OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Archaeology is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Archaeobotanical Remains from Tel Gezer, Israel, and their Implications for the ‘Threshing Floors’ of Field VI	18
Socioecological Dynamics Structuring the Spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region	14
Determinants Shaping Human Preference for Thermal Springs in Palaeolithic Europe and Asia Minor	14
Killing Cattle –Age Selection of Cattle at Iron Age Central Places in Third–Eleventh Century AD Sweden based on Tooth Wear	13
Paleoparasitological and Archaeobotanical Studies of Fecal Remains from the Argentine Puna (Pueblo Viejo de Tucute archaeological site, province of Jujuy, 11 ^th to 1	12
Archaeorganics 2019. The First Italian Workshop on the Analysis of Archaeological Organic Remains: Introduction to the Special Issue	9
Gastrointestinal Parasites of Ancient Domestic Goats from the Archaeological Site Cueva Huenul 1, Patagonia, Argentina	9
Diversity of Late Yangshao Agricultural Practices at Xishanping, NW China	8
A Fluctuating Environment: Micromorphological and Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Early Iron Age Lakeshore Settlement at Traunkirchen (Upper Austria)	8
A Stable Isotope Approach to Roman Diet and Its Legacy in Late Antiquity in Hispania and the Western Empire	8
Environmental Change Documented in the Fluvial Landscape: A Case Study of the Late Neolithic Bršadin–Pašnjak Pod Selom Site (NE Croatia)	7
Molluscs as Personal Adornment in a Gravettian Context from Cueva de Ardales (Málaga, Spain)	7
Archaeobotanical and Dendrochronological Studies of a Spanish Colonial Settlement in Nahuel Huapi (Patagonia, Eighteenth Century)	6
Assessing Iron Age Marsh-Forts: With Reference to the Stratigraphy and the Palaeoenvironment Surrounding The Berth, North Shropshire	6
The Archaeology of Living Things (Vivifacts) in Virginia and Beyond	6
Agricultural Dynamics in Southwestern Mediterranean France from the End of the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages	5
Late and Final Neolithic Land Use Reconstructions Based on Floodplain Deposits from the ‘Nachtweide’ Site in Hesse, Central Germany – a Challenge for Palynology	5
A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Investigate Use-Related Biogenic Residues on Palaeolithic Ground Stone Tools	5
Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Woodland in Northern Syria (4th–2nd Mill. BC): Evidence from Charcoal Assemblages and Oak Measurements	5
Nested Environments: A Biocultural Examination of Malaria, Disease Stress, and Mother-Infant Health in a Rural Community in Late Antique Umbria	4
The Outcrossing-Selfing Transition and Asian Rice Domestication	4
Islands of Difference: An Ecologically Explicit Model of Central European Neolithisation	4
Gastrochaenolites as Palaeoenvironmental Information Traps: The Case of the Tholos of La Pastora (Valencina de la Concepción, SW Spain)	4
Character and Evolution of Sunken Groundwater-Harvesting Agroecosystems in Aeolian Sand since Early Islamic Times, between Iran and Iberia	4
House of Plenty: Reassessing Food and Farming in Late Bronze Age Croatia	4

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	4
Corded Ware Culture Plant Gathering at the Narva-Jõesuu IIB Settlement and Burial Site in Estonia	4
Evaluating Dietary Diversity among Andean Central Altiplano Early Camelid Pastoralists Using Stable Isotope Analysis	3
Exploring Pottery Function and Cooking Practices in Bronze Age Sicily: The Results of High-resolution GC-MS of Organic Residues	3
Correction	3
The Winter Solstice as a Roman Cultural Fingerprint from the Mythical Origins of Rome to Augustus	3
Archaeological Recovery of Late Pleistocene Hair and Environmental DNA from Interior Alaska	3
Nature and Culture in Medieval Towns	3
High δ ¹⁵ N and δ ¹³ C Values in Aurochs, Cattle and Sheep Bones from Salt Marshes in the No	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
Castles of the Mind in Old Norse Culture: Archeological and Literary Evidence of St. Clement’s Church in Niðaróss	3
Shifting Shores and Stone Age Settlement: The Former Ventspils Lagoon Area, Latvia	3
Pests of Society: Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Multiple Factors Affecting the Historical Development of Agriculture in the Hei River Basin, Northwestern China	3
Reindeer Demographics at Iarte VI, Iamal Peninsula, Arctic Siberia	3
Environmental Challenges for the Medieval North Atlantic World	3
Ecological Landscape Structure and Game Management Strategy among the Upper Palaeolithic Societies of Southern Zagros Mountains	3
Water Reservoirs in North-Western Hispania Roman Gold Mining: Technology, Chronology and Paleoenvironmental Evolution	3
Small Carnivore Hunting in the Early Neolithic: A View from EPPNB Aḥihud (Western Galilee, Israel)	3