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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Determinants Shaping Human Preference for Thermal Springs in Palaeolithic Europe and Asia Minor	23
Paleoparasitological and Archaeobotanical Studies of Fecal Remains from the Argentine Puna (Pueblo Viejo de Tucute archaeological site, province of Jujuy, 11 ^th to 1	15
Killing Cattle –Age Selection of Cattle at Iron Age Central Places in Third–Eleventh Century AD Sweden based on Tooth Wear	13
Pollution and Contamination: An Archaeological Perspective and Contribution Through Animal Teeth	10
Shells in the Pits: Invertebrates at the Early Neolithic Site of Lapiás das Lameiras (Sintra, Portugal)	8
Late Bronze – Early Iron Age Agro-systems in Northern Greece: New Insights Through Stable Isotope Analysis from Methone, Pieria	8
Archaeorganics 2019. The First Italian Workshop on the Analysis of Archaeological Organic Remains: Introduction to the Special Issue	8
The Swine of Sumer (and Beyond): The Place of Pigs in Mesopotamian Cultures from the Uruk Through Old Babylonian Periods	8
Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Changes in the Southern Danube Delta (Black Sea, Romania): Implications for Harbours and Navigation Potentialities in Antiquity	8
Geoarchaeological Reconstruction of a Fluvial Plain in the Context of the Toumba Agia Paraskevi (Anthemous Valley, Northern Greece)	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
Diversity of Late Yangshao Agricultural Practices at Xishanping, NW China	6
Advancing Methodological Integration in Multi-Proxy Archaeobotany: A Case Study from a Submerged Neolithic River System in the Netherlands	6
A Fluctuating Environment: Micromorphological and Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Early Iron Age Lakeshore Settlement at Traunkirchen (Upper Austria)	6
Assessing Iron Age Marsh-Forts: With Reference to the Stratigraphy and the Palaeoenvironment Surrounding The Berth, North Shropshire	6
A Stable Isotope Approach to Roman Diet and Its Legacy in Late Antiquity in Hispania and the Western Empire	6
The Natural Environment of Southern Mesopotamia: Animals, Plants, and Landscape in Cuneiform Texts	6
The Archaeology of Living Things (Vivifacts) in Virginia and Beyond	5
Character and Evolution of Sunken Groundwater-Harvesting Agroecosystems in Aeolian Sand since Early Islamic Times, between Iran and Iberia	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
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
Actualistic Taphonomy at the Puna of Atacama: Microregional Histotaphonomic Comparisons in Highland Andean Basins (24,5°S)	5

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
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
Late and Final Neolithic Land Use Reconstructions Based on Floodplain Deposits from the ‘Nachtweide’ Site in Hesse, Central Germany – a Challenge for Palynology	4
Nested Environments: A Biocultural Examination of Malaria, Disease Stress, and Mother-Infant Health in a Rural Community in Late Antique Umbria	4
Shifting Shores and Stone Age Settlement: The Former Ventspils Lagoon Area, Latvia	3
Nature and Culture in Medieval Towns	3
Landscapes through Time: Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Late Holocene Changes at Pefkakia, Thessaly	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
Water Reservoirs in North-Western Hispania Roman Gold Mining: Technology, Chronology and Paleoenvironmental Evolution	3
Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions at a Megamammal Hunting Site in the Late Pleistocene of the Pampas (Argentina)	3
Vegetal Thinking and Urban Becoming: Investigating Disturbance, Habitability and Ecology in English Medieval Small Towns	3
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
Correction	3
From Preservation to Transformation: Taphonomic Analysis of Archaeological Insect Remains from the French Atlantic Coastline	3
Unravelling Subsistence and Territorial Management Strategies in the Upper Solutrean at El Cierro Cave (Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain)	3
Exploring Pottery Function and Cooking Practices in Bronze Age Sicily: The Results of High-resolution GC-MS of Organic Residues	3