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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Status and Social Stratification at Mission La Purísima Concepción: An Intra-Site Investigation of Residential Space within the Chumash Rancheria’ Amuwu	12
“Our Silence Will Be More Powerful Than Words Could Be”: The Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument, Archaeology, and Commemorative Authority	9
Slaves with Guns in the American South: an Archaeological Assessment	8
Mapping Poverty in Gotham: Visualizing New York City’s Almshouse Ledgers from 1822 to 1835	6
“Mississippi Street was Eaten by the Sea”: Climate Justice and Coastal Heritage in Liberia	6
An Archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939: The Case of Mass Crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest (Poland)	6
The Archaeology of Industrial Productivity and Decline in the Port Arthur Convict Station Landscape, 1853-77	6
Archaeology, Activism, and Protest: Mobilizing the Past for Social Change	5
Mapping Cold War Civil Defense in Aarhus, Denmark	5
Environmental Archaeology of Mauritius: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions	4
Rediscovering Lost Narratives: The Hidden Cache of a High-Status Indigenous Family at Mission La Purísima Concepción and its Significance in California History	4
“The Song of Love”: An Archaeology of Radio History and Surveillance Capitalism	4
Archaeology of the Color Pink	4
Vanishing Villages: Exploring Habitation and Abandonment in the Dhiarizos Valley, Cyprus, and Surrounding Areas	3
Considering Seasonal Plantation Visibility in 3D "Fertile" Digital Landscapes to Re-Examine Caribbean Panoptic Plantationscapes	3
After the Capital: Animal Economies in the Ming–Qing Period (1368–1912) at Xiajiazhuang, Xi’an, China	3
Shipwrecks in the Azores and Global Navigation (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries): An Overview	2
Cultivating Wheat in the Philippines, ca. 1600–1800 CE: Why a Grain Was Not Adopted by Local Populations	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
Worshiping the North: Early Chinese Temples in Mainland Tropical Australia	2
Modernity Versus Tradition: Beyond the Ideological Dispute	2
Strainer-Type Smoking Pipes in Ottoman Palestine: An Updated Review of Their Typology, Function and Distribution	2
Tensions, Engagements, and Activisms along the Pipeline Route: Tracing Resistance to Line 93 in Northern Minnesota	2
Archaeological Insights into Asymmetrical Warfare on the Queensland Frontier	2
Colonial Liquor Regulation, Akpeteshie, and Smuggling along the Pra River, Shama Hinterland, Southern Ghana	2

The Archaeology of Unexploded World War II Bomb Sites in the Koźle Basin, Southern Poland	2
The Challenges and Future of Environmental Archaeology in Mauritius	2
The Paths They Wore: Shoes on Feet at the Syracuse State School	2
Household and Neighborhood Dynamics in Historic San José, California	2
Padlocks as Negotiated Freedoms within Enslavement	2
Sourcing the Early Colonial Knight’s Black “Marble” Tombstone at Jamestown, Virginia, USA	2
Analysis of Organic Residue in a Wooden Vessel Excavated from a Tomb of Japanese Samurai Buried in the Seventeenth Century	2
Imagining Archaeologies without Ableism	2
The Landscapes of Disease and Death in Colonial Mauritius	2
Exploring Well-Being at Three Great Lakes Lighthouses	2
By Whose Authority? A Settler Archaeologist’s Approach to Relinquishing Control in Indigenous and Collaborative Archaeologies	2
A Crinoline in the Attic: Ritual Concealment at a Historic Plantation in New Jersey	2
The Historical Development and Heritage Features of a Portside Cultural Landscape: The Bay of Pasaia (Basque Country, Spain)	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
A Grave Situation: Burial Practices among the Chinese Diaspora in Queensland, Australia (ca.1870–1930)	1
Landscape with Bees: Beekeeping at Hacienda San Pedro Cholul, Yucatán, Mexico	1
The Battle of Gniew Unearthed: Archaeology and the Polish-Swedish War (1626–29)	1
The Swan River Colony’s First British Settlement: Early Results of Surveys of Garden Island (Meeandip), Western Australia	1
Pearl Fisheries in South Asia: Archaeological Evidence from Pre-Colonial and Colonial Shell Middens around the Gulf of Mannar in Sri Lanka	1
Contact Rock Art: A Biographical Perspective from Western Arnhem Land, Australia	1
Identifying Sub-Recent Bedouin Archaeological Sites in the Northern Negev, Israel: A Case Study from al-Araqib	1
Marine Environmental Archaeology: The Ecology of Shipwrecks in Mauritius	1
The Permanence of the Quilombola Landscape: Trails, Archaeological Sites, Social Relationships, and Quilombola Resistance in Tinharé Island, Bahia, Brazil	1
Archaeological Perspectives on the Norwegian-Dutch Timber Trade (1500–1700 CE)	1
Supply, Production, and Consumption in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia: The Ceramics of the Santo Domingo Convent (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)	1
Archaeologies of Company Towns and Their Landscapes of Power	1
Cracking the Capitalist Code: Archaeology, Resistance and the Historical Present in Ecuador	1
Kola’s Kingdom: The Territory of Abasa (Western Somaliland) during the Medieval Period	1
In Darkest Queensland: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis of Chinese and British Migrants in Frog’s Hollow, a Nineteenth-Century Brisbane Neighborhood	1
Archaeological Evidence of Landscape and Environmental Changes Due to Iron and Gunpowder Production in Mauritius	1
Utilizing Artifacts Associated with Unknown Individuals from Herzegovina to Assess Their Status as German World War II Military Combatants	1
Common Animals for Elite Humans: the Late Ottoman Fauna from Mardin Fortress, Southeastern Anatolia (Turkey)	1
With Economy and Careful Management: Historical Archaeology, Fort La Cloche, and the Posthumanities	1
Interactive Analysis of Lidar Data: Reanimating a Chinese Camp on the Victorian Goldfields	1
Correction to: The Study of European Migration in Asia-Pacific during the Early Modern Period: San Salvador de Isla Hermosa (Keelung, Taiwan)	1
The Invisibly Disabled Archaeologist	1
The Droke Family Burial Ground (3BE655): The Civil War, Civilian Dead, and Wartime Exigencies	1
Why Teacups?: Assessing Enslaved People’s Use of Teawares in Antebellum Virginia	1
Implications of Historic Landscape Modification to Modern Crisis Management	1
Zooarchaeology of the Modern Era: An Introduction	1
Archaeology, Disability, Healthcare, and the Weimar Joint Sanatorium for Tuberculosis	1