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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
What Difference Does Posthumanism Make?	21
Wealth Inequality in the Ancient Near East: A Preliminary Assessment Using Gini Coefficients and Household Size	18
The Elephant in the Handaxe: Lower Palaeolithic Ontologies and Representations	16
Cyprus, Sardinia and Sicily: A Maritime Perspective on Interaction, Connectivity and Imagination in Mediterranean Prehistory	16
The Evolution of Complementary Cognition: Humans Cooperatively Adapt and Evolve through a System of Collective Cognitive Search	16
Tales from the Supplementary Information: Ancestry Change in Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age Britain Was Gradual with Varied Kinship Organization	14
Upper Palaeolithic Installation Art: Topography, Distortion, Animation and Participation in the Production and Experience of Cantabrian Cave Art	12
Survival, Social Cohesion and Rock Art: The Painted Hands of Western Arnhem Land, Australia	11
Ethics, Not Objects	9
Posthumanism in Archaeology: An Introduction	9
Posthumanism, New Humanism and Beyond	9
Posthuman Potentials: Considering Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology	8
Hominin Stone Flaking and the Emergence of ‘Top-down’ Design in Human Evolution	8
Affirmation and Action: A Posthumanist Feminist Agenda for Archaeology	8
Iron Age ‘Predatory Landscapes’: A Bioarchaeological and Funerary Exploration of Captivity and Enslavement in Britain	7
Can We Decolonize the Ancient Past? Bridging Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory in Sudanese and Nubian Archaeology	7
An Alternative to ‘Celtic from the East’ and ‘Celtic from the West’	7
A Relational Marxist Critique of Posthumanism in Archaeology	7
An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar	7
How the Cycladic Islanders Found Their Marbles: Material Engagement, Social Cognition and the Emergence of Keros	6
Beyond Tools and Function: The Selection of Materials and the Ontology of Hunter-Gatherers. Ethnographic Evidences and Implications for Palaeolithic Archaeology	6
Seeing Children in Prehistory: A View from Bronze Age Ireland	6
Prehistoric Pendants as Instigators of Sound and Body Movements: A Traceological Case Study from Northeast Europe, c. 8200 cal. bp	6
Indigenous Theory is Theory: Whakapapa for Archaeologists	6
Staying Egalitarian and the Origins of Agriculture in the Middle East	6

Becoming Dead: Burial Assemblages as Vitalist Devices	6
Small Signals: Comprehending the Australian Microlithic as Public Signalling	6
Memory Scrapers: Readymade Concepts and Techniques as Reflected in Collecting and Recycling Patinated Lower Palaeolithic Items at Qesem Cave, Israel	6
The Predicament of Ontology	5
Finding symmetry? Archaeology, Objects, and Posthumanism	5
Iron Age Mnemonics: A Biographical Approach to Dwelling in Later Prehistoric Britain	5
Faces in the Stone: Further Finds of Anthropomorphic Engravings Suggest a Discrete Artistic Tradition Flourished in Timor-Leste in the Terminal Pleistocene	5
An Archaeology of the Aesthetic: Slavery and Politics at the Jesuit Vineyards of Nasca	5
Taking the Wrong Turn? Re-examining the Potential for Practice Approaches in Archaeology	5
Type and Token in the Prehistoric Origins of Numbers	5
Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology: Conceptual Challenges and an East African Case Study	4
Material Scientists: Learning the Importance of Colour and Brightness from Lithic Practitioners	4
Neolithization and Population Replacement in Britain: An Alternative View	4
‘Contact’ Rock Art and the Hybrid Economy Model: Interpreting Introduced Subject Matter from Marra Country, Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia	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
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
Using Topic Modelling to Reassess Heritage Values from a People-centred Perspective: Applications from the North of England	4
Crafting Idiosyncrasies. Early Social Complexity, Ivory and Identity-Making in Copper Age Iberia	4
The Metalworker as Social Agent: Alongue duréeApproach from Northwestern Iberia Atlantic Façade (Ninth–First Centuriesbce)	4
Artefact Categories, Artefact Assemblages and Ontological Alterity	3
Viewing the World through Cosmovision at Late Preclassic Noh K'uh in Chiapas, Mexico	3
Agents of Death: Reassessing Social Agency and Gendered Narratives of Human Sacrifice in the Viking Age	3
Rock Art and (Re)Production of Narratives: A Cassowary Bone Dagger Stencil Perspective from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea	3
Tending the ‘Contested’ Castle Garden: Sowing Seeds of Feminist Thought	3
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	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
Becoming Through Milling: Challenging Linear Economic Narratives in Medieval England	3
Aggregation, status competition and levelling mechanisms in prehistoric Chulmun, Korea	3
Project Holocene: The Clayful Phenomenology of Jōmon Flame Pots	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
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
Cultural Metallurgy—A Key Factor in the Transition from the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age in the Southern Levant	3
‘They are all dead that I could ask’: Indigenous Innovation and the Micropolitics of the Field in Twentieth-century Southern Africa	3
Dung on the Wall. Ontology and Relationality in Qurna: The Case of TT123	3