OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Open 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
A Blocked-Out Capital from Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast)	11
Raw Materials and Technological Choices: Case Study of Neolithic Black Pottery From the Middle Yangtze River Valley of China	8
From Coastal Sites to Elevated Hinterland Locations in the Mesolithic – Discussing Human–Woodland Interaction in the Oslo Fjord Region, Southeast Norway	8
Archaeology of the Late Local Landscapes of the Hualfín Valley (Catamarca, Argentina): A Political Perspective from Cerro Colorado of La Ciénaga de Abajo	7
The Ugly Duckling: Understanding the Making of an Early Copper Age Atypical Ceramic Vessel from the Great Hungarian Plain	7
Disentangling Technological Traditions: Comparative Analysis of Chaînes Opératoires of Painted Pre-Hispanic Ceramics From Nariño, Colombia	7
The Time of the Last Hunters: Chronocultural Aspects of Early Holocene Societies in the Western Mediterranean	7
Potters’ Mobility Contributed to the Emergence of the Bell Beaker Phenomenon in Third Millennium BCE Alpine Switzerland: A Diachronic Technology Study of Domestic and Funerary Traditions	6
Conceiving Elements of Divinity: The Use of the Semantic Web for the Definition of Material Religiosity in the Levant During the Second Millennium BCE	6
Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Czeladź Wielka – The Next Step Toward Determining the Habitation Model, Chronology, and Pottery of the Silesian-Greater Poland Tumulus Culture	6
The Origin, Development and Decline of Lengyel Culture Figurative Finds	6
Weak Ties on Old Roads: Inscribed Stopping-Places and Complex Networks in the Eastern Desert of Graeco-Roman Egypt	6
First Archaeological Record of the Torture and Mutilation of Indigenous Mapuche During the “War of Arauco,” Sixteenth Century	5
Wealth Consumption, Sociopolitical Organization, and Change: A Perspective from Burial Analysis on the Middle Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin	5
Fallen and Lost into the Abyss? A Mesolithic Human Skull from Sima Hedionda IV (Casares, Málaga, Iberian Peninsula)	5
Colonists and Natives. The Beginning of the Eneolithic in the Middle Warta Catchment. 4500–3500 BC	5
A Boat Is a Boat Is a Boat…Unless It Is a Horse – Rethinking the Role of Typology	5
A Pilot Study in Archaeological Metal Detector Geophysical Survey	5
Bridging the Post-Excavation Gaps: Structured Guidance and Training for Post-Excavation in Archaeology	4
Listening in Sacred Spaces: The Sanctuary of Poseidonia and Selinunte’s Main Urban Sanctuary	4
Editorial: Open Archaeology in Challenging Times	4
Crafted Landscapes: The Uggurwala Tree (Ochroma pyramidale) as a Potential Cultural Keystone Species for Gunadule Communities	4
The BIAD Standards: Recommendations for Archaeological Data Publication and Insights From the Big Interdisciplinary Archaeological Database	4
Exploiting Sheep and Goats at the Late Lengyel Settlement in Racot 18	4
Seeing Sacred for Centuries: Digitally Modeling Greek Worshipers’ Visualscapes at the Argive Heraion Sanctuary	4

The Impact of Transportation on Pottery Industries in Roman Britain	4
A Little Mystery, Mythology, and Romance: How the “Pigmy Flint” Got Its Name	4
Lessons From Ceramic Petrography: A Case of Technological Transfer During the Transition From Late to Inca Periods in Northwestern Argentina, Southern Andes	3
Reconsidering the Chaîne Opératoire: At the Crossroad Between People and Materials	3
Networks of Knowledge, Materials, and Practice in the Neolithic Zagros	3
Recording, Sharing and Linking Micromorphological Data: A Two-Pillar Database System	3
Bigger Fish to Fry: Evidence (or Lack of) for Fish Consumption in Ancient Syracuse (Sicily)	3
The Chaîne Opératoire Approach for Interpreting Personal Ornament Production: Marble Beads in Copper Age Tuscany (Italy)	3
Enigmatic Bones: A Few Archaeological, Bioanthropological, and Historical Considerations Regarding an Atypical Deposit of Skeletonized Human Remains Unearthed in Khirbat al-Dusaq (Southern Jordan)	3
Investigating the Early-to-Late Mesolithic Transition in Northeastern Italy: A Multifaceted Regional Perspective	3
Seriality and Individualization: Carving the Fluted Sarcophagi from Hierapolis of Phrygia	3
Etched in Stone: The Kevermes Stone Stela From the Great Hungarian Plain	3
Environment and Plant Use at La Tourasse (South-West France) at the Late Glacial–Holocene Transition	3
Why Mesolithic Populations Started Eating Crabs on the European Atlantic Façade Only Over the Past 15 Years?	3
Animal Teeth and Mesolithic Society	3
Mediterranean Trade Networks and the Diffusion and Syncretism of Art and Architecture Styles at Delos	3
Salt Production in Central Italy and Social Network Analysis Centrality Measures: An Exploratory Approach	2
A Framework for Archaeological Involvement with Human Genetic Data for European Prehistory	2
Monastic Estates in the Wachau Region: Nodes of Exchange in Past and Present Days	2
Urban Success and Urban Adaptation Over the Long Run	2
Female Microhistorical Archaeology	2
Faunal Remains Associated with Human Cremations: The Chalcolithic Pits 16 and 40 from the Perdigões Ditched Enclosures (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal)	2
Pioneer Archaeologists and the Influence of Their Scientific Relationships on Mesolithic Studies in North Iberia	2
Movement or Diaspora? Understanding a Multigenerational Puebloan and Ndee Community on the Central Great Plains	2
Exploring Hypotheses on Early Holocene Caspian Seafaring Through Personal Ornaments: A Study of Changing Styles and Symbols in Western Central Asia	2
Stations of the Publicum Portorium Illyrici are a Strong Predictor of the Mithraic Presence in the Danubian Provinces: Geographical Analysis of the Distribution of the Roman Cult of Mithras	2
The Role of the Road in Settling a Mountainous Region	2
Corrigendum to “Plant Use and Cereal Cultivation Inferred from Integrated Archaeobotanical Analysis of an Ottoman Age Moat Sequence (Szigetvár, Hungary)”	2
Synopsis of a Treasure. A Transdisciplinary Study of Medieval Gold Workings Biographies	2
Intermarine Area Archaeology and its Contribution to Studies of Prehistoric Europe	2
Rediscovered Mesolithic Rock Art Collection from Kamyana Mohyla Complex in Eastern Ukraine	2
One, Two, Three! Can Everybody Hear Me? Acoustics of Roman Contiones. Case Studies of the Capitoline Hill and the Temple of Bellona in Rome	2
Geophysical Prospection of the South-Western Quarter of the Hellenistic Capital Artaxata in the Ararat Plain (Lusarat, Ararat Province, Armenia): The South-West Quarter, City Walls and an Early Christ	2
Contribution of the Microhistorical Approach to Landscape and Settlement Archaeology: Some French Examples	2
Arab Migration During Early Islam: The Seventh to Eighth Century AD from an Archaeological Perspective	2
Rock-Cut Monuments at Macedonian Philippi – Taking Image Analysis to the Religioscape	2
Great Transformation on a Microscale: The Targowisko Settlement Region	2
Caves, Senses, and Ritual Flows in the Iberian Iron Age: The Territory of Edeta	2
Earthen Architecture in Nordic Countries: Future Directions	2
Transport, Interaction, and Connectivity	2
Hunting for Hide. Investigating an Other-Than-Food Relationship Between Stone Age Hunters and Wild Animals in Northern Europe	2
How Linguistic Data Can Inform Archaeological Investigations: An Australian Pilot Study Around Combustion Features	1
The Early Upper Palaeolithic in Cueva del Arco (Murcia, Spain) and Its Contextualisation in the Iberian Mediterranean	1
Stylistic Study of the Late Mesolithic Industries in Western France: Combined Principal Coordinate Analysis and Use-Wear Analysis	1
The Thule Migration: A Culture in a Hurry?	1
The Transformation of Domes in Medieval Chinese Mosques: From Immigrant Muslims to Local Followers	1
On the Value of Informal Communication in Archaeological Data Work	1
On Class and Elitism in Archaeology	1
Roof Tiles and Bricks of the Etruscan Domus dei Dolia (Vetulonia, Italy): An Archaeological and Archaeometric Study of Construction Materials	1
Goats and Goddesses. Digital Approach to the Religioscapes of Atargatis and Allat	1

Britain In or Out of Europe During the Late Mesolithic? A New Perspective of the Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition	1
Music and Storytelling at Rock Art Sites? The Archaeoacoustics of the Urkosh Area (Russian Altai)	1
What is New in the Neolithic? – Celebrating the Academic Achievements of Lech Czerniak in Honour of His 70th Birthday	1
Quantifying Patterns in Mortuary Practices: An Application of Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis to Data From the Taosi Site, China	1
The Bedrock of Rock Art: The Significance of Quartz Arenite as a Canvas for Rock Art in Central Sweden	1
Microhistory, Archaeological Record, and the Subaltern Debris	1
Making Vessels for the Dead: Pottery-Making Practices, Chaîne Opératoire and the Use of Grog (Crushed Sherds) as a Technological and Cultural Choice during Late and Inca Periods in the Northwes	1
From Anatolia to Algarve: Assessing the Early Stages of Neolithisation Processes in Europe	1
People and Things on the Move: Tracking Paths With Social Network Analysis	1
Evolutionary Dynamics of Armatures in Southern France in the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic	1
Is It Just the Location? Visibility Analyses of the West Pomeranian Megaliths of the Funnel Beaker Culture	1
New “Balkan Fashion” Developing Through the Neolithization Process: The Ceramic Annulets of Amzabegovo and Svinjarička Čuka	1
Tracing Maize History in Northern Iroquoia Through Radiocarbon Date Summed Probability Distributions	1
Paradise Found or Common Sense Lost? Göbekli Tepe’s Last Decade as a Pre-Farming Cult Centre	1
A 2D Geometric Morphometric Assessment of Chrono-Cultural Trends in Osseous Barbed Points of the European Final Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic	1
Do We Finally Know What the Neolithic Is?	1
Waste Around Longhouses: Taphonomy on LBK Settlement in Hlízov	1
Combining Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems to Create a New Approach for Modelling Movement Dynamics: A Case Study of Mesolithic Orkney	1
Networks of Pots: The Usage of Ceramics in Network Analysis in Mediterranean Archaeology	1
Late Mesolithic Individuals of the Danube Iron Gates Origin on the Dnipro River Rapids (Ukraine)? Archaeological and Bioarchaeological Records	1
Landscapes of Movement Along the (Pre)Historical Libyan Sea: Keys for a Socio-Ecological History	1
From Foragers to Fisher-Farmers: How the Neolithisation Process Affected Coastal Fisheries in Scandinavia	1
Pottery from Motion – A Refined Approach to the Large-Scale Documentation of Pottery Using Structure from Motion	1
Earthen Architecture in Southern Algeria: An Assessment of Social Values and the Impact of Industrial Building Practices	1
Pressure Flakers of Late Neolithic Forest Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of Eastern Europe and Their Remote Counterparts	1
Fishing Nets and String at the Final Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Site of Zamostje 2, Sergiev Posad (Russia)	1
An Integrated Zooarchaeological and Micromorphological Perspective on Midden Taphonomy at Late Neolithic Çatalhöyük	1
From a Medieval Town to the Modern Fortress of Rosas (Girona-Spain). Combining Geophysics and Archaeological Excavation to Understand the Evolution of a Strategic Coastal Settlement	1
A Review of Malta’s Pre-Temple Neolithic Pottery Wares	1
Dehesilla Cave Rock Paintings (Cádiz, Spain): Analysis and Contextualisation within the Prehistoric Art of the Southern Iberian Peninsula	1
Undecorated Roman-Period Roof Tiles – An Old Material Providing New Results	1
The Site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, and the Early Cemeteries of Northern Europe	1
Decorated Standing Stones – The Hagbards Galge Monument in Southwest Sweden	1
“Meitheal Adhmadóireachta” Exploring and Communicating Prehistoric Irish Woodcraft Through Remaking and Shared Experience	1
Living in the Mountains. Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Settlement in Northwest Portugal: Rock Shelter 1 of Vale de Cerdeira (Vieira do Minho)	1
Erratum to “On the Emerging Supremacy of Structured Digital Data in Archaeology: A Preliminary Assessment of Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Left Behind”	1
Tracing Mobility Patterns of Buried Species of the Late Iron Age Funerary Staggered Turriform of Son Ferrer (Calvià, Spain)	1
Critique of Lithic Reason	1
Engaging the Public Through Prehistory: Experiences From an Inclusive Perspective	1