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 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