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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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	29
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	23
Introduction to the special issue on ‘Plant use and management during the emergence of farming in Southwest Asia: recent insights and new approaches’	23
The importance of wild plant resources in the Neolithic: a case study of the Late Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Grandson-Corcelettes, Les Pins (Switzerland)	20
If it was not climate change… palynological investigations in the Eurasian Steppe (southern Trans-Urals, Russia) since the Bronze Age	16
Flax use, weeds and manuring in Viking Age Åland: archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis	16
Evidence for plant resource utilisation from the Southern Dynasties period (5th–6th century ce) in South China: a study of macrobotanical remains from the administrative office of Yuezhou Ancient City	15
List of critical referees, Volumes 32–33	14
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	14
Relative pollen productivity estimates for the dominant plant taxa in the Hoh Xil region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	13
Vegetation history of the Holocene from a maar lake in Guanajuato state, México	13
Agricultural crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the first millennium ce	12
Exploring palaeoecology in the Northern Territory: the Walanjiwurru rockshelter, vegetation dynamics and shifting social landscapes in Marra Country	12
The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology	11
Exploring the Celtic plant economy in a regional context: archaeobotanical assemblages from pit deposits at the oppidum of Altenburg-Rheinau, southwestern Germany	11
Phytolith evidence for plant use at the mid-Holocene Porto da Mina coastal shell mound, Brazilian Amazon	10
Holocene vegetation dynamics, river valley evolution and human settlement of the upper Kama valley, Ural region, Russia	10
Intensive pastoralism facilitated the rise of the Tang Dynasty in China	10
Landscape of ice and fire – uniquely well-preserved Scots pine trunks reveal forest fires near the retreating Weichselian ice margin	9
Exploring prehistoric plant use by molecular analyses of Neolithic grave goods	9
Correction: New crops in the 1st millennium ce in northern Italy	9
Correction to: The vegetation and land use histories of two farms in Iceland: settlement, monasticism, and tenancy	9
Water on fire: experimental approaches towards detecting (or ruling out) presence of liquid during formation of cereal based amorphous charred objects	9
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	9
Modern pollen spectra from the east European forest steppe reflect land use patterns rather than a climatic gradient	8

Re-thinking the preservation biases impacting the Neolithic plant record in the Iberian Peninsula: insights from La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)	8
Disentangling plant management practices in Neolithic southwest Asia: a functional ecological perspective on habitat productivity and vegetation density	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	8
Geometric morphometric analysis of Neolithic wheat grains: insights into the early development of free-threshing forms	8
Correction: Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	8
Post-harvest practices of archaeological common beans from La Estancia (Catamarca, Argentina): an experimental approach	7
Climate and agricultural history from the Petén Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya lowlands of southern Mexico	7
The disappearance of Capparis spinosa (the cultivated caper) from the southern Levant	7
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	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	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
A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)	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
Archaeobotanical evidence and ethnobotanical interpretation of plants used as coffin pillow fillings in burials in Poland (17th-18/19th centuries)	7
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: a comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas	7
Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)	7
Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the nature of cereal agriculture at 8th- and 9th-century ad Sedgeford, East Anglia, UK	7
New perspectives on plant-use at neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria: an integrated phytolith and spherulite study	7
Archaeobotanical data from a Baran settlement (4,300–3,400 yrs bp) in the Ghaggar basin (northwestern India) reveals continuity of the Indus crop package after the Meghalayan stage drought	7
Contribution to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma: a pollen diagram from the Kampe site, Quakenbrück Basin/western Lower Saxony (Germany)	7
A tale of new crops in the arid Arabian Peninsula oasis from antiquity to the early Islamic period	7
Holocene vegetation change at Grosssee, eastern Swiss Alps: effects of climate and human impact	7
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II	7
Which pulse is it? Identifying archaeological legumes seeds by means of biometric measurements and geometric morphometrics	7
Stable carbon isotope (δ13C) analysis of archaeobotanical remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı (western Anatolia) to investigate crop management	7
Recognizing Prunus persica (peach) and allied Rosaceae by the morphological characteristics of their fruitstones	7
Correction: Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	7
Advances in phytolith research in archaeology and paleoecology: developments and applications	6
From field to find: an ethnographic study of crop straw use and its archaeological implications	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
Colourful rivers: archaeobotanical remains of dye plants from urban fluvial deposits in the southern Low Countries (Belgium)	6
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant	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
Late Holocene hemp (Cannabis sativa) retting in NE Hungary and the Holocene spread of hemp cultivation in eastern-central Europe	5
Environment and settlement - A multiproxy record of holocene palaeoenvironmental development from Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland	5
Archaeobotanical storytelling in a landscape of the mind: community engagement and education at Neolithic Boncuklu Höyük, Türkiye	5
Dasypyrum villosum (mosquito grass) in archaeobotanical assemblages from the Balkans and east-central Europe reveals aspects of human plant- and land use	5
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction through phytolith analysis in the Casa de Pedra shell mound archaeological site, São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil	5
New evidence for food in the Late-Medieval Balkans: archaeobotany of Venetian houses at Butrint in southern Albania	5
The first comprehensive macroremains analysis of edible plants from Vichama, Peru (1800–1500 bce)	5
A new tool for formalised vegetation reconstruction from (sub)fossil records – the FEVER Index	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