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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Threads of Evidence: Polarized Light Microscopy for Funerary Textile Identification from an Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Philadelphia Burial Ground	11
Status and Social Stratification at Mission La Purísima Concepción: An Intra-Site Investigation of Residential Space within the Chumash Rancheria’ Amuwu	8
“Mo té la”: Building Community-Engaged Plantation Archaeology in Guyane	8
An Archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939: The Case of Mass Crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest (Poland)	7
Arsuf (Apollonia, Palestine) Post-Occupational History: The Biography of a Desolated Site	6
Archaeology, Activism, and Protest: Mobilizing the Past for Social Change	5
Mapping Poverty in Gotham: Visualizing New York City’s Almshouse Ledgers from 1822 to 1835	5
The Archaeology of Industrial Productivity and Decline in the Port Arthur Convict Station Landscape, 1853-77	5
“Mississippi Street was Eaten by the Sea”: Climate Justice and Coastal Heritage in Liberia	5
Mapping Cold War Civil Defense in Aarhus, Denmark	5
Rediscovering Lost Narratives: The Hidden Cache of a High-Status Indigenous Family at Mission La Purísima Concepción and its Significance in California History	5
“The Song of Love”: An Archaeology of Radio History and Surveillance Capitalism	4
Shipwrecks in the Azores and Global Navigation (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries): An Overview	4
Archaeology of the Color Pink	4
Environmental Archaeology of Mauritius: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions	4
Vanishing Villages: Exploring Habitation and Abandonment in the Dhiarizos Valley, Cyprus, and Surrounding Areas	4
Considering Seasonal Plantation Visibility in 3D "Fertile" Digital Landscapes to Re-Examine Caribbean Panoptic Plantationscapes	4
Colonial Liquor Regulation, Akpeteshie, and Smuggling along the Pra River, Shama Hinterland, Southern Ghana	4
Zooarchaeology and GIS: Enslaved and Free Black Diet at a Late Eighteenth- to Mid-Nineteenth-Century Delaware Farm, New Castle County, Delaware, United States	3
Sourcing the Early Colonial Knight’s Black “Marble” Tombstone at Jamestown, Virginia, USA	3
Analysis of Organic Residue in a Wooden Vessel Excavated from a Tomb of Japanese Samurai Buried in the Seventeenth Century	3
Archaeological Insights into Asymmetrical Warfare on the Queensland Frontier	3
Cultivating Wheat in the Philippines, ca. 1600–1800 CE: Why a Grain Was Not Adopted by Local Populations	3
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
Imagining Archaeologies without Ableism	2

The Landscapes of Disease and Death in Colonial Mauritius	2
A Crinoline in the Attic: Ritual Concealment at a Historic Plantation in New Jersey	2
Padlocks as Negotiated Freedoms within Enslavement	2
A Grave Situation: Burial Practices among the Chinese Diaspora in Queensland, Australia (ca.1870–1930)	2
Exploring Well-Being at Three Great Lakes Lighthouses	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
Negotiating Freedom in Florida: A Study of Ethnogenesis and Resistance at Three Nineteenth-Century Florida Sites	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
The Invisibly Disabled Archaeologist	2
An Early Hispanic-Indigenous Contact Event at the Los Viscos Archaeological Site in the South-Central Andes: A Zooarchaeological Perspective	2
Worshiping the North: Early Chinese Temples in Mainland Tropical Australia	2
Modernity Versus Tradition: Beyond the Ideological Dispute	2
The Paths They Wore: Shoes on Feet at the Syracuse State School	2
Household and Neighborhood Dynamics in Historic San José, California	2
Tensions, Engagements, and Activisms along the Pipeline Route: Tracing Resistance to Line 93 in Northern Minnesota	2
Archaeologies of Company Towns and Their Landscapes of Power	2
Contact Rock Art: A Biographical Perspective from Western Arnhem Land, Australia	1
The Swan River Colony’s First British Settlement: Early Results of Surveys of Garden Island (Meeandip), Western Australia	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 Poverty of Archival Riches: Reconstructing Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mauritian History	1
Landscape with Bees: Beekeeping at Hacienda San Pedro Cholul, Yucatán, Mexico	1
Correction to: The Study of European Migration in Asia-Pacific during the Early Modern Period: San Salvador de Isla Hermosa (Keelung, Taiwan)	1
Cracking the Capitalist Code: Archaeology, Resistance and the Historical Present in Ecuador	1
Why Teacups?: Assessing Enslaved People’s Use of Teawares in Antebellum Virginia	1
Pearl Fisheries in South Asia: Archaeological Evidence from Pre-Colonial and Colonial Shell Middens around the Gulf of Mannar in Sri Lanka	1
Identifying Sub-Recent Bedouin Archaeological Sites in the Northern Negev, Israel: A Case Study from al-Araqib	1
Archaeology, Disability, Healthcare, and the Weimar Joint Sanatorium for Tuberculosis	1
Common Animals for Elite Humans: the Late Ottoman Fauna from Mardin Fortress, Southeastern Anatolia (Turkey)	1
Sugar Pills? Investigating Humphreys’ Homeopathic Specifics: Utilizing Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry for an In-Depth Look at Nineteenth-Century American Homeopathy	1
Archaeological Perspectives on the Norwegian-Dutch Timber Trade (1500–1700 CE)	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
The Historical Development and Heritage Features of a Portside Cultural Landscape: The Bay of Pasaia (Basque Country, Spain)	1
The Battle of Gniew Unearthed: Archaeology and the Polish-Swedish War (1626–29)	1
Kola’s Kingdom: The Territory of Abasa (Western Somaliland) during the Medieval Period	1
Archaeological Evidence of Landscape and Environmental Changes Due to Iron and Gunpowder Production in Mauritius	1
Prefabrication, Patrilineality, and Intergenerational Reuse: The Ruined Third Church of Aniwa, Southern Vanuatu, and its Integration into Domestic Architecture	1
Marine Environmental Archaeology: The Ecology of Shipwrecks in Mauritius	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
Supply, Production, and Consumption in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia: The Ceramics of the Santo Domingo Convent (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)	1
The Puppy in the Pit: Osteobiography of an Eighteenth-Century Dog at the Three Cranes Tavern, Massachusetts	1
Utilizing Artifacts Associated with Unknown Individuals from Herzegovina to Assess Their Status as German World War II Military Combatants	1
Zooarchaeology of the Modern Era: An Introduction	1