the Parthenon? Investigation of the entablature's cornice blocks	8
The effects of resources and population expansion on female–male protein consumption among hunter-gatherers	8
Morphological and dietary adaptations to different socio-economic systems in Chalcolithic dogs	8
"Celts" up the Alps. Patterns of territorial mobility and funerary variability in Switzerland during the Late Iron Age	8
Earthen architecture in the Mesoamerican classic period: A micromorphological approach to its manufacture process	8
Micro-photogrammetry and traceology: new on-site documentation approaches using portable digital microscopes	8
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	7
Hormones and bile acids as biomarkers for the characterization of animal management in prehistoric sheepfold caves: El Mirador case (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)	7
Testing the efficiency of Bronze Age axes: An interdisciplinary experiment	7
Sickle gloss texture analysis elucidates long-term change in plant harvesting during the transition to agriculture	7
Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data	7
Age estimation of archeological populations using secondary dentin analysis	7
A new method for fingerprinting ochre sources using mineral magnetic measurements	7
Identification of age at death in red deer (Cervus elaphus) through the upper dentition: Eruption pattern, wear stage and crown heights	7
Early transhumance recorded by the microfossils of sheep coprolites in the Tongtian Cave, China	7
ATR-FTIR pre-screening analyses for determining radiocarbon datable bone samples from the Kings' Valley, Egypt	7
Shipwreck detection in bathymetry data using semi-automated methods: Combining machine learning and topographic inference approaches	7
Tin isotopes reveal changing patterns of tin trade, connectivity and consumption from Anatolia and Central Asia at Kültepe	7
Beyond Pentelikon: Imported white marbles in Athenian sculptural workshops of the Roman period	7
Zooarchaeological and ancient DNA identification of a non-local gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	7
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Bioarchaeological perspectives on the ancient Han-Xiongnu war: Insights from the Iron Age site of Bayanbulag	7
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An FTIR-based model for the diagenetic alteration of archaeological bones	7
Coupled archaeological and ecological analyses reveal ancient cultivation and land use in Nuchatlaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) territories, Pacific Northwest	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	6
Anemia, cribra cranii and elemental composition using portable X-ray fluorescence: A study in individuals from the Coimbra Identified Osteological Collections	6
The 12th century bronze doors of Bonanno di Pisa in Monreale and Pisa: Materials and manufacture	6
Studying seriality in material culture by geometric morphometrics–gold wild boars from the Arzhan-2 barrow, Tuva	6
Compositional analysis below the production region level: A case study of porcelain production at Dehua, Fujian, China	6
NOthing goes to WAste (NOWA): A protocol to optimise sampling of ancient teeth	6
Blurred boundaries: Exploring the complexity of the production system at the Luomaqiao kiln in Yuan-dynasty Jingdezhen	6
Seafaring megaliths: A geoarchaeological approach to the Matarrubilla giant stone basin at Valencina (Spain)	6
aDNA, ethnography, and facial approximations of the Teouma Lapita burials (c. 3000BP)	6
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Faecal biomarkers as evidence of human presence in the caves of Kraków-Częstochowa Upland	6
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Mixed Sources of Pb and Sn in late Bronze Age European tin ingots provide insights into production processes	6
Multi-stage experiments in Bronze Age spear combat: insights on wear formation, trauma, and combat contexts	6
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	6
Origins of medieval lead glass ornaments in Central Europe in the light of lead isotopic analysis of finds from Wrocław and Sypniewo (Poland)	6
A large-scale environmental strontium isotope baseline map of Portugal for archaeological and paleoecological provenance studies	6
Stressful times for women - Reply to Edinborough et al. (2021)	6
Vitamin D deficiency, pregnancy, and childbirth in early medieval Milan	6