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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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	16
Anthropogenic soil and settlement organisation in the Bolivian Amazon	15
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	13
Soils in ancient irrigated agricultural terraces in the Atacama Desert, Chile	12
Sedimentary unknowns constrain the current use of frequency analysis of radiocarbon data sets in forming regional models of demographic change	11
High‐performing mortar‐based materials from the late imperial baths of Aquileia: An outstanding example of Roman building tradition in Northern Italy	10
Multianalytical investigation of wasters from the Tower 8/Porta di Nola refuse middens in Pompeii: Sr–Nd isotopic, chemical, petrographic, and mineralogical analyses	9
Quartzite procurement in conglomerates and deposits: Geoarchaeological characterization of potential catchment areas in the central part of the Cantabrian Region, Spain	9
RETRACTED: Applying geoarchaeological principles to marine archaeology: A reappraisal of the “first marine” and “in situ” lithic scatters in the Dampier Archipelago, NW Australia	8
Micro‐stromatolitic laminations and the origins of engraved, oxalate‐rich accretions from Australian rock art shelters	8
Knapping quality of local versus exotic Upper Mercer chert (Ohio, USA) during the Holocene	8
Distribution and sources of secondary deposit archaeological obsidian in Rio Grande alluvium New Mexico, USA	8
Carbonates from the ancient world's longest aqueduct: A testament of Byzantine water management	8
Holocene landscape evolution in northern Henan Province and its implications for archaeological surveys	8
Geophysical assessment of Verteba Cave Eneolithic site, Ukraine	7
Ritual stone‐built architecture and shell midden foundation: A semisubterranean structure in hyperarid Atacama Desert coast, Northern Chile	7
Deep‐water delivery model of Ruppia seeds to a nearshore/terrestrial setting and its chronological implications for Late Pleistocene footprints, Tularosa Basin, New Mexico	7
Observations of postglacial sea‐level rise in northwest European traditions	7
Red‐coated rocks on the seashore: The esthetics and geology of prehistoric rock art in Alta, Arctic Norway	7
Assessing raw material diversity at Poverty Point (16WC5) using non‐destructive reflectance spectroscopy	7
The door to Dor: Tracing unseen anthropogenic impact in an ancient port	7
Characterising mine wastes as archaeological landscapes	7
Evaluating narratives of ecocide with the stratigraphic record at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois, USA	7
Reconstructing formation processes at the Canary Islands indigenous site of Belmaco Cave (La Palma, Spain) through a multiproxy geoarchaeological approach	6
Moving to the land: First archaeometric study of chert procurement atCueva de la Cocina(Eastern Iberia)	6

Hidden in plain sight: A microanalytical study of a Middle Stone Age ochre piece trapped inside a micromorphological block sample	6
Mid‐ to late Holocene environmental changes and human‐environment interactions in the surroundings of La Silla del Papa, SW Spain	6
Late Holocene relative sea‐level fluctuations and crustal mobility at Bataneh (Najirum) archaeological site, Persian Gulf, Iran	6
Dating stone arrangements using optically stimulated luminescence and fallout radionuclides	6
Simply red? A systematic colour‐based method for identifying archaeological fires	6
Geoarchaeological characterisation of a Younger Dryas site in the Alpine uplands: Cornafessa rock shelter (Italy)	5
Nonmarine Ostracoda as proxies in (geo‐)archaeology — A review	5
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	5
Sandstone weathering processes in the painted rock shelters of Cerro Colorado (Córdoba, Argentina)	5
The Lavrion silver district: Reassessing its ancient mining history	5
Determining the origin and changing shape of landscape‐scale rock formations with three‐dimensional modelling: The Borologa rock shelters, Kimberley region, Australia	5
Relative sea‐level changes along the Fethiye coast (SW Turkey) based on recent archaeological data	5
Mineral species and formation processes: Raman spectroscopic and microscopic analysis of stains from a late pleistocene continental drowned faunal bone assemblage, Central Chile	5
Mercury enrichment in anthrosols and adjacent coastal sediments at a Classic Maya site, Marco Gonzalez, Belize	5
Landscape archaeology—The value of context to archaeological interpretation: A case study from Waitore, New Zealand	5
A site formation model for Cuncaicha rock shelter: Depositional and postdepositional processes at the high‐altitude keysite in the Peruvian Andes	5
Erosion control in Prehispanic agrarian landscapes from Northwestern Argentina: El Alto‐Ancasti Highlands case study (Catamarca, Argentina)	5
Geoarchaeological framework of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene sites in the Aucilla River Basin, Northwest Florida, USA	5
Geoarchaeological signatures of anthropogenic soils in southeastern Uruguay: Approaches to formation processes and spatial–temporal variability	5
Revisiting Alice Boer: Site formation processes and dating issues of a supposedly pre‐Clovis site in Southeastern Brazil	5
An oasis soil reference collection for the identification and study of ancient cultivated soils in arid environments (Oasis of Masafi, United Arab Emirates)	4
²³⁰Th dating of flowstone from Ignatievskaya Cave, Russia: Age constraints of rock art and paleoclimate inferences	4
A geoarchaeological study of the construction of the Laona tumulus at Palaepaphos, Cyprus	4
Early water management in South Asia: Geochronology and micromorphology of rock pools and small‐scale water catchment features in Karnataka, India	4
A wet strawman: A response to Ward et al.	4
Human–environment interactions in a Bahamian dune landscape: A geoarchaeological study of a new Lucayan burial site	4
Scale of human mobility in northwestern Patagonia: An approach based on regional geology and strontium isotopes in human remains	4
The hydro‐geomorphological setting of the Old Kingdom town of al‐Ashmūnayn in the Egyptian Nile Valley	3
Flint sources and mobility at the Chalcolithic (3500–2200 BCE) settlement of Zambujal (Portugal)	3
Anthropogenic impact on a seacoast landscape during the last 1300 years in central Latvia, Northeastern Europe	3
Mid‐ to Late Holocene landscape dynamics and rural settlement in the uplands of northern Bavaria, Germany	3
Three thousand years of river channel engineering in the Nile Valley	3
Provenance, production, and distribution of basalt and volcanic glass artifacts in Leeward Kohala, Hawaiʻi Island	3
Investigating the application of Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material in sedimentary lithic artifacts for archaeological provenancing applications in the Canadian Rockies	3
Obsidian source classification and defining “local” in early Holocene Southeast Alaska	3
Using X‐ray fluorescence to examine ancient Maya granite ground stone in Belize	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
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
Letter to the editors on termite stone lines	3
Evidence for sophisticated raw material procurement strategies during the Lower Paleolithic—Hula Valley case study	3
A 7000‐year record of environmental change: Evolution of Holocene environment and human activities in the Hangjiahu Plain, the lower Yangtze, China	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
Sources of geomaterials in the Sicani Mountains during the Early Middle Ages: A case study of Contrada Castro, central western Sicily	2
Human–environment interactions at Yangguanzhai, a Middle Neolithic site in the Wei River Valley, northern China: A comprehensive soil‐stratigraphic analysis	2
Linking anthropogenic burning activities to magnetic susceptibility: Studies at Brazilian archaeological sites	2
Lithological description and provenancing of a collection of bluestones from excavations at Stonehenge by William Hawley in 1924 with implications for the human versus ice transport debate of the monu	2
Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene human settlement and environmental dynamics in the southern Atacama Desert highlands (24.0°S–24.5°S, Northern Chile)	2
Microarchaeological approach to underwater stratigraphy of submerged settlements: A case study of Atlit‐Yam Pre‐Pottery Neolithic site, off the Carmel Coast, Israel	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

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
A geoarchaeological study of the large Early Bronze Age Essentuksky 1 kurgan in Ciscaucasia, Russia	2
Iron production in Ptolemaic Egypt: From the Abu Gerida specular hematite mines to the Hamama smelting workshop	2
Early Sasanian landscape modification: New geoarchaeological evidence from the Ardashir Pond in southwest Iran (Palace of Ardashir, third century CE)	2
Late Roman–Early Byzantine Leukos settlement, Karpathos, Greece: Geoarchaeology, archeoseismology, and paleogeography	2
Effect of surface weathering on portable X‐Ray fluorescence analysis of artefacts: Evidence from Tasmanian hornfels	2
Geostatistical and geoarchaeological study of Holocene floodplains and site distributions on the Sha‐Ying River Basin, Central China	2
Marmora of the Traianeum of Italica (Santiponce, Seville, Spain): New data provided by archaeometric analysis	2
Lagoa do Quari (São Raimundo Nonato, Piauí): Palaeoenvironment and wetland archaeology in Northeastern Brazil	2
Mapping magnetism: Geophysical modelling of stratigraphic features by using in situ magnetic susceptibility measurements at Pinnacle Point 5‐6 North, South Africa	2
The effect of formation processes on the frequency of palaeolithic cave sites in semiarid zones: Insights from Kazakhstan	2
Absence of bones in archaeological sites from the southeast of Uruguay: Taphonomy or human behavior?	2
Climatic shifts, geomorphic change, ancient routes of migration and adaption in southwestern China: Site formation processes at Luojiaba, Sichuan Province	1
Crust occurrence on a Galatian rock‐cut dwelling in central Anatolia, Turkey	1
Paleoshoreline reconstruction: A proposed method to approach submerged prehistoric landscapes of Espiritu Santo Island, Baja California Sur, Mexico	1
Holocene landscape reconstruction in the surroundings of the Temple of Pepi I at ancient Bubastis, southeastern Nile Delta (Egypt)	1
Soils, agriculture, and land use in island socio‐ecosystems: Three case studies from Southeastern Polynesia	1
Holocene coastal evolution and environmental changes in the lower Río Guadiaro valley, with particular focus on the Bronze to Iron Age harbour ‘Montilla’ of Los Castillejos de Alcorrín (Málaga, Andalu	1
The ceramic vessels of the late antique and early medieval domus in the religious complex of San Pietro (Canusium, Italy): Clayey geosources, local production and imports in northern Apu	1
Geoarchaeology in China: Progress, trends, and perspectives	1
Black clayey soil (Vertisol) in the Lerma valley, Michoacán, North‐Central Mexico: A hint of the environmental and cultural changes during the Late Classic period?	1
Arroyo formation impacts on an early dryland agricultural community in Northeastern Utah, USA	1
Planetary geoarchaeology as a new frontier in archaeological science: Evaluating site formation processes on Earth's Moon	1
Writ in water—Unwritten histories obtained from carbonate deposits in ancient water systems	1
Reply to “Letter to the editors on termite stone lines” by Smith et al. (2021)	1
Earthen ridges in coastal sand dunes of the Caribbean coast, Venezuela: Anthropogenic or natural?	1
Coastal changes and human occupation in the eastern part of Thessaloniki Bay: Geoarchaeological investigations of Toumba Gona	1
Lithic arrowheads: Siliceous raw material sources and technology in Southern Portugal	1
Base cation evidence for enhanced water infiltration in Ancestral Pueblo gravel mulch fields, Northern New Mexico, USA	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
The influence of a standardized experimental environment on early diagenetic changes to animal bone	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
Ground‐penetrating radar investigations of the Asaviec 2 archaeological site, Northern Belarus	1
Pleistocene freshwater ostracods from the Homo erectus site at Bilzingsleben, Germany—Review of historic collection and unpublished manuscript material for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction	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
Masters of mudbrick: Geoarchaeological analysis of Iron Age earthen public buildings at Ashdod‐Yam (Israel)	1
The role of geoarchaeology in the interpretation of fragmented buildings and occupation surfaces: The case of coastal settlements in northeast Scotland	1
Consuming local: The new obsidian source of Ideloo (Northwestern Iran) and first evidence of use by neighbouring prehistoric communities	1
Examining the distribution of Middle Paleolithic Nubian cores relative to chert quality in southern (Nejd, Dhofar) and south‐central (Duqm, Al Wusta) Oman	1
The Shaft Tunnel of the Biar aqueduct of Jerusalem: Architecture, hydrology, and dating	1
The Bronze Age occupation of the Black Sea coast of Georgia—New insights from settlement mounds of the Colchian plain	1