OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Social Archaeology is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Roman provincial sexualities: Constructing the body, sexuality, and gender through erotic lamp art	14
Knowing Palmyra: Mandatory production of archaeological knowledge	12
Archaeology, ethnography, and geosciences reveal central role of traditional lifeways in shaping Madagascar’s dry forests	11
Reactivating voices of the youth in safeguarding cultural heritage in Iraq: the challenges and tools	9
Monuments as active cooperation. Crisis, mound construction, and society in Scandinavia in the 6th century AD	8
Staying local: Community formation and resilience in Archaic Southern Sicily	7
Multiple archives of modernity: Colonialism, capitalism, and identity in Iceland’s transatlantic 19th century	7
The politics and historicity of megalithic places in early South India	7
The seascape in stone: Archaeological and cosmological assessment of maritime motifs in Yanyuwa ‘rock art’	5
Heritage work in extractive zones	5
The roads of power and the paths of the people: Reconfiguring communities and territories from pre-Hispanic Andean roads to modern Peruvian highways	5
Events, narrative and data: why new chronologies or ethically Bayesian approaches should change how we write archaeology	5
Landscapes of production, production of meaning: Salt infrastructure and environmental history in imperial Rome and Han China	4
Discoveries, nations, and archaeological explorations: The scientific colonization of Tarapacá, Atacama desert	4
Insides, outsides and the labyrinth: Knossos, palatial space and environmental perception in Minoan Crete	4
A mixed city or an ancient historical city? The malleability of heritage in rebranding Lydd	3
(Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze	3
Reclaiming heritage and citizenship: urban pre-colonial cultural heritage management and heritage grassroots organizations in Lima, Peru	3
Domestication is not an ancient moment of selection for prosociality: Insights from dogs and modern humans	3
Excavating Europe’s last fascist monument: The Valley of the Fallen (Spain)	2
Crafting difference: artefacts and the politics of distinction at a South Indian well	2
Activating archaeology: Robert McCormick Adams and how the past can help solve the problems of today	2
Class or no class? A contemporary archaeological approach to a working-class neighbourhood in northern Finland	2
A contemporary archaeology of pandemic	2
Minding the gap: Attempts at community archaeology and local counter-narratives at an archaeological site in Turkey	2

Boundary-crossing as resilience: the colonisation of the Maya at Lamanai, Belize in the 16th century	2
Sketchbook archaeology: Bodies multiple and the archives they create	1
Symbolic kraals: Subterranean food stores, hidden wealth and ethnographic errors	1
Archaeology, Indigenous erasure, and the creation of white public space at the California missions	1
Dominion and improvement: The moral ecologies of colonial encounters	1
Of robots and ancient mysteries: Representations of Jōmon figurines as cultural heritage and popular culture	1
Time to decolonise: ‘If not now’, then when?	1
Archaeology for the courtroom: the Ayodhya Case and the fashioning of a hybrid episteme	1