OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceiving Elements of Divinity: The Use of the Semantic Web for the Definition of Material Religiosity in the Levant During the Second Millennium BCE	9
Raw Materials and Technological Choices: Case Study of Neolithic Black Pottery From the Middle Yangtze River Valley of China	6
The Site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, and the Early Cemeteries of Northern Europe	5
Why Mesolithic Populations Started Eating Crabs on the European Atlantic Façade Only Over the Past 15 Years?	5
Seriality and Individualization: Carving the Fluted Sarcophagi from Hierapolis of Phrygia	5
From Coastal Sites to Elevated Hinterland Locations in the Mesolithic – Discussing Human–Woodland Interaction in the Oslo Fjord Region, Southeast Norway	5
Britain In or Out of Europe During the Late Mesolithic? A New Perspective of the Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition	5
Early Neolithic Large Blades from Crno Vrilo (Dalmatia, Croatia): Preliminary Techno-Functional Analysis	5
Human Mobility and the Spread of Innovations – Case Studies from Neolithic Central and Southeast Europe	4
Female Microhistorical Archaeology	4
Plant Use and Cereal Cultivation Inferred from Integrated Archaeobotanical Analysis of an Ottoman Age Moat Sequence (Szigetvár, Hungary)	4
The Ugly Duckling: Understanding the Making of an Early Copper Age Atypical Ceramic Vessel from the Great Hungarian Plain	4
The Blurry Third Millennium. “Neolithisation” in a Norwegian Context	4
Critique of Lithic Reason	4
Synopsis of a Treasure. A Transdisciplinary Study of Medieval Gold Workings Biographies	4
From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and Back: Sardinia, Iberia, and the Transfer of Knowledge in Late Bronze Age Networks	4
“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Mesolithic Colonisation Processes and Landscape Usage of the Inner-Alpine Region Kleinwalsertal (Prov. Vorarlberg, Western Austria)	4
Approaching Interaction in Iron Age Sardinia: Multi-Scalar Survey Evidence from the Sinis Archaeological Project and the Progetto S’Urachi	3
Recording, Sharing and Linking Micromorphological Data: A Two-Pillar Database System	3
Waste Around Longhouses: Taphonomy on LBK Settlement in Hlízov	3
A Blocked-Out Capital from Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast)	3
Social Organization, Intersections, and Interactions in Bronze Age Sardinia. Reading Settlement Patterns in the Area of Sarrala with the Contribution of Applied Sciences	3
Quantifying Patterns in Mortuary Practices: An Application of Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis to Data From the Taosi Site, China	3
Assessing the Role of Wooden Vessels, Basketry, and Pottery at the Early Neolithic Site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)	3
A Multi-Method Study of a Chalcolithic Kiln in the Bora Plain (Iraqi Kurdistan): The Evidence From Excavation, Micromorphological and Pyrotechnological Analyses	3

Goats and Goddesses. Digital Approach to the Religioscapes of Atargatis and Allat	3
Animal Teeth and Mesolithic Society	3
Combining Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems to Create a New Approach for Modelling Movement Dynamics: A Case Study of Mesolithic Orkney	2
Corrigendum to “Plant Use and Cereal Cultivation Inferred from Integrated Archaeobotanical Analysis of an Ottoman Age Moat Sequence (Szigetvár, Hungary)”	2
Archaeology of the Late Local Landscapes of the Hualfín Valley (Catamarca, Argentina): A Political Perspective from Cerro Colorado of La Ciénaga de Abajo	2
Tracing Mobility Patterns of Buried Species of the Late Iron Age Funerary Staggered Turriform of Son Ferrer (Calvià, Spain)	2
Fishing Nets and String at the Final Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Site of Zamostje 2, Sergiev Posad (Russia)	2
First Archaeological Record of the Torture and Mutilation of Indigenous Mapuche During the “War of Arauco,” Sixteenth Century	2
Microhistory, Archaeological Record, and the Subaltern Debris	2
The Time of the Last Hunters: Chronocultural Aspects of Early Holocene Societies in the Western Mediterranean	2
Archaeological Practices and Societal Challenges	2
Turf Building in Iceland – Past, Present, and Future	2
Everything Has a Role to Play: Reconstruction of Vessel Function From Early Copper Age Graves in the Upper Tisza Region (Eastern Hungary)	2
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	2
Nuraghi as Ritual Monuments in the Sardinian Bronze and Iron Ages (circa 1700–700 BC)	2
From Foragers to Fisher-Farmers: How the Neolithisation Process Affected Coastal Fisheries in Scandinavia	2
On Class and Elitism in Archaeology	2
Materiality of Plaster Vessels: The Problem of Southwest Asian Neolithic White Ware	2
Stylistic Study of the Late Mesolithic Industries in Western France: Combined Principal Coordinate Analysis and Use-Wear Analysis	2
The Building Blocks of Circular Economies: Rethinking Prehistoric Turf Architecture Through Archaeological and Architectural Analysis	1
Urban Success and Urban Adaptation Over the Long Run	1
Employing Psychoacoustics in Sensory Archaeology: Developments at the Ancient Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Lykaion	1
Mesolithic Montology	1
Dehesilla Cave Rock Paintings (Cádiz, Spain): Analysis and Contextualisation within the Prehistoric Art of the Southern Iberian Peninsula	1
Socioeconomic, Technological, and Cultural Adaptation of the Mesolithic Population in Central-Eastern Cantabria (Spain) in the Early and Middle Holocene	1
Advanced Ancient Steelmaking Across the Arctic European Landscape	1
A Boat Is a Boat Is a Boat…Unless It Is a Horse – Rethinking the Role of Typology	1
Arab Migration During Early Islam: The Seventh to Eighth Century AD from an Archaeological Perspective	1
Caves, Senses, and Ritual Flows in the Iberian Iron Age: The Territory of Edeta	1
Structural Measures Against the Risks of Flash Floods in Patara and Consequent Considerations Regarding the Location of the Oracle Sanctuary of Apollo	1
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	1
Is It Just the Location? Visibility Analyses of the West Pomeranian Megaliths of the Funnel Beaker Culture	1
Circular Economy in the Roman Period and the Early Middle Ages – Methods of Analysis for a Future Agenda	1
Intermarine Area Archaeology and its Contribution to Studies of Prehistoric Europe	1
Landscapes of Movement Along the (Pre)Historical Libyan Sea: Keys for a Socio-Ecological History	1
Late Mesolithic Individuals of the Danube Iron Gates Origin on the Dnipro River Rapids (Ukraine)? Archaeological and Bioarchaeological Records	1
Earthen Architecture in Nordic Countries: Future Directions	1
Identification of Ceramic Traditions on the Prehistoric Mines of Gavà (Barcelona, Spain)	1
Terminal Ballistics of Stone-Tipped Atlatl Darts and Arrows: Results From Exploratory Naturalistic Experiments	1
Enculturating Coastal Environments in the Middle Mesolithic (8300–6300 cal BCE) – Site Variability, Human–Environment Relations, and Mobility Patterns in Northern Vestfold, SE-Norway	1
The Role of the Road in Settling a Mountainous Region	1
Leadership in the Emergent Baekje State: State Formation in Central-Western Korea (ca. 200–400 CE)	1
Monastic Estates in the Wachau Region: Nodes of Exchange in Past and Present Days	1
Urbanity, Decline, and Regeneration in Later Medieval England: Towards a Posthuman Household Microhistory	1
Weak Ties on Old Roads: Inscribed Stopping-Places and Complex Networks in the Eastern Desert of Graeco-Roman Egypt	1
Colonists and Natives. The Beginning of the Eneolithic in the Middle Warta Catchment. 4500–3500 BC	1
Earthen Architecture in Southern Algeria: An Assessment of Social Values and the Impact of Industrial Building Practices	1
Wealth Consumption, Sociopolitical Organization, and Change: A Perspective from Burial Analysis on the Middle Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin	1
How Linguistic Data Can Inform Archaeological Investigations: An Australian Pilot Study Around Combustion Features	1
Digital Methods and Typology: New Horizons	1

Unveiling Local Power Through Microhistory: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Early Modern Husbandry Practices in Casaio and Lardeira (Ourense, Spain)	1
Living in the Mountains. Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Settlement in Northwest Portugal: Rock Shelter 1 of Vale de Cerdeira (Vieira do Minho)	1
Faunal Remains Associated with Human Cremations: The Chalcolithic Pits 16 and 40 from the Perdigões Ditched Enclosures (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal)	1
Great Transformation on a Microscale: The Targowisko Settlement Region	1
The Neolithic Sequence of the Middle Dunajec River Basin (Polish Western Carpathians) and Its Peculiarities	1
Tracing Maize History in Northern Iroquoia Through Radiocarbon Date Summed Probability Distributions	1
The Transformation of Domes in Medieval Chinese Mosques: From Immigrant Muslims to Local Followers	1
Rock-Cut Monuments at Macedonian Philippi – Taking Image Analysis to the Religioscape	1
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Microhistory, Micropolitics, and Infrapolitics in Medieval Archaeology	1
Victims of Heritage Crimes: Aspects of Legal and Socio-Economic Justice	1
Fallen and Lost into the Abyss? A Mesolithic Human Skull from Sima Hedionda IV (Casares, Málaga, Iberian Peninsula)	1
Inventories as Keys to Exploring Castles as Cultural Heritage	1
The Story of the Architectural Documentation of Hagia Sophia’s Hypogeum	1
Small Houses of the Dead: A Model of Collective Funerary Activity in the Chalcolithic Tombs of Southwestern Iberia. La Orden-Seminario Site (Huelva, Spain)	1
A Pilot Study in Archaeological Metal Detector Geophysical Survey	1