OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory is 1. 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
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timing and Zoogeography of Domesticated Horse Arrivals in Mongolia and China	47
Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management	25
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents	24
Tales of Multifunctionality: a Systematic Quantitative Literature Review of Boomerangs Used as Retouchers in Australian Aboriginal Cultures	20
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition	19
Revealing Evolutionary Patterns Behind Homogeneity: the Case of the Palaeolithic Assemblages from Notarchirico (Southern Italy)	18
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization: Fragmentation and Missing Data	17
‘A Complex Past’: Theory and Applications	15
Rock Art Painting Taphonomy: the Role of Environmental and Technological Factors	15
A New Approach to the Quantitative Analysis of Bone Surface Modifications: the Bowser Road Mastodon and Implications for the Data to Understand Human-Megafauna Interactions in North America	13
Searching for the Individual: Characterising Knowledge Transfer and Skill in Prehistoric Personal Ornament Making	13
Weathering Stages of Proboscidean Bones: Relevance for Zooarchaeological Analysis	12
Making Rock Art: Correspondences, Rhythms, and Temporalities	12
Scaling in Pompeii: Preliminary Evidence for the Occurrence of Scaling Phenomena Within an Ancient Built Environment	11
The Effect of Plant Food Treatment on Stable Isotopes and Their Relevance for Archaeological Studies: A Methodological Pilot Study	11
Locating Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherer Camps in the Carpathian Basin	11
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models	11
Archaeology in the Fourth Dimension: Studying Landscapes with Multitemporal PlanetScope Satellite Data	9
Archaeology and Kastom: Island Historicities and Transforming Religious Traditions in Southern Vanuatu	9
The Archaeology of Awe: Monumental Architecture, Communal Ritual, and Community Formation at Poverty Point, USA	9
Broken Worlds: Towards an Archaeology of the Shatter Zone	9
Identifying the Impact of Soil Ingestion on Dental Microwear Textures Using a Wild Boar Experimental Model	8
Traditions of Equality: The Archaeology of Egalitarianism and Egalitarian Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa (First and Second Millennium CE)	8
Stringing Together Cowrie Shells in the African Archaeological Record with Special Reference to Southern Africa	8
Correction to: Paleo Storage, Paleo Surplus, and Paleo Inequality in the Périgord	8

Death and Dichotomy: Exploring Varied Human and Animal Depositional Practices in the Iron Age at Battlesbury Bowl, UK, through Histotaphonomy	8
Correction to: (Sea)ways of Perception: an Integrated Maritime‑Terrestrial Approach to Modelling Prehistoric Seafaring	8
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Ecological Changes, Social Behaviour and Human Intergroup Tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP	7
The Effect of Raw Material on the Identification of Knapping Skill: a Case Study from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania	7
Landscape Chambers: Towards an Archaeology of the Cognitive Landscape	7
Wealth and Well-being in an Ancient Maya Community	7
A Burning Platform? Critical Reflections on the Impact of Research on the Developing Bioarchaeology of Cremation	7
To Err Is Human: Knapping Expertise and Technological Variability at the Middle Palaeolithic Site of Nesher Ramla, Israel	7
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica	7
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites	6
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective	6
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	6
Determining the Postmortem Timing of Sharp Force Damage and the Pre-burning Condition of Burnt Bone	6
Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven	5
Bronze Age Stone Anchors as Material Metaphors: Applying Conceptual Blending Theory to Investigate Their Symbolic Value	5
Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)	5
A Study of the Centuries-Long Reliance on Local Ceramics in Jerash Through Full Quantification and Simulation	5
Defining and Characterising Clusters in Palaeolithic Sites: a Review of Methods and Constraints	5
Exploratory Network Reconstruction with Sparse Archaeological Data and XTENT	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
Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory	4
Digital Navigator on the Seas of the Selden Map of China: Sequential Least-Cost Path Analysis Using Dynamic Wind Data	4
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	4
Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement	4
A Review of Methods to Analyze Archaeological Lime Production: Investigating Raw Materials Selection and Firing Conditions	4
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)	4
Investigating Isotopic Niche Space: Using rKIN for Stable Isotope Studies in Archaeology	4
Discrimination of Cereal Residue Adsorbed by Pottery Based on Metabolomics	4
From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production	4
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia	4
Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea	3
Ancient Conflagration: a Reconstruction of a Middle Formative Fire at the Chiripa Mound, Bolivia	3
Ritual Closure: Rites De Passage and Apotropaic Magic in an Animate World	3
The Technological Behaviours of Homo antecessor: Core Management and Reduction Intensity at Gran Dolina-TD6.2 (Atapuerca, Spain)	3
Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions	3
Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification: Malthusian and Boserupian Dynamics	3
Original Design and Allometric Variation in Kirk Points of the Central Ohio Archaeological Digitization Survey	3
From Novices to Experts: Skill Development and Knowledge Transmission in Prehistory	3
Comparative Analysis of Three Analytical Methodologies for Polychrome Design: Ceramic Typology, Design Elements/Styles, and Design Symmetries on Chihuahuan Polychromes	3
A Lithic Provisioning Model as a Proxy for Landscape Mobility in the Southern and Middle Kalahari	3
The Importance of Energetics in Archaeological Least Cost Analysis	3
Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction	3
Quantifying Spatial Complexity of Settlement Plans Through Fractal Analysis	3
The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre	3
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models—Best Practices for Data Acquisition	2
A Simple Method for Quantifying Compositional Correspondence Between Zooarchaeological Assemblages Using Paired Similarity Indices	2
The Effects of Time-Averaging on Archaeological Networks	2
Deciphering the Public: An Integrated Analysis of Outdoor Spaces in the Neolithic Settlement of Kleitos 1 in Greece	2
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art	2

Quantifying Edge Sharpness on Stone Flakes: Comparing Mechanical and Micro-Geometric Definitions Across Multiple Raw Materials from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)	2
An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past	2
The Knossian Kamares Style as Transgenerational Memory	2
Chipped-Stone Crescents from the Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene of Far Western North America and the Transverse Projectile Point Hypothesis	2
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	2
Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid): a Diachronic Approach Using Biological and Archaeological Variables	2
Experimental Data from Lacaune and Merino Sheep Provide New Methodological and Theoretical Grounds to Investigate Autumn Lambing in Past Husbandries	2
A History of Graphing Zooarchaeological Data (Taxonomic Heterogeneity, Demography and Mortality, Seasonality, Bone Survivorship, Butchering, etc.): Toward the Design of Effective and Efficient Zooarch	2
The Taphonomy of Status: The Creation of Group Identity and Social Inequality in Medieval Croatia	2
Rethinking Wear Rate Analysis: a New Dentin Exposure Proxy and its Applications to Ancient Chinese Populations	2
Confronting Taphonomic Challenges from Excavation Through Curation of Human Remains	2
The Archaeology of Cannibalism: a Review of the Taphonomic Traits Associated with Survival and Ritualistic Cannibalism	1
Quantitative Dental Mesowear Analysis in Domestic Caprids: a New Method to Reconstruct Management Strategies	1
Compression and digestion as agents of vertebral deformation in Sciaenidae, Merlucidae and Gadidae remains: an experimental study to interpret archaeological assemblages	1
Taphonomic Approach to the Interpretation of Isolated Human Skulls: Distinguishing Natural from Intentional Deposition	1
A Spatial Connectivity Approach to Landscapes of Conflict: Julius Caesar and the Assault to Puig Ciutat (NE Iberian Peninsula)	1
Investigating Human Activities in Caves Through the Study of Broken Stalagmite Structures: The Case of the Saint-Marcel Cave (France) During the Early Holocene	1
Catching a Glimpse of Mesolithic Settlement Patterns and Site Re-occupation Through Lithic Refitting, Raw Material Characterizations and Absolute Dating	1
James Matthew Skibo, 1960–2023: a Personal Remembrance	1
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?	1
Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long-Term Perspective	1
Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe	1
Skill in Stone Knapping: an Ecological Approach	1
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images	1
Forging a New World Order? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Management of Metalworking and Ideological Change in the Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin	1
A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production	1
The Temporality of Shapes: A Genealogy of Early Pottery-Making Practices in the Andean–Amazonian Borderland	1
Stability Through Movement: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of Social Space in Central European Neolithic Lakeside Settlements	1
Notational Sequences Theory from Its Introduction to Present Day	1
“Taphonomic Trajectories: Funerary Taphonomy and Preservation at the Medieval Site of Largo Cândido dos Reis, Portugal”	1
Using Radiocarbon Dates and Tool Design Principles to Assess the Role of Composite Slotted Bone Tool Technology at the Intersection of Adaptation and Culture-History	1
“A Network of Mutualities of Being”: Socio-material Archaeological Networks and Biological Ties at Çatalhöyük	1
Provisioning an Early City: Spatial Equilibrium in the Agricultural Economy at Angkor, Cambodia	1
Tracking Occupational Intensity Using Archaeo-faunal Data: Case Studies from the Late Pleistocene in the Southern Cape of South Africa	1
Islands without Iron. Strategies for Manufacturing Prehistoric Rotary Querns without Metal Tools in the Canary Islands: Working Hypotheses and Experimentation	1
Finger Fluting in Prehistoric Caves: A Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Children, Sexing and Tracing of Individuals	1
A Human Behavioral Ecology of the Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes	1
Reassessing the Interpretative Potential of Ethnographic Collections for Early Hunting Technologies	1
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	1
Comparing Summed Probability Distributions of Shoreline and Radiocarbon Dates from the Mesolithic Skagerrak Coast of Norway	1