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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

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

Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions at a Megamammal Hunting Site in the Late Pleistocene of the Pampas (Argentina)	4
Nested Environments: A Biocultural Examination of Malaria, Disease Stress, and Mother-Infant Health in a Rural Community in Late Antique Umbria	4
Gastrochaenolites as Palaeoenvironmental Information Traps: The Case of the Tholos of La Pastora (Valencina de la Concepción, SW Spain)	4
Corded Ware Culture Plant Gathering at the Narva-Jõesuu IIB Settlement and Burial Site in Estonia	4
High δ ¹⁵ N and δ ¹³ C Values in Aurochs, Ca	3
Prehistoric Processing of Bitter Vetch at Lake Ohrid and Its Relevance to Food System Diversification Past and Present	3
Pests of Society: Introduction to the Special Issue	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
Exploring Pottery Function and Cooking Practices in Bronze Age Sicily: The Results of High-resolution GC-MS of Organic Residues	3
Unravelling Subsistence and Territorial Management Strategies in the Upper Solutrean at El Cierro Cave (Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain)	3
From Preservation to Transformation: Taphonomic Analysis of Archaeological Insect Remains from the French Atlantic Coastline	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
Nature and Culture in Medieval Towns	3
Landscapes through Time: Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Late Holocene Changes at Pefkakia, Thessaly	3
Correction	3
Water Reservoirs in North-Western Hispania Roman Gold Mining: Technology, Chronology and Paleoenvironmental Evolution	3
Life in the Valley: Isotopic Evidence for Year-round Sheep Pasturing at Gadachrili Gora, Late Neolithic Southern Caucasus	3
Vegetal Thinking and Urban Becoming: Investigating Disturbance, Habitability and Ecology in English Medieval Small Towns	3