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 2022-08-01 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
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
Determinants Shaping Human Preference for Thermal Springs in Palaeolithic Europe and Asia Minor	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
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
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
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
The Low Countries’ Fish Event Horizon: A Synthesis of the Ichthyoarchaeological, Isotopic, and Parasite Evidence (AD 400–2000)	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
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
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