OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geoarchaeology-An International Journal is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

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	25
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	12
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	11
Soils in ancient irrigated agricultural terraces in the Atacama Desert, Chile	11
Geoarchaeological investigations at the Ryan‐Harley Paleoindian site, Florida (8JE1004): Implications for human settlement of the Wacissa River Basin during the Younger Dryas	10
Identifying disturbance in archaeological sites in tropical northern Australia: Implications for previously proposed 65,000‐year continental occupation date	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
Do still waters run deep? Formation processes of natural and anthropogenic deposits in the Neolithic wetland site Zug‐Riedmatt (Switzerland)	9
High‐performing mortar‐based materials from the late imperial baths of Aquileia: An outstanding example of Roman building tradition in Northern Italy	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
Petrographic and SEM‐EDX characterization of Mousterian white/beige chert tools from the Navalmaíllo rock shelter (Madrid, Spain)	9
Quartzite procurement in conglomerates and deposits: Geoarchaeological characterization of potential catchment areas in the central part of the Cantabrian Region, Spain	8
Sedimentary unknowns constrain the current use of frequency analysis of radiocarbon data sets in forming regional models of demographic change	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
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
Ritual stone‐built architecture and shell midden foundation: A semisubterranean structure in hyperarid Atacama Desert coast, Northern Chile	7
Holocene landscape evolution in northern Henan Province and its implications for archaeological surveys	7
Distribution and sources of secondary deposit archaeological obsidian in Rio Grande alluvium New Mexico, USA	7
Evaluating narratives of ecocide with the stratigraphic record at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois, USA	7
Mid‐ to late Holocene environmental changes and human‐environment interactions in the surroundings of La Silla del Papa, SW Spain	6

Observations of postglacial sea‐level rise in northwest European traditions	6
Multitechnique dating of earthen irrigation canals at the La Playa site, Sonora, Mexico	6
Late Holocene relative sea‐level fluctuations and crustal mobility at Bataneh (Najirum) archaeological site, Persian Gulf, Iran	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
Moving to the land: First archaeometric study of chert procurement at Cueva de la Cocina (Eastern Iberia)	6
The door to Dor: Tracing unseen anthropogenic impact in an ancient port	6
Hidden in plain sight: A microanalytical study of a Middle Stone Age ochre piece trapped inside a micromorphological block sample	6
Micro‐stromatolitic laminations and the origins of engraved, oxalate‐rich accretions from Australian rock art shelters	6
Cone penetration testing for extensive mapping of deeply buried Late Glacial coversand landscape paleotopography	6
Carbonates from the ancient world's longest aqueduct: A testament of Byzantine water management	6
Geophysical assessment of Verteba Cave Eneolithic site, Ukraine	6
Simply red? A systematic colour‐based method for identifying archaeological fires	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
Geoarchaeological characterisation of a Younger Dryas site in the Alpine uplands: Cornafessa rock shelter (Italy)	5
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
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
Assessing raw material diversity at Poverty Point (16WC5) using non‐destructive reflectance spectroscopy	5
Letting the stones speak: An interdisciplinary survey of stone collection and construction at Liangzhu City, prehistoric Lower Yangtze River	5
Geoarchaeological framework of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene sites in the Aucilla River Basin, Northwest Florida, USA	5
Miocene shells in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age burials in Poland	5
Landscape archaeology—The value of context to archaeological interpretation: A case study from Waitore, New Zealand	5
Red‐coated rocks on the seashore: The esthetics and geology of prehistoric rock art in Alta, Arctic Norway	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	5
Old recipes, new strategies: Paleoenvironment, georesources, building materials, and trade networks in Roman Tuscany (Italy)	5
Dating stone arrangements using optically stimulated luminescence and fallout radionuclides	5
Production technology of late Roman decorated tableware from the Vesuvius environs: Evidence from Pollena Trocchia (Campania region, Italy)	5
Geoarchaeological signatures of anthropogenic soils in southeastern Uruguay: Approaches to formation processes and spatial–temporal variability	5
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
Nonmarine Ostracoda as proxies in (geo‐)archaeology — A review	4
Sandstone weathering processes in the painted rock shelters of Cerro Colorado (Córdoba, Argentina)	4
Determining the origin and changing shape of landscape‐scale rock formations with three‐dimensional modelling: The Borologa rock shelters, Kimberley region, Australia	4
A geoarchaeological study of the construction of the Laona tumulus at Palaepaphos, Cyprus	4
Characterising mine wastes as archaeological landscapes	4