OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Osteoarchaeology is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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Exploring Division of Labor at the Jiaojia Site in the Late Neolithic Period, Eastern China Using Entheseal Changes as Proxy	17
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Conjoined first (atlas) and second (axis) cervical vertebrae in an eastern wapiti (Cervus canadensis canadensis) from the Angel Site (1000–1400 CE, Indiana, USA)	15
Therapeutic dentistry in prehistoric Maryland—New analyses from the Hughes (18MO1) archeological site	12
Notes on early childhood diets in early modern Oulu, Finland, based on the stable isotope case studies of archeological dentin	11
Blue fibers found in dental calculus from Maya sacrificial victims	11
Anthropological, Palaeopathological, and Stable Isotope Analyses of the Early Medieval Population of Corte Romana (Cividale, NE Italy) During the Period of Langobard Rule (6th–7th centuries ad	10
Unusual find of osteolytic lesion on skeleton from the Middle Bronze Age—Possible case of peritoneal abscess	9
Who Ate All the Thrushes? Roman Urban Street Food Consumers as well as Elites	8
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Dental wear in a marine economy: A case study from Philistine Ashkelon	8
Only photos on my best side, please! Implications of bilateral asymmetry of the iliac auricular surface in non‐adult individuals for sex estimation	7
Diet and Cultural Transition in Sixth Century ad China: New Isotopic Studies on Multiple Elite and Commoner Individuals in the Chang'an Region	7
Neanderthals Among Bird Accumulators on French Mediterranean Coasts: The Case of Les Ramandils Cave (Port‐la‐Nouvelle, Aude, Southern France)	7
Nostalgia for the old country—A histological exploration of early childhood physiological stress experiences in colonial Otago, New Zealand	7
A bioarcheological contribution to the social history of Roman Macedonia: The Pontokomi‐Vrysi site in Kozani Prefecture, Greece	7
A 10 ka intentionally deformed human skull from Northeast Asia	7
Subsistence strategies in the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age in Nenjiang River Basin: A zooarchaeological and stable isotope analysis of faunal remains at Honghe site, Northeast China	7
Chickens consumed in early modern samurai residences: A study of bird remains from the Ichigaya Honmura‐cho site, Tokyo, Japan	7
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Early childhood nurturing strategies in groups of the Yellow River's middle reaches from the late Yangshao culture (3500–2800 BCE): A stable isotope perspective	6
Bird remains from ecclesiastical sites in medieval Hungary	6
Sex differences in mechanical stress and associated labor in Hellenistic–early Roman Menainon, Sicily	6
Neolithic Lifeways at the Microlevel: Isobiographies From Italy	6

Bird bone artifact from the Late Eneolithic/Early Bronze Age site of Zók (Hungary)	6
Cremated Bone in Archaeology: Ethical Considerations in the Excavation, Analysis, Storage, and Display of Cremated Bone in the United Kingdom	6
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Bird remains from Vilnius Lower Castle, Lithuania (13th–19th centuries) reveal changes in social status and unusual bird pathologies	6
Seasonal Exploitation of Migratory Waterfowl at Natufian el‐Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel	6
A child left behind: Malnutrition and chronic illness of a child from the Erie County Poorhouse Cemetery	6
The Zooarchaeology of an Iberian Medieval Jewish Community: The Castle of Lorca (Murcia, Spain)	6
Cuon Versus Canis : A Comparative Guide to the Morphological Distinction of Postcranial Bones and Its Archaeo‐Paleontological	5
Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence: Domesticated and wild bovids in Neolithic Sudan	5
Beyond the Binary? A Multi‐Method Approach to Sexing Children at the Viking Age Site of Ihre, Gotland	5
Domestic Cattle ( Bos taurus ) Late Neolithic Burial at Krzczonowice, the Greater Trochanter of Fe	5
Paleodiets of hunter‐gatherers from the central Patagonian coast: Reviewing scopes and limitations of stable isotope analyses	5
Interpersonal violence in colonial era in Papua, Indonesia: A case study of trauma patterns of a Biak individual	5
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Osteometry of Duck Species in Northwestern Europe—A Reassessment of Woelfle's (1967) Dataset	5
Sheep (Ovis aries) of Venda speakers during the second millennium AD in South Africa	5
Geometric morphometric approach to dental health in an 18th‐ to 19th‐century English infirmary	5
Study on the dietary pattern and local isotopes of the Xiaoshuangqiao Shang Dynasty (1400 bc) site in China	4
Juvenile sex estimation using the elevation of the auricular surface: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	4
Occupational patterns in Anglo‐Saxon and Medieval East Midlands, England: Insights from activity‐related skeletal changes	4
Monastic meals: The role of birds in the diet of the Poor Clares at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes (Barcelona, Spain) from medieval to modern periods (14th to 19th centuries AD)	4
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Female skeletal health and socioeconomic status in medieval Norway (11th–16th centuries AD): Analysis of bone mineral density and stature	4
Animals' paleopathology: Implications on human–animal interaction during the intensification of farming in the Southern Levant	4
Intra‐tooth isotopic analysis (δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N) of dentine collagen in high‐crowned teeth: A new experimental study with modern sheep specimens	4
Abnormal bone loss in the external auditory canal of two adult humans from the medieval period of Germany—An attempt at differential diagnosis	4
A fifth‐ to sixth‐century CE lynx (Lynx lynx L., 1758) skeleton from Hungary 2: Stature and archaeological interpretations	4
The great auk in Norway: From common to locally extinct	4
The role of TV documentaries to disseminate osteoarchaeology more widely: The good, the bad, and the ugly	4
Hyperostosis frontalis interna: A new perspective in burned individuals' analysis for determining age and sex from archeo‐anthropological and medicolegal contexts	4
Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European accipitrid birds of prey	4
Some Highlights From 2024: A Year in Review at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology	4
Assessing the Greater Sciatic Notch With 2‐D Shape Analysis for Sex Estimation	4
STARC OSTEOARCH: An open access resource for recording and sharing human osteoarchaeological data	4
Recovery lines in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Computed tomography investigations in European museums	4
Subsistence and animal management at Iron Age sites of Quanshuigou and Dumuduebudege in western Xinjiang, China	4
Bioarchaeological insights into the Late Helladic communities of South Kynouria, Peloponnese: The case of the LH IIIA2‐IIIB2 burial cluster of Socha	4
The talus of the pre‐Hispanic population from Punta Azul (El Hierro, Canary Islands): Variability and sexual dimorphism of nonmetric traits	4
An unprecedented case of cranial surgery in Longobard Italy (6th–8th century) using a cruciform incision	4
Diet of the Chanyu and his people: Stable isotope analysis of the human remains from Xiongnu burials in western and northern Mongolia	4
Roman Republican Subsistence Strategies: The Case of Compartment 2 at Castelo Velho de Safara, Portugal	4
A Dangerous Trade: Traumatic Injuries Likely Sustained From Turquoise Mining a Millenia Ago in the Atacama Desert, Chile	3
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A skeletal dysplasia leading to a perinatal death in 17th–19th century Lisbon, Portugal	3
A glimpse into the body shape and limb proportions of enslaved Africans from Lagos, Portugal (15th–17th centuries)	3
The effect of age on entheseal changes: A study of modifications at appendicular attachment sites in a large sample of identified human skeletons	3
Bone Arrow Points Manufacturing in Prehispanic Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina	3
Early Childhood in Precolonial South America: Breastfeeding, Infant Mortality, and Stable Isotopes Analysis in Southeastern Shell Mound Builders During the Middle Holocene (7th–5th Millennium BP)	3
Social interaction between the coast and the highlands of Chile's arid north (20°S) during the mid‐Holocene: The case of Vicugna vicugna (Molina, 1782) and Hippocamelus antis	3

Primary double teeth in archeological medieval material from the area of Poland: A report on two cases	3
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Complex skeletal foot malformation in a Samnite “warrior grave” from Abruzzo, southern Italy (8th–5th century BCE)	3
Growing up in the suburbs: Growth faltering and disease burden in the children from 16th to 18th century Tallinn, Estonia	3
Accumulation agents and bird assemblages: The case of the TE9d level at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)	3
Considering passenger pigeon abundance and distribution in the Late Woodland zooarchaeological record of southern Ontario, Canada	3
Gone Batty: A Newly Adapted Morphological Methodology for Bat Cranial Remains Within an Archaeological Setting	3
Early evidence of extra‐masticatory dental wear in a Neolithic community at Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan	3
Bronze age horsemen: An evaluation of pathological and nonpathological changes for indicators of “horsemanship syndrome” of the Strzyżów culture population, Poland, 2000–1600 BC	3
A natural death assemblage of fishes from an early modern archeological context in Antwerp (Belgium)	3
Fish out of water	3
Life history of a high‐class noblewoman from the late Shu state in the Chengdu Plain during the Eastern Zhou period (770–221 BC): Childhood stresses and stable life	3
Sex estimation by discriminant function analysis of long bones in prehistoric Southeast Asian populations	3
An Upper Paleolithic horse mandible with an embedded lithic projectile: Insights into 16,500 cal BP hunting strategies through a unique case of bone injury from Cantabrian Spain	3
The Effect of Soft Tissues in Burnt Human Skeletal Remains	3
Predictive use of modern reference osteological collections for disentangling the shape of Eurasian equid cheek teeth and metapodials in archaeological material	3
Human Use of Bird Resources in the Northeastern Coasts of the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego, Southern South America) During the Late Holocene	3
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A community in transition: Analysis of health and well‐being in people living during and following aridification	3
Dento‐Alveolar Infectious Diseases Among Hunter‐Gatherers From Northeast and Central Chubut Province (Argentina) During the Late Holocene	2
Extending our understanding of past animal diet using stable isotope analysis	2
Bone spearheads from the Late Prehispanic Period of Sierras of Cordoba (Argentina)	2
Lions as Bone Accumulators? Exploring Multi‐Predator Contributions to the Olduvai Carnivore Site (OCS) (Tanzania) Through AI and Metric Analyses	2
Death at distance: Mobility, memory, and place among the late precontact Oneota in the central Illinois River Valley	2
Dental disease reflects differential diets and changes in consumption over time at Knossos	2
Halal and Makruk: Muslim archaeological fish assemblages as cultural identifiers in the Iberian Middle Ages?	2
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Editorial: A tribute to Debra Martin	2
Zooarchaeology of Ban Chiang and the rise of early farming communities in mainland Southeast Asia	2
Reconstructing the life histories of a noble couple from the Joseon period, Korea, based on skeletal evidence and historical records	2
Weaponry and a Healed Wound From the Parthian Era (247 bce to 224 ce ): Insights From the Liyarsan	2
First Identification of Bone Whistle‐Use in Dynastic Egypt	2
From the Womb to the Tomb: Identifying Calving Deaths in Archaeology	2
Skeletal evidence for two external auditory canal disorder cases from medieval China	2
Paleodietary reconstruction of endemic rodents from the precolumbian Dominican Republic: Discriminating wild feeding behavior from diets linked to human niche construction activities	2
Hypomineralization disorder in tropical Southeast Asia during the agricultural revolution: Analysis of morbidity and mortality	2
Transformation processes in the osteoarchaeological record between the Iron Age and the Roman times with reference to the civitas Treverorum	2
Horse‐riding as a habitual activity among the early medieval Avar population of the cemetery of Csokorgasse (Vienna): Sex and chronological differences	2
Sheep Ahoy: Exploring sheep management and its role in Viking Age economy through multiproxy analyses at Löddeköpinge, Sweden	2
First Phalanx Morphometrics Reveals Camelid Morphotype Variability at Los Batanes (11^th/12^th c. ce), Southern Coastal Peru	2
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Osseous harpoon heads of hunter‐gatherers from the lower Paraná wetland	2
A comparative study of malocclusion and its severity in the Ottoman period and modern populations	2
Animal diseases in the southern part of the Carpathian Basin during the medieval period	2
A cattle mandible thong‐smoother from a grave: Strap production and cattle traction in the Late Copper Age in Hungary	2
Statistical protocol for analyzing 3D muscle attachment sites based on the “Validated Entheses‐based Reconstruction of Activity” (VERA) approach	2
Two cases of skeletal fluorosis from the historic cemetery at Zhangwan, Henan Province, China	2
How we can learn from analysing trauma in past societies	2
Maya Sequential Burials and Subsistence Change at the Prehispanic Site of Caledonia, Cayo District, Belize: The Radiocarbon Evidence	2
A probable case of multiple osteochondromas in a Qing period (1644–1911) individual from Shandong, China	2
Goffette, Q, Suarez Gonzalez, N, Vanmechelen, R, Verheyen, E, & Sonet, G (2022). Tracking the origin of worked elephant ivory of a medieval chess piece from Belgium through analysis of ancient DNA	2
A Method for Detecting Bias in Human Archaeological Cemetery Samples	2
Oral health and nonmolar dental attrition in the Siwa‐period individuals from the Bronze Age Mogou cemetery, Northwest China	2
A study of reviewing at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology: Accepting, declining, fairness, and responsibilities	2
Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European birds of prey: Falcons and owls	2
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A visual guide for the Brabant index to score dental macrowear quantity and direction	2
Why did the chicken cross the Wallace Line? Archeological evidence suggests human‐mediated dispersal of Gallus to Flores first occurred at least ~2.25 ka cal. BP	2
Ethics in Osteoarchaeology	2
Employing radiography (X‐rays) to localize lesions in human skeletal remains from past populations to allow accurate biopsy, using examples of cancer metastases	2
Neotaphonomic Analysis of Bone Accumulation by a Nocturnal Raptor (Bubo bubo): Evidence From Avian Remains in Oliva Mountain (Tarragona, Spain)	2