OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform	27
Dung in the dumps: what we can learn from multi-proxy studies of archaeological dung pellets	24
Pollen and plant diversity relationships in a Mediterranean montane area	20
8,000 years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy)	20
The first comprehensive archaeobotanical analysis of prehistoric agriculture in Kyrgyzstan	19
Microbotanical signatures of kreb: differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses	11
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet): evidence from Iron Age Kenya	11
At the origins of Pompeii: the plant landscape of the Sarno River floodplain from the first millennium bc to the ad 79 eruption	11
Vegetation dynamics and their response to Holocene climate change derived from multi-proxy records from Wangdongyang peat bog in southeast China	10
Palynological evidence for the temporal stability of the plant community in the Yellow River Source Area over the last 7,400 years	10
Getting to the root of the problem: new evidence for the use of plant root foods in Mesolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence in Europe	10
New insights into agriculture in northwestern France from the Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age: a weed ecological approach	9
Pollen richness: a reflection of vegetation diversity or pollen-specific parameters?	9
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)	9
Cultural landscape and plant use at the Phoenician site of Motya (Western Sicily, Italy) inferred from a disposal pit	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
Underwater archaeobotany: plant and wood analyses from the Vrouw Maria, a 1771 shipwreck in the Finnish Baltic Sea	8
Performance of vegetation cover reconstructions using lake and soil pollen samples from the Tibetan Plateau	8
Pre-Aksumite plant husbandry in the Horn of Africa	8
The potential of REVEALS-based vegetation reconstructions using pollen records from alluvial floodplains	8
Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia	8
Prehistoric firewood gathering on the northeast Tibetan plateau: environmental and cultural determinism	8
Influence of taxonomic resolution on the value of anthropogenic pollen indicators	8
The history of Abies pinsapo during the Holocene in southern Spain, based on pedoanthracological analysis	7

Testing the potential of pollen assemblages to capture composition, diversity and ecological gradients of surrounding vegetation in two biogeographical regions of southeastern Europe	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
14,500 years of vegetation and land use history in the upper continental montane zone at Lac de Champex (Valais, Switzerland)	7
Iron Age plant subsistence in the Inner Congo Basin (DR Congo)	7
Palaeoethnobotanical analysis of plant remains discovered in the graveyard of the Haihun Marquis, Nanchang, China	7
Identification of archaeobotanical Pistacia L. fruit remains: implications for our knowledge on past distribution and use in prehistoric Cyprus	7
Changes in vegetation and human-environment interactions during the Holocene in the Lake Pueyrredón area (Southern Patagonia)	6
Holocene vegetation, fire and land use dynamics at Lake Svityaz, an agriculturally marginal site in northwestern Ukraine	6
Understanding crop processing and its social meaning in the Xinzhai period (1850–1750 cal bce): a case study on the Xinzhai site, China	6
Legacies of past human activities on one of the largest old-growth forests in the south-east European mountains	6
Starchy food residue on a potsherd from a late Holocene hunter-gatherer site in Argentine Patagonia: towards the visibility of wild underground storage organs	6
Food in a colonial setting: the flora assemblage of a short-lived Seleucid-founded site in the Near East	6
A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)	5
Agricultural resources in the Bronze Age city of Tel Lachish	5
Differences in forest composition following two periods of settlement by pre-Columbian Native Americans	5
Paleoethnobotanical identification criteria for bulbs of the North American Northwest	5
Modelling the potential ecological niche of domesticated buckwheat in China: archaeological evidence, environmental constraints and climate change	5
Food, farming and trade on the Danube frontier: plant remains from Roman Aelia Mursa (Osijek, Croatia)	5
Plant use and rites at burnt offering sites in the Eastern Alps during the Bronze and Iron Ages	5
Landscape and environmental conditions for the late Holocene in the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition (Argentina): a phytolith analysis of the El Tigre archaeological site	5
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	5
Integrating charcoal morphology and stable carbon isotope analysis to identify non-grass elongate charcoal in tropical savannas	4
Understanding the plant economy of the westernmost territory of the Roman state through waste: the wet site of O Areal (Vigo, Spain)	4
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant	4
A glimpse into the viticulture of Roman Lusitania: morphometric analysis of charred grape pips from Torre dos Namorados, Portugal	4
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	4
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	4
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	4
Modern phytolith assemblages as indicators of vegetation in the southern Caucasus	4
Four millennia of vegetation and environmental history above the Hyrcanian forest, northern Iran	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
The history of settlement and agrarian land use in a boreal forest in Värmland, Sweden, new evidence from pollen analysis	4