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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Health, stress, and urbanism in the Hellenistic–Roman metropolis of Nea Paphos, Cyprus: A comparative analysis	22
Twins found in a Late Dynastic/Coptic Egyptian mummy	13
Bioarchaeological insights into the Late Helladic communities of South Kynouria, Peloponnese: The case of the LH IIIA2‐IIIB2 burial cluster of Socha	13
Conjoined first (atlas) and second (axis) cervical vertebrae in an eastern wapiti (Cervus canadensis canadensis) from the Angel Site (1000–1400 CE, Indiana, USA)	12
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	11
How dental wear can tell us about the lifestyles and trade specialization of the Philistine populations in the Iron Age Levant	11
Mixed economy and dried foods: Dental indicators reveal Heishuiguo Han Dynasty population's environmental adaptation to the semi‐arid region of northwestern China	10
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Illness and inclusion: Mobility histories of adolescents with leprosy from Anglo‐Scandinavian Norwich (Eastern England)	10
Differences in Dental Size Among the Indigenous Population of the Canary Islands	10
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Blue fibers found in dental calculus from Maya sacrificial victims	9
Urbanization and respiratory stress in the Northern Low Countries: A comparative study of chronic maxillary sinusitis in two early modern sites from the Netherlands (AD 1626–1866)	9
Perinatal burials at pre‐Hispanic noncemetery sites in Gran Canaria: Tophet, infanticide, or natural mortality?	8
They fought on horseback, didn't they?	8
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Notes on early childhood diets in early modern Oulu, Finland, based on the stable isotope case studies of archeological dentin	7
Starch remains from human teeth reveal the Bronze and Early Iron Ages vegetal diet of Xinjiang, Northwest China	7
Pastures and fodder for feeding equids 3000 years ago: The Can Roqueta site (Barcelona, Spain) as a model of equine herd management	7
Investigating the dentoalveolar complex in archaeological human skull specimens: Additional findings with large volume micro‐CT compared to standard methods	7
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A case of cholesteatoma in a medieval Hispano‐Mudejar population (13th–14th centuries ad)	6
A bioarchaeological approach for the examination of two Lithuanian clergymen: Juozapas Arnulfas Giedraitis and Simonas Mykolas Giedraitis (18th–19th centuries AD)	6
Subsistence and animal management at Iron Age sites of Quanshuigou and Dumuduebudege in western Xinjiang, China	6

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)	6
Unusual find of osteolytic lesion on skeleton from the Middle Bronze Age—Possible case of peritoneal abscess	6
How cranial surgery was performed in Italy during the centuries after the Roman Empire but before the rise of the medieval universities: Integrating paleopathology and medical history	6
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The role of TV documentaries to disseminate osteoarchaeology more widely: The good, the bad, and the ugly	6
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Therapeutic dentistry in prehistoric Maryland—New analyses from the Hughes (18MO1) archeological site	6
Who's to blame? The Mesolithic non‐anthropic leporids from Cueva de los Postes (Badajoz, Spain)	5
The rarest among the rare? Acrometastases and disability in the past and beyond	5
Thalassemia major in a 49‐year‐old Thai female: Gross and X‐ray examination of dry bone	5
A biocultural study of nasal fracture, violence, and gender using 19th–20th century skeletal remains from Portugal	5
Complex genetic landscape revealed by a population in the eastern Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang between the 8th and 11th centuries CE	5
Utilization of validated criteria for diagnostic assessment in nonsynchronous, allopatric populations: Role in archeologic diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis and differentially distinguishing it from m	5
Dental caries and breastfeeding in early childhood in the late Medieval and Modern populations from Radom, Poland	5
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Fish vertebrae as archeological biomarkers of past marine ecological conditions: Comparison of mercury levels in Chilean swordfish between the Middle Holocene and the modern period	5
Severe traumatic lesions in the Late Neolithic cattle from the site of At‐Vršac, Serbia	5
Animal diseases in the Central Balkan Eneolithic (ca. 4500–2500 BC)—A diachronic perspective on the site of Bubanj, south‐eastern Serbia	5
Life on the edge: Animal exploitation at the Shichengzi military fort (Xinjiang, China)	5
A test of the New Coimbra method of recording entheseal changes as applied to the foot skeleton	5
DNA analysis of skeletal remains of an important historical figure from the period of mediaeval Bosnia	5
Hunger, disease, and subtle lesions: Insights into systemic metabolic disease in fetal and perinatal remains from 13th‐ to 15th‐century Tartu, Estonia	5
In search of the ‘great horse’: A zooarchaeological assessment of horses from England (AD 300–1650)	5
Application of morphometric and stable isotope analyses for distinguishing domestic and wild geese	4
Sturgeons in materials from archaeological sites of Ukraine: A review	4
Applying the V.E.R.A. method to entheses of the humerus: An assessment of repeatability and reproducibility	4
The role of status, diets, and mobility in understanding the impacts of urbanization in early medieval Bergen, Norway (St. Mary's Church): Insights from stable isotope analyses	4
An “Invisible” Child—A Case of a Child With Anthropogenic Modification Marks and Pathological Conditions in Early Neolithic China	4
A bioarcheological contribution to the social history of Roman Macedonia: The Pontokomi‐Vrysi site in Kozani Prefecture, Greece	4
Early evidence of extra‐masticatory dental wear in a Neolithic community at Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan	4
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Assessment and improvement of sex estimation standards for application in Holocene San and Khoekhoe populations	4
Bushmeat skeletal waste from an Atlantic African rainforest (Equatorial Guinea) as a test for the Mammal Community Structure Analysis in paleoecology	4
Analyzing entheseal changes in commingled human remains from Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in Portugal	4
Violence and sharp force trauma in Nusaybin/Girnavaz Mound/Türkiye Late Roman–Early Islamic human remains	4
Nondestructive recognition and differentiation of quasi‐spherical structures of biologic interest	4
Complex skeletal foot malformation in a Samnite “warrior grave” from Abruzzo, southern Italy (8th–5th century BCE)	4
Trauma patterns and injury prevalence in early medieval Säben‐Sabiona, Italy	4
Evaluation of entheseal changes in a modern identified skeletal collection from Inden (Germany)	4
A new laboratory‐based method to experimentally induce diagenetic modifications in human bone tissue using archaeological gravesoils	4
Sex estimation by discriminant function analysis of long bones in prehistoric Southeast Asian populations	4
The impact of pathological conditions on carbon and nitrogen isotopic values in the bone collagen of individuals with known biographic data and medical history	4
A tool for non‐parametric approximation of mortality in skeletal samples of imprecise age estimations	4
Health in the Inca heartland: A paleopathological analysis of burials from the Cuzco region of Peru	4
Atypical dental wear in an enslaved individual from Lagos, Portugal	4
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Nonmetric population‐specific sex estimation based on the skull using logistic regression for Flemish samples	3
Dental wear in a marine economy: A case study from Philistine Ashkelon	3
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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
Bioarchaeological insights into disability: Skeletal dysplasia from the Iron Age northern China	3
Nostalgia for the old country—A histological exploration of early childhood physiological stress experiences in colonial Otago, New Zealand	3
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	3
In service to the sultan: Biological affinity analysis of Vlach Ottoman vassals from the Šarić Struga and Koprivno‐Križ sites in southern Croatia	3
Transition Between Two Worlds: Morphological Continuity in Iron Age Cattle, Pig, and Sheep Populations (800–50 bc) of the Rhône Valley (France)	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
Marine bryozoan colonization of terrestrial biomineralized tissues: Taphonomic insights and forensic implications	3
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The cultural roles of perforated fish vertebrae in prehistoric and historic Europe	3
Neanderthal use of animal bones as retouchers at the Level XV of the Sopeña rock shelter (Asturias, northern Spain)	3
Introduction of sugarcane in Al‐Andalus (Medieval Spain) and its impact on children's dental health	3
Only photos on my best side, please! Implications of bilateral asymmetry of the iliac auricular surface in non‐adult individuals for sex estimation	3
A New Open‐Access Method Applying GIS Techniques to the Study of Slicing, Scraping, and Tooth Marks	3
A 10 ka intentionally deformed human skull from Northeast Asia	3
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Pigs in the Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: New evidence from Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan (7800–7100 BC)	3
An historical overview of the field of study of human remains in South Korean archaeology	3
Two examples of anthropic manipulation and postmortem processing of human remains at megalithic sites in inland Iberia: La Cabaña and Los Zumacales (Spanish northern sub‐plateau)	3
Considering passenger pigeon abundance and distribution in the Late Woodland zooarchaeological record of southern Ontario, Canada	3
An analysis of interobserver variability in the recording of maxillary sinusitis in human osteoarchaeological remains	3
Cortical bone maintenance and loss in Colonial Mexico City: Analysis of sex‐ and age‐related differences	3
Embodied labors during the state formation of Egypt and Nubia (ca. 4800–1750 BCE): Elucidating transformations in behavioral patterns with entheseal changes	3
Osteoarchaeological Perspectives on Socioeconomic Changes in European Iron Age Societies: Some Introductory Remarks	3
Perimortem cranial injury in the Bronze Age. A blunt object to the right parietal caused trauma in a preadolescent individual from Mokarta (Salemi‐Sicily)	3
Statistical protocol for analyzing 3D muscle attachment sites based on the “Validated Entheses‐based Reconstruction of Activity” (VERA) approach	2
Withers height estimation in medieval horse samples from Poland: Comparing the internal cranial cavity‐based modified Wyrost and Kucharczyk method with existing methods	2
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Chickens consumed in early modern samurai residences: A study of bird remains from the Ichigaya Honmura‐cho site, Tokyo, Japan	2
Pronounced hyperostosis frontalis interna and co‐occurring lesions in the skull base suggestive of a pituitary tumor in a woman from medieval Germany	2
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	2
Fish out of water	2
Violence in Hasmonean Judea: Skeletal evidence of a massacre from 2nd–1st century BCE Jerusalem	2
Sacralization in the Mary Rose and Kronan assemblages: An inconsistently recorded anomaly	2
Re‐analysis of the Levänluhta skeletal material: Sex and stature estimation of individuals in an Iron Age water burial in Finland	2
SexEst: An open access web application for metric skeletal sex estimation	2
A skeletal dysplasia leading to a perinatal death in 17th–19th century Lisbon, Portugal	2
Eneolithic pile dwellers captured waterfowl in winter: Analysis of avian bone remains from two pile dwellings in Ljubljansko barje (Slovenia)	2
Possible case of partial postmortem fetal extrusion: Preliminary observations on the mummified remains of a turn‐of‐the‐19th‐century noblewoman in Finland	2
From sacred symbolism to luxury display and consumption: The peacock in medieval Catalonia—Data from zooarcheological, iconographic, and literary evidences	2
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Application of the microtomography technique in density studies of prehistoric and historical human skeletal materials	2
Predictive use of modern reference osteological collections for disentangling the shape of Eurasian equid cheek teeth and metapodials in archaeological material	2
Complexity of agricultural economies in the Yiluo region in the late Neolithic and bronze age (3500–221 BC): An integrated stable isotope and archeobotanical study from the Tumen site, North China	2
Growing up in the suburbs: Growth faltering and disease burden in the children from 16th to 18th century Tallinn, Estonia	2
A natural death assemblage of fishes from an early modern archeological context in Antwerp (Belgium)	2
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)	2
Fishhooks, fishing spears, and weaving: The bone technology of Madjedbebe, Northern Australia	2
The dog of Los Chonos: First pre‐Hispanic record in western Patagonia (~43° to 47°S, Chile)	2
The bare bones appearance of hyperparathyroidism: Distinguishing subperiosteal bone resorption from periosteal reaction	2
Testing of morphological sex estimation traits with a sex‐known collection: Ottoman period skulls	2
What can osteometric analyses tell us about domestic dogs recovered from a multicomponent indigenous site in Vermont?	2
Bone artifacts from Riwi Cave, south‐central Kimberley: Reappraisal of the timing and role of osseous artifacts in northern Australia	2
Case study of a special burial resulting from obstetric death at the Sanbulijia site, Shandong Province, China	2
Ancient DNA reveals population trends of Lesser Rhea (Rhea pennata) in Northwestern Patagonia	2
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Spondylolysis in ancient Nubian skeletal populations	2
Primary double teeth in archeological medieval material from the area of Poland: A report on two cases	2
Songs of the past ‐ papers of the 10^th ICAZ Bird Working Group Meeting	2
Taking from the dead: Grave disturbance of Sarmatian cemeteries in the Banat region	2
Specifying subsistence strategies of early farmers: New results from compound‐specific isotopic analysis of amino acids	2
Investigating infant feeding strategies at Roman Bainesse through Bayesian modelling of incremental dentine isotopic data	2
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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	2
The Rule Rather Than the Exception! Multi‐Predator Actualistic Accumulations From Cau del Duc (Lleida, Spain) and Their Implications for the Interpretation of the Archaeopaleontological Record	2
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	2
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A community in transition: Analysis of health and well‐being in people living during and following aridification	2
First reported archaeological case of leprosy in Slovakia	2
Ancient genomes reveal the origin and kinship burial patterns of human remains during the 11th to 13th centuries in northern China	2
Accumulation agents and bird assemblages: The case of the TE9d level at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)	2
A case report of possible Legg–Calve–Perthes disease on Roman dogs from Gaul (France)	2
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