OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The importance of wild plant resources in the Neolithic: a case study of the Late Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Grandson-Corcelettes, Les Pins (Switzerland)	25
Survival during the 4.2 ka event by Jomon hunter–gatherers with management and use of plant resources at the Denotame site in central Japan	21
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	20
If it was not climate change… palynological investigations in the Eurasian Steppe (southern Trans-Urals, Russia) since the Bronze Age	16
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	15
Introduction to the special issue on ‘Plant use and management during the emergence of farming in Southwest Asia: recent insights and new approaches’	15
Flax use, weeds and manuring in Viking Age Åland: archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis	14
Vegetation history of the Holocene from a maar lake in Guanajuato state, México	12
The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology	12
List of critical referees, Volumes 32–33	12
Intensive pastoralism facilitated the rise of the Tang Dynasty in China	12
Exploring palaeoecology in the Northern Territory: the Walanjiwurru rockshelter, vegetation dynamics and shifting social landscapes in Marra Country	10
Correction: New crops in the 1st millennium ce in northern Italy	10
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce	10
Holocene vegetation dynamics, river valley evolution and human settlement of the upper Kama valley, Ural region, Russia	10
Relative pollen productivity estimates for the dominant plant taxa in the Hoh Xil region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	10
Landscape of ice and fire – uniquely well-preserved Scots pine trunks reveal forest fires near the retreating Weichselian ice margin	10
Exploring prehistoric plant use by molecular analyses of Neolithic grave goods	9
Correction: Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	8
Re-thinking the preservation biases impacting the Neolithic plant record in the Iberian Peninsula: insights from La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)	8
Correction to: The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	8
Tracking medieval and early modern expansion of livestock farming in Sweden’s boreal forest: two high-resolution studies of pollen, coprophilous fungi and charcoal from Hälsingland and Jämtland	8
Modern pollen spectra from the east European forest steppe reflect land use patterns rather than a climatic gradient	8
“It’s all just barley and figs!” Identifying patterns of plant waste accumulation in House 169, Elephantine Island, Egypt (1750–1650 bc) using machine learning	7
Plants and early hunter-gatherers at Taguatagua 3: Microfossil evidence from stone tools at a late Pleistocene lake shore site in central Chile	7

Plant use at Funnel Beaker sites: combined macro- and microremains analysis at the Early Neolithic site of Frydenlund, Denmark (ca. 3600 bce)	7
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)	7
Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	7
New perspectives on plant-use at neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria: an integrated phytolith and spherulite study	7
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	7
Correction: Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	7
Climate and agricultural history from the Petén Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya lowlands of southern Mexico	7
Recognizing Prunus persica (peach) and allied Rosaceae by the morphological characteristics of their fruitstones	7
The impact of Lusatian Urnfield and subsequent prehistoric cultures on lake and woodland ecosystems: insights from multi-proxy palaeoecological investigations at Bruszczewo, western Poland	6
Stable carbon isotope (δ13C) analysis of archaeobotanical remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı (western Anatolia) to investigate crop management	6
Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)	6
Palynological pairing of archaeological rock shelter and swamp deposits on the Arnhem Plateau: Holocene ecological changes at Nawarla Gabarnmang and Swamp 7, Northern Territory	6
New evidence for food in the Late-Medieval Balkans: archaeobotany of Venetian houses at Butrint in southern Albania	6
A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)	6
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	6
Colourful rivers: archaeobotanical remains of dye plants from urban fluvial deposits in the southern Low Countries (Belgium)	6
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: a comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas	6
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant	6
Advances in phytolith research in archaeology and paleoecology: developments and applications	6
Holocene vegetation change at Grosssee, eastern Swiss Alps: effects of climate and human impact	6
Archaeobotanical evidence and ethnobotanical interpretation of plants used as coffin pillow fillings in burials in Poland (17th-18/19th centuries)	6
Which pulse is it? Identifying archaeological legumes seeds by means of biometric measurements and geometric morphometrics	6
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II	6
The disappearance of Capparis spinosa (the cultivated caper) from the southern Levant	6
First identification of plant remains in earthen architecture of Argentina: constructive and domestic archaeological data from early colonial contexts (16th and 17th centuries)	6
A tale of new crops in the arid Arabian Peninsula oasis from antiquity to the early Islamic period	6
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction through phytolith analysis in the Casa de Pedra shell mound archaeological site, São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil	5
Late Holocene hemp (Cannabis sativa) retting in NE Hungary and the Holocene spread of hemp cultivation in eastern-central Europe	5
Plant macrofossils as indicators of vegetation and climate change in the Northern Black Forest of Germany during the last millennium - with focus on the Little Ice Age	5
The first comprehensive macroremains analysis of edible plants from Vichama, Peru (1800–1500 bce)	5
Development of crop growing from the late Yangshao to early Longshan period in the Zhengluo region of central China: phytolith evidence from the Shuanghuaishu site	5
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	5
Comparison of image acquisition techniques and morphometric methods to distinguish between Vitis vinifera subspecies and cultivars	5
Morphometrics shed new light on the first archaeobotanical evidence for the cultivation and breeding of Vicia faba var. equina (horse bean) and var. major (broad bean) in medieval southern Italy	5