OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A model for the domestication of Panicum miliaceum (common, proso or broomcorn millet) in China	32
Tracking the history of grapevine cultivation in Georgia by combining geometric morphometrics and ancient DNA	26
NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform	22
Dung in the dumps: what we can learn from multi-proxy studies of archaeological dung pellets	21
The first comprehensive archaeobotanical analysis of prehistoric agriculture in Kyrgyzstan	19
The southern Central Asian mountains as an ancient agricultural mixing zone: new archaeobotanical data from Barikot in the Swat valley of Pakistan	19
8,000 years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy)	18
Pollen and plant diversity relationships in a Mediterranean montane area	16
13,000 years of sociocultural plant use in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile	16
Recent attestations of “new” glume wheat in Turkey: a reassessment of its role in the reconstruction of Neolithic agriculture	15
Increasing human activities during the past 2,100 years in southwest China inferred from a fossil pollen record	12
Phytolith evidence of water management for rice growing and processing between 8,500 and 7,500 cal years bp in the middle Huai river valley, China	11
Microbotanical signatures of kreb: differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses	10
Does site elevation determine the start and intensity of human impact? Pollen evidence from southern Germany	10
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet): evidence from Iron Age Kenya	10
From Mesolithic hunters to Iron Age herders: a unique record of woodland use from eastern central Europe (Czech Republic)	10
At the origins of Pompeii: the plant landscape of the Sarno River floodplain from the first millennium bc to the ad 79 eruption	9
A new way of seeing pulses: preliminary results of geometric morphometric analyses of Iron Age seeds from the site of La Font de la Canya (Barcelona, Spain)	9
Intensification of agriculture in southwestern Germany between the Bronze Age and Medieval period, based on archaeobotanical data from Baden-Württemberg	9
Plants used in basketry production during the Early Neolithic in the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula	9
New insights into agriculture in northwestern France from the Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age: a weed ecological approach	8
Relative pollen productivity estimates of major plant taxa and relevant source area of pollen in the warm-temperate forest landscape of northern China	8
Vegetation dynamics and their response to Holocene climate change derived from multi-proxy records from Wangdongyang peat bog in southeast China	8
Getting to the root of the problem: new evidence for the use of plant root foods in Mesolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence in Europe	8
Cultural landscape and plant use at the Phoenician site of Motya (Western Sicily, Italy) inferred from a disposal pit	8

Underwater archaeobotany: plant and wood analyses from the Vrouw Maria, a 1771 shipwreck in the Finnish Baltic Sea	7
Palynological evidence for the temporal stability of the plant community in the Yellow River Source Area over the last 7,400 years	7
Pollen richness: a reflection of vegetation diversity or pollen-specific parameters?	7
Palaeoethnobotanical analysis of plant remains discovered in the graveyard of the Haihun Marquis, Nanchang, China	7
Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia	7
Identification of archaeobotanical Pistacia L. fruit remains: implications for our knowledge on past distribution and use in prehistoric Cyprus	7
Human-woodland interactions during the Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite periods in northeastern Tigray, Ethiopia: insights from the wood charcoal analyses from Mezber and Ona Adi	7
Crop cultivation of Middle Yayoi culture communities (fourth century bce–first century ce) in the Kanto region, eastern Japan, inferred from a radiocarbon-dated archaeobotanical record	6
Holocene vegetation, fire and land use dynamics at Lake Svityaz, an agriculturally marginal site in northwestern Ukraine	6
Testing the potential of pollen assemblages to capture composition, diversity and ecological gradients of surrounding vegetation in two biogeographical regions of southeastern Europe	6
Multi-proxy analysis of waterlogged preserved Late Neolithic canine excrements	6
Early to late Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics at the treeline in the Maritime Alps	6
Prehistoric firewood gathering on the northeast Tibetan plateau: environmental and cultural determinism	6
Food in a colonial setting: the flora assemblage of a short-lived Seleucid-founded site in the Near East	6
Influence of taxonomic resolution on the value of anthropogenic pollen indicators	6
The environment they lived in: anthropogenic changes in local and regional vegetation composition in eastern Fennoscandia during the Neolithic	5
14,500 years of vegetation and land use history in the upper continental montane zone at Lac de Champex (Valais, Switzerland)	5
Food, farming and trade on the Danube frontier: plant remains from Roman Aelia Mursa (Osijek, Croatia)	5
The use of Cornus sanguinea L. (dogwood) fruits in the Late Neolithic	5
Changes in vegetation and human-environment interactions during the Holocene in the Lake Pueyrredón area (Southern Patagonia)	5
Understanding crop processing and its social meaning in the Xinzhai period (1850–1750 cal bce): a case study on the Xinzhai site, China	5
Iron Age plant subsistence in the Inner Congo Basin (DR Congo)	5
Plant use and rites at burnt offering sites in the Eastern Alps during the Bronze and Iron Ages	5
Agriculture and crop dispersal in the western periphery of the Old World: the Amazigh/Berber settling of the Canary Islands (ca. 2nd–15th centuries ce)	5
Modelling the potential ecological niche of domesticated buckwheat in China: archaeological evidence, environmental constraints and climate change	5
The potential of REVEALS-based vegetation reconstructions using pollen records from alluvial floodplains	5
The history of Abies pinsapo during the Holocene in southern Spain, based on pedoanthracological analysis	5
Starchy food residue on a potsherd from a late Holocene hunter-gatherer site in Argentine Patagonia: towards the visibility of wild underground storage organs	4
Middle Neolithic farming of open-air sites in SE France: new insights from archaeobotanical investigations of three wells found at Les Bagnoles (L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Dépt. Vaucluse, France)	4
Pre-Aksumite plant husbandry in the Horn of Africa	4
Differences in forest composition following two periods of settlement by pre-Columbian Native Americans	4
Paleoethnobotanical identification criteria for bulbs of the North American Northwest	4
Should Bromus secalinus (rye brome) be considered a crop?: Analysis of Bromus rich assemblages from protohistoric and historic sites in northern France and textual references	4
Vegetation history of the Maharlou Lake basin (SW Iran) with special reference to the Achaemenid period (550–330 bc)	4
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	4
Landscape and environmental conditions for the late Holocene in the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition (Argentina): a phytolith analysis of the El Tigre archaeological site	4
Agricultural resources in the Bronze Age city of Tel Lachish	4
Environmental changes and plant use during the 5th-14th centuries in medieval Gdańsk, northern Poland	4
Performance of vegetation cover reconstructions using lake and soil pollen samples from the Tibetan Plateau	4
Hellenistic agricultural economies at Ashkelon, Southern Levant	3
Understanding the plant economy of the westernmost territory of the Roman state through waste: the wet site of O Areal (Vigo, Spain)	3
Documenting a thousand years of environmental and anthropogenic changes on mangroves on the Bangkok coast, the upper Gulf of Thailand	3
A palynological perspective on the impacts of European contact: Historic deforestation, ranching and agriculture surrounding the Cuchumatanes Highlands, Guatemala	3
Integrating charcoal morphology and stable carbon isotope analysis to identify non-grass elongate charcoal in tropical savannas	3
Holocene woodland history of the Sierra de Ayllón (central Spain)	3
Woodland management at the Swedish middle Neolithic site of Alvastra? A new perspective	3
The history of settlement and agrarian land use in a boreal forest in Värmland, Sweden, new evidence from pollen analysis	3
Four millennia of vegetation and environmental history above the Hyrcanian forest, northern Iran	3
Identification of the Triticoid-type grains (Poaceae) from archaeobotanical assemblages in southwest Asia as Heteranthelium piliferum (Banks & Sol.) Hochst.	3
Insights into the indigenous-managed landscape in southeast Australia during the Holocene	3

Legacies of past human activities on one of the largest old-growth forests in the south-east European mountains	3
Life on a hilltop: vegetation history, plant husbandry and pastoralism at the dawn of Bergamo-Bergomum (northern Italy, 15th to 7th century bc)	3
A glimpse into the viticulture of Roman Lusitania: morphometric analysis of charred grape pips from Torre dos Namorados, Portugal	2
Vegetation history and human impacts from Thong Pha Phum, western Thailand during the past 700 years	2
Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia	2
The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	2
Vitis sp., Vitaceae and viticulture in the Indus Civilization, South Asia ca. 3200–1500 bc: a critical review	2
Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan	2
The persistent place at Lubrza: a small paradise for hunter-gatherers? Multi-disciplinary studies of Late Palaeolithic environment and human activity in the Łagów lake district (western Poland)	2
Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: a case study of Ashkelon	2
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	2
Transformation of West-Carpathian primeval woodlands into high-altitude grasslands from as early as the Bronze Age	2
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant	2
Archaeobotany of el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel (Israel): insights into plant exploitation along the Natufian sequence	2
Studies on archaeological olive fruitstones from the Archaic and Punic periods (7th–3rd century bc) of Sardinia, Italy	2
Linguistic evidence supports a long antiquity of cultivation of barley and buckwheat over that of millet and rice in Eastern Bhutan	2
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	2
Palynological evidence from a sub-alpine marsh of enhanced Little Ice Age snowpack in the Marrakech High Atlas, North Africa	2
A meta-analysis of the presence of crop plants in the Dutch and German terp area between 700 bc and ad 1600	1
Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram of Rokytecká slať mire, Bohemian Forest/Šumava (Czech Republic)	1
Reassessing the origin of lentil cultivation in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Southwest Asia: new evidence from carbon isotope analysis at Gusir Höyük	1
Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)	1
Neolithic land-use dynamics in northwest Ireland: multi-proxy evidence from Lough Arrow, County Sligo	1
Modern phytolith assemblages as indicators of vegetation in the southern Caucasus	1
Botanical composition of meadows and pastures and their role in the functioning of early medieval semi-artificial lake islands in Ziemia Lubuska (Lubusz land), western Poland	1
Phytolith assemblages reflect variability in human land use and the modern environment	1
Seeing the fields through the weeds: introducing the WeedEco R package for comparing past and present arable farming systems using functional weed ecology	1
Archaeobotanical and palaeoenvironmental analyses from the easternmost Early Neolithic sites at Kamyane-Zavallia (Ukraine) and Nicolaevca V (Moldova)	1
Burial rush matting: integrated analysis of a twilled mat fragment from the Thracian Kitova tumulus (South-East Bulgaria)	1
Identification and exploitation of wild rye (Secale spp.) during the early Neolithic in the Middle Euphrates valley	1
Subtropical montane vegetation dynamics in response to Holocene climate change in central Taiwan	1
Food and agriculture in Slavonia, Croatia, during the Late Middle Ages: the archaeobotanical evidence	1
New research on crop diversity of the early farmers in southeastern Europe (ca. 6400 − 5700 bce)	1
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	1
Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	1
A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)	1
Towards quantifying changes in forest cover in the Araucaria forest-grassland mosaic in southern Brazil	1
Possible climatically driven, later prehistoric woodland decline on Ben Lomond, central Scotland	1
ArchbotLit—the archaeobotanical literature database: an update of the search engine for literature on archaeological remains of cultivated plants since 1981	1
Potential palaeoflora of Last Glacial Maximum Eastern Beringia, northwest North America	1
Food and farming beyond the Alpine lake zone: the archaeobotany of the Copper Age settlements of Lenzing-Burgstall and Ansfelden-Burgwiese in Upper Austria, and an early occurrence of Triticum spelta	1
Correction: NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform	1
Vegetation changes in the Grote Nete valley (Campine region, Belgium) during the Boreal: a response to the 9.3 ka event?	1
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce	1
Land cover and use-history of large empty spaces at fortified Iron Age hilltop sites; a case study from La Terrasse, Bibracte oppidum	1
Genomic analysis of emmer wheat shows a complex history with two distinct domestic groups and evidence of differential hybridization with wild emmer from the western Fertile Crescent	1
Correction to: Tracking the history of grapevine cultivation in Georgia by combining geometric morphometrics and ancient DNA	1
Hunter-gatherer farming during the first millennium bce in inland, boreal landscapes: new pollen analytical and archaeological evidence from Dalarna, central Sweden	1
Plants from distant places: the 1st millennium ce archaeobotanical record from Iberia	1
Pre-Hispanic terrace agricultural practices and long-distance transfer of plant taxa in the southern-central Peruvian Andes revealed by phytolith and pollen analysis	1
A brief history of plants in north-eastern France: 6,000 years of crop introduction in the Plain of Troyes, Champagne	1