OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Near Eastern Archaeology is 0. 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
Rediscovering the Heartland of Cities	7
Assassin’s Creed Origins Discovery Tour	6
Archaeogaming	5
Eau de Cleopatra	5
Beyond Tomb and Relic	3
Çemka Höyük, Late Epipaleolithic and PPNA Phase Housing Architecture	3
Tell It Like It Is	3
Assassin’s Creed Origins	3
Divine Cults in the Sacred Precinct of Girsu	2
Everything But The Oink	2
Grisly Trophies	2
Corals in the Desert	2
Communal Architecture at Boncuklu Tarla, Mardin Province, Turkey	2
Immersing in Mesopotamia	2
Always a Hunter	2
A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Fraternal Stillborn Twins from Tell el-Hesi	2
New Evidence of Two Transitions in the Neolithic Sequence of Northeastern Iran	1
A Tale of Twelve Thousand Cards	1
The Nabatean Flood Control System of Wadi Hremiyyeh, Petra	1
From Excavation to Vitrine	1
A Review of Nemrik Culture Following Findings in the Southeast Area at Boncuklu Tarla during the 2020 Excavation Season	1
In Situ Implementation of Imaging Techniques Reveals Key Motifs in the Early Byzantine Wall Painting of Christ’s Baptism at Shivta, Israel	1
Gender, Deities, and the Public Image of Sobekneferu	1
Virtual Ziggurats	1
The Case for Digital Site Reports	1

Umm an-Nar Ritual Building in Dahwa 1 (DH1), Northern Al-Batinah, Oman	1
The Canaanite City at Tel Reḥov	1
A Square Peg in a Round Hole	1
Two Great Households of Old Babylonian Ur	1
Coastal Archaeology and Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa	1
Education beyond Preservation	1
Excavations of Parthian Human Bone Remains at Liyarsangbon Cemetery, Amlash District, Guilan Province, Iran	1
Curating The World Between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East	1
New Precedents and Insights from Stamp Seal Photography	1
Discovering Early Syrian Magic	1
Flattening the Wild in the Ancient Near East	1
The Climate Crisis and Archaeological Practice in the Middle East and North Africa	1
Yotvata in the Southern Negev and Its Association with Copper Mining and Trade in the Early Iron Age	1
Hebrew Seals	1
Pomegranate or Poppy	1
Fiscal Year 2023 Honor Roll	0
From the Editor	0
Front Cover	0
Fiscal Year 2023 Honor Roll	0
Networks of Specialized Knowledge	0
“Male until Proven Otherwise?”	0
Indus-Style Stone Beads in the Late Third-Millennium BCE Southern Levant	0
Back Matter	0
Front Cover	0
Rediscovering the Royal Steward Inscription	0
Front Cover	0
An Early Bronze Age Incense Burner from Dahwa (DH1), Northern al-Batinah, Oman	0
Making a Good Impression	0
Front Matter	0
The Merdītu-Offerings	0
Back Matter	0
Fish Imported from a Distance and Consumed at Tel Reḥov	0
As Time Goes by	0
Facing Assyria	0
Fiscal Year 2022 Honor Roll	0
Fiscal Year 2021 Honor Roll	0
Front Matter	0
The Bronze Mouse of Maresha	0
Front Cover	0
Front Matter	0
The Trail of Sennacherib’s Siege Camps	0
Front Cover	0
Front Cover	0
The Temple of the Winged Lions, Petra	0
The Environment We Share	0
Back Matter	0
Front Matter	0
Fiscal Year 2022 Honor Roll	0
Persia’s Victory	0
A Previously Unpublished Ceramic Assemblage of the Babylonian–Persian Periods from Tell en-Naṣbeh	0

Editor’s Note	0
A Bone Projectile Point and Its Possibly Associated Workshop from the Iron Age IIA of Tell eṣ-Ṣafi/Gath	0
Front Cover	0
Stamp Seals as Jewelry	0
Tell el-Farʿah	0
Back Matter	0
The Iron Age II Figurines and Zoomorphic Vessels of Tel Reḥov	0
Front Matter	0
Spanish Archaeology in the Near East in the Twentieth Century	0
Front Matter	0
From the Guest Editors	0
Tel Reḥov	0
Guest Editorial	0
Honoring a Legacy, Inviting a New Generation	0
The Exceptional Ninth-Century BCE Northwestern Quarter at Tel Reḥov	0
First Fragments: Biblical Papyrus from Roman Egypt	0
Fiscal Year 2021 Honor Roll	0
Back Matter	0
From the Editor	0
The Current Study of the Ancient Near East in Spain	0
Fiscal Year 2023 Honor Roll	0
A Triangular Amulet from Zincirli	0
Scratching the Surface of Middle Bronze Age Scarabs	0
From the Guest Editors	0
The West Semitic Alphabet in the Early Iron Age	0
From the Editor	0
From the Editor	0
Fiscal Year 2022 Honor Roll	0
A Survey on the Geological Origin of the Stele of the Assyrian King Sargon II from Quwakh Tapeh, Kermanshah, Western Iran	0
Radiometric Dating of Wadi Zarqa Ma’in 1, a Limestone Sinkhole Natural Faunal Trap near the Dead Sea, Using Data from Test Pitting and a Portable Coring System	0
The Corpus of Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant Database	0
Evidence for Pastoral Nomads and Travelers in the Eastern Desert	0
From the Guest Editors	0
The Spiritual Life of Teleilat Ghassul and Building 78	0
Editor's Note	0
Encountering Ancient Environments	0
Fiscal Year Honor Roll	0
Nude Awakenings	0
Fiscal Year 2021 Honor Roll	0
Back Matter	0
Front Matter	0
Front Matter	0
Archaeological Survey Report on Paleolithic Sites of Harsin County in the Central Zagros, Iran	0
New Evidence on Central Anatolia during the Second Millennium BCE Excavations at Büklükale	0
Fiscal Year 2022 Honor Roll	0
Ancient Mesopotamian Animal Omens	0
Tectonic Activity and Site-Formation Processes at Tel Reḥov	0
From the Guest Editor	0
Front Cover	0
Colossal Cave Archaeology	0
Fiscal Year 2021 Honor Roll	0
Back Matter	0
Editor’s Note	0
Front Cover	0
Back Matter	0
Robebus Chapel Crypt Burials	0
Archaeology in a Pandemic	0
From the Editor	0
Archaeological Excavations in Iraqi Kurdistan	0
Back Matter	0
Front Matter	0
Front Cover	0
Back Matter	0
Front Matter	0
Front Matter	0
Front Matter	0
Building Kunulua Block by Block	0
Front Matter	0
Through the Eye of a Needle	0
Adorning and Protecting	0
A Roman Bronze Bull from the Floor of the Mashhad Pool in Sepphoris in the Galilee	0
Back Matter	0
Domestic Material Culture and Wealth Equality	0
Wild and Domesticated Fauna in Desert Regions of the Near East	0
About the Authors	0
Exploring the Biography of Gaming Stones at Aredhiou, Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age	0
Mastering the Seven-Headed Serpent	0
Some Highlights in Local versus Regional Glyptic Consumption in the Southern Levant during the Iron I	0
A Sasanian Triumphal Arch in Bishapur	0
Might, Culture, and Archaeology in Sid Meier’s Civilization	0

The Cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus	0
The Finder, Not the Find	0
Religion(s) in Seals	0
Progress, Design, and Hyperreal Spectacle	0
Formless and Void	0
Front Cover	0
Human–Animal Encounters on Early Iron Age Stamp Seals	0
Expanding the World of Biblical Studies to Scholars Who Are Blind	0
Metalworking at Tel Reḥov	0
attīma nannarat šamê u erṣetim—“You Are the Light of Heaven and Earth”	0
Fiscal Year 2020 Honor Roll	0
Back Matter	0
From the Editor	0
Front Matter	0
In the Footsteps of Albright	0
A Unique Painted Sherd from the Mid-Sixth Millennium BCE Neolithic Context of Northeastern Iran	0
Front Cover	0
Back Matter	0
Fiscal Year 2020 Honor Roll	0
She Who Wrote	0
Animal Remains from Tel Reḥov	0
The Apiary at Tel Reḥov	0
Front Matter	0
The Archaeology of Tyre	0
Front Matter	0
Front Cover	0
Back Matter	0
Revitalizing Legacy Biblical Archaeology Collections	0
Back Matter	0
Dawn and Descent	0
Fiscal Year 2024 Honor Roll	0
Mundo Antigo em Resenha (MAR)	0
Fiscal Year 2023 Honor Roll	0
A Newly Discovered Administrative Center of the Late Sasanian Empire	0
From the Guest Editor	0
The Spanish Archaeological and Archaeobiological Mission at Sharjah (SAAMS)	0
Front Cover	0
Front Cover	0
Tel Reḥov in the Tenth and Ninth Centuries BCE	0
Editor's Note	0
Back Matter	0
Manufacturing Technology and Usage of Glass Fragments in Jahangir Dome and Goriye, Sasanid Sites in Western Iran	0
Literacy in Judah and Israel	0
Front Cover	0
Flowing Rock, Dancing around Trees	0