OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Island & Coastal 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate change and coastal archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: assessing past impacts and future threats	20
Addressing the problem of disappearing cultural landscapes in archaeological research using multi-scalar survey	13
The magnificent seven: Marine submerged precontact sites found by systematic geoarchaeology in the Americas	11
Crossing the waterline: Integrating terrestrial and submerged site investigations in the Aucilla River, Florida	10
Global experience in locating submerged prehistoric sites and their relevance to research on the American continental shelves	10
Submerged prehistory and anthropological archaeology: Do underwater studies contribute to theory?	10
An island archaeology of uninhabited landscapes: Offshore islets near Paros, Greece (the Small Cycladic Islands Project)	9
The archaeology of submerged prehistoric sites on the North Pacific Coast of North America	9
Metaphor and theory in island archaeology	9
Combining underwater and terrestrial research approaches in the Great Basin Desert, Walker Lake, Nevada	8
Broad-spectrum foodways in southern coastal Korea in the Holocene: Isotopic and archaeobotanical signatures in Neolithic shell middens	8
The premise and potential of model-based approaches to island archaeology: A response to Terrell	8
Coastal adaptation at Klasies River main site during MIS 5c-d (93,000–110,000 years ago) from a southern Cape perspective	7
Human ecology, paleogeography, and biodiversity on California’s small Islands	7
Coastally-adapted: A developing model for coastal Paleoindian sites on the North American eastern continental shelf	7
Before the Neolithic in the Aegean: The Pleistocene and the Early Holocene record of Bozburun - Southwest Turkey	6
Fishhooks, Lures, and Sinkers: Intensive Manufacture of Marine Technology from the Terminal Pleistocene at Makpan Cave, Alor Island, Indonesia	6
Spring tides, storm surges, and the destruction of coastal middens: A case study from the upper Gulf of California, México	6
“The early days” – underwater prehistoric archaeology in the USA and Canada	6
Evidence for early human arrival in Madagascar is robust: A response to Mitchell	5
Island networks: Transformations of inter-community social relationships in the Lesser Antilles at the advent of European colonialism	5
Intensive exploitation of marine crabs and sea urchins during the middle holocene in the eastern Arabian peninsula offers new perspectives on ancient maritime adaptations	5
The latest Neolithic conquest of “new territories” in the Arabian Sea: The Al-Hallaniyat Archipelago (Kuria Muria, Sultanate of Oman)	5
Shellfish collectors on the seashore: The exploitation of the marine environment between the end of the Paleolithic and the Mesolithic in the Mediterranean Iberia	5
The Proyecto Costa Escondida: Historical ecology and the study of past coastal landscapes in the Maya area	5

Isolation and violence on an oceanic island: Lethal injuries in a pre-Hispanic burial in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)	5
Micro-regional approaches for submerged site archaeology	4
Coastal foraging on the West Coast of South Africa in the midst of mid-Holocene climate change	4
Calusa socioecological histories and zooarchaeological indicators of environmental change during the Little Ice Age in southwestern Florida, USA	4
Characterizing seasonal fishing patterns and growth dynamics during the Middle and Late Holocene in the Strait of Magellan (Chilean Patagonia): Sclerochronological analysis of tadpole codling (Sali	4
“This is the way”: Knowledge networks and toolkit specialization in the circumpolar coastal landscapes of western Alaska and Tierra del Fuego	4
Marine shell ornaments and the political economy of gendered power in the Mariana Islands	4
Shark fisheries during the second millennium BC in Gramalote, north coast of Peru	4
Coastal subsistence and platform mound feasting on Florida’s northern Gulf Coast	4
New insights on the Par-Tee (35CLT20) site: Collections-based research of northern Oregon Coast fisheries	4
Using sea urchin remains to infer the health of kelp forest ecosystems in the past: Identification, quantification, and allometric reconstructions of harvested sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus sp	4
Submerged prehistory in the Americas: Methods, approaches and results	4
Colluvial slope agriculture in context: An extensive agricultural landscape along the slopes of Punalu‘u Valley, O‘ahu Island, Hawai‘i	4
Evaluating visibility at sea: Instrumental data and historical nautical records. Mount Etna from the Calabrian Ionian coast (Italy)	4
Behavior and intra-skeletal remodeling in an adult male from 1720 BP Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands, eastern Micronesia	4
Natural and anthropogenic factors impacting northern Morocco’s coastal archaeological heritage: A preliminary assessment	4
Amber wind and porpoise jaw: Resource use at Siliņupe (fourth mill. BC) on the Baltic’s Gulf of Riga Coast	3
Flooded mangrove landscapes hide ancient Maya coastal sites in Belize	3
Ritual tooth ablation and the Austronesian expansion: Evidence from eastern Indonesia and the Pacific Islands	3
Dry, leeward regions support Colonization Period sites: Stratigraphy, dating, and geomorphological setting of one of the earliest habitations in the Hawaiian Islands	3
Debating Madagascar: A reply to Hansford et al.’s response	3
The legacy of 1300 years of land use in Jamaica	3
The earliest human occupation of Sicily: A review	3
New insights into the daily and symbolic use of plants during initial occupations of Formentera (Balearic Islands, Spain)	3
First records of modified snake bones in the Pre-Columbian archaeological record of the Lesser Antilles: Cultural and paleoecological implications	3
Exploring Swahili urbanism through survey of Songo Mnara Island, Tanzania	3
Complementary spaces in marine littoral exploitation? A comparative study of rock shelter and shell middens occupations from the lower basin of the Deseado River, Argentine Patagonia	2
Establishing the efficacy of reed-bundle rafts in the paleolithic colonization of the Ryukyu Islands	2
Contextualizing the influence of climate and culture on bivalve populations: Donax obesulus malacology from the north coast of Peru	2
Human settlement and landscape dynamics on the coastline south of the Gironde estuary (SW France): A multi-proxy approach	2
Rock art and long-distance prehistoric exchange behavior: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea	2
A report on a late Woodland period dugout canoe from Cape Porpoise, Maine, USA	2
The roots of the Columbian Exchange: an entanglement and network approach to early Caribbean encounter transactions	2
Catch of the day: Abundance and size data of groupers (Epinephelidae) and combers (Serranidae) from Middle to Late Holocene Levantine archaeological contexts	2
Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: Contextualizing the archaeology of an early Islamic port of trade	2
New information from an old discovery: Geological analysis of a stone adze found on Pohnpei, Micronesia	2
Insular networks: An exploration of material distribution, insularity and island identity on the edge of Europe in the Shetland Neolithic	2
Investigations at an eroded shell midden reveal direct evidence for fur seal hunting and diverse subsistence strategies on Late Holocene Santa Rosa (Wima) Island, California	1
Response to the Comment on “Shark fisheries during the second millennium BC in Gramalote, north coast of Peru” by Víctor F. Vásquez Sánchez, Teresa E. Rosales Tham, J. Netherly, and Tom D. Dillehay	1
Rock art from Andriamamelo Cave in the Beanka Protected Area of western Madagascar	1
Bayesian assessment of northern Alaskan chronological issues: Implications for future research	1
A preliminary consideration of craft production and settlement expansion on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, USA	1
Underwater Neolithic combustion features: A micro-geoarchaeological study in the submerged settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel	1
Terrestrial snails from archaeological sites as proxies for relative sea level on the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA	1
Therongorongotablet from Berlin and the time-depth of Easter Island’s writing system	1
The North Atlantic cod trade: A meta-analysis of the North American and European archaeological records	1
Inshore or offshore? The Neolithic fishermen of Ra’s al-Hamra (RH-6, RH-5, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman)	1
Use of plants by hunter-gatherers at coastal sites: The case of Cabo San Pablo 2017 (Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina)	1
Sourcing Mississippian pottery among the complex maritime cultures of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast	1
Study of dugout canoes from the coast of La Plata River and the islands of the Paraná Delta, Argentina	1

Sailing the deep blue sea: The rock art of Wetang Island, Maluku Barat Daya, Indonesia	1
Meat food preferences during the Late Archaic Period at Puerto Marqués, Guerrero, Mexico	1
The Spanish wells: Freshwater lenses and the Florida Keys	1
Exploring the origins of coastal villages: New discoveries at the Spring Warrior civic-ceremonial center on Florida’s Gulf Coast	1
Mapping the impacts of coastal erosion on the heritage assets of Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island), North Wales, UK	1
New archaeological discoveries in north-central Timor-Leste indicate sociocultural adaptations to landscape change during the Holocene	1
Settlement and the exploitation of aquatic resources in the Eastern Lower Papaloapan Basin, Veracruz, Mexico	1
The “island laboratory” revisited: Integrating environmental and sociocultural approaches	1
An archaeomalacological investigation of chitons on the Hane Dune site, Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands	1
Portus and stationes along the Southwest Iberian Peninsula: Anchorages of the Huelva coast	1
A pre-European archaeology in Malvinas/Falkland Islands? A review	1
The role of the huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) in Patagonian maritime hunter-gatherer strategies: The case of Diego Portales Island and Última Esperanza inland sea (Chile)	1
Colonial rainfed farming strategies in an extremely arid insular environment: Niche construction on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain	1
Reconstruction of the late first millennium AD harbor site of Sembiran and analysis of its tradeware	1