OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geoarchaeology-An International Journal is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
New data on chert catchment analysis in inland Iberia during the Late Pleistocene	10
The effect of formation processes on the frequency of palaeolithic cave sites in semiarid zones: Insights from Kazakhstan	10
South American geoarchaeology: Contributions after the 21st National Chilean Archaeology Conference	9
Indurated soil nodules: A vestige of ancient agricultural practices?	8
Arroyo formation impacts on an early dryland agricultural community in Northeastern Utah, USA	8
The influence of a standardized experimental environment on early diagenetic changes to animal bone	8
Planetary geoarchaeology as a new frontier in archaeological science: Evaluating site formation processes on Earth's Moon	8
Early Sasanian landscape modification: New geoarchaeological evidence from the Ardashir Pond in southwest Iran (Palace of Ardashir, third century CE)	8
The Bronze Age occupation of the Black Sea coast of Georgia—New insights from settlement mounds of the Colchian plain	8
Ritual stone‐built architecture and shell midden foundation: A semisubterranean structure in hyperarid Atacama Desert coast, Northern Chile	7
Chronology of Upper Paleolithic human activities recorded in a stalagmite at Points Cave (Aiguèze, Gard, France)	7
Modeling and monitoring submerged prehistoric sites during offshore sand dredging and implications for the study of Early Holocene Coastal Occupation of Southern California	7
Provenance, production, and distribution of basalt and volcanic glass artifacts in Leeward Kohala, Hawaiʻi Island	7
Climatic shifts, geomorphic change, ancient routes of migration and adaption in southwestern China: Site formation processes at Luojiaba, Sichuan Province	7
Patterns of lithic procurement strategies in the Pre‐Pyrenean Middle Magdalenian sequence of Cova del Parco (Alòs de Balaguer, Spain)	7
Evolution of fluvial landscapes since the late Pleistocene at the Wangchenggang site of the Ying River Basin, Central China: Implications for the development and change of prehistoric settlements	6
Characterising mine wastes as archaeological landscapes	6
Life near the water: Geoarchaeological investigation of site formation processes and occupation patterns at the near‐bank mound of Liangzhu City, China	6
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Trace organic compounds in oxalate rock accretions from the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwestern Texas	6
Distribution and sources of secondary deposit archaeological obsidian in Rio Grande alluvium New Mexico, USA	5
Unveiling the distinctive geochemical signature of fine ware through Sr–Nd–Pb isotopes: A site‐specific perspective from the site of Cales (South Italy)	5
Correlation of Seismic Data and Sediment Cores From the Seabed in the Medieval Harbour at Avaldsnes, Norway	5
Landscape archaeology—The value of context to archaeological interpretation: A case study from Waitore, New Zealand	5
Germanic Rampart or Roman Encampment?—New Geoarchaeological Evidence at the Roman Conflict Site at Kalkriese (NW‐Germany)	5

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Site Formation Processes at Tinshemet Cave, Israel: Micro‐Stratigraphy, Fire Use, and Cementation	5
Writ in water—Unwritten histories obtained from carbonate deposits in ancient water systems	5
Scale of human mobility in northwestern Patagonia: An approach based on regional geology and strontium isotopes in human remains	5
Geoarchaeological and microstratigraphic view of a Neanderthal settlement at Rambla de Ahíllas in Iberian Range: Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia, Spain)	5
Micro‐stromatolitic laminations and the origins of engraved, oxalate‐rich accretions from Australian rock art shelters	5
Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene human settlement and environmental dynamics in the southern Atacama Desert highlands (24.0°S–24.5°S, Northern Chile)	5
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Mineralogical origin of the chromatic contrast enhancing the Mount Bego petroglyphs (Alpes‐Maritimes, France)	4
Comparing different machine‐learning techniques to date Nile Delta sediments based on portable X‐ray fluorescence data	4
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Rare Holocene sediment deposits from Sodmein Playa (Eastern Desert, Egypt)—Stratigraphic assessment and environmental setting	4
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Of Fire and Water Microarchaeological Evidence of Mining, Rituals and Floods in North Tyrol's Kropfsberg Mine (Austria)	3
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?	3
Geoarchaeology in China: Progress, trends, and perspectives	3
Geoarchaeological studies in the early medieval Santok stronghold (north‐western Poland)	3
The Shaft Tunnel of the Biar aqueduct of Jerusalem: Architecture, hydrology, and dating	3
Paleoecological data complete historical and archaeological archives: Human–environment nexus at the fluvio maritime city port of Chilia (Licostomo; Northern Danube delta) since the 14th century	3
Linking archaeology and paleoenvironment: Mid‐Holocene occupational sequences in the Varamin Plain (Iran)	3
Early water management in South Asia: Geochronology and micromorphology of rock pools and small‐scale water catchment features in Karnataka, India	3
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Land Use Legacy Landforms at the UNESCO Heritage Site Tarnowskie Góry, Upper Silesia, Poland—Stratigraphy, Soils and Age	3
The Mediterranean Valleys Revisited	3
Examining the distribution of Middle Paleolithic Nubian cores relative to chert quality in southern (Nejd, Dhofar) and south‐central (Duqm, Al Wusta) Oman	3
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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	3