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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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	23
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models	20
Fortress of Culture: Reinterpreting Krobo Mountain Site Through the Perspective of Persistent Places	20
Development and Calibration of a Spatial Model for the Analysis of Paleolithic Archaeological Potential in the Duero Basin of the Iberian Peninsula	16
Food Equality: Multiproxy Biomolecular Dietary Analysis Shows Unstratified Foodways Among Protohistoric E Baltic Communities	16
Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven	15
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	14
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia	14
Paleolithic Dietary Flexibility? Methodological Considerations in Analogy-Based Reconstructions of Paleolithic Energetic Returns	13
On the Exploitation and Significance of Bivalve Shells at the Magdalenian Site of Petersfels (Southwestern Germany) Using an Integrated Approach	13
Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)	12
The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre	11
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	11
The Taphonomy of Status: The Creation of Group Identity and Social Inequality in Medieval Croatia	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
The Role of Palaeolithic Cave-Art: Estimating Social Investment in Symbolic Expressions Through the Making Cost	10
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art	10
Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long-Term Perspective	10
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
Hunting Pits as Temporal Manifestations of Landscape Domestication–Large-Scale Sampling to Identify Temporality in Land Use	9
Rethinking Persistent Places: Relationships, Affects, and Atmospheres	9
From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries	9
Processing Into the Past: The Chaco South Road as a Multi-Century Religious Corridor	9

Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe	9
Evaluating Random Forest Model Performance for Cave and Sinkhole Prediction in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: Preliminary Analysis and Variable Importance Assessments	9
Estimating the Size and Density of the La Prele Site: Implications for Early Paleoindian Group Size	8
The Time of the Stones: A Call for Palimpsest Dissection to Explore Lithic Record Formation Processes	8
Ethnoarchaeological Inductive Predictive Model: A Field Test in the Italian Alps	8
Applications of Microct Imaging to Archaeobotanical Research	7
Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks	7
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition	7
A ‘Family of Wear’: Traceological Patterns on Pebbles Used for Burnishing Pots and Processing Other Plastic Mineral Matters	7
Archaeological and Experimental Lithic Microwear Classification Through 2D Textural Analysis and Machine Learning	7
Assessing the Utility of Strontium Isotopes in Fossil Dental Calculus	7
The Tool Systems Approach: Measuring Complexity in the Primatological, Archaeological, and Ethnographic Records	7
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timing and Zoogeography of Domesticated Horse Arrivals in Mongolia and China	7
‘A Life Proper to Matter’: Re-Animating Museum Collections Through New Materialism and Microwear	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
A Burning Platform? Critical Reflections on the Impact of Research on the Developing Bioarchaeology of Cremation	7
From Complex Techno-behaviour to Complex Attention Through the Genes of the Precuneus	7
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
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: on the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores	6
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents	6
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective	6
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	6
Making Rock Art: Correspondences, Rhythms, and Temporalities	6
Experimental Protocol for Cooking Rabbits and its Archaeological Implications	6
Long-Term Population Dynamics Following Innovations in Food Production	5
Fringe Landscapes: A Hypothesis on the Dynamics of Settlement and Mobility in Iron Age Inner Asia	5
How Can We Understand Past Human–Environment Interaction? Multiple Spatiotemporal 3D Reconstructions of Natural and Cultural Landscapes at the Dongzhao Site in Central China	5
Validating Pottery Seriation with Radiocarbon Dates: Relative and Absolute Chronology of the Early Bronze Age Necropolis in Mokrin	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
Beyond the Layer: A 3D-Driven Generalized Methodology for the Quantitative Dissection of Archaeological Palimpsests	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
E-lorgesailie: An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Acheulean Lithic Raw Material Procurement and Handaxe Deposition Patterns	5
New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Kinematic Perspectives	5
Bone Weathering Variability in Semiarid Environments: Insights from Taphonomic Experiments in the Dry Chaco, Central Argentina	5
Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions	5
Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis	5
The Temporality of Shapes: A Genealogy of Early Pottery-Making Practices in the Andean–Amazonian Borderland	4
Mapping the Symbolic Structure of Palaeolithic Rock Art Using Co-occurrence Network Analysis	4
Race, Gender, and Intersectionality in the Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora: Perspectives from Colonial Peru	4
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	4
How Cultural Transmission Through Objects Impacts Inferences About Cultural Evolution	4
Building a Replicable Method for Analyzing Lithic Variability: A Revision of Tostevin’s Approach	4
Construction, Maintenance and Ritual Practices on the Neolithic Rondel at Nowe Objezierze (Northwestern Poland): The chaîne opératoire of Rondel’s Architecture	4
Ancient Skeletons In Situ: Evaluating Bone Diagenesis at an Open-Air Archaeological Site and Community Museum in Central Thailand	4
The Levantine Megalithic Building Techniques: A Groundbreaking Method Applied to Menjez’s Monuments (Akkar, Lebanon) from the 4th–3rd Millennium BCE	4
Debunking Deterministic Narratives of Technological Development Through Experimentation: A Critical Review of the Prehistory of Tin Bronze Alloying	4
Developing Geo-Ethnoarchaeological Methods for Studying Archaeological Pastoral Sites: the CAMP project	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
Correction to: Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long‑Term Perspective	3
From Barter to Market: an Agent-Based Model of Prehistoric Market Development	3
The Beginning of the End: Abandonment Micro-histories in the Mississippian Vacant Quarter	3
Technofunctional Analysis Reveals the Role of Carinated Artifacts and End-Scrapers in the Aurignacian of Vogelherd Cave	3
Predictive Modeling for Targeted Archaeological Survey of Arsacid Period Sites in the Iranian Borderland Region of the Araxes River Valley	3
Rethinking Wear Rate Analysis: a New Dentin Exposure Proxy and its Applications to Ancient Chinese Populations	3
The Effects of Time-Averaging on Archaeological Networks	3
Locating Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherer Camps in the Carpathian Basin	3
Learning by Doing: Investigating Skill Through Techno-Functional Study of Recycled Lithic Items from Qesem Cave (Israel)	3
Linking Up Bell Beakers in the Iberian Peninsula	3
Toys as Teachers: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Object Use and Enskillment in Hunter–Gatherer Societies	3
Reduction of Silk Road Exchange Corresponds with a Decrease in Hydraulic Output of Major Dryland Rivers in Northwest China	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
Convergent Evolution of Prehistoric Technologies: the Entropy and Diversity of Limited Solutions	3
Graffiti, Atmosphere, and the Structure of Feeling of Marginal Places	3
Moments of Movement and Stillness for Senebtisi Since 1907	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
Archaeo-Tempestites and Coastal Taphonomy of Shell-Bearing Sites: Native American Sites in Florida as a Case Study	3
Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory	3
The Archaeology of Cannibalism: a Review of the Taphonomic Traits Associated with Survival and Ritualistic Cannibalism	2
From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production	2
Settlement Patterns and Community Delimitation in Chibcha Chiefdoms of Colombia and Panama	2
Qualitative and Quantitative Use-Wear Analysis of Percussive Stone Tools from Nyayanga (Homa Peninsula, Kenya)	2
The Emergence of Leadership, Power, and Prestige: The New Guinea Case	2
Biocultural Taphonomies and Analysis of an Emerging Terminal Classic (750–900 CE) Maya Deathway	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
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
Understanding Taphonomy Through 3D and 2D Records: A Case Study from the Tropical Maya Area	2
Dialogues Across Time? Conceptualising the Temporal Relationships of Palimpsests in the Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art of El Castillo (Cantabria, Spain)	2
Imposed Form in the Early Acheulean? Evidence from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia	2
Irrigated Farming Among Mountain Agropastoralists: An Archaeobotanical Investigation at Mohuchahangoukou (Mid-First Millennium AD), Southern Tian Shan Foothills, Xinjiang, China	2
Traditions of Equality: The Archaeology of Egalitarianism and Egalitarian Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa (First and Second Millennium CE)	2
A Visual Method to Compare the Quality and Complexity of Archaeological Textiles: The Cotton Mantas of Pre-Hispanic Colombia	2
Death and Dichotomy: Exploring Varied Human and Animal Depositional Practices in the Iron Age at Battlesbury Bowl, UK, through Histotaphonomy	2
Modeling Cultural Transmission in Structured Populations Raises Important Questions for Archaeologists	2
Dots on the Map: Issues in the Archaeological Analysis of Site Locations	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
Confronting Taphonomic Challenges from Excavation Through Curation of Human Remains	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
Correction to: From Stars to State: Astral Patterns and the Rise of Pharaonic Egypt at Adaïma (Upper Egypt)	2
Rock Art Painting Taphonomy: the Role of Environmental and Technological Factors	2
Beyond the Surface: Exploring Ancient Plant Food Processing through Confocal Microscopy and 3D Texture Analysis on Ground Stone Tools	2
Water Flows and Water Accumulations on Bedrock as a Structuring Element of Rock Art	2
The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial	2
Fuzzy Typological (Re)arrangement: a Prototype of Rethinking the Typology of Roman Tablewares from Sagalassos, Southwest Anatolia	2
A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production	2
Quantifying Spatial Complexity of Settlement Plans Through Fractal Analysis	2