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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Seasonality of Wetland and Riparian Taskscapes at Çatalhöyük	12
Twenty-Five Years of Research at Çatalhöyük	9
Wine from the Desert	9
Rediscovering the Heartland of Cities	7
The Dispersal of the Domestic Cat	7
Niğde Kınık Höyük	6
Pigment Use at Neolithic Çatalhöyük	5
Çatalhöyük and Its Landscapes	5
Eau de Cleopatra	5
Assassin’s Creed Origins Discovery Tour	4
Towards the End of the Çatalhöyük East Settlement	4
Archaeogaming	3
Tel Burna after a Decade of Work	2
The Late-Antique Ma‘agan Mikhael B Shipwreck, Israel	2
A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Fraternal Stillborn Twins from Tell el-Hesi	2
Çemka Höyük, Late Epipaleolithic and PPNA Phase Housing Architecture	2
Assassin’s Creed Origins	2
Corals in the Desert	2
Grisly Trophies	2
Common Ground	2
Middens, Waste Disposal, and Health at Çatalhöyük	2
Communal Architecture at Boncuklu Tarla, Mardin Province, Turkey	2
Discovering Early Syrian Magic	1
The Canaanite City at Tel Reḥov	1
A Square Peg in a Round Hole	1

Two Great Households of Old Babylonian Ur	1
A Review of Nemrik Culture Following Findings in the Southeast Area at Boncuklu Tarla during the 2020 Excavation Season	1
Pomegranate or Poppy	1
The Case for Digital Site Reports	1
New Precedents and Insights from Stamp Seal Photography	1
Always a Hunter	1
Everything But The Oink	1
Immersing in Mesopotamia	1
Education beyond Preservation	1
Virtual Ziggurats	1
Curating The World Between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East	1
The Nabatean Flood Control System of Wadi Hremiyyeh, Petra	1
Ethnography, Engagement, Evaluations, and Endings	1
Engaging with the Çatalhöyük Database	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
Beyond Tomb and Relic	1
New Evidence of Two Transitions in the Neolithic Sequence of Northeastern Iran	1
Front Cover	0
Editor's Note	0
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Living with Animals	0
Networks of Specialized Knowledge	0
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From the Editor	0
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Coastal Archaeology and Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa	0
From Excavation to Vitrine	0
From the Guest Editors	0
Fiscal Year 2023 Honor Roll	0
Metalworking at Tel Reḥov	0
Honoring a Legacy, Inviting a New Generation	0
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Adorning and Protecting	0
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“Male until Proven Otherwise?”	0
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From the Guest Editors	0
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From the Guest Editors	0
Formless and Void	0
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The Environment We Share	0
Fish Imported from a Distance and Consumed at Tel Reḥov	0
Making a Good Impression	0
attīma nannarat šamê u erṣetim—“You Are the Light of Heaven and Earth”	0
Through the Eye of a Needle	0
Umm an-Nar Ritual Building in Dahwa 1 (DH1), Northern Al-Batinah, Oman	0
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A Survey on the Geological Origin of the Stele of the Assyrian King Sargon II from Quwakh Tapeh, Kermanshah, Western Iran	0
A Unique Painted Sherd from the Mid-Sixth Millennium BCE Neolithic Context of Northeastern Iran	0
The Finder, Not the Find	0
Revitalizing Legacy Biblical Archaeology Collections	0
Front Cover	0
(Un)Dressing Children in the Lachish Reliefs	0
From the Editor	0
Archaeology in a Pandemic	0
Back Matter	0
Tell It Like It Is	0
Animal Remains from Tel Reḥov	0
Front Cover	0
Fiscal Year 2023 Honor Roll	0
Editor’s Note	0
The Spiritual Life of Teleilat Ghassul and Building 78	0
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The Iron Age II Figurines and Zoomorphic Vessels of Tel Reḥov	0
From the Editor	0
Domestic Material Culture and Wealth Equality	0
The Temple of the Winged Lions, Petra	0
Stamp Seals as Jewelry	0
Tel Reḥov	0
Thermal Alterations to Human Remains in Çatalhöyük	0
Tel Reḥov in the Tenth and Ninth Centuries BCE	0
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A Triangular Amulet from Zincirli	0
Fiscal Year 2021 Honor Roll	0
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A Bone Projectile Point and Its Possibly Associated Workshop from the Iron Age IIA of Tell eṣ-Ṣafi/Gath	0
Excavations of Parthian Human Bone Remains at Liyarsangbon Cemetery, Amlash District, Guilan Province, Iran	0
The West Semitic Alphabet in the Early Iron Age	0
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From the Guest Editor	0
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In Situ Implementation of Imaging Techniques Reveals Key Motifs in the Early Byzantine Wall Painting of Christ’s Baptism at Shivta, Israel	0
Scratching the Surface of Middle Bronze Age Scarabs	0
Facing Assyria	0
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From the Guest Editor	0
Literacy in Judah and Israel	0
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The Exceptional Ninth-Century BCE Northwestern Quarter at Tel Reḥov	0
Ancient Mesopotamian Animal Omens	0
Human–Animal Encounters on Early Iron Age Stamp Seals	0
Flattening the Wild in the Ancient Near East	0
Some Highlights in Local versus Regional Glyptic Consumption in the Southern Levant during the Iron I	0
The Merdītu-Offerings	0
Manufacturing Technology and Usage of Glass Fragments in Jahangir Dome and Goriye, Sasanid Sites in Western Iran	0
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Nude Awakenings	0
Religion(s) in Seals	0
Fiscal Year 2022 Honor Roll	0
Back Matter	0
Persia’s Victory	0
New Evidence on Central Anatolia during the Second Millennium BCE Excavations at Büklükale	0
Editor’s Note	0
From the Editor	0
An Early Bronze Age Incense Burner from Dahwa (DH1), Northern al-Batinah, Oman	0
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Gender, Deities, and the Public Image of Sobekneferu	0
A Tale of Twelve Thousand Cards	0
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The Bronze Mouse of Maresha	0
Building Kunulua Block by Block	0
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Fiscal Year 2020 Honor Roll	0
About the Authors	0
Divine Cults in the Sacred Precinct of Girsu	0
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A Previously Unpublished Ceramic Assemblage of the Babylonian–Persian Periods from Tell en-Naṣbeh	0
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Might, Culture, and Archaeology in Sid Meier’s Civilization	0
From the Editor	0
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Rediscovering the Royal Steward Inscription	0
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Exploring the Biography of Gaming Stones at Aredhiou, Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age	0
A Roman Bronze Bull from the Floor of the Mashhad Pool in Sepphoris in the Galilee	0
Fiscal Year Honor Roll	0
A Newly Discovered Administrative Center of the Late Sasanian Empire	0
From the Editor	0
Back Matter	0
Fiscal Year 2021 Honor Roll	0
Back Matter	0
Editor's Note	0
Archaeological Survey Report on Paleolithic Sites of Harsin County in the Central Zagros, Iran	0
First Fragments: Biblical Papyrus from Roman Egypt	0
A Sasanian Triumphal Arch in Bishapur	0
Mastering the Seven-Headed Serpent	0
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The Apiary at Tel Reḥov	0
From the Editor	0
The Corpus of Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant Database	0
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She Who Wrote	0
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Fiscal Year 2020 Honor Roll	0
Encountering Ancient Environments	0
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Colossal Cave Archaeology	0
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Indus-Style Stone Beads in the Late Third-Millennium BCE Southern Levant	0
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Fiscal Year 2022 Honor Roll	0
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Fiscal Year 2021 Honor Roll	0
Integrating Magnetic and GPR Survey at Çatalhöyük	0
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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
Tectonic Activity and Site-Formation Processes at Tel Reḥov	0
Fiscal Year 2022 Honor Roll	0
Flowing Rock, Dancing around Trees	0
Fiscal Year 2022 Honor Roll	0
In the Footsteps of Albright	0
Fiscal Year 2021 Honor Roll	0
Front Cover	0
Fiscal Year 2023 Honor Roll	0
Fiscal Year 2019 Honor Roll	0
Fiscal Year 2019 Honor Roll	0
Back Matter	0
From the Guest Editor	0
Fiscal Year 2020 Honor Roll	0
Robebus Chapel Crypt Burials	0
Progress, Design, and Hyperreal Spectacle	0