OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Open Archaeology is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A Blocked-Out Capital from Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast)	12
Raw Materials and Technological Choices: Case Study of Neolithic Black Pottery From the Middle Yangtze River Valley of China	9
Archaeology of the Late Local Landscapes of the Hualfín Valley (Catamarca, Argentina): A Political Perspective from Cerro Colorado of La Ciénaga de Abajo	9
Conceiving Elements of Divinity: The Use of the Semantic Web for the Definition of Material Religiosity in the Levant During the Second Millennium BCE	8
From Coastal Sites to Elevated Hinterland Locations in the Mesolithic – Discussing Human–Woodland Interaction in the Oslo Fjord Region, Southeast Norway	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
The Ugly Duckling: Understanding the Making of an Early Copper Age Atypical Ceramic Vessel from the Great Hungarian Plain	7
The Origin, Development and Decline of Lengyel Culture Figurative Finds	7
First Archaeological Record of the Torture and Mutilation of Indigenous Mapuche During the “War of Arauco,” Sixteenth Century	6
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
A Pilot Study in Archaeological Metal Detector Geophysical Survey	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
A Boat Is a Boat Is a Boat…Unless It Is a Horse – Rethinking the Role of Typology	6
Weak Ties on Old Roads: Inscribed Stopping-Places and Complex Networks in the Eastern Desert of Graeco-Roman Egypt	6
Colonists and Natives. The Beginning of the Eneolithic in the Middle Warta Catchment. 4500–3500 BC	6
Listening in Sacred Spaces: The Sanctuary of Poseidonia and Selinunte’s Main Urban Sanctuary	5
Bridging the Post-Excavation Gaps: Structured Guidance and Training for Post-Excavation in Archaeology	5
Wealth Consumption, Sociopolitical Organization, and Change: A Perspective from Burial Analysis on the Middle Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin	5
Early Neolithic Pottery Production in the Maltese Islands: Initiating a Għar Dalam and Skorba Pottery Fabric Classification	5
Fallen and Lost into the Abyss? A Mesolithic Human Skull from Sima Hedionda IV (Casares, Málaga, Iberian Peninsula)	5
Editorial: Open Archaeology in Challenging Times	4
The Impact of Transportation on Pottery Industries in Roman Britain	4
The Chaîne Opératoire Approach for Interpreting Personal Ornament Production: Marble Beads in Copper Age Tuscany (Italy)	4
Etched in Stone: The Kevermes Stone Stela From the Great Hungarian Plain	4

The BIAD Standards: Recommendations for Archaeological Data Publication and Insights From the Big Interdisciplinary Archaeological Database	4
A Little Mystery, Mythology, and Romance: How the “Pigmy Flint” Got Its Name	4
Seeing Sacred for Centuries: Digitally Modeling Greek Worshipers’ Visualscapes at the Argive Heraion Sanctuary	4
Environment and Plant Use at La Tourasse (South-West France) at the Late Glacial–Holocene Transition	4
Crafted Landscapes: The Uggurwala Tree (Ochroma pyramidale) as a Potential Cultural Keystone Species for Gunadule Communities	4
Exploiting Sheep and Goats at the Late Lengyel Settlement in Racot 18	4
Lessons From Ceramic Petrography: A Case of Technological Transfer During the Transition From Late to Inca Periods in Northwestern Argentina, Southern Andes	4
Bigger Fish to Fry: Evidence (or Lack of) for Fish Consumption in Ancient Syracuse (Sicily)	4
Caves, Senses, and Ritual Flows in the Iberian Iron Age: The Territory of Edeta	3
Synopsis of a Treasure. A Transdisciplinary Study of Medieval Gold Workings Biographies	3
Corrigendum to “Plant Use and Cereal Cultivation Inferred from Integrated Archaeobotanical Analysis of an Ottoman Age Moat Sequence (Szigetvár, Hungary)”	3
Investigating the Early-to-Late Mesolithic Transition in Northeastern Italy: A Multifaceted Regional Perspective	3
Why Mesolithic Populations Started Eating Crabs on the European Atlantic Façade Only Over the Past 15 Years?	3
Seriality and Individualization: Carving the Fluted Sarcophagi from Hierapolis of Phrygia	3
Great Transformation on a Microscale: The Targowisko Settlement Region	3
Intermarine Area Archaeology and its Contribution to Studies of Prehistoric Europe	3
Rock-Cut Monuments at Macedonian Philippi – Taking Image Analysis to the Religioscape	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
Reconsidering the Chaîne Opératoire: At the Crossroad Between People and Materials	3
Animal Teeth and Mesolithic Society	3
Female Microhistorical Archaeology	3
Earthen Architecture in Nordic Countries: Future Directions	3
Technical Transfers Between Chert Knappers: Investigating Gunflint Manufacture in the Eastern Egyptian Desert (Wadi Sannur, Northern Galala, Egypt)	3
The Role of the Road in Settling a Mountainous Region	3
Mediterranean Trade Networks and the Diffusion and Syncretism of Art and Architecture Styles at Delos	3
Networks of Knowledge, Materials, and Practice in the Neolithic Zagros	3
Recording, Sharing and Linking Micromorphological Data: A Two-Pillar Database System	3
Urban Success and Urban Adaptation Over the Long Run	3
Faunal Remains Associated with Human Cremations: The Chalcolithic Pits 16 and 40 from the Perdigões Ditched Enclosures (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal)	3