OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Archaeology is 0. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Maliwawa figures—a previously undescribed Arnhem Land rock art style	19
How 3D models (photogrammetry) of rock art can improve recording veracity: a case study from Kakadu National Park, Australia	16
Initial results and observations on a radiocarbon dating program in the Riverland region of South Australia	11
Working in archaeology in a changing world: Australian archaeology at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The missing Macassans: Indigenous sovereignty, rock art and the archaeology of absence	8
Reconstructing rock art chronology with transfer learning: A case study from Arnhem Land, Australia	8
Beneath the Top End: A regional assessment of submerged archaeological potential in the Northern Territory, Australia	7
The integrated cultural landscape of North Gidley Island: Coastal, intertidal and nearshore archaeology in Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia	7
The tragedy of Bruce Pascoe’sDark Emu	7
50 years and worlds apart: Rethinking the Holocene occupation of Cloggs Cave (East Gippsland, SE Australia) five decades after its initial archaeological excavation and in light of GunaiKurnai world v	7
Disrupting paradise: Has Australian archaeology lost its way?	5
Assessing the spread and uptake of tula adze technology in the late Holocene across the Southern Kimberley of Western Australia	5
Earth oven cookery and cuisines in Aboriginal Australia: Ethnographic and ethnohistoric insights from Western Cape York Peninsula and the Southern Murray Darling Basin	4
Rethinking the age and unity of large naturalistic animal forms in early Western Arnhem Land Rock Art, Australia	4
Remade ground: Modelling historical elevation change across Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid	4
Tracking an exotic raw material: Aboriginal movement through the Blue Mountains, Sydney, NSW during the Terminal Pleistocene	4
Worked bone and teeth from Orokolo Bay in the Papuan Gulf (Papua New Guinea)	4
A nardoo processing grinding stone from a rockshelter in the Pilbara, Western Australia	4
Pathways to the interior: Human settlement in the Simbai-Kaironk Valleys of the Madang Province, Papua New Guinea	3
Disentangling activity traces on Australian goldfields: An experimental study of quartz assemblages derived from knapping and gold prospecting	3
Analysis and contextualisation of a Holocene bone point from Murrawong (Glen Lossie), Lower Murray River Gorge, South Australia	3
New data and syntheses for the zooarchaeological record from the Lower Murray River Gorge, South Australia: Applying a ngatji lens	3
Aboriginal uses for introduced glass, ceramic and flint from the former Schofields Aerodrome, Western Sydney (Darug Country), New South Wales	3
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate	3
Archaeology of the recent: Wooden artefacts from Anbangbang 1 and Djuwarr 1, western Arnhem Land	3

SahulArch: A geochronological database for the archaeology of Sahul	2
Late Holocene coastal land-use, site formation and site survival: Insights from five middens at Cape Leveque and Lombadina, Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Australia	2
Weaving frames of knowledge	2
An historical reassessment of the maritime Southeast Asian forest and marine commodities trade and its implications for archaeological investigations of Asian contact in northern Australia	2
Community research in a public place: Wangangarra 1 rockshelter, Mitchell River National Park, East Gippsland (Australia)	2
Fibre technologies in Indigenous Australia: Evidence from archaeological excavations in the Kimberley region	2
Extracting new information from old stones: An analysis of three quarries in the semi-arid Pilbara region, northwest Australia	1
‘Do dead men tell no tales?’ The geographic origin of a colonial period Anglican cemetery population in Adelaide, South Australia, determined by isotope analyses	1
Timorese archaeobotany: An anthracological pilot study at the late Holocene Lepu-Kina rockshelter, Atauro Island, East Timor	1
Insights from a small sea cave: Reanalysis of the bone technology from Durras North, Yuin Country, Coastal New South Wales, Australia	1
Editorial	1
R. Lamilami, 1957–2021: Negotiating two worlds for cultural heritage	1
The survival of artefacts from different historical phases in shallow open sites and the need for spit excavations: An overview from the Cumberland Plain, Western Sydney, Australia	1
Morphological analysis and radiocarbon dating of non-returning boomerangs from Cooper Creek/Kinipapa (Northeast South Australia)	1
Using communities of practice to build a resilient archaeological discipline in Australia	1
Archaeology, deep history and the culture wars: Why most archaeologists have not critiquedDark Emu	1
Two rare shield depictions from the Burrungkuy rock art region of Western Arnhem Land, Australia	1
‘Disrupting paradise’: Changing pedagogy, practice and specialisations into a collaborative venture to ensure Australian archaeology has a future	1
Future use or no future at all? An examination of post-excavation historical archaeological repositories in NSW	1
Lithic technologies from a stone hut and arrangement complex in Pitta Pitta Country Queensland, and the detection of social learning in archaeology	1
Research analytics and the corporatisation of Australian universities: Driving quantity but not quality?	1
A 1,200-year-old ground-stone object from South Western Torres Strait (northeast Australia) and its implications for historicising ethnographically known social networks	1
Diverse stone artefacts around Lake Woods, Central Northern Territory, Australia	1
Blak emu	1
Bursting the bubble: Reflecting on 50 years of maritime archaeological research in Queensland	1
Putting the social back into archaeology	1
Diversity is not a ‘tragedy’	0
Why do students enrol in archaeology at Australian universities? Understanding pre-enrolment experiences, motivations, and career expectations	0
Histories of Australian Rock Art Research	0
Archaeologies of the Heart	0
Revolution or reform?	0
Stories from the Sandstone: Quarantine Inscriptions from Australia’s Immigrant Past	0
Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories): Narratives of Rock Art from Yanyuwa Country in Northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories): Narratives of Rock Art from Yan	0
Rockshelter Excavations in the East Hamersley Range, Pilbara Region, Western Australia	0
Scratching the surface: Subtractive rock markings from the Cockburn Ranges, eastern Kimberley, Western Australia	0
Rounded toothed pearl-shell mounds at Elizabeth River near Darwin, Northern Territory	0
Against ‘contact’	0
Michael Alexander Smith, BA Hons, MA, PhD, FAHA, FSA, Rhys Jones Medal (2006), Verco Medal (2010), Order of Australia (AM, 2013), UNE Distinguished Alumni (2015), born England 1955, died Canberra 16 O	0
The Archaeology of Island Colonization: Global Approaches to Initial Human Settlement	0
Forts and Fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations	0
A continent of hunter-gatherers?	0
We don’t have as much agency as you think	0
Navigating knowledge and intellectual property	0
A comment on the disruption …	0
Beyond colonialism? A comment on the formulation of ‘contact’ archaeology in Australia	0
Authorship, attribution and acknowledgment in archaeology: Reply, adding audience and accountability	0
Authorship as social relations	0
Response to comment on Ward et al.’s ‘Insights into the procurement and distribution of fossiliferous chert artefacts across southern Australia from the archival record’	0
The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931	0
Bandwagons and bathwater	0

Building on the past: Refining our current understanding of Lapita stilt structures	0
Are the widespread scatters of stone artefacts on dune surfaces in southeastern arid Australia really late Holocene in age?	0
Beyond ‘contact’ and shared landscapes in Australian archaeology	0
The Australian Yodda: A massive, mysterious, and pan-continental flaked stone oddity	0
Building and Remembering: An Archaeology of Place-Making on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast	0
Archaeology of Australia’s coastline: The role of geomorphology in the visibility and preservation of archaeological deposits on sandy shores, with a Gippsland case study	0
Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future	0
What is farming, what is archaeology, and who gets to decide?	0
Social information inherent in backed artefacts from the Illawarra, western, and southwestern Sydney, NSW	0
Assembling Archaeology: Teaching, Practice and Research	0
Understanding Chipped Stone Tools	0
Between the Murray and the Sea: Aboriginal Archaeology in Southeastern Australia	0
Who Came to Tea at the Old Kinchega Homestead? Tablewares, Teawares and Social Interaction at an Australian Outback Pastoral Homestead	0
Author-ity of/as Bawaka Country	0
Tragedy or transformation: Australian archaeology at the crossroads (again)	0
Object Stories: Artifacts and Archaeologists	0
Vincent Gilbert Copley OAM 24/12/1936–10/1/2022	0
Community Archaeology: Working Ancient Aboriginal Wetlands in Eastern Australia Community Archaeology: Working Ancient Aboriginal Wetlands in Eastern Australia by Wendy	0
Thoughts of a CHM generalist	0
Investigating Wiradjuri marara (carved trees or dendroglyphs) and dhabuganha (burials) in the Central Tablelands, southeastern Australia	0
Jack: Professor Jack Golson, AO, 1926–2023	0
Archaeological Landscape Evolution: The Mariana Islands in the Asia-Pacific Region	0
Wunjunga midden: Late Holocene change, site preservation and open midden sites on the Central Queensland Coast	0
Seeing and managing rock art at Nganjarli: A tourist destination in Murujuga National Park, Western Australia	0
An Archaeology of Innovation: Approaching Social and Technological Change in Human Society	0
Kaurna Stone Artefacts: Some Methods of Analysis	0
Development of discipline creates polarities in practice and views	0
‘Don’t walk behind me, don’t walk in front of me, walk beside me’: A response to Murray	0
When divisions can have value: Revisiting the term ‘contact’ in Australian First Peoples archaeology	0
Editorial	0
Authorship, academia, and open access	0
Models can be helpful, but common sense may be enough	0
Making Scenes: Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art	0
Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties: Researching Some of Australia’s Earliest Shipwrecks	0
Keeping contact	0
Sawpits in the forest: A case study of a failed timber-getting operation during the nineteenth century	0
‘Reclaiming their stories’: A study of the spiritual content of historical cultural objects through an Indigenous creative inquiry	0
Agila and the reanimation of seafaring on the south coast of Papua New Guinea after 770 cal BP	0
Editorial	0
Archaeologies of Island Melanesia: Current Approaches to Landscapes, Exchange and Practice	0
Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence	0
Response	0
Our Blue Planet: An Introduction to Maritime and Underwater Archaeology,	0
The Archaeology and Architecture of Farm Buildings at Saumarez Station	0
Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-Century Australia	0
A Holocene sequence from Walufeni Cave, Southern Highlands Province, and its implications for the settlement of the Great Papuan Plateau, Papua New Guinea	0
Co-authorship, collaboration and contestation in relation to Indigenous research	0
Response	0
The challenges of attribution	0
The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne: A Historical Archaeology	0
Hiri: Archaeology of Long-Distance Maritime Trade along the South Coast of Papua New Guinea	0
Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898	0
Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fi	0
Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua: Moving Pictures Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua: Moving Pictures b	0
Paradise disrupted?	0
The Archaeology of Tanamu 1: A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea	0
Contact-tracing in archaeology: Encountering power difference, the archaeological record and the writing of the past	0
Pasts otherwise: Some comments on the historiography of concepts of ‘colonialism’ and ‘entanglement’ and the critique of the concept of ‘contact’ in Australasian archaeology	0
Editorial	0
Disrupting what, whose Country, whose paradise?	0
The Spice Islands in Prehistory: Archaeology in the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia	0
Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant	0
Bioarchaeological analysis of a murder victim associated with the “Batavia” mutiny of 1629: The case of the ‘missing’ body	0
‘Advancing the historical archaeology of Aboriginal Australia’: Comment on Tutchener and Claudie ‘Beyond ‘contact’ and shared landscapes in Australian archaeology’	0
A comment on Ward et al.’s ‘Insights into the procurement and distribution of fossiliferous chert artefacts across Southern Australia from the archival record’	0
Crafting Country: Aboriginal Archaeology in the Eastern Chichester Range, North-West Australia	0
Authorship, attribution and acknowledgment in archaeology	0
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity	0
Response	0
Disentangling ‘contact’, ‘colonialism’ and ‘cultural entanglement’	0
Richard Allan Gould, 1939–2020	0
Experimental use-wear patterns on silcrete, bottle glass and porcelain plate tools	0
Marra Wonga: Archaeological and contemporary First Nations interpretations of one of central Queensland’s largest rock art sites	0
Dynamic heritage and static maps: A comment on the critical distinction between identifying and assessing ‘re-inscribed’ Indigenous heritage places in Australian heritage practice	0
Reorganising foraging during the Late Holocene: The archaeology of NEP23, Central Australia	0
Investigating the nature of mobility patterns and interaction: Ceramic production at the Late Lapita site of Amalut, Papua New Guinea	0
Change and decay in all around I see … but shine through the gloom	0
Majumbu (‘Old Harry’) and the Spencer-Cahill bark painting collection	0
Will my boomerang come back? New insights into Aboriginal material culture of early Sydney and affiliated coastal zone from British collections	0