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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Taphonomy of Plant and Livestock Dung Microfossils: An Ethnoarchaeological and Experimental Approach	19
The Ideal Distribution Model and Archaeological Settlement Patterning	17
A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Investigate Use-Related Biogenic Residues on Palaeolithic Ground Stone Tools	14
Auto-Fluorescent Phytoliths: A New Method for Detecting Heating and Fire	13
Spatially-Resolved Ca Isotopic and Trace Element Variations in Human Deciduous Teeth Record Diet and Physiological Change	12
The Sicilian Countryside in the Early Middle Ages: Human–Environment Interactions at Contrada Castro	11
The Association of Arable Weeds with Modern Wild Cereal Habitats: Implications for Reconstructing the Origins of Plant Cultivation in the Levant	11
Decomposing Habitat Suitability Across the Forager to Farmer Transition	9
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
Fire on the Mountain: The Ideal Free Distribution and Early Hunter-gatherer Demography in the Tennessee River Drainage, USA	9
Dietary and Weaning Habits of the Roman Community of Quarto Cappello del Prete (Rome, 1st-3^rdCentury CE)	9
Feeding Shimao: Archaeobotanical and Isotopic Investigation into Early Urbanism (4200-3000 BP) on the Northern Loess Plateau, China	8
Pig-Breeding Management in the Early Medieval Stronghold at Mikulčice (Eighth–Ninth Centuries, Czech Republic)	8
The Southernmost Pre-Columbian Dogs in the Americas: Phenotype, Chronology, Diet and Genetics	8
Changing Plant-based Subsistence Practices among Early and Middle Holocene Communities in Eastern Maghreb	7
Innovation and Intensification: The Use of Cattle in the Roman Rhine Region	7
Towards an Integration of Historical Trees into the Mediterranean Archaeological Record: Case Studies from Central Israel	6
Agropastoral Economies and Land Use in Bronze Age Western Anatolia	6
‘Seeing Shit’: Assessing the Visibility of Dung Tempering in Ancient Pottery Using an Experimental Approach	6
Medieval Whalers in the Netherlands and Flanders: Zooarchaeological Analysis of Medieval Cetacean Remains	5
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)	5
Social Dynamics and Resource Management Strategies in Copper Age Italy: Insights from Archaeological and Isotopic Data	5
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	5
Socioecological Dynamics Structuring the Spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region	5
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	5

Breastfeeding and Weaning in Roman Thessaloniki. An Investigation of Infant Diet based on Incremental Analysis of Human Dentine	5
Production and Transport of Goods in the Roman Period: Residue Analysis and Wine Derivatives in Late Republican Baetican Ovoid Amphorae	5
Exploring Diversity in Neolithic Agropastoral Management in Mainland Greece Using Stable Isotope Analysis	5
Mangrove Archives: Unravelling Human-environment Interactions from Deeply Buried Deposits at the Site Anse Trabaud, Martinique, Lesser Antilles (1290–780 cal BP)	4
Domestication in Motion: Macrofossils of Pre-Colonial Brazilian Nuts, Palms and Other Amazonian Planted Tree Species Found in the Upper Purus	4
Islands of Difference: An Ecologically Explicit Model of Central European Neolithisation	4
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	4
The Presence of Decayed Wood in Iron Age Contexts of Northwest Iberia: Wood-borer Galleries and Fungal Hyphae	4
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	4
Multiple Factors Affecting the Historical Development of Agriculture in the Hei River Basin, Northwestern China	4
Reconstruction of the Use of Space at Tianluoshan, China, Based on Palynological and Lipid Evidence	4
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Human–Environmental Interactions at the Roman-Byzantine Ibida Fortress (Dobrogea, South-Eastern Romania)	3
Environmental Impact of Roman Mining and Metallurgy and Its Correlation with the Archaeological Evidence: A European Perspective	3
Landnám, Land Use and Landscape Change at Kagaðarhóll in Northwest Iceland	3
The Visibility of Mobility: Coprolites, Dung and Neolithic Herders in Central Saharan Rock Shelters	3
Perinatal Remains of Livestock: An Under-utilised Line of Evidence for Animal Penning in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia	3
Detecting Medieval Foodways in the North-eastern Baltic: Fish Consumption and Trade in Towns and Monasteries of Finland and Estonia	3
Coastal-Hinterland Exchange and Garden Hunting Practices Prior to the European Invasion of Hispaniola	3
Summer Camps Location and Distribution of Archaeological Sites in North Neuquén (Northwest Patagonia)	3
The Roman Legacy on European Chestnut and Walnut Arboriculture	3
Wood in Pre-Columbian Funerary Rituals: A Case Study from El Caño (Panama, AD 880–1020)	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