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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Killing Cattle –Age Selection of Cattle at Iron Age Central Places in Third–Eleventh Century AD Sweden based on Tooth Wear	25
Pollution and Contamination: An Archaeological Perspective and Contribution Through Animal Teeth	14
The Swine of Sumer (and Beyond): The Place of Pigs in Mesopotamian Cultures from the Uruk Through Old Babylonian Periods	10
Late Bronze – Early Iron Age Agro-systems in Northern Greece: New Insights Through Stable Isotope Analysis from Methone, Pieria	10
Determinants Shaping Human Preference for Thermal Springs in Palaeolithic Europe and Asia Minor	9
Paleoparasitological and Archaeobotanical Studies of Fecal Remains from the Argentine Puna (Pueblo Viejo de Tucute archaeological site, province of Jujuy, 11 ^th to 1	9
Archaeorganics 2019. The First Italian Workshop on the Analysis of Archaeological Organic Remains: Introduction to the Special Issue	8
Shells in the Pits: Invertebrates at the Early Neolithic Site of Lapiás das Lameiras (Sintra, Portugal)	7
Petrography and Geochemistry of Building Stones in a Well-Preserved Urartian Fortress, NW Iran: Implications for Adaptive Construction	6
A Fluctuating Environment: Micromorphological and Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Early Iron Age Lakeshore Settlement at Traunkirchen (Upper Austria)	6
Gastrointestinal Parasites of Ancient Domestic Goats from the Archaeological Site Cueva Huenul 1, Patagonia, Argentina	6
Molluscs as Personal Adornment in a Gravettian Context from Cueva de Ardales (Málaga, Spain)	6
Diversity of Late Yangshao Agricultural Practices at Xishanping, NW China	6
Geoarchaeological Reconstruction of a Fluvial Plain in the Context of the Toumba Agia Paraskevi (Anthemous Valley, Northern Greece)	6
Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Changes in the Southern Danube Delta (Black Sea, Romania): Implications for Harbours and Navigation Potentialities in Antiquity	6
Advancing Methodological Integration in Multi-Proxy Archaeobotany: A Case Study from a Submerged Neolithic River System in the Netherlands	6
The Low Countries’ Fish Event Horizon: A Synthesis of the Ichthyoarchaeological, Isotopic, and Parasite Evidence (AD 400–2000)	5
Actualistic Taphonomy at the Puna of Atacama: Microregional Histotaphonomic Comparisons in Highland Andean Basins (24,5°S)	5
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Socio-environmental Interactions in Wetland Landscapes: Introduction to the Special Issue	5
The Natural Environment of Southern Mesopotamia: Animals, Plants, and Landscape in Cuneiform Texts	5
Agricultural Dynamics in Southwestern Mediterranean France from the End of the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages	5
Environmental Change Documented in the Fluvial Landscape: A Case Study of the Late Neolithic Bršadin–Pašnjak Pod Selom Site (NE Croatia)	5
A Stable Isotope Approach to Roman Diet and Its Legacy in Late Antiquity in Hispania and the Western Empire	5
Archaeobotanical and Dendrochronological Studies of a Spanish Colonial Settlement in Nahuel Huapi (Patagonia, Eighteenth Century)	5
Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions at a Megamammal Hunting Site in the Late Pleistocene of the Pampas (Argentina)	4

Character and Evolution of Sunken Groundwater-Harvesting Agroecosystems in Aeolian Sand since Early Islamic Times, between Iran and Iberia	4
Corded Ware Culture Plant Gathering at the Narva-Jõesuu IIB Settlement and Burial Site in Estonia	4
Nested Environments: A Biocultural Examination of Malaria, Disease Stress, and Mother-Infant Health in a Rural Community in Late Antique Umbria	4
Late and Final Neolithic Land Use Reconstructions Based on Floodplain Deposits from the ‘Nachtweide’ Site in Hesse, Central Germany – a Challenge for Palynology	4
Nature and Culture in Medieval Towns	3
Evaluating Non-destructive Analysis and Sampling Methods for Identifying Plant and Animal Imprints in Late Pre-contact Wattle and Daub Rubble from the Yazoo Basin, Mississippi	3
High δ ¹⁵ N and δ ¹³ C Values in Aurochs, Ca	3
Shifting Shores and Stone Age Settlement: The Former Ventspils Lagoon Area, Latvia	3
Small Carnivore Hunting in the Early Neolithic: A View from EPPNB Aḥihud (Western Galilee, Israel)	3
Unravelling Subsistence and Territorial Management Strategies in the Upper Solutrean at El Cierro Cave (Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain)	3
Archaeobotany at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak): Aspects of Food Production in Early Urban and Diasporic Early Transcaucasian Communities of the Levant	3
Landscapes through Time: Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Late Holocene Changes at Pefkakia, Thessaly	3
Prehistoric Processing of Bitter Vetch at Lake Ohrid and Its Relevance to Food System Diversification Past and Present	3
Water Reservoirs in North-Western Hispania Roman Gold Mining: Technology, Chronology and Paleoenvironmental Evolution	3
Exploring Pottery Function and Cooking Practices in Bronze Age Sicily: The Results of High-resolution GC-MS of Organic Residues	3
Vegetal Thinking and Urban Becoming: Investigating Disturbance, Habitability and Ecology in English Medieval Small Towns	3
Gastrochaenolites as Palaeoenvironmental Information Traps: The Case of the Tholos of La Pastora (Valencina de la Concepción, SW Spain)	3
From Preservation to Transformation: Taphonomic Analysis of Archaeological Insect Remains from the French Atlantic Coastline	3
Correction	3
Pests of Society: Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Exploring the use of Wild Cereals at Takarkori (Central Sahara, Southwestern Libya) Through Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Prehistoric Desiccated Seeds	2
Correction	2
Strontium Isotope Analysis and the Southern Mesopotamian City: Intraurban ⁸⁷ Sr/ ⁸⁶ Sr Variation a	2
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	2
Middle Neolithic Subsistence Strategies in Southwest Germany: The Site Reichenau-B33 at Lake Constance in Regional Context	2
A Quantitive Micromorphological Study of Cultivated Paleosols in Campi-Flegrei Volcanic Ashes Beneath the New Chiaia Metro Station, Naples, Italy	2
W8banaki Subsistence Patterns During the 18th and 19th Centuries at the Fort Odanak Site, Québec, Canada	2
Correction	2
The Effects of Climatic Oscillations (or the Lack Thereof) on Maritime Networks Between Angkor and China in the 14th and 15th Centuries	2
Assessing the Role of Plant Seasonalities on the Regional Organisation of the Tapajó Society	2
Charcoal Hearth Remains as Environmental Archives: An Interdisciplinary Study at Poggio di Montieri, Italy	2
Wood-Use Strategies at a Han Dynasty Military Outpost: New Archaeological Evidence from Shichengzi, Xinjiang	2
Under What Conditions do the Inflorescence Bract Phytoliths of Oat [ Avena sativa (L.)] Become Autofluorescent?	2
The Environment and its Exploitation Along the Lower Scheldt River During the Roman Period (Wichelen, Belgium – Late 1st to 3rd Centuries AD)	2
Correction	2
Agricultural Management and Culinary Culture in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Aegean: Archaeobotanical and Stable Isotope Insights from Region I, Xeropolis, Lefkandi	2
Life in the Valley: Isotopic Evidence for Year-round Sheep Pasturing at Gadachrili Gora, Late Neolithic Southern Caucasus	2
A House on the Hill: Late Bronze Age Pulses and Isotope Agroecology at Knossos Gypsades, Crete	2
Plant Remains and What Else? Environmental Archaeology of the Late Hellenistic Pit Fills of Sexaginta Prista, Northern Bulgaria	2
Early-Mid Holocene Archaeobotanical Record of the Southern Coast of Tierra del Fuego	1
War Horses and Equine Herd Feeding Management at the End of the Third Century BC: New Insights from Pech Maho (Southern France)	1
Small Ripples in a Big Pond: Sea-level Change and Palaeoenvironmental Signatures at Formby, Merseyside	1
Mollusc Remains from an Archaeological Rock Shelter Site on the Buffalo National River, Arkansas, Southeastern USA	1
Microbes from Floor and Wall Layers at a Viking Age and Medieval Farm in Iceland Reveal Living Conditions, Human Respiratory Diseases and the Presence of Domestic Animals	1
Modelling Resilience: Zooarchaeological Insights into Subsistence Diversity and Land Use Practices of the Ancient Maya in the Upper Belize River Valley	1
The Economic Role of Animals Amid the Chaos of the Crumbling Roman Empire. A Look at the South-eastern Alpine Region in Late Antiquity Based on Archaeozoology and Ancient Literary Sources	1
Late Holocene Human Subsistence and Environmental Conditions Through the Analysis of Micromammal Remains. Southern Pampean Hills, Central Argentina	1
Radiocarbon Dating Insect Samples: New Data and Recommendations	1
Hearth Residue Analysis Reveals Human Adaptation to the Younger Dryas on the Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	1
Fish-salting Production in Northwest Iberia: A Multidisciplinary Approach at the Site of Ferrazo (Northwest Iberia)	1

Meat Utility Index in Two Neotropical Deer ( Subulo gouazoubira and Ozotoceros bezoarticus ) with a Compar	1
Agricultural Terracing and Land Tenure in Late Medieval Southern Levant: The Case of Nahal Ein Karim, Jerusalem	1
Beyond the ‘Principle of Least Effort’ – Culture and the Natural Environment in the Interpretation of Anthracological Data	1
Climate Change and Indigenous Subsistence in the Thompson River Watershed (British Columbia) in the Late Holocene	1
Living Through Change: The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions. Introduction to the Special Issue	1
From Ponds to Pine Plantations in 9000 Years: The Environmental Archaeology of Beck Burn, Solway Moss, Cumbria	1
Life, Death and Teeth of Late Neolithic Sheep and Red Deer Excavated at Ness of Brodgar, Orkney Islands (UK)	1
Investigation of Seasonal Settlement and Clam Harvest Pressure in the Sechelt Inlet System, British Columbia, Canada, Through Sclerochronology and Stable Oxygen Isotope Analyses	1
Human Agency and Coastal Landscape Transformation in Early Modern Atlantic Europe: An Interdisciplinary Research Approach in the Urola Estuary (Basque Coast)	1
Evaluation of the Rapid Phytolith Extraction Protocol to Identify the Fuel-mix Used at the Nineteenth-century Sugar Mill of El Progreso Plantation, Galápagos	1
Looking at Phytoliths in Archaeological Soil and Sediment Thin Sections	1
Using Parasite Analysis to Investigate the Pathoecology of the Inhabitants of the City of Berezov in Western Siberia (Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)	1
Palaeoenvironmental Framing of theO ArealRoman Saltworks and Related Anthropogenic Activities in North-western Iberia	1
Prehistoric Landscape Change Around the Sources of Stonehenge’s Bluestones in Preseli, Wales	1
Animals, Crops and Dark Earth: An Interdisciplinary Study of Urban Development from the Late Roman Period to the Early Middle Ages in Cologne (Germany)	1
Water Table Fluctuations and Degradation Risk Assessment at the Waterlogged Site of La Draga (Lake Banyoles, Spain)	1
Testing Oxygen Isotope Analysis and Mg/Ca Ratios for the Investigation of Oyster ( Crassostrea virginica ) Harvesting in Ancient Tampa Bay, Florida, USA	1
The Fish of Narva: Tracing Available Fish Resources for Consumers During the Medieval and Early Modern Period in Northern Estonia	1
Ecological Constraints on Violence Avoidance Tactics in the Prehispanic Central Andes	1
Ancient Evidence of Plant Processing in Human Communities at the End of the European Pleistocene: The Martinarri Mortar (Treviño, Spain)	1