OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Historical Archaeology 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Elephant Sealing in the South Shetland Islands (Nineteenth Century): Analyzing Exploitation Equipment through Outfitting Lists	9
Slaves with Guns in the American South: an Archaeological Assessment	8
Islands under Surveillance: Watch Towers, Gendered Schools, and the Emergence of Modernity in the Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia	8
“Our Silence Will Be More Powerful Than Words Could Be”: The Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument, Archaeology, and Commemorative Authority	8
An Archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939: The Case of Mass Crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest (Poland)	8
"When the last gunshot’s cry falls silent": Archaeological Investigation of the "Convoy of the Thirty-Five (Lamed-Heh)" (January 14-16, 1948)	7
The Archaeology of Industrial Productivity and Decline in the Port Arthur Convict Station Landscape, 1853-77	6
Mapping Poverty in Gotham: Visualizing New York City’s Almshouse Ledgers from 1822 to 1835	6
Archaeology, Activism, and Protest: Mobilizing the Past for Social Change	5
“Mississippi Street was Eaten by the Sea”: Climate Justice and Coastal Heritage in Liberia	4
Mapping Cold War Civil Defense in Aarhus, Denmark	4
“The Song of Love”: An Archaeology of Radio History and Surveillance Capitalism	3
After the Capital: Animal Economies in the Ming–Qing Period (1368–1912) at Xiajiazhuang, Xi’an, China	3
Cultivating Wheat in the Philippines, ca. 1600–1800 CE: Why a Grain Was Not Adopted by Local Populations	3
Archaeological Insights into Asymmetrical Warfare on the Queensland Frontier	3
Environmental Archaeology of Mauritius: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions	3
Vanishing Villages: Exploring Habitation and Abandonment in the Dhiarizos Valley, Cyprus, and Surrounding Areas	3
Shipwrecks in the Azores and Global Navigation (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries): An Overview	3
Rediscovering Lost Narratives: The Hidden Cache of a High-Status Indigenous Family at Mission La Purísima Concepción and its Significance in California History	3
Considering Seasonal Plantation Visibility in 3D "Fertile" Digital Landscapes to Re-Examine Caribbean Panoptic Plantationscapes	3
Sourcing the Early Colonial Knight’s Black “Marble” Tombstone at Jamestown, Virginia, USA	3
Colonial Liquor Regulation, Akpeteshie, and Smuggling along the Pra River, Shama Hinterland, Southern Ghana	3
A Grave Situation: Burial Practices among the Chinese Diaspora in Queensland, Australia (ca.1870–1930)	2
Correction to: The Study of European Migration in Asia-Pacific during the Early Modern Period: San Salvador de Isla Hermosa (Keelung, Taiwan)	2
Analysis of Organic Residue in a Wooden Vessel Excavated from a Tomb of Japanese Samurai Buried in the Seventeenth Century	2

A Box in the Desert: Using Open Access Satellite Imagery to Map the 151st Infantry Brigade’s Field Defences on the Gazala Line, 1942	2
Strainer-Type Smoking Pipes in Ottoman Palestine: An Updated Review of Their Typology, Function and Distribution	2
By Whose Authority? A Settler Archaeologist’s Approach to Relinquishing Control in Indigenous and Collaborative Archaeologies	2
Archaeologies of Company Towns and Their Landscapes of Power	2
Household and Neighborhood Dynamics in Historic San José, California	2
The Challenges and Future of Environmental Archaeology in Mauritius	2
Worshiping the North: Early Chinese Temples in Mainland Tropical Australia	2
A Crinoline in the Attic: Ritual Concealment at a Historic Plantation in New Jersey	2
Padlocks as Negotiated Freedoms within Enslavement	2
Landscape with Bees: Beekeeping at Hacienda San Pedro Cholul, Yucatán, Mexico	2
Modernity Versus Tradition: Beyond the Ideological Dispute	2
The Archaeology of Unexploded World War II Bomb Sites in the Koźle Basin, Southern Poland	2
The Landscapes of Disease and Death in Colonial Mauritius	2
Tensions, Engagements, and Activisms along the Pipeline Route: Tracing Resistance to Line 93 in Northern Minnesota	2
Cracking the Capitalist Code: Archaeology, Resistance and the Historical Present in Ecuador	1
Marine Environmental Archaeology: The Ecology of Shipwrecks in Mauritius	1
Why Teacups?: Assessing Enslaved People’s Use of Teawares in Antebellum Virginia	1
Embedded in the Bark: Kimberley Boab Trees as Sites of Historical Archaeology	1
A Significant Period of Native American Pine Peeling in Joes Valley, Utah	1
Pearl Fisheries in South Asia: Archaeological Evidence from Pre-Colonial and Colonial Shell Middens around the Gulf of Mannar in Sri Lanka	1
Archaeological Evidence of Landscape and Environmental Changes Due to Iron and Gunpowder Production in Mauritius	1
The Battle of Gniew Unearthed: Archaeology and the Polish-Swedish War (1626–29)	1
The Historical Development and Heritage Features of a Portside Cultural Landscape: The Bay of Pasaia (Basque Country, Spain)	1
Archaeological Perspectives on the Norwegian-Dutch Timber Trade (1500–1700 CE)	1
Exploring the Battlefields of the Malvinas/Falklands War (1982): Archaeological Mapping of Mount Longdon and Mount Tumbledown	1
Supply, Production, and Consumption in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia: The Ceramics of the Santo Domingo Convent (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)	1
The Swan River Colony’s First British Settlement: Early Results of Surveys of Garden Island (Meeandip), Western Australia	1
Religion, Status, and Trade on the Seventeenth-Century Doane Site, Cape Cod, MA	1
Complete Majolica Pieces From Indigenous Funerary Contexts in the Colonial Jurisdiction of Valdivia, Southern Chile	1
Coronado’s Cannon: A 1539-42 Coronado Expedition Cannon Discovered in Arizona	1
In Darkest Queensland: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis of Chinese and British Migrants in Frog’s Hollow, a Nineteenth-Century Brisbane Neighborhood	1
Zooarchaeology of the Modern Era: An Introduction	1
Utilizing Artifacts Associated with Unknown Individuals from Herzegovina to Assess Their Status as German World War II Military Combatants	1
Maritime Connections and Colonial Transformations: Rethinking Networks of Exchange in the Philippines	1
The Materiality of Remembering and Affective Alliance: A Dialogue between Communities and Archaeology on the Coast of São Paulo, Brazil and Veracruz, Mexico	1
Interactive Analysis of Lidar Data: Reanimating a Chinese Camp on the Victorian Goldfields	1
With Economy and Careful Management: Historical Archaeology, Fort La Cloche, and the Posthumanities	1
Identifying Sub-Recent Bedouin Archaeological Sites in the Northern Negev, Israel: A Case Study from al-Araqib	1
Communities of Hope: Sharing Economies and the Production of Material Worlds	1
Whispers from the Archives: Barriers to Hearing and Reclaiming Indigenous Narratives in Archival Research and Aboriginal Archaeology	1
Contact Rock Art: A Biographical Perspective from Western Arnhem Land, Australia	1
Implications of Historic Landscape Modification to Modern Crisis Management	1
Kola’s Kingdom: The Territory of Abasa (Western Somaliland) during the Medieval Period	1
The Droke Family Burial Ground (3BE655): The Civil War, Civilian Dead, and Wartime Exigencies	1
The Permanence of the Quilombola Landscape: Trails, Archaeological Sites, Social Relationships, and Quilombola Resistance in Tinharé Island, Bahia, Brazil	1
The Scarcity of a Long Unbroken Winter: Archaeological and Historical Expressions of Winter Habitations of Newfoundland’s Early European Fisherfolk	1