OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cambridge Archaeological 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards a Broader Understanding of the Emergence of Iron Technology in Prehistoric Arctic Fennoscandia	40
A Queer Feminist Perspective on the Early Neolithic Urfa Region: The Ecstatic Agency of the Phallus	24
CAJ volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	15
Pioneers in Animate Landscapes: Situating Rock Art in the Colonization Process of Northern Norway	13
CAJ volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	13
Dances with Zigzags in Toro Muerto, Peru: Geometric Petroglyphs as (Possible) Embodiments of Songs	11
CAJ volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	10
The Proceduralization of Hominin Knapping Skill: Memorizing Different Lithic Technologies	10
More Error than Minority: Gendered Burial Practices Align with Peptide-based Sex Identification in Early Bronze Age Burials in Central Europe	9
Commentary: Making Kin Beyond Kinship	9
Relationality, Immanence, Hierarchy: The Nature and Culture of Being(s) at Göbekli Tepe	9
CAJ volume 33 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	8
Building Ideas out of Wood. What Ancient Egyptian Funerary ‘Models’ Tell Us about Thought and Communication	8
A Kin-based Trade Partnership Model for Obsidian in the Halafian Interaction Sphere: A View from the Southern Levant Wadi Rabah Culture	8
Reflections on a Counter-Humanist Archaeology: A Commentary on Greer 2023	7
Caring beyond Kinship: Exploring Non-biological Relatedness and Childcare in Burial Contexts across Disciplines	7
Bringing Kinship Back into the House	7
Social Exclusion in Ancient Egypt: A Sociological Approach	6
Turning Art into Hammers: A Complex Biography of Palaeolithic Portable Art from Coímbre Cave (Asturias, Spain)	6
CAJ volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	6
The Constructed Desert: A Sacred Cultural Landscape at Har Tzuriaz, Negev, Israel	6
Death and Depths: Exploring Early Fifth Millennium bce Ritual Performance in Har Sifsof Cave, Upper Galilee (Israel)	6
Toward a Poetics of Maya Art and Writing	6
Gathering Spaces: Towards an Archaeology of Trans-cultural Community Formation in Ancient Sinope	5
Bridlington Boulevard Revisited: New Insights into Pit and Post-hole Cremations in Neolithic Britain	5

Landscapes of Pre-Hispanic Andean Kinship: Ancestors, Ayllus and Relationality	5
CAJ volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Using Topic Modelling to Reassess Heritage Values from a People-centred Perspective: Applications from the North of England	5
A Partial Prehistory of the Southwest Silk Road: Archaeometallurgical Networks along the Sub-Himalayan Corridor	5
CAJ volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	5
Folk Magic and the Haunting of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland	5
CAJ volume 32 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	5
Reframing the Uruk Expansion: Glocalization and Local Dynamics in the Late Chalcolithic Adhaim-Sirwan Drainage Basin, Iraqi Kurdistan	5
Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain)	5
Naturalizing the Normative: Cosmology, Ontogenesis and the Emergence of Ritual Communities in Southern Roman Britain	5
Insights into Natufian Social Identity: A Case Study from the Graveyard of Hayonim Cave	5
The Mandate for Speculation: Responding to Uncertainty in Archaeological Thinking	4
Acheulean Handaxes in Medieval France: An Earlier ‘Modern’ Social History for Palaeolithic Bifaces	4
The Archaeology of the ‘Elderly’, ‘Elders’, ‘Fathers’ and ‘Mothers’ in Iron Age Israel: Building 101 at Tel ʿEton as a Case-Study	4
Zoroastrian Cave as Heritage for the Long-Term Preservation of Identity and Social Cohesion of This Minority Community	4
Textiles and Staple Finance in the Near East and the Southern Levant	3
Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean World at the Turn of the First Millenniumce: Networks, Commodities and Cultural Reception	3
Kinship Analysis in Specified Contexts: When Interdisciplinary Cooperation is Too Narrow, Results Tend to be Misleading	3
An Argaric Tomb for a Carpathian ‘Princess’?	3
Wealth in Livestock, Wealth-in-People, and Shifting Modes of Production in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Jordan – CORRIGENDUM	3
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance	3
Towards Ontological Alterity in the Nordic Bronze Age? Perspectives from Ornamented Personal Objects	3
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in San Forager Theories of Disease, and Its Implications for Understanding Images of Conflict in Southern African Rock Art	3
New Materialism and Posthumanism in Roman Archaeology: When Objects Speak for Others	3
Superstitious Beliefs in the Necropolises of the Huelva Coast: Peculiarities of the Premature Death of Children, Outcasts and Women	3