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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Rounded toothed pearl-shell mounds at Elizabeth River near Darwin, Northern Territory	16
The Archaeology of Island Colonization: Global Approaches to Initial Human Settlement	10
A transformative archaeology: Archaeology as a tool for public good	9
Why should we explore contemporary relationships to the archaeological record?	8
Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua: Moving Pictures	8
How will Australia and the Pacific contribute to global Indigenous archaeologies in the next half century?	8
Who cares? Indigenous cultural heritage protection in Australia	7
Islamic life and death in Australia, after 1890: The archaeology of cameleer burials	5
What is farming, what is archaeology, and who gets to decide?	5
Lithic technologies from a stone hut and arrangement complex in Pitta Pitta Country Queensland, and the detection of social learning in archaeology	5
A puzzle with 1,000 pieces	4
50 years of radiocarbon dating in Australian archaeology	4
Reorganising foraging during the Late Holocene: The archaeology of NEP23, Central Australia	3
Fibre technologies in Indigenous Australia: Evidence from archaeological excavations in the Kimberley region	3
The tragedy of Bruce Pascoe’sDark Emu	3
Bioarchaeological analysis of human skeletal remains associated with the wrecking of the retourschip “Batavia”, 1629: burials BIB 11–14	3
When divisions can have value: Revisiting the term ‘contact’ in Australian First Peoples archaeology	3
Brilliant blue: The blue rock art of Awunbarna, Northern Territory, Australia	3
Making Scenes: Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art	3
Marra Wonga: Archaeological and contemporary First Nations interpretations of one of central Queensland’s largest rock art sites	3
The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931	2
Agila and the reanimation of seafaring on the south coast of Papua New Guinea after 770 cal BP	2
Putting the involvement of Indigenous Australians back into Indigenous Australian archaeology	2
An amazing 50 years of Australian research: Now for greater collaboration, codesign and traditional knowledge application to developing policy and action	2
The future of knowledge sharing: Why #AncientApocalypse and #HomoNaledi are smashing it and we’re not	2

Millukmungee 1: Stone artefacts and occupation at the junction of the Buchan and Snowy Rivers, GunaiKurnai Country, East Gippsland (Victoria, Australia)	1
Authorship, attribution and acknowledgment in archaeology: Reply, adding audience and accountability	1
The Archaeology of Tanamu 1: A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea	1
The Archaeology and Architecture of Farm Buildings at Saumarez Station The Archaeology and Architecture of Farm Buildings at Saumarez Station by Graham Connah, BAR Inter	1
‘Reclaiming their stories’: A study of the spiritual content of historical cultural objects through an Indigenous creative inquiry	1
Love at first site	1
Pasts otherwise: Some comments on the historiography of concepts of ‘colonialism’ and ‘entanglement’ and the critique of the concept of ‘contact’ in Australasian archaeology	1
Reflections of a former Aboriginal cultural heritage regulator	1
‘Don’t walk behind me, don’t walk in front of me, walk beside me’: A response to Murray	1
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	1
(Australian) archaeology and heritage: The future of the past	1
Aerial and satellite remote sensing for Aboriginal archaeology: Past, present and future	1
Wunjunga midden: Late Holocene change, site preservation and open midden sites on the Central Queensland Coast	1
Realising the Indigenisation and [de]-colonisation of the archaeological discipline in Australia	1
Optimism, utopia, and blue-green futures for the archaeology of Oceania	1
Jack: Professor Jack Golson, AO, 1926–2023	1
Author-ity of/as Bawaka Country	1
Revolution or reform?	1
Continuing the legacy of humanistic archaeological practice	1
Beyond colonialism? A comment on the formulation of ‘contact’ archaeology in Australia	1
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	1
Solder scavenging from hole-and-cap food cans in the Western Australian goldfields: Identifying site modification processes	1
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate	1
Everything, everywhere, everyday: The undisciplining of archaeology and heritage	1
Beneath the Top End: A regional assessment of submerged archaeological potential in the Northern Territory, Australia	1
A legacy to live up to – and to improve	1
The challenges of attribution	1
An Archaeology of Innovation: Approaching Social and Technological Change in Human Society	1
Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant	1
A continent of hunter-gatherers?	1