OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization: Fragmentation and Missing Data	26
Influence of Degumming Conditions on the Stable Isotope Composition of Silk	25
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models	21
Development and Calibration of a Spatial Model for the Analysis of Paleolithic Archaeological Potential in the Duero Basin of the Iberian Peninsula	20
Fortress of Culture: Reinterpreting Krobo Mountain Site Through the Perspective of Persistent Places	19
Food Equality: Multiproxy Biomolecular Dietary Analysis Shows Unstratified Foodways Among Protohistoric E Baltic Communities	18
Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven	16
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia	16
Uncovering Hidden Dynamics of Past Kinship and Exchange Relations on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast (650–300 cal BP) Through Scanning Electron Microscopy Automated Mineralogy Analyses of Pottery Sherd	15
On the Exploitation and Significance of Bivalve Shells at the Magdalenian Site of Petersfels (Southwestern Germany) Using an Integrated Approach	14
Scales, Sources, and Simulations: Reviewing Studies on Human–Environment Interactions in the Mediterranean from 1000 BCE to 1000 CE	14
Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)	13
Paleolithic Dietary Flexibility? Methodological Considerations in Analogy-Based Reconstructions of Paleolithic Energetic Returns	13
Rethinking Occupation Intensity during the Levantine Middle Epipalaeolithic: The use of Space and Site Formation Processes at the Geometric Kebaran site of Neve David, Israel	12
The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre	12
Comparative Spatial Analysis Reveals Important Structural Similarities Between Ancient Angkor and Late Anglo-Saxon Hampshire	11
The Taphonomy of Status: The Creation of Group Identity and Social Inequality in Medieval Croatia	11
Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long-Term Perspective	11
The Role of Palaeolithic Cave-Art: Estimating Social Investment in Symbolic Expressions Through the Making Cost	11
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art	11
Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid): a Diachronic Approach Using Biological and Archaeological Variables	11
Stability Through Movement: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of Social Space in Central European Neolithic Lakeside Settlements	10
From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries	10
Anthropic Activity Markers 2.0: A Shift Towards Compositional Data Analysis	9
Ethnoarchaeological Inductive Predictive Model: A Field Test in the Italian Alps	9

Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe	9
A Comparative Study of Hierarchical Significance Based on the Size and Terrain Elevation of Dolmens and Network Centrality: Focusing on Dolmens in Asan-myeon, Gochang County (Korea)	9
Processing Into the Past: The Chaco South Road as a Multi-Century Religious Corridor	9
Hunting Pits as Temporal Manifestations of Landscape Domestication–Large-Scale Sampling to Identify Temporality in Land Use	9
Tracing Technological Traditions Through Personal Ornaments: Steatite Ornament Production in Neolithic and Copper Age Italy	9
Estimating the Size and Density of the La Prele Site: Implications for Early Paleoindian Group Size	8
Rethinking Persistent Places: Relationships, Affects, and Atmospheres	8
The Time of the Stones: A Call for Palimpsest Dissection to Explore Lithic Record Formation Processes	8
Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks	8
Evaluating Random Forest Model Performance for Cave and Sinkhole Prediction in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: Preliminary Analysis and Variable Importance Assessments	8
Applications of Microct Imaging to Archaeobotanical Research	7
A ‘Family of Wear’: Traceological Patterns on Pebbles Used for Burnishing Pots and Processing Other Plastic Mineral Matters	7
The Tool Systems Approach: Measuring Complexity in the Primatological, Archaeological, and Ethnographic Records	7
Site-Seeing in Mallorca? Exploring the Visual Influence of Architecture and Location in Talayotic Iron Age Sites in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)	7
Bowhunting with Poisoned Arrows in the Afrotropics from Recent Times to the Pleistocene	7
Uncorrelated Inequalities: A Multiproxy Measure for Household Archaeology	7
‘A Life Proper to Matter’: Re-Animating Museum Collections Through New Materialism and Microwear	7
Assessing the Utility of Strontium Isotopes in Fossil Dental Calculus	7
From Complex Techno-behaviour to Complex Attention Through the Genes of the Precuneus	6
Archaeological and Experimental Lithic Microwear Classification Through 2D Textural Analysis and Machine Learning	6
Experimental Protocol for Cooking Rabbits and its Archaeological Implications	6
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition	6
A Burning Platform? Critical Reflections on the Impact of Research on the Developing Bioarchaeology of Cremation	6
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents	6
Identifying the Impact of Soil Ingestion on Dental Microwear Textures Using a Wild Boar Experimental Model	6
Searching for the Individual: Characterising Knowledge Transfer and Skill in Prehistoric Personal Ornament Making	6
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timing and Zoogeography of Domesticated Horse Arrivals in Mongolia and China	6
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	6
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective	5
A Protocol to Identify the Wear Traces on Osseous Points Used for Fishing	5
Long-Term Population Dynamics Following Innovations in Food Production	5
Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis	5
Beyond the Layer: A 3D-Driven Generalized Methodology for the Quantitative Dissection of Archaeological Palimpsests	5
New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Kinematic Perspectives	5
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: on the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores	5
Fringe Landscapes: A Hypothesis on the Dynamics of Settlement and Mobility in Iron Age Inner Asia	5
Where the Shells Come From? A New Methodology for Establishing Collection Areas Applied to Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Shell Middens From Northern Iberia	5
Life Around the Elephant in Space and Time: an Integrated Approach to Study the Human-Elephant Interactions at the Late Lower Paleolithic Site of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (Rome, Italy)	5
Bone Weathering Variability in Semiarid Environments: Insights from Taphonomic Experiments in the Dry Chaco, Central Argentina	5
Validating Pottery Seriation with Radiocarbon Dates: Relative and Absolute Chronology of the Early Bronze Age Necropolis in Mokrin	5
Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions	5
How Cultural Transmission Through Objects Impacts Inferences About Cultural Evolution	4
Mapping the Symbolic Structure of Palaeolithic Rock Art Using Co-occurrence Network Analysis	4
How Can We Understand Past Human–Environment Interaction? Multiple Spatiotemporal 3D Reconstructions of Natural and Cultural Landscapes at the Dongzhao Site in Central China	4
Race, Gender, and Intersectionality in the Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora: Perspectives from Colonial Peru	4
Ancient Skeletons In Situ: Evaluating Bone Diagenesis at an Open-Air Archaeological Site and Community Museum in Central Thailand	4
E-lorgesailie: An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Acheulean Lithic Raw Material Procurement and Handaxe Deposition Patterns	4
Debunking Deterministic Narratives of Technological Development Through Experimentation: A Critical Review of the Prehistory of Tin Bronze Alloying	4
Construction, Maintenance and Ritual Practices on the Neolithic Rondel at Nowe Objezierze (Northwestern Poland): The chaîne opératoire of Rondel’s Architecture	4
Low-Density Urbanisation: Prestate Settlement Growth in a Pacific Society	4

Exploring Biological and Ecological Components of Sheep Astragalus Size and Shape Variation Using 3D Geometric Morphometrics: Towards A Bioarchaeological Proxy	4
The Temporality of Shapes: A Genealogy of Early Pottery-Making Practices in the Andean–Amazonian Borderland	4
Building a Replicable Method for Analyzing Lithic Variability: A Revision of Tostevin’s Approach	4
The Levantine Megalithic Building Techniques: A Groundbreaking Method Applied to Menjez’s Monuments (Akkar, Lebanon) from the 4th–3rd Millennium BCE	4
Bone Surface Mapping: A New Method for Recording Detailed Human Bone Surface Variation	3
Archaeo-Tempestites and Coastal Taphonomy of Shell-Bearing Sites: Native American Sites in Florida as a Case Study	3
Reduction of Silk Road Exchange Corresponds with a Decrease in Hydraulic Output of Major Dryland Rivers in Northwest China	3
Differential Taphonomic Behavior of Flint Types: Experimental Insights and Implications for the Middle Stone Age Assemblages of Wadi Lazalim in the Northern Sahara (Kebili, Tunisia)	3
Predictive Modeling for Targeted Archaeological Survey of Arsacid Period Sites in the Iranian Borderland Region of the Araxes River Valley	3
Exploring the Inherent Affordability for Movement in Past Landscapes	3
Linking Up Bell Beakers in the Iberian Peninsula	3
Forest Herding and Tree Foddering in Neolithic Europe: Comparing δ13C Values in Caprine Enamel with Archaeobotanical Evidence at Lake Shore Settlements in Switzerland and the French Jura	3
Moments of Movement and Stillness for Senebtisi Since 1907	3
Technofunctional Analysis Reveals the Role of Carinated Artifacts and End-Scrapers in the Aurignacian of Vogelherd Cave	3
Toys as Teachers: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Object Use and Enskillment in Hunter–Gatherer Societies	3
Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory	3
Locating Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherer Camps in the Carpathian Basin	3
Graffiti, Atmosphere, and the Structure of Feeling of Marginal Places	3
From Barter to Market: an Agent-Based Model of Prehistoric Market Development	3
Developing Geo-Ethnoarchaeological Methods for Studying Archaeological Pastoral Sites: the CAMP project	3
Learning by Doing: Investigating Skill Through Techno-Functional Study of Recycled Lithic Items from Qesem Cave (Israel)	3
Rethinking Wear Rate Analysis: a New Dentin Exposure Proxy and its Applications to Ancient Chinese Populations	3
Deciphering the Public: An Integrated Analysis of Outdoor Spaces in the Neolithic Settlement of Kleitos 1 in Greece	3
The Effect of Plant Food Treatment on Stable Isotopes and Their Relevance for Archaeological Studies: A Methodological Pilot Study	3
The Beginning of the End: Abandonment Micro-histories in the Mississippian Vacant Quarter	3
Convergent Evolution of Prehistoric Technologies: the Entropy and Diversity of Limited Solutions	3
Imposed Form in the Early Acheulean? Evidence from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia	2
Correction to: Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long‑Term Perspective	2
The Archaeology of Cannibalism: a Review of the Taphonomic Traits Associated with Survival and Ritualistic Cannibalism	2
Irrigated Farming Among Mountain Agropastoralists: An Archaeobotanical Investigation at Mohuchahangoukou (Mid-First Millennium AD), Southern Tian Shan Foothills, Xinjiang, China	2
Beyond the Surface: Exploring Ancient Plant Food Processing through Confocal Microscopy and 3D Texture Analysis on Ground Stone Tools	2
Qualitative and Quantitative Use-Wear Analysis of Percussive Stone Tools from Nyayanga (Homa Peninsula, Kenya)	2
Correction to: From Stars to State: Astral Patterns and the Rise of Pharaonic Egypt at Adaïma (Upper Egypt)	2
The Acheulean Large Cutting Tool Assemblage from Rodafnidia, Lesvos: A 3D Morpho-technological Cross-regional Comparative Analysis	2
The Effects of Time-Averaging on Archaeological Networks	2
An Open-Source Machine Learning–Based Methodological Approach for Processing High-Resolution UAS LiDAR Data in Archaeological Contexts: A Case Study from Epirus, Greece	2
Analogy Versus Behavioral Ecology in the Study of Human Evolution	2
Confronting Taphonomic Challenges from Excavation Through Curation of Human Remains	2
Dialogues Across Time? Conceptualising the Temporal Relationships of Palimpsests in the Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art of El Castillo (Cantabria, Spain)	2
Dots on the Map: Issues in the Archaeological Analysis of Site Locations	2
Exploring the “Microburin Blow”: An Insight into the Variability of the Microburin Blow Method for the Production of Sauveterrian Geometrics in the Site of Mondeval de Sora (N-E, Italy)	2
Death and Dichotomy: Exploring Varied Human and Animal Depositional Practices in the Iron Age at Battlesbury Bowl, UK, through Histotaphonomy	2
Methodological Challenges to Tracking Zea mays (Maize) Historical Pathways Through Macrobotanical, Microbotanical, and Stable Isotope Evidence: Maize’s Adoption and Consumption by Precontact Populatio	2
Modeling Cultural Transmission in Structured Populations Raises Important Questions for Archaeologists	2
The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial	2
All Mixed Up: Investigating Mortuary Practice and Processes of Disarticulation Through Integrated Histotaphonomic Analysis at the Knowe of Rowiegar, Neolithic Chambered Cairn, Orkney, UK	2
Evaluating Kill-Camp Organization in a Terminal Pleistocene Lithic Scatter: Computational Spatial Analysis of the Reddin Folsom Site, San Luis Valley, USA	2
From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production	2
Quantifying Spatial Complexity of Settlement Plans Through Fractal Analysis	2
Biocultural Taphonomies and Analysis of an Emerging Terminal Classic (750–900 CE) Maya Deathway	2
Fuzzy Typological (Re)arrangement: a Prototype of Rethinking the Typology of Roman Tablewares from Sagalassos, Southwest Anatolia	2
A Visual Method to Compare the Quality and Complexity of Archaeological Textiles: The Cotton Mantas of Pre-Hispanic Colombia	2
Traditions of Equality: The Archaeology of Egalitarianism and Egalitarian Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa (First and Second Millennium CE)	2
Rock Art Painting Taphonomy: the Role of Environmental and Technological Factors	2
Settlement Patterns and Community Delimitation in Chibcha Chiefdoms of Colombia and Panama	2
Water Flows and Water Accumulations on Bedrock as a Structuring Element of Rock Art	2
A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production	2
Understanding Taphonomy Through 3D and 2D Records: A Case Study from the Tropical Maya Area	2