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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization: Fragmentation and Missing Data	59
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models	24
Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management	18
Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven	17
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	17
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia	17
Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)	17
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica	16
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	14
Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid): a Diachronic Approach Using Biological and Archaeological Variables	13
Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long-Term Perspective	13
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art	12
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 Role of Palaeolithic Cave-Art: Estimating Social Investment in Symbolic Expressions Through the Making Cost	11
The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre	11
The Taphonomy of Status: The Creation of Group Identity and Social Inequality in Medieval Croatia	11
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	10
Comparative Analysis of Three Analytical Methodologies for Polychrome Design: Ceramic Typology, Design Elements/Styles, and Design Symmetries on Chihuahuan Polychromes	10
Self-Organized Cultural Cycles and the Uncertainty of Archaeological Thought	9
Stability Through Movement: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of Social Space in Central European Neolithic Lakeside Settlements	9
Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe	9
Estimating the Size and Density of the La Prele Site: Implications for Early Paleoindian Group Size	9
Quantitative Dental Mesowear Analysis in Domestic Caprids: a New Method to Reconstruct Management Strategies	9
Assessing the Utility of Strontium Isotopes in Fossil Dental Calculus	8
Minimum Animal Units and the Standardized Count Problem	8

Applications of Microct Imaging to Archaeobotanical Research	8
The Time of the Stones: A Call for Palimpsest Dissection to Explore Lithic Record Formation Processes	8
A ‘Family of Wear’: Traceological Patterns on Pebbles Used for Burnishing Pots and Processing Other Plastic Mineral Matters	7
Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks	7
Site-Seeing in Mallorca? Exploring the Visual Influence of Architecture and Location in Talayotic Iron Age Sites in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)	7
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents	6
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition	6
New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Kinematic Perspectives	6
A Burning Platform? Critical Reflections on the Impact of Research on the Developing Bioarchaeology of Cremation	6
Searching for the Individual: Characterising Knowledge Transfer and Skill in Prehistoric Personal Ornament Making	6
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)	6
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	6
Identifying the Impact of Soil Ingestion on Dental Microwear Textures Using a Wild Boar Experimental Model	6
Making Rock Art: Correspondences, Rhythms, and Temporalities	6
Archaeological and Experimental Lithic Microwear Classification Through 2D Textural Analysis and Machine Learning	6
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timing and Zoogeography of Domesticated Horse Arrivals in Mongolia and China	6
Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis	5
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective	5
The Temporality of Shapes: A Genealogy of Early Pottery-Making Practices in the Andean–Amazonian Borderland	5
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites	5
Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions	5
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: on the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores	5
The Levantine Megalithic Building Techniques: A Groundbreaking Method Applied to Menjez’s Monuments (Akkar, Lebanon) from the 4th–3rd Millennium BCE	4
Low-Density Urbanisation: Prestate Settlement Growth in a Pacific Society	4
How Cultural Transmission Through Objects Impacts Inferences About Cultural Evolution	4
Diet, Mobility, Technology, and Lithics: Neolithization on the Andean Altiplano, 7.0–3.5 ka	4
Debunking Deterministic Narratives of Technological Development Through Experimentation: A Critical Review of the Prehistory of Tin Bronze Alloying	4
Race, Gender, and Intersectionality in the Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora: Perspectives from Colonial Peru	4
Convergent Evolution of Prehistoric Technologies: the Entropy and Diversity of Limited Solutions	4
Paleolithic Human Responses to Changing Aridity at Üçağızlı I cave, southern-coastal Turkey: Application of a Novel Carbon Isotope-Based Method	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
From Barter to Market: an Agent-Based Model of Prehistoric Market Development	3
Linking Up Bell Beakers in the Iberian Peninsula	3
Correction to: (Sea)ways of Perception: an Integrated Maritime‑Terrestrial Approach to Modelling Prehistoric Seafaring	3
Archaeo-Tempestites and Coastal Taphonomy of Shell-Bearing Sites: Native American Sites in Florida as a Case Study	3
Toys as Teachers: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Object Use and Enskillment in Hunter–Gatherer Societies	3
The Beginning of the End: Abandonment Micro-histories in the Mississippian Vacant Quarter	3
Locating Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherer Camps in the Carpathian Basin	3
The Effect of Plant Food Treatment on Stable Isotopes and Their Relevance for Archaeological Studies: A Methodological Pilot Study	3
Learning by Doing: Investigating Skill Through Techno-Functional Study of Recycled Lithic Items from Qesem Cave (Israel)	3
Moments of Movement and Stillness for Senebtisi Since 1907	3
Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory	3
Quantifying Spatial Complexity of Settlement Plans Through Fractal Analysis	2
From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production	2
Understanding Taphonomy Through 3D and 2D Records: A Case Study from the Tropical Maya Area	2
(Sea)ways of Perception: an Integrated Maritime-Terrestrial Approach to Modelling Prehistoric Seafaring	2
Dots on the Map: Issues in the Archaeological Analysis of Site Locations	2
A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production	2
Exploratory Network Reconstruction with Sparse Archaeological Data and XTENT	2

Confronting Taphonomic Challenges from Excavation Through Curation of Human Remains	2
Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea	2
Deciphering the Public: An Integrated Analysis of Outdoor Spaces in the Neolithic Settlement of Kleitos 1 in Greece	2
Biocultural Taphonomies and Analysis of an Emerging Terminal Classic (750–900 CE) Maya Deathway	2
Compression and digestion as agents of vertebral deformation in Sciaenidae, Merlucidae and Gadidae remains: an experimental study to interpret archaeological assemblages	2
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?	2
Rethinking Wear Rate Analysis: a New Dentin Exposure Proxy and its Applications to Ancient Chinese Populations	2
The Archaeology of Cannibalism: a Review of the Taphonomic Traits Associated with Survival and Ritualistic Cannibalism	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
Fuzzy Typological (Re)arrangement: a Prototype of Rethinking the Typology of Roman Tablewares from Sagalassos, Southwest Anatolia	2
The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial	2
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	2
The Archaeology of Awe: Monumental Architecture, Communal Ritual, and Community Formation at Poverty Point, USA	1
Tales of Multifunctionality: a Systematic Quantitative Literature Review of Boomerangs Used as Retouchers in Australian Aboriginal Cultures	1
Thermal Influences on Shells: an Archaeological Experiment from the Tropical Indo-pacific	1
A Human Behavioral Ecology of the Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes	1
Provisioning an Early City: Spatial Equilibrium in the Agricultural Economy at Angkor, Cambodia	1
Death and Dichotomy: Exploring Varied Human and Animal Depositional Practices in the Iron Age at Battlesbury Bowl, UK, through Histotaphonomy	1
Determining the Postmortem Timing of Sharp Force Damage and the Pre-burning Condition of Burnt Bone	1
All Mixed Up: Investigating Mortuary Practice and Processes of Disarticulation Through Integrated Histotaphonomic Analysis at the Knowe of Rowiegar, Neolithic Chambered Cairn, Orkney, UK	1
Multiproxy Analysis of Adhered and Absorbed Food Residues Associated with Pottery	1
“Slow” Network Research? A Mixed-Methods Approach Towards Funeral Status Representation in the Late Urnfield Period	1
Archaeology and Kastom: Island Historicities and Transforming Religious Traditions in Southern Vanuatu	1
‘A Complex Past’: Theory and Applications	1
Mappings of Potential Sailing Mobility in the Mediterranean During Antiquity	1
Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification: Malthusian and Boserupian Dynamics	1
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	1
Ritual Closure: Rites De Passage and Apotropaic Magic in an Animate World	1
A Review of Methods to Analyze Archaeological Lime Production: Investigating Raw Materials Selection and Firing Conditions	1
Beyond the Surface: Exploring Ancient Plant Food Processing through Confocal Microscopy and 3D Texture Analysis on Ground Stone Tools	1
Rock Art Painting Taphonomy: the Role of Environmental and Technological Factors	1
Correction to: Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Variability of Bone Collagen to Determine the Number of Isotopically Distinct Specimens	1
Traditions of Equality: The Archaeology of Egalitarianism and Egalitarian Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa (First and Second Millennium CE)	1
Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction	1
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	1
“Open Sourcing” Workflow and Machine Learning Approaches for Attributing Obsidian Artifacts to Their Volcanic Origins: A Feasibility Study from the South Caucasus	1
Editorial	1
Forging a New World Order? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Management of Metalworking and Ideological Change in the Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin	1
Bronze Age Stone Anchors as Material Metaphors: Applying Conceptual Blending Theory to Investigate Their Symbolic Value	1
The Trade Theory of Money: External Exchange and the Origins of Money	1
Discrimination of Cereal Residue Adsorbed by Pottery Based on Metabolomics	1
Methodological Challenges to Tracking Zea mays (Maize) Historical Pathways Through Macrobotanical, Microbotanical, and Stable Isotope Evidence: Maize’s Adoption and Consumption by Precontact Populatio	1
Modeling Cultural Transmission in Structured Populations Raises Important Questions for Archaeologists	1
Water Flows and Water Accumulations on Bedrock as a Structuring Element of Rock Art	1
Chipped-Stone Crescents from the Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene of Far Western North America and the Transverse Projectile Point Hypothesis	1