OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environmental 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Association of Arable Weeds with Modern Wild Cereal Habitats: Implications for Reconstructing the Origins of Plant Cultivation in the Levant	16
A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Investigate Use-Related Biogenic Residues on Palaeolithic Ground Stone Tools	16
The Sicilian Countryside in the Early Middle Ages: Human–Environment Interactions at Contrada Castro	12
Feeding Shimao: Archaeobotanical and Isotopic Investigation into Early Urbanism (4200-3000 BP) on the Northern Loess Plateau, China	10
Dietary and Weaning Habits of the Roman Community of Quarto Cappello del Prete (Rome, 1st-3^rdCentury CE)	10
The Southernmost Pre-Columbian Dogs in the Americas: Phenotype, Chronology, Diet and Genetics	10
Understanding the Collapse of the Longshan Culture (4400-3800 BP) and the 4.2 ka Event in the Haidai Region of China – from an Agricultural Perspective	9
Isotopic Ecology in Modern and Holocene Populations of Pampas Deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) from Eastern Central Argentina. Implications for Conservation Biology and Ecological Models of Hunter	8
Innovation and Intensification: The Use of Cattle in the Roman Rhine Region	8
Agropastoral Economies and Land Use in Bronze Age Western Anatolia	8
Perinatal Remains of Livestock: An Under-utilised Line of Evidence for Animal Penning in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia	8
Production and Transport of Goods in the Roman Period: Residue Analysis and Wine Derivatives in Late Republican Baetican Ovoid Amphorae	7
Social Dynamics and Resource Management Strategies in Copper Age Italy: Insights from Archaeological and Isotopic Data	7
‘Seeing Shit’: Assessing the Visibility of Dung Tempering in Ancient Pottery Using an Experimental Approach	7
Socioecological Dynamics Structuring the Spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region	7
Medieval Whalers in the Netherlands and Flanders: Zooarchaeological Analysis of Medieval Cetacean Remains	7
Paleoclimate of the Little Ice Age to the Present in the Kankakee Valley of Illinois and Indiana, USA Based on¹⁸O/¹⁶O Isotope Ratios of Freshwater Shells	7
Breastfeeding and Weaning in Roman Thessaloniki. An Investigation of Infant Diet based on Incremental Analysis of Human Dentine	6
Multiple Factors Affecting the Historical Development of Agriculture in the Hei River Basin, Northwestern China	6
Caprine Mobility on the Balearic Islands During the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600–850 BC): First Results Based on Strontium Isotopes (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr)	6
Towards an Integration of Historical Trees into the Mediterranean Archaeological Record: Case Studies from Central Israel	6
Changing Plant-based Subsistence Practices among Early and Middle Holocene Communities in Eastern Maghreb	6
Islands of Difference: An Ecologically Explicit Model of Central European Neolithisation	5
Mangrove Archives: Unravelling Human-environment Interactions from Deeply Buried Deposits at the Site Anse Trabaud, Martinique, Lesser Antilles (1290–780 cal BP)	5
Environmental Impact of Roman Mining and Metallurgy and Its Correlation with the Archaeological Evidence: A European Perspective	5

Exploring Diversity in Neolithic Agropastoral Management in Mainland Greece Using Stable Isotope Analysis	5
Project nEU-Med. The Contribution of Isotopic Analysis in the Differential Diagnosis of Anemia, the Case of the Medieval Cemetery of Vetricella (Scarlino, GR) in Tuscany	5
Investigation of Seasonal Settlement and Clam Harvest Pressure in the Sechelt Inlet System, British Columbia, Canada, Through Sclerochronology and Stable Oxygen Isotope Analyses	4
A Stable Isotope Approach to Roman Diet and Its Legacy in Late Antiquity in Hispania and the Western Empire	4
Reconstruction of the Use of Space at Tianluoshan, China, Based on Palynological and Lipid Evidence	4
The Roman Legacy on European Chestnut and Walnut Arboriculture	4
Coastal-Hinterland Exchange and Garden Hunting Practices Prior to the European Invasion of Hispaniola	4
Diversity of Free-Threshing Wheat in Early Medieval England Supported by Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Grains	4
Landnám, Land Use and Landscape Change at Kagaðarhóll in Northwest Iceland	4
The Presence of Decayed Wood in Iron Age Contexts of Northwest Iberia: Wood-borer Galleries and Fungal Hyphae	4
Wood Technology: Production Sequences and Use of Woody Raw Materials among Hunter-Gatherer Patagonian Groups (Argentina)	3
Summer Camps Location and Distribution of Archaeological Sites in North Neuquén (Northwest Patagonia)	3
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Human–Environmental Interactions at the Roman-Byzantine Ibida Fortress (Dobrogea, South-Eastern Romania)	3
Social Context of Late Medieval and Early Modern Deforestation Periods in the Apuseni Mountains (Romania) based on an Integrated Evaluation of Historical and Paleobotanical Records	3
Characterising Inter-Individual Growth Variability of Patella vulgata Shell Through Calcein Marking Experiments: Consequences for Palaeo-Environmental Studies	3
Editorial: Archaeobotany in the Wider Landscape	3
Isotopic Insights into Livestock Production in Roman Italy: Diet, Seasonality, and Mobility on an Imperial Estate	3
Ancient Spring Tunnels of Jerusalem, Israel: Physical, Spatial, and Human Aspects	3
Crop Husbandry at Gabii During the Iron Age and Archaic Period: The Archaeobotanical and Stable Isotope Evidence	3
Palaeoenvironmental Framing of the O Areal Roman Saltworks and Related Anthropogenic Activities in North-western Iberia	3
Climate Change and the Migration of a Pastoralist People c. 3500 cal. Years BP Inferred from Palaeofire and Lipid Biomarker Records in the Montane Western Ghats, India	3
Using High-Resolution Digital Photography and Micro-CT Scanning to Investigate Deathwatch Beetle Damage to an Historic Timber from HMS Victory	3
Wood in Pre-Columbian Funerary Rituals: A Case Study from El Caño (Panama, AD 880–1020)	3
Archaeological Recovery of Late Pleistocene Hair and Environmental DNA from Interior Alaska	3
Stable Isotope Composition (C and N) of Vegetation in Subtropical Andes: Piedmont ‘Anomaly’ and its Implications for Paleo (Ecology) and Human Diet Reconstruction	2
Archaeobotanical and Historical Insights on Some Steps of Forest Cover Disruption at Ustica Island (Sicily, Italy) from Prehistory Until Present day	2
Elite Food Between the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance: Some Case Studies from Latium	2
Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Woodland in Northern Syria (4th–2nd Mill. BC): Evidence from Charcoal Assemblages and Oak Measurements	2
The Environment and its Exploitation Along the Lower Scheldt River During the Roman Period (Wichelen, Belgium – Late 1st to 3rd Centuries AD)	2
An Investigation of Ancient Water Collection and Storage Systems Near the Karahantepe Neolithic Site Using UAV and GIS	2
Plant Assemblage of the Phoenician Sacrificial Pit by the Temple of Melqart/Herakles (Motya, Sicily, Italy)	2
House of Plenty: Reassessing Food and Farming in Late Bronze Age Croatia	2
The Oriental Cockroach Blatta orientalis L. Recovered from Early Roman London: Implications for Past Distribution and Roman Trade	2
Ecological Constraints on Violence Avoidance Tactics in the Prehispanic Central Andes	2
Modelling Prehistoric Topography and Vegetation in the Lower Thames Valley, UK: Palaeoenvironmental Context for Wetland Archaeology and Evidence for Neolithic Landnám from North Woolwich	2
Using Deer Stable Isotope Data to Test a Niche Construction Hypothesis for an Increase in Prehistoric Human Maize Consumption in the Eastern Woodlands of the United States	2
Taphonomic Analysis and Morphotypical Characterisation of the Medieval Dog from the Castle of Santa Severa (Latium, Italy)	2
Looking at Phytoliths in Archaeological Soil and Sediment Thin Sections	2
The Winter Solstice as a Roman Cultural Fingerprint from the Mythical Origins of Rome to Augustus	2
Shifting the Sands – Early Islamic Modification of the Caesarea Sandy Lowlands into Plot-and-Berm Water-Harvesting Agroecosystem	2
Hunter-gatherer Mobility Analysed Through δ ¹⁸ O in the Patchy Environment of the Paraná Valley, South American Lowlands	2
Remains of Birds from the Northwest Black Sea Ancient Settlements	2
War Horses and Equine Herd Feeding Management at the End of the Third Century BC: New Insights from Pech Maho (Southern France)	2
Reindeer Demographics at Iarte VI, Iamal Peninsula, Arctic Siberia	2
Medieval Urban Environment: Between Mental and Material Practices	1
FromVillaeto Early Medieval Communities inTarraconensisRegion (Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula): Changes and Continuities in Herding Practices	1
Meat Supply of Alakul Miners at the Bronze Age Vorovskaya Yama Copper Mine (Southern Trans-Urals)	1
Nested Environments: A Biocultural Examination of Malaria, Disease Stress, and Mother-Infant Health in a Rural Community in Late Antique Umbria	1
Prehistoric Farming Impacts and Erosion Revealed Through a Palaeolimnological Investigation of Lough Inchiquin, Co. Clare, Western Ireland	1
Into Timber: Revealing Xylophagous Insects through an Archaeoentomological Analysis of Waterlogged Timber from the Fluvial Port of Ratiatum (Rezé Saint-Lupien, France)	1

Pollen Evidence in Exploring Settlement Dynamics, Land Use, and Subsistence Strategies in the Åland Islands through Multiproxy Analyses from the Lake Dalkarby Träsk Sediment Record	1
Mapping Strontium Isotope Geographical Variability as a Basis for Multi-regional Human Mobility: The Sybaris Region (S Italy) in the Early 1st Millennium BC	1
Big Fish or Small Fish? Differential Ichthyoarchaeological Representation Revealed by Different Recovery Methods in the Atacama Desert Coast, Northern Chile	1
Dating and Characterising the Transformation of a Monastic Landscape. A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Agrarian Spaces of Samos Abbey (NW Spain)	1
The Utilisation of Native Woodland in Norse Greenland	1
Roman Frontiers and Landscapes of Occupation: Road Building and Landscape Change in the Hadrianic-Antonine Frontier Zone	1
Paleoparasitological and Archaeobotanical Studies of Fecal Remains from the Argentine Puna (Pueblo Viejo de Tucute archaeological site, province of Jujuy, 11^th to 15^th centuries)	1
The Outcrossing-Selfing Transition and Asian Rice Domestication	1
Pollen-Analytical Perspectives on the End of Roman Britain	1
An Unusual Freshwater Mussel Shell Morphology from Three Archaeological Sites in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Basin	1
Animal Husbandry During Late Antiquity: Archaeozoological Analysis and Regional Comparison of the 4th to 6th Century AD Small Rural Settlement in Podersdorf am See (Burgenland, Austria)	1
Animal Husbandry and Faunal Material: Integrating Data from Finland (AD 1200–1800)	1
A Fluctuating Environment: Micromorphological and Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Early Iron Age Lakeshore Settlement at Traunkirchen (Upper Austria)	1
Agricultural Development in the Context of the 6th Century Crisis – A Synthesis of Plant-Macrofossil Data from Southwestern Norway	1
Cultivating the Hills and the Sands: A Comparative Archaeobotanical Investigation of Early Islamic Agriculture in Palestine	1
Shifting Shores and Stone Age Settlement: The Former Ventspils Lagoon Area, Latvia	1
Lead in the Bones of Cows from a Medieval Pb-Ag Metallurgical Settlement: Bone Mineralization by Metalliferous Minerals	1
Evaluating Dietary Diversity among Andean Central Altiplano Early Camelid Pastoralists Using Stable Isotope Analysis	1
The Epigravettian Site of Yudinovo, Russia: Mammoth Bone Structures as Ritualised Middens	1
Life, Death and Teeth of Late Neolithic Sheep and Red Deer Excavated at Ness of Brodgar, Orkney Islands (UK)	1
Animal Indoor Penning in the Eastern Pyrenees: The Case-study of Late Iron Age Tossal de Baltarga, Cerdanya	1
Gastrochaenolites as Palaeoenvironmental Information Traps: The Case of the Tholos of La Pastora (Valencina de la Concepción, SW Spain)	1
Flax, Bupleurum and Other Plants at Early Bronze Age Yenibademli Höyük (Gökçeada), NW Turkey	1
Corded Ware Culture Plant Gathering at the Narva-Jõesuu IIB Settlement and Burial Site in Estonia	1
Island Life: A Zooarchaeological Study of the Daxie Site, China	1
Agricultural Dynamics in Southwestern Mediterranean France from the End of the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages	1
Water as a Strategic Resource in the Western Samaria Region – The Unique Case of Deir Sam’an: The Water System that Has Been Operating for 1,500 Years	1
Livestock Subsistence Strategies in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Lesser Poland	1
Archaeobotanical Remains from Tel Gezer, Israel, and their Implications for the ‘Threshing Floors’ of Field VI	1