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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Dingoes and domestication	10
Identifying archaeological parenchyma in three dimensions: Diagnostic assessment of five important food plant species in the Indo‐Pacific region	9
Identifying marsupials from Australian archaeological sites: current methodological challenges and opportunities in zooarchaeological practice	7
Do Pleistocene rock paintings depict Sulawesi warty pigs (Sus celebensis) with a domestication character?	7
MicroCT scanning and direct AMS dating of charred sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) fragments from Nombe rockshelter in the highlands of Papua New Guinea	6
Marquesan ceramics, palaeotsunami, and megalithic architecture: Ho‘oumi Beach site (NHo‐3) in regional perspective	5
Village‐specific Kula partnerships revealed by obsidian sourcing on Tubetube Island, Papua New Guinea	5
Gilparrka Almira, a rock art site in Mithaka Country, southwest Queensland: cultural connections, dreaming tracks and trade routes	5
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	5
Re‐evaluating the evidence for late‐surviving megafauna at Nombe rockshelter in the New Guinea highlands	5
Archaeological identification of fragmented nuts and fruits from key Asia‐Pacific economic tree species using anatomical criteria: Comparative analysis of Canarium, Pandanus and Termi	4
The Dogs of Remote Oceania: an archaeological and ethnohistorical view of domestic dog introduction and loss in the South Pacific	4
Stones, stories and ceremonies: A Gamilaraay, Arrernte, Luritja, Pitjantatjarra, Yankuntjatjarra perspective	3
Stone‐flaking technology at Leang Bulu Bettue, South Sulawesi, Indonesia	3
Sacred offerings and secular foods on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, East Polynesia	3
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
The ScMo‐350 site, Haumi, Moʻorea (Society Islands): Preliminary analysis of coastal occupation spanning the colonization phase to classic phase	3
The sacred stone from the sea. Archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on the ritual value of coral across the Pacific	3
Petroglyphs and place: complex histories at four sites in New Britain	2
Archaeobotanical futures in the Indo‐Pacific	2
The sailing performance of ancient Polynesian canoes and the early settlement of East Polynesia	2
Stones in Motion: monuments and chiefly title histories in central Vanuatu	2
Resistance and remembering through rock art: Contact‐period rock art in Wardaman country, Northern Australia	2
Investigating hafting and composite tool repair as factors creating variability in backed artefacts: Evidence from Ngungara (Weereewa/Lake George), south‐eastern Australia	2
Invisible or ignored: investigating the lack of thylacine‐based material culture in the Australian archaeological record	2

Aboriginal serrated and perforated shell artefacts from the Murray River, South Australia	2
Cosmo‐political landscapes of Torres Straitadhiandmisœristones: Closing the gap between Islander and non‐indigenous perspectives	2
Pig and dog use in the pre‐contact Society Island Chiefdoms: integrated ethnohistoric, archaeological and use‐web analyses	2
The New Zealand bracken fern rhizome, Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst): a toxic food plant of pre‐European Māori	1
Late Holocene hunting economies in coastal southeastern Australia: Insights from the archaeological fauna of Curracurrang 1 Rockshelter, Royal National Park	1
Reflections on the commensal model and future directions in Polynesian interaction studies	1
A New Melanesian Rock‐Art Style: Figurative Engravings at Roche Mauprat, Arama Chiefdom, New Caledonia	1
Reflections on zooarchaeology in East Polynesia: human‐animal interactions and human ecodynamics	1
Tracking shifts in Society Islands marine subsistence through time: Intra‐site analysis of faunal remains and fishing gear	1
Putting the Dark Emu debate into context	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
A review of Philippine rock art and its regional context	1
A dentate‐stamped Lapita dish from the central south coast of Papua	1
Assessing foraging variability on small islands in Manu‘a (American Samoa) during the first millennium BC	1
The archaeology of shellfishing practices on Ua Huka, Marquesas Archipelago (French Polynesia)	1
Revising shell adze analysis in Oceania: a multifaceted approach to the study of a Solomon Islands’ collection	1
New discoveries from the early Māori village at Shag River Mouth, New Zealand, reveal intestinal parasites	1
Turtles for the ancestors: A zooarchaeological study of ritual deposits on Fakahina, Tuamotu archipelago (French Polynesia)	1
A highly fragrant comestible: the cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) in pre‐European Māori New Zealand	1
Hunting with dogs: a synthesis of ethnohistorical data and discussion of their implications for prehistoric subsistence in New Guinea	1
Weaving feathers of intangible and tangible knowledge: Historical records and human‐bird interactions in the Marquesas Islands	1
Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia	1
Archaeological site types, and assemblage size and diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Archaeology of animate ancestors and entanglement at Mayarnjarn in the Wellington Range region, Northern Territory	1
Rock art on excavated monolithic statues (moai), Rano Raraku statue quarry, Rapa Nui (Easter Island): context, chronology and the crescent motif	1
Mass capture fishing in the Marquesas Islands	1