OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geoarchaeology-An International Journal 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The significance of aragonite in the interpretation of the microscopic archaeological record	28
Cinnabar provenance of Chalcolithic red pigments in the Iberian Peninsula: A lead isotope study	23
An initiative for a morphologic‐genetic catalog of relict charcoal hearths from Central Europe	16
Lithic raw material procurement at the Chaves cave (Huesca, Spain): A geochemical approach to defining Palaeolithic human mobility	15
Anthropogenic soil and settlement organisation in the Bolivian Amazon	13
On the border between land and water: The environmental conditions of the Neolithic occupation from 4.3 until 1.6 ka BC at Serteya, Western Russia	11
Soils in ancient irrigated agricultural terraces in the Atacama Desert, Chile	11
Identifying disturbance in archaeological sites in tropical northern Australia: Implications for previously proposed 65,000‐year continental occupation date	10
Geoarchaeological investigations at the Ryan‐Harley Paleoindian site, Florida (8JE1004): Implications for human settlement of the Wacissa River Basin during the Younger Dryas	10
Spatial and temporal variability in geomorphic change at tidally influenced shipwreck sites: The use of time‐lapse multibeam data for the assessment of site formation processes	10
“There's more than meets the eye”: Developing an integrated archaeological approach to reconstruct human–environment dynamics in the Pontine marshes (Lazio, Central Italy)	9
Lithic artifact assemblage transport and microwear modification in a fluvial setting: A radio frequency identification tag experiment	9
The micromorphology of loess‐paleosol sequences in central Alaska: A new perspective on soil formation and landscape evolution since the Late Glacial period (c. 16,000 cal yr BP to present)	9
Quartzite procurement in conglomerates and deposits: Geoarchaeological characterization of potential catchment areas in the central part of the Cantabrian Region, Spain	8
Do still waters run deep? Formation processes of natural and anthropogenic deposits in the Neolithic wetland site Zug‐Riedmatt (Switzerland)	8
High‐performing mortar‐based materials from the late imperial baths of Aquileia: An outstanding example of Roman building tradition in Northern Italy	8
Sedimentary unknowns constrain the current use of frequency analysis of radiocarbon data sets in forming regional models of demographic change	8
Petrographic and SEM‐EDX characterization of Mousterian white/beige chert tools from the Navalmaíllo rock shelter (Madrid, Spain)	8
Characterization and sources of Paleolithic–Mesolithic ochre from Coves de Santa Maira (Valencian Region, Spain)	8
Redating the formation of Lake Bafa, western Turkey: Integrative geoarchaeological methods and new environmental and dating evidence	7
Evaluating narratives of ecocide with the stratigraphic record at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois, USA	7
Ritual stone‐built architecture and shell midden foundation: A semisubterranean structure in hyperarid Atacama Desert coast, Northern Chile	7
RETRACTED: Applying geoarchaeological principles to marine archaeology: A reappraisal of the “first marine” and “in situ” lithic scatters in the Dampier Archipelago, NW Australia	7
Distribution and sources of secondary deposit archaeological obsidian in Rio Grande alluvium New Mexico, USA	7
Cone penetration testing for extensive mapping of deeply buried Late Glacial coversand landscape paleotopography	6

Mid‐ to late Holocene environmental changes and human‐environment interactions in the surroundings of La Silla del Papa, SW Spain	6
Moving to the land: First archaeometric study of chert procurement at Cueva de la Cocina (Eastern Iberia)	6
The Hidden Midden: Geoarchaeological investigation of sedimentation processes, waste disposal practices, and resource management at the La Tène settlement of Basel‐Gasfabrik (Switzerland)	6
Revisiting Alice Boer: Site formation processes and dating issues of a supposedly pre‐Clovis site in Southeastern Brazil	6
Knapping quality of local versus exotic Upper Mercer chert (Ohio, USA) during the Holocene	6
On the geoarchaeology of Limyra (SW Anatolia)—new insights into the famous Lycian city and its environs	6
Geophysical assessment of Verteba Cave Eneolithic site, Ukraine	6
Hidden in plain sight: A microanalytical study of a Middle Stone Age ochre piece trapped inside a micromorphological block sample	6
Carbonates from the ancient world's longest aqueduct: A testament of Byzantine water management	6
Holocene landscape evolution in northern Henan Province and its implications for archaeological surveys	6
The door to Dor: Tracing unseen anthropogenic impact in an ancient port	6
Multianalytical investigation of wasters from the Tower 8/Porta di Nola refuse middens in Pompeii: Sr–Nd isotopic, chemical, petrographic, and mineralogical analyses	6
Relative sea‐level changes along the Fethiye coast (SW Turkey) based on recent archaeological data	5
A geoarchaeological methodology for sourcing chert artefacts in the Mediterranean region: A case study from Neolithic Skorba on Malta	5
Multitechnique dating of earthen irrigation canals at the La Playa site, Sonora, Mexico	5
The Lavrion silver district: Reassessing its ancient mining history	5
The use of lithic raw materials at the Early Mesolithic open‐air site Feuersteinacker (Vogelsbergkreis, Germany)	5
Geoarchaeological framework of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene sites in the Aucilla River Basin, Northwest Florida, USA	5
Production technology of late Roman decorated tableware from the Vesuvius environs: Evidence from Pollena Trocchia (Campania region, Italy)	5
Landscape archaeology—The value of context to archaeological interpretation: A case study from Waitore, New Zealand	5
Geoarchaeological signatures of anthropogenic soils in southeastern Uruguay: Approaches to formation processes and spatial–temporal variability	5
Red‐coated rocks on the seashore: The esthetics and geology of prehistoric rock art in Alta, Arctic Norway	5
Letting the stones speak: An interdisciplinary survey of stone collection and construction at Liangzhu City, prehistoric Lower Yangtze River	5
Dating stone arrangements using optically stimulated luminescence and fallout radionuclides	5
Observations of postglacial sea‐level rise in northwest European traditions	5
Simply red? A systematic colour‐based method for identifying archaeological fires	5
Micro‐stromatolitic laminations and the origins of engraved, oxalate‐rich accretions from Australian rock art shelters	5
Deep‐water delivery model of Ruppia seeds to a nearshore/terrestrial setting and its chronological implications for Late Pleistocene footprints, Tularosa Basin, New Mexico	4
Old recipes, new strategies: Paleoenvironment, georesources, building materials, and trade networks in Roman Tuscany (Italy)	4
Sandstone weathering processes in the painted rock shelters of Cerro Colorado (Córdoba, Argentina)	4
Late Holocene relative sea‐level fluctuations and crustal mobility at Bataneh (Najirum) archaeological site, Persian Gulf, Iran	4
Assessing raw material diversity at Poverty Point (16WC5) using non‐destructive reflectance spectroscopy	4
Nonmarine Ostracoda as proxies in (geo‐)archaeology — A review	4
Miocene shells in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age burials in Poland	4
Characterising mine wastes as archaeological landscapes	4
Geoarchaeological characterisation of a Younger Dryas site in the Alpine uplands: Cornafessa rock shelter (Italy)	4
A site formation model for Cuncaicha rock shelter: Depositional and postdepositional processes at the high‐altitude keysite in the Peruvian Andes	4
Erosion control in Prehispanic agrarian landscapes from Northwestern Argentina: El Alto‐Ancasti Highlands case study (Catamarca, Argentina)	4
The geology of Tianshui‐Qin'an area of the western Loess Plateau and the chemical characteristics of its Neolithic pottery	4
Landslide impact on the archaeological site of Mitla, Oaxaca	3
Protohistoric briquetage at Puntone (Tuscany, Italy): principles and processes of an industry based on the leaching of saline lagoonal sediments	3
Raw material choices and material characterization of the 3^rd and 2^nd millennium BC pottery from the Petit‐Chasseur necropolis: Insights into the megalith‐erecting society of the	3
Obsidian source classification and defining “local” in early Holocene Southeast Alaska	3
A geoarchaeological study of the construction of the Laona tumulus at Palaepaphos, Cyprus	3
Mid‐ to Late Holocene landscape dynamics and rural settlement in the uplands of northern Bavaria, Germany	3
Mercury enrichment in anthrosols and adjacent coastal sediments at a Classic Maya site, Marco Gonzalez, Belize	3
Soil use in pre‐Hispanic and historical crop fields in the Guatacondo Ravine, northern Chile (2400 years BP): A geoarchaeological and paleobotanic approach	3
Mid‐Holocene environmental change and human occupation at Sai Island, Northern Sudan	3
Flint sources and mobility at the Chalcolithic (3500–2200 BCE) settlement of Zambujal (Portugal)	3
An oasis soil reference collection for the identification and study of ancient cultivated soils in arid environments (Oasis of Masafi, United Arab Emirates)	3

Improvement of soil fertility in historical ridge and furrow cultivation	3
Sourcing of chalkstone used in medieval buildings in the Eastern Duchy of Normandy (10th−14th centuries) through geological and geochemistry analyses	3
A wet strawman: A response to Ward et al.	3
Letter to the editors on termite stone lines	3
Human–environment interactions in a Bahamian dune landscape: A geoarchaeological study of a new Lucayan burial site	3
Geochemical analysis of the truncated Viking Age trading settlement of Heimdalsjordet, Norway	2
Reconstructing formation processes at the Canary Islands indigenous site of Belmaco Cave (La Palma, Spain) through a multiproxy geoarchaeological approach	2
Palaeoenvironmental conditions and human activity in the vicinity of the Grodzisko fortified settlement (central Europe, Poland) from the late‐Neolithic to the Roman period	2
Marmora of the Traianeum of Italica (Santiponce, Seville, Spain): New data provided by archaeometric analysis	2
Analysis of prehistoric brown earth paleosols under the podzol soils of Exmoor, UK	2
Three thousand years of river channel engineering in the Nile Valley	2
The hydro‐geomorphological setting of the Old Kingdom town of al‐Ashmūnayn in the Egyptian Nile Valley	2
Petrophysical and geochemical characterization of sediments filling V‐shaped ditches of Roman camps in Moravia, Czech Republic: Filling processes and the role of pedogenesis	2
Geostatistical and geoarchaeological study of Holocene floodplains and site distributions on the Sha‐Ying River Basin, Central China	2
Mineral species and formation processes: Raman spectroscopic and microscopic analysis of stains from a late pleistocene continental drowned faunal bone assemblage, Central Chile	2
²³⁰Th dating of flowstone from Ignatievskaya Cave, Russia: Age constraints of rock art and paleoclimate inferences	2
Lagoa do Quari (São Raimundo Nonato, Piauí): Palaeoenvironment and wetland archaeology in Northeastern Brazil	2
Scale of human mobility in northwestern Patagonia: An approach based on regional geology and strontium isotopes in human remains	2
Provenance, production, and distribution of basalt and volcanic glass artifacts in Leeward Kohala, Hawaiʻi Island	2
Determining the origin and changing shape of landscape‐scale rock formations with three‐dimensional modelling: The Borologa rock shelters, Kimberley region, Australia	2
Diversification of lithic raw materials used by Mesolithic inhabitants of Los Canes cave (Sierra del Cuera, Eastern Asturias, Spain), and quartz crystallite size of chert as an essential indicator par	2
Depositional history of a talus cone in an arid intermontane basin in Central Asia: An interdisciplinary study at the Late Pleistocene–Late Holocene Obishir‐I site, Kyrgyzstan	2
Human–environment interactions at Yangguanzhai, a Middle Neolithic site in the Wei River Valley, northern China: A comprehensive soil‐stratigraphic analysis	2
Iron production in Ptolemaic Egypt: From the Abu Gerida specular hematite mines to the Hamama smelting workshop	2
A 7000‐year record of environmental change: Evolution of Holocene environment and human activities in the Hangjiahu Plain, the lower Yangtze, China	2
Early water management in South Asia: Geochronology and micromorphology of rock pools and small‐scale water catchment features in Karnataka, India	2
The effect of formation processes on the frequency of palaeolithic cave sites in semiarid zones: Insights from Kazakhstan	2
Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene human settlement and environmental dynamics in the southern Atacama Desert highlands (24.0°S–24.5°S, Northern Chile)	1
Microarchaeological approach to underwater stratigraphy of submerged settlements: A case study of Atlit‐Yam Pre‐Pottery Neolithic site, off the Carmel Coast, Israel	1
Sources of geomaterials in the Sicani Mountains during the Early Middle Ages: A case study of Contrada Castro, central western Sicily	1
Earthen ridges in coastal sand dunes of the Caribbean coast, Venezuela: Anthropogenic or natural?	1
Linking anthropogenic burning activities to magnetic susceptibility: Studies at Brazilian archaeological sites	1
Evidence for sophisticated raw material procurement strategies during the Lower Paleolithic—Hula Valley case study	1
Mapping magnetism: Geophysical modelling of stratigraphic features by using in situ magnetic susceptibility measurements at Pinnacle Point 5‐6 North, South Africa	1
Climatic shifts, geomorphic change, ancient routes of migration and adaption in southwestern China: Site formation processes at Luojiaba, Sichuan Province	1
Early Holocene charcoal accumulations in the Aktun Ha cenote: Evidence of fire used by the first settlers of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico	1
Arroyo formation impacts on an early dryland agricultural community in Northeastern Utah, USA	1
Investigating the application of Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material in sedimentary lithic artifacts for archaeological provenancing applications in the Canadian Rockies	1
Crust occurrence on a Galatian rock‐cut dwelling in central Anatolia, Turkey	1
Absence of bones in archaeological sites from the southeast of Uruguay: Taphonomy or human behavior?	1
Anthropogenic impact on a seacoast landscape during the last 1300 years in central Latvia, Northeastern Europe	1
Lithic arrowheads: Siliceous raw material sources and technology in Southern Portugal	1
Consuming local: The new obsidian source of Ideloo (Northwestern Iran) and first evidence of use by neighbouring prehistoric communities	1
The Shaft Tunnel of the Biar aqueduct of Jerusalem: Architecture, hydrology, and dating	1
Modeling and monitoring submerged prehistoric sites during offshore sand dredging and implications for the study of Early Holocene Coastal Occupation of Southern California	1
Trace organic compounds in oxalate rock accretions from the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwestern Texas	1
Early Sasanian landscape modification: New geoarchaeological evidence from the Ardashir Pond in southwest Iran (Palace of Ardashir, third century CE)	1
Reply to “Letter to the editors on termite stone lines” by Smith et al. (2021)	1
Effect of surface weathering on portable X‐Ray fluorescence analysis of artefacts: Evidence from Tasmanian hornfels	1
Novel insights into the sea level evolution along the coast of Bozburun Peninsula (Turkey): A study on submerged Bronze Age harbor in Çamçalık	1
A geoarchaeological study of the large Early Bronze Age Essentuksky 1 kurgan in Ciscaucasia, Russia	1
Surface site‐formation processes in northern Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): A case study of the Amalia 4 Site	1
Three scoria blocks from Māori occupation sites, New Zealand: Their petrography, mineralogy, geochemistry and attribution to a source locality in eastern Polynesia	1
3D modeling of the impact of ancient Yellow River floods on urban landscapes: A new look at the late imperial landscape at the Shuntianmen Site of Kaifeng City, Henan Province, China	1
Planetary geoarchaeology as a new frontier in archaeological science: Evaluating site formation processes on Earth's Moon	1
The influence of a standardized experimental environment on early diagenetic changes to animal bone	1