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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
What Difference Does Posthumanism Make?	25
Cyprus, Sardinia and Sicily: A Maritime Perspective on Interaction, Connectivity and Imagination in Mediterranean Prehistory	19
The Elephant in the Handaxe: Lower Palaeolithic Ontologies and Representations	19
The Evolution of Complementary Cognition: Humans Cooperatively Adapt and Evolve through a System of Collective Cognitive Search	18
Tales from the Supplementary Information: Ancestry Change in Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age Britain Was Gradual with Varied Kinship Organization	14
An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar	13
Ethics, Not Objects	11
Posthumanism, New Humanism and Beyond	10
Staying Egalitarian and the Origins of Agriculture in the Middle East	10
Can We Decolonize the Ancient Past? Bridging Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory in Sudanese and Nubian Archaeology	9
Posthumanism in Archaeology: An Introduction	9
A Relational Marxist Critique of Posthumanism in Archaeology	8
Affirmation and Action: A Posthumanist Feminist Agenda for Archaeology	8
Indigenous Theory is Theory: Whakapapa for Archaeologists	8
Posthuman Potentials: Considering Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology	8
Small Signals: Comprehending the Australian Microlithic as Public Signalling	7
Beyond Tools and Function: The Selection of Materials and the Ontology of Hunter-Gatherers. Ethnographic Evidences and Implications for Palaeolithic Archaeology	7
Prehistoric Pendants as Instigators of Sound and Body Movements: A Traceological Case Study from Northeast Europe, c. 8200 cal. bp	7
Seeing Children in Prehistory: A View from Bronze Age Ireland	6
Iron Age Mnemonics: A Biographical Approach to Dwelling in Later Prehistoric Britain	6
Memory Scrapers: Readymade Concepts and Techniques as Reflected in Collecting and Recycling Patinated Lower Palaeolithic Items at Qesem Cave, Israel	6
Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology: Conceptual Challenges and an East African Case Study	5
Crafting Idiosyncrasies. Early Social Complexity, Ivory and Identity-Making in Copper Age Iberia	5
Finding symmetry? Archaeology, Objects, and Posthumanism	5
The Predicament of Ontology	5

Taking the Wrong Turn? Re-examining the Potential for Practice Approaches in Archaeology	5
Is Acheulean Handaxe Shape the Result of Imposed ‘Mental Templates’ or Emergent in Manufacture? Dissolving the Dichotomy through Exploring ‘Communities of Practice’ at Boxgrove, UK	5
‘Contact’ Rock Art and the Hybrid Economy Model: Interpreting Introduced Subject Matter from Marra Country, Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia	5
Earthen Architecture as a Community of Practice: A Case Study of Neolithic Earthen Production in the Eastern Mediterranean	5
Material Scientists: Learning the Importance of Colour and Brightness from Lithic Practitioners	4
The Metalworker as Social Agent: Alongue duréeApproach from Northwestern Iberia Atlantic Façade (Ninth–First Centuriesbce)	4
Filling the Void: Rock-art Continuity Over the Pleistocene–Holocene Boundary in Eastern Iberia	4
Naturalistic Parrots, Stylized Birds of Prey: Visual Symbolism of the Human–Animal Relationship in Pre-Hispanic Ceramic Art of the Paraná River Lowlands, South America	4
Subaltern Debris: Archaeology and Marginalized Communities	4
Large Predator Hunting and Its Interpretation: Leopards, Bears and Lions in the Archaeological Record of the Southern Levant	4
Neolithization and Population Replacement in Britain: An Alternative View	4
Reflections on Posthuman Ethics. Grievability and the More-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia	4
Material and Sensory Experiences of Mesolithic Resinous Substances	4
Towards a Spatial Archaeology of Crafting Landscapes	3
Photographic Insights from Engaged Archaeology: Yucatan and Beyond	3
Aggregation, status competition and levelling mechanisms in prehistoric Chulmun, Korea	3
Cultural Metallurgy—A Key Factor in the Transition from the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age in the Southern Levant	3
Rock Art and (Re)Production of Narratives: A Cassowary Bone Dagger Stencil Perspective from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea	3
‘I Have Done Hundreds of Rock Paintings’: On the Ongoing Rock Art Tradition among Samburu, Northern Kenya	3
Thinking Through Monuments: Levantine Monuments as Technologies of Community-Scale Motivated Social Cognition	3
Error or Minority? The Identification of Non-binary Gender in Prehistoric Burials in Central Europe	3
Using Topic Modelling to Reassess Heritage Values from a People-centred Perspective: Applications from the North of England	3
Becoming Through Milling: Challenging Linear Economic Narratives in Medieval England	3
Bodily Entanglements: Gender, Archaeological Sciences and the More-than-ness of Archaeological Bodies	3
Connecting Architectures across the Landscape: A Visibility and Network Analysis in the Island of Mallorca during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age	3
Dung on the Wall. Ontology and Relationality in Qurna: The Case of TT123	3
‘They are all dead that I could ask’: Indigenous Innovation and the Micropolitics of the Field in Twentieth-century Southern Africa	3
Changes in Raw Material Selection and Use at 400,000 Years bp: A Novel, Symbolic Relationship between Humans and Their World. Discussing Technological, Social and Cognitive Arguments	3
Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain)	3
Viewing the World through Cosmovision at Late Preclassic Noh K'uh in Chiapas, Mexico	3
Minds on Fire: Cognitive Aspects of Early Firemaking and the Possible Inventors of Firemaking Kits	3
Ayllus, Ancestors and the (Un)Making of the Wari State	3
Agents of Death: Reassessing Social Agency and Gendered Narratives of Human Sacrifice in the Viking Age	3
What Can A [Feminist] Body Do? Immanent and Emergent Capacities of Bodies at Chinchorro and Wor Barrow	3
Tending the ‘Contested’ Castle Garden: Sowing Seeds of Feminist Thought	3