OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Research is 4. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 1): Paleoethnobotanical Residues and New Perspectives on Plant Management	16
Hunting and the Social Lives of Southern Africa’s First Farmers	15
Survey Archaeology in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History	15
Governance, Monumentality, and Urbanism in the Northern Maya Lowlands During the Preclassic and Classic Periods	14
Building from the Ground Up: The Archaeology of Residential Spaces and Communities in Southeast Asia	13
Denisovans, Neanderthals, and Early Modern Humans: A Review of the Pleistocene Hominin Fossils from the Altai Mountains (Southern Siberia)	12
Palmyra: At the Crossroads of the Ancient World	12
Wari: Imperialism, Low Power, and Globalization in the Middle Horizon Central Andes	11
The Archaeology of Reindeer Domestication and Herding Practices in Northern Fennoscandia	11
From History to Cultural Diversity: The Changing Roles of the Maya Script as Archaeological Data	10
Niche Construction and Long-Term Trajectories of Food Production	9
Eschewing the Apocalyptic: Recent Research on the Aftermath of “Collapse” in Archaeology Across the Americas	9
Archaeology of the Silk Road: Challenges of Scale and Storytelling	8
Out of the Shadows: Reestablishing the Eastern Fertile Crescent as a Center of Agricultural Origins: Part 1	7
Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age Trade in Archaeological Perspective: A Review of Interpretative and Empirical Developments	6
Out of the Shadows: Reestablishing the Eastern Fertile Crescent as a Center of Agricultural Origins: Part 2	6
Aksumite Settlement Patterns: Site Size Hierarchies and Spatial Clustering	5
Zooarchaeology of Managed, Captive, Tame, and Domestic Birds: Shifts in Human–Avian Relationships	5
Long-Term Urban and Population Trends in the Southern Mesopotamian Floodplains	5
Was There a 3.2 ka Crisis in Europe? A Critical Comparison of Climatic, Environmental, and Archaeological Evidence for Radical Change during the Bronze Age–Iron Age Transition	5
Collapse Studies in Archaeology from 2012 to 2023	5
Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast	4
An Archaeological Contribution to the Kalahari Debate from the Middle Limpopo Valley, Southern Africa	4
Distributed Urban Networks in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz	4
Archaeology and Epigraphy in the Digital Era	4