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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Perinatal burials at pre‐Hispanic noncemetery sites in Gran Canaria: Tophet, infanticide, or natural mortality?	17
In search of the ‘great horse’: A zooarchaeological assessment of horses from England (AD 300–1650)	16
Blue fibers found in dental calculus from Maya sacrificial victims	13
Unusual find of osteolytic lesion on skeleton from the Middle Bronze Age—Possible case of peritoneal abscess	13
Therapeutic dentistry in prehistoric Maryland—New analyses from the Hughes (18MO1) archeological site	13
Notes on early childhood diets in early modern Oulu, Finland, based on the stable isotope case studies of archeological dentin	12
Pastures and fodder for feeding equids 3000 years ago: The Can Roqueta site (Barcelona, Spain) as a model of equine herd management	11
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Exploring Division of Labor at the Jiaojia Site in the Late Neolithic Period, Eastern China Using Entheseal Changes as Proxy	9
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	9
Conjoined first (atlas) and second (axis) cervical vertebrae in an eastern wapiti (Cervus canadensis canadensis) from the Angel Site (1000–1400 CE, Indiana, USA)	8
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Diet and Cultural Transition in Sixth Century ad China: New Isotopic Studies on Multiple Elite and Commoner Individuals in the Chang'an Region	7
A 10 ka intentionally deformed human skull from Northeast Asia	7
A bioarcheological contribution to the social history of Roman Macedonia: The Pontokomi‐Vrysi site in Kozani Prefecture, Greece	7
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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
Sex differences in mechanical stress and associated labor in Hellenistic–early Roman Menainon, Sicily	6
Chickens consumed in early modern samurai residences: A study of bird remains from the Ichigaya Honmura‐cho site, Tokyo, Japan	6
Only photos on my best side, please! Implications of bilateral asymmetry of the iliac auricular surface in non‐adult individuals for sex estimation	6
A child left behind: Malnutrition and chronic illness of a child from the Erie County Poorhouse Cemetery	6
Cremated Bone in Archaeology: Ethical Considerations in the Excavation, Analysis, Storage, and Display of Cremated Bone in the United Kingdom	6
Dental wear in a marine economy: A case study from Philistine Ashkelon	6
Who Ate All the Thrushes? Roman Urban Street Food Consumers as well as Elites	6

Bird remains from ecclesiastical sites in medieval Hungary	6
Bird bone artifact from the Late Eneolithic/Early Bronze Age site of Zók (Hungary)	6
Nostalgia for the old country—A histological exploration of early childhood physiological stress experiences in colonial Otago, New Zealand	6
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
The Zooarchaeology of an Iberian Medieval Jewish Community: The Castle of Lorca (Murcia, Spain)	5
Sheep (Ovis aries) of Venda speakers during the second millennium AD in South Africa	5
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Bird remains from Vilnius Lower Castle, Lithuania (13th–19th centuries) reveal changes in social status and unusual bird pathologies	5
Some Highlights From 2024: A Year in Review at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology	5
Animals' paleopathology: Implications on human–animal interaction during the intensification of farming in the Southern Levant	5
Female skeletal health and socioeconomic status in medieval Norway (11th–16th centuries AD): Analysis of bone mineral density and stature	5
Neolithic Lifeways at the Microlevel: Isobiographies From Italy	5
Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus) Late Neolithic Burial at Krzczonowice, the Greater Trochanter of Femur Lesion	5
Paleodiets of hunter‐gatherers from the central Patagonian coast: Reviewing scopes and limitations of stable isotope analyses	5
Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence: Domesticated and wild bovids in Neolithic Sudan	5
Geometric morphometric approach to dental health in an 18th‐ to 19th‐century English infirmary	5
Assessing the Greater Sciatic Notch With 2‐D Shape Analysis for Sex Estimation	5
Intra‐tooth isotopic analysis (δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N) of dentine collagen in high‐crowned teeth: A new experimental study with modern sheep specimens	5
Cuon Versus Canis: A Comparative Guide to the Morphological Distinction of Postcranial Bones and Its Archaeo‐Paleontological Implications	5
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Interpersonal violence in colonial era in Papua, Indonesia: A case study of trauma patterns of a Biak individual	5
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Beyond the Binary? A Multi‐Method Approach to Sexing Children at the Viking Age Site of Ihre, Gotland	5
Study on the dietary pattern and local isotopes of the Xiaoshuangqiao Shang Dynasty (1400 bc) site in China	5
Diet of the Chanyu and his people: Stable isotope analysis of the human remains from Xiongnu burials in western and northern Mongolia	5
First application of a puberty estimation method to skeletons of young pregnant females: A case for the reevaluation of maternal–fetal burials	4
Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European accipitrid birds of prey	4
The talus of the pre‐Hispanic population from Punta Azul (El Hierro, Canary Islands): Variability and sexual dimorphism of nonmetric traits	4
Occupational patterns in Anglo‐Saxon and Medieval East Midlands, England: Insights from activity‐related skeletal changes	4
A fifth‐ to sixth‐century CE lynx (Lynx lynx L., 1758) skeleton from Hungary 2: Stature and archaeological interpretations	4
Animal diseases in the Central Balkan Eneolithic (ca. 4500–2500 BC)—A diachronic perspective on the site of Bubanj, south‐eastern Serbia	4
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Hyperostosis frontalis interna: A new perspective in burned individuals' analysis for determining age and sex from archeo‐anthropological and medicolegal contexts	4
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Abnormal bone loss in the external auditory canal of two adult humans from the medieval period of Germany—An attempt at differential diagnosis	4
Juvenile sex estimation using the elevation of the auricular surface: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	4
STARC OSTEOARCH: An open access resource for recording and sharing human osteoarchaeological data	4
An unprecedented case of cranial surgery in Longobard Italy (6th–8th century) using a cruciform incision	4
Analysis of periosteal lesions from commingled human remains at the Xagħra Circle hypogeum reveals the first case of probable scurvy from Neolithic Malta	4
Recovery lines in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Computed tomography investigations in European museums	4
The great auk in Norway: From common to locally extinct	4
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
A skeletal dysplasia leading to a perinatal death in 17th–19th century Lisbon, Portugal	3
Withers height estimation in medieval horse samples from Poland: Comparing the internal cranial cavity‐based modified Wyrost and Kucharczyk method with existing methods	3
Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European birds of prey: Falcons and owls	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
Animal diseases in the southern part of the Carpathian Basin during the medieval period	3
The Effect of Soft Tissues in Burnt Human Skeletal Remains	3
Fish out of water	3
Statistical protocol for analyzing 3D muscle attachment sites based on the “Validated Entheses‐based Reconstruction of Activity” (VERA) approach	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
Accumulation agents and bird assemblages: The case of the TE9d level at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)	3
Bioarchaeological insights into the Late Helladic communities of South Kynouria, Peloponnese: The case of the LH IIIA2‐IIIB2 burial cluster of Socha	3
Subsistence and animal management at Iron Age sites of Quanshuigou and Dumuduebudege in western Xinjiang, China	3
Introduction of sugarcane in Al‐Andalus (Medieval Spain) and its impact on children's dental health	3
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)	3
A comparative study of malocclusion and its severity in the Ottoman period and modern populations	3
Primary double teeth in archeological medieval material from the area of Poland: A report on two cases	3
Ethics in Osteoarchaeology	3
A community in transition: Analysis of health and well‐being in people living during and following aridification	3
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	3
Considering passenger pigeon abundance and distribution in the Late Woodland zooarchaeological record of southern Ontario, Canada	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
A natural death assemblage of fishes from an early modern archeological context in Antwerp (Belgium)	3
Complex skeletal foot malformation in a Samnite “warrior grave” from Abruzzo, southern Italy (8th–5th century BCE)	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
A glimpse into the body shape and limb proportions of enslaved Africans from Lagos, Portugal (15th–17th centuries)	3
Early evidence of extra‐masticatory dental wear in a Neolithic community at Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan	3
Employing radiography (X‐rays) to localize lesions in human skeletal remains from past populations to allow accurate biopsy, using examples of cancer metastases	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
Reconstructing the life histories of a noble couple from the Joseon period, Korea, based on skeletal evidence and historical records	3
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A cattle mandible thong‐smoother from a grave: Strap production and cattle traction in the Late Copper Age in Hungary	3
Growing up in the suburbs: Growth faltering and disease burden in the children from 16th to 18th century Tallinn, Estonia	3
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Predictive use of modern reference osteological collections for disentangling the shape of Eurasian equid cheek teeth and metapodials in archaeological material	3
Sex estimation by discriminant function analysis of long bones in prehistoric Southeast Asian populations	3
The role of TV documentaries to disseminate osteoarchaeology more widely: The good, the bad, and the ugly	3
A probable case of multiple osteochondromas in a Qing period (1644–1911) individual from Shandong, China	2
Two cases of skeletal fluorosis from the historic cemetery at Zhangwan, Henan Province, China	2
Dental disease reflects differential diets and changes in consumption over time at Knossos	2
Maya Sequential Burials and Subsistence Change at the Prehispanic Site of Caledonia, Cayo District, Belize: The Radiocarbon Evidence	2
From the Atlantic coast to the lowland forests: Stable isotope analysis of the diet of forager–horticulturists in southern Brazil	2
Death at distance: Mobility, memory, and place among the late precontact Oneota in the central Illinois River Valley	2
Gastroliths in archaeology: A note of caution	2
Transformation processes in the osteoarchaeological record between the Iron Age and the Roman times with reference to the civitas Treverorum	2
Dento‐Alveolar Infectious Diseases Among Hunter‐Gatherers From Northeast and Central Chubut Province (Argentina) During the Late Holocene	2
A Method for Detecting Bias in Human Archaeological Cemetery Samples	2
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Oral health and nonmolar dental attrition in the Siwa‐period individuals from the Bronze Age Mogou cemetery, Northwest China	2
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Neotaphonomic Analysis of Bone Accumulation by a Nocturnal Raptor (Bubo bubo): Evidence From Avian Remains in Oliva Mountain (Tarragona, Spain)	2
It runs in the family: Kinship analysis using foot anomalies in the cemetery of Middenbeemster (Netherlands, 17th to 19th century)	2
Paleodietary reconstruction of endemic rodents from the precolumbian Dominican Republic: Discriminating wild feeding behavior from diets linked to human niche construction activities	2
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Hypomineralization disorder in tropical Southeast Asia during the agricultural revolution: Analysis of morbidity and mortality	2
Editorial: A tribute to Debra Martin	2
Paleodiet reconstruction of human and animal bones at the Dalujiao cemetery in Early Iron Age Xinjiang, China	2
A visual guide for the Brabant index to score dental macrowear quantity and direction	2
Maxillary abnormality in the medieval Blessed friar Egidio from Laurenzana (Basilicata, southern Italy)	2
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Archaeology and ethnobiology of Late Holocene bird remains from the northern Oregon coast	2
Two cases of cystic echinococcosis reported from al‐Andalus cemeteries (southern Iberia): Insights into zoonotic diseases in Islamic Medieval Europe	2
Osseous harpoon heads of hunter‐gatherers from the lower Paraná wetland	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
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A study of reviewing at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology: Accepting, declining, fairness, and responsibilities	2
Halal and Makruk: Muslim archaeological fish assemblages as cultural identifiers in the Iberian Middle Ages?	2
Zooarchaeology of Ban Chiang and the rise of early farming communities in mainland Southeast Asia	2
Horse‐riding as a habitual activity among the early medieval Avar population of the cemetery of Csokorgasse (Vienna): Sex and chronological differences	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
Diet and urbanisation in medieval Holland. Studying dietary change through carious lesions and stable isotope analysis	2
Sheep Ahoy: Exploring sheep management and its role in Viking Age economy through multiproxy analyses at Löddeköpinge, Sweden	2
Anthropological, Pathological, and Historical Analyses of a Mummified Cranium From Bolivia Hosted in the Museum of Cantonal Archaeology and History of Lausanne, Switzerland	2
A photographic atlas for European freshwater and migratory fish remains and key considerations for their analysis	2
How we can learn from analysing trauma in past societies	2
First Phalanx Morphometrics Reveals Camelid Morphotype Variability at Los Batanes (11^th/12^th c. ce), Southern Coastal Peru	2
Skeletal evidence for two external auditory canal disorder cases from medieval China	2