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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Investigate Use-Related Biogenic Residues on Palaeolithic Ground Stone Tools	16
The Association of Arable Weeds with Modern Wild Cereal Habitats: Implications for Reconstructing the Origins of Plant Cultivation in the Levant	16
The Sicilian Countryside in the Early Middle Ages: Human–Environment Interactions at Contrada Castro	12
The Southernmost Pre-Columbian Dogs in the Americas: Phenotype, Chronology, Diet and Genetics	10
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
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