OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Archaeology is 1. 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
Working in archaeology in a changing world: Australian archaeology at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	15
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	10
Reconstructing rock art chronology with transfer learning: A case study from Arnhem Land, Australia	10
The tragedy of Bruce Pascoe’sDark Emu	8
The missing Macassans: Indigenous sovereignty, rock art and the archaeology of absence	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
SahulArch: A geochronological database for the archaeology of Sahul	6
Pathways to the interior: Human settlement in the Simbai-Kaironk Valleys of the Madang Province, Papua New Guinea	6
Earth oven cookery and cuisines in Aboriginal Australia: Ethnographic and ethnohistoric insights from Western Cape York Peninsula and the Southern Murray Darling Basin	5
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate	4
New data and syntheses for the zooarchaeological record from the Lower Murray River Gorge, South Australia: Applying a ngatji lens	4
Remade ground: Modelling historical elevation change across Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid	4
Why do students enrol in archaeology at Australian universities? Understanding pre-enrolment experiences, motivations, and career expectations	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
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	3
Fibre technologies in Indigenous Australia: Evidence from archaeological excavations in the Kimberley region	3
Aboriginal uses for introduced glass, ceramic and flint from the former Schofields Aerodrome, Western Sydney (Darug Country), New South Wales	3
Agila and the reanimation of seafaring on the south coast of Papua New Guinea after 770 cal BP	2
Authorship, attribution and acknowledgment in archaeology	2
Editorial	2
Everything, everywhere, everyday: The undisciplining of archaeology and heritage	2
Timorese archaeobotany: An anthracological pilot study at the late Holocene Lepu-Kina rockshelter, Atauro Island, East Timor	2
Weaving frames of knowledge	2

Investigating the nature of mobility patterns and interaction: Ceramic production at the Late Lapita site of Amalut, Papua New Guinea	2
Extracting new information from old stones: An analysis of three quarries in the semi-arid Pilbara region, northwest Australia	1
Lithic technologies from a stone hut and arrangement complex in Pitta Pitta Country Queensland, and the detection of social learning in archaeology	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
Co-authorship, collaboration and contestation in relation to Indigenous research	1
Forts and Fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations	1
Authorship as social relations	1
Bursting the bubble: Reflecting on 50 years of maritime archaeological research in Queensland	1
R. Lamilami, 1957–2021: Negotiating two worlds for cultural heritage	1
Marra Wonga: Archaeological and contemporary First Nations interpretations of one of central Queensland’s largest rock art sites	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
Against ‘contact’	1
Insights from a small sea cave: Reanalysis of the bone technology from Durras North, Yuin Country, Coastal New South Wales, Australia	1
Building on the past: Refining our current understanding of Lapita stilt structures	1
Blak emu	1
Traumatic pasts, presents and futures: Trauma and archaeology	1
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	1
Future use or no future at all? An examination of post-excavation historical archaeological repositories in NSW	1
Majumbu (‘Old Harry’) and the Spencer-Cahill bark painting collection	1
Archaeology, deep history and the culture wars: Why most archaeologists have not critiquedDark Emu	1
Towards an archaeology of Country	1
Diverse stone artefacts around Lake Woods, Central Northern Territory, Australia	1
Tragedy or transformation: Australian archaeology at the crossroads (again)	1
Investigating Wiradjurimarara(carved trees or dendroglyphs) anddhabuganha(burials) in the Central Tablelands, southeastern Australia	1
Beyond ‘contact’ and shared landscapes in Australian archaeology	1
Social information inherent in backed artefacts from the Illawarra, western, and southwestern Sydney, NSW	1