OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Archaeology in Oceania 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Putting the Dark Emu debate into context	9
Investigating hafting and composite tool repair as factors creating variability in backed artefacts: Evidence from Ngungara (Weereewa/Lake George), south‐eastern Australia	8
UTU: Sāmoa archaeology and cultural heritage database	7
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Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific. By NicholasThomas. Basic Books, New York, 2021. ISBN: 9781541619838. Pp. 224. US$25.	6
Heritage and identity: returning to ancestral pathways of the Siraya indigenous archaeology	6
Archaeological site types, and assemblage size and diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
Reflections on zooarchaeology in East Polynesia: human‐animal interactions and human ecodynamics	5
Archaeobotanical futures in the Indo‐Pacific	5
An archaeological review of Polynesian adze quarries and sources	5
Nanaga Site of Wasavulu (Labasa, Fiji): Mapping of a Traditional Religious Site of Vanua Levu	5
Archaeology through tok stori: negotiating the meanings, values and challenges of archaeological research in Solomon Islands	4
Stones, stories and ceremonies: A Gamilaraay, Arrernte, Luritja, Pitjantatjarra, Yankuntjatjarra perspective	3
A highly fragrant comestible: the cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) in pre‐European Māori New Zealand	3
Networks and Monumentality in the Pacific: Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4‐‐9 June 2018, Paris, France), Session XXXVIII. UISPP Proceedings Series, Volume 7. By Aymeric Hermann, Frédé	3
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Rock engravings and occupation sites in the Mount Bosavi Region, Papua New Guinea: Implications for our understanding of the human presence in the Southern Highlands	3
Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory: Archaeological Perspectives Edited by Tim Thomas. Routledge, New York. 2020. ISBN: 9781138303553 (Paperback). Pp. 348. USD $35.96	3
Sacred offerings and secular foods on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, East Polynesia	3
Late Holocene technological provisioning at the Kings Table rockshelter, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia	3
Cup marks on Ambra Crater: a new engraving site in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea	3
The pre‐contact temple system of Hālawa Valley, Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Islands	2
Aboriginal flood narratives and the thunder complex in Southeast Asia	2
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The sacred stone from the sea. Archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on the ritual value of coral across the Pacific	2

A micro‐geoarchaeological investigation of a cultivation pit (maite) on Teti'aroa atoll, Central‐East Polynesia	2
A review of the rock art of Palau, Micronesia in local and regional contexts	2
Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua: Moving Pictures. By LaraLamb and ChristopherLee. Palgrave MacMillan, Switzerland, 2022. ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐15578‐9, Pp. 279. US $119.99	2
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Culturally Imbued Trees: Physical and Metaphysical Connections	2
Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth‐ Century Australia By TimMurray and PenelopeCrookSpringer, Switzerland, 2020ISBN 978‐3‐030‐27168‐8. Pp. 291. USD: $109.99	1
The ScMo‐350 site, Haumi, Moʻorea (Society Islands): Preliminary analysis of coastal occupation spanning the colonization phase to classic phase	1
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by DavidGraeber and DavidWengrow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2021. ISBN: 9780374157357. pp. 704. US$35.00	1
Do Pleistocene rock paintings depict Sulawesi warty pigs (Sus celebensis) with a domestication character?	1
The archaeology of 19^th century oyster consumption in Melbourne	1
Archaeology of powerful stones in the Australia‐Pacific region: an Introduction	1
Indigenous fish traps and fish weirs on the Darling (Baaka) River, south‐eastern Australia, and their influence on the ecology and morphology of the river and floodplains	1
Resurrecting the power in the stones, developing a modern narrative of the agency and sentience of powerful stones, and recreating shared knowledge encounters at Gummingurru and its associated site ar	1
Tracking shifts in Society Islands marine subsistence through time: Intra‐site analysis of faunal remains and fishing gear	1
Assessing foraging variability on small islands in Manu‘a (American Samoa) during the first millennium BC	1
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Histories of Australian Rock Art Research, edited by Paul S.C.Taçon, Sally K.May, Ursula K.Frederick, and JoMcDonald. ANU Press, Terra Australis 55. 2022. ISBN 9781760465353. pp. 292. $75.00 (Open Acc	1
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A network of designs: studying Early Lapita exchange networks in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea through Social Network Analysis	1
Mass capture fishing in the Marquesas Islands	1
An Archaeology of Innovation: Approaching Social and Technological Change in Human Society By Catherine J.Frieman. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2021. ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐3264‐2 (hardback). Pp.	1
Late Holocene hunting economies in coastal southeastern Australia: Insights from the archaeological fauna of Curracurrang 1 Rockshelter, Royal National Park	1
Materialising Ancestral Madang: Pottery Production and Subsistence Trading on the Northeast Coast of New Guinea By Dylan Gaffney. University of Otago Studies in Archaeology. No. 29, 2020. ISSN:	1
A new parasite discovery in Micronesia: eggs of the nematodeToxocara canisat archaeological sites on Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands extend the known dog presence by c.600 years	1
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The archaeology of eastern Lutruwita (Tasmania)	1
Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming — A long and short history of this cultural landscape with reference to rock art, stone features, excavations and historical sites recorded across the Dampier Archip	1
First Nations pre‐LGM ochre processing in Parramatta, NSW, Australia	1