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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	47
Evolving Human Brains: Paleoneurology and the Fate of Middle Pleistocene	45
Four-Field Co-evolutionary Model for Human Cognition: Variation in the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic	32
Mark Making and Human Becoming	29
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Ecological Changes, Social Behaviour and Human Intergroup Tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP	25
Probabilistic Modelling for Incorporating Uncertainty in Least Cost Path Results: a Postdictive Roman Road Case Study	24
What Stimulated Rapid, Cumulative Innovation After 100,000 Years Ago?	23
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models	19
Niche Construction Theory in Archaeology: A Critical Review	19
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	18
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images	18
Defining and Characterising Clusters in Palaeolithic Sites: a Review of Methods and Constraints	17
Tracking Hunter-Gatherer Impact on Vegetation in Last Interglacial and Holocene Europe: Proxies and Challenges	15
Relationships Between Lipid Profiles and Use of Ethnographic Pottery: an Exploratory Study	15
Application of Line of Sight and Potential Audience Analysis to Unravel the Spatial Organization of Palaeolithic Cave Art	13
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?	13
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	12
Provisioning an Early City: Spatial Equilibrium in the Agricultural Economy at Angkor, Cambodia	12
Household Inequality, Community Formation, and Land Tenure in Classic Period Lowland Maya Society	12
A Lithic Provisioning Model as a Proxy for Landscape Mobility in the Southern and Middle Kalahari	11
Diet, Mobility, Technology, and Lithics: Neolithization on the Andean Altiplano, 7.0–3.5 ka	11
Investigating Isotopic Niche Space: Using rKIN for Stable Isotope Studies in Archaeology	11
Projectiles Under a New Angle: a Ballistic Analysis Provides an Important Building Block to Grasp Paleolithic Weapon Technology	11
Constraining the Likely Technological Niches of Late Middle Pleistocene Hominins with Homo naledi as Case Study	10
Joining the Circle: Native American Philosophy Applied to the Study of Late Archaic Shell Rings of the Southeast United States	9

A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production	9
The Tip Cross-sectional Area (TCSA) Method Strengthened and Constrained with Ethno-historical Material from Sub-Saharan Africa	9
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models—Best Practices for Data Acquisition	9
Self-Organized Cultural Cycles and the Uncertainty of Archaeological Thought	8
An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past	8
A Multivariate Approach to Investigate Metallurgical Technology: The Case of the Chinese Ritual Bronzes	8
Wealth and Well-being in an Ancient Maya Community	8
Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Variability of Bone Collagen to Determine the Number of Isotopically Distinct Specimens	8
Non-Local Enemies or Local Subjects of Violence?: Using Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and Lead (206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb) Isobiographies to Reconstruct Geographic Origins and Early Childhood Mobi	8
A Journey Begins with a Single Step: How Early Holocene Humans and Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Embarked on the Pathway to Domestication in the Eastern Fertile Crescent	7
The Technological Behaviours of Homo antecessor: Core Management and Reduction Intensity at Gran Dolina-TD6.2 (Atapuerca, Spain)	7
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica	7
The Role of Functional Efficiency in the Decline of North America’s Copper Culture (8000–3000 BP): an Experimental, Ecological, and Evolutionary Approach	7
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)	7
Stringing Together Cowrie Shells in the African Archaeological Record with Special Reference to Southern Africa	7
Quantifying Edge Sharpness on Stone Flakes: Comparing Mechanical and Micro-Geometric Definitions Across Multiple Raw Materials from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)	7
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites	7
From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production	6
The Effect of Raw Material on the Identification of Knapping Skill: a Case Study from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania	6
Compression and digestion as agents of vertebral deformation in Sciaenidae, Merlucidae and Gadidae remains: an experimental study to interpret archaeological assemblages	6
Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management	6
Experimental Data from Lacaune and Merino Sheep Provide New Methodological and Theoretical Grounds to Investigate Autumn Lambing in Past Husbandries	5
A Study of the Centuries-Long Reliance on Local Ceramics in Jerash Through Full Quantification and Simulation	5
Tracking Occupational Intensity Using Archaeo-faunal Data: Case Studies from the Late Pleistocene in the Southern Cape of South Africa	5
Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement	5
Exploratory Network Reconstruction with Sparse Archaeological Data and XTENT	5
Toys as Teachers: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Object Use and Enskillment in Hunter–Gatherer Societies	5
Ritual Closure: Rites De Passage and Apotropaic Magic in an Animate World	5
On the Reuse of Multiscale LiDAR Data to Investigate the Resilience in the Late Medieval Time: the Case Study of Basilicata in South of Italy	5
The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial	5
Mappings of Potential Sailing Mobility in the Mediterranean During Antiquity	4
Dots on the Map: Issues in the Archaeological Analysis of Site Locations	4
A Simple Method for Quantifying Compositional Correspondence Between Zooarchaeological Assemblages Using Paired Similarity Indices	4
Three-Dimensional Proxies to Dental Wear Characterization in a Known Age-at-Death Skeletal Collection	4
A ‘Family of Wear’: Traceological Patterns on Pebbles Used for Burnishing Pots and Processing Other Plastic Mineral Matters	4
How Cultural Transmission Through Objects Impacts Inferences About Cultural Evolution	4
Forging a New World Order? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Management of Metalworking and Ideological Change in the Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin	4
Digital Navigator on the Seas of the Selden Map of China: Sequential Least-Cost Path Analysis Using Dynamic Wind Data	4
Multiproxy Analysis of Adhered and Absorbed Food Residues Associated with Pottery	4
(Sea)ways of Perception: an Integrated Maritime-Terrestrial Approach to Modelling Prehistoric Seafaring	4
Itinerant Assemblages and Material Networks: the Application of Assemblage Theory to Networks in Archaeology	4
Archaeology and Kastom: Island Historicities and Transforming Religious Traditions in Southern Vanuatu	4
Thermal Influences on Shells: an Archaeological Experiment from the Tropical Indo-pacific	3
Ancient Recycling: Considerations of the Wasteful, Meaningful, and Practical from the Maya Site of Ucanal, Peten, Guatemala	3
The Importance of Energetics in Archaeological Least Cost Analysis	3
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective	3
Revealing Evolutionary Patterns Behind Homogeneity: the Case of the Palaeolithic Assemblages from Notarchirico (Southern Italy)	3
Archaeology in the Fourth Dimension: Studying Landscapes with Multitemporal PlanetScope Satellite Data	3
Convergent Evolution of Prehistoric Technologies: the Entropy and Diversity of Limited Solutions	3
Quantitative Dental Mesowear Analysis in Domestic Caprids: a New Method to Reconstruct Management Strategies	3

Measuring the Complexity of Past Social Systems: a Task Analysis Approach to the Study of Late Prehistoric Monumentality in Iberia	3
Locating Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherer Camps in the Carpathian Basin	3
Broken Worlds: Towards an Archaeology of the Shatter Zone	3
Applications of Microct Imaging to Archaeobotanical Research	3
The Beginning of the End: Abandonment Micro-histories in the Mississippian Vacant Quarter	3
Skill in Stone Knapping: an Ecological Approach	3
He i‘a make ka ‘opihi: Optimal Foraging Theory, Food Choice, and the Fish of Death	3
Identifying the Impact of Soil Ingestion on Dental Microwear Textures Using a Wild Boar Experimental Model	3
Weathering Stages of Proboscidean Bones: Relevance for Zooarchaeological Analysis	3
Survey, Shovel Probes, and Population Estimates: Studying Regional Demography in the Intermediate Area Using Subsurface Sherd Deposits	2
A Human Behavioral Ecology of the Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes	2
Genealogies and Juxtapositions: Traces of Potting Communities and Firing Facilities in Lake Titicaca Basin	2
From Novices to Experts: Skill Development and Knowledge Transmission in Prehistory	2
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	2
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	2
School of Rocks: a Transmission Time Investment Model for Pleistocene Lithic Technology	2
Reassessing the Interpretative Potential of Ethnographic Collections for Early Hunting Technologies	2
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art	2
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition	2
Comparative Analysis of Three Analytical Methodologies for Polychrome Design: Ceramic Typology, Design Elements/Styles, and Design Symmetries on Chihuahuan Polychromes	2
Entropology: an Information-Theoretic Approach to Understanding Archaeological Data	2
Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe	2
Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification: Malthusian and Boserupian Dynamics	2
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents	2
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: on the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores	2