OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Open Archaeology is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Why Mesolithic Populations Started Eating Crabs on the European Atlantic Façade Only Over the Past 15 Years?	7
Early Neolithic Large Blades from Crno Vrilo (Dalmatia, Croatia): Preliminary Techno-Functional Analysis	6
Britain In or Out of Europe During the Late Mesolithic? A New Perspective of the Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition	5
The Ugly Duckling: Understanding the Making of an Early Copper Age Atypical Ceramic Vessel from the Great Hungarian Plain	5
The Site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, and the Early Cemeteries of Northern Europe	5
Seriality and Individualization: Carving the Fluted Sarcophagi from Hierapolis of Phrygia	5
The Blurry Third Millennium. “Neolithisation” in a Norwegian Context	4
Synopsis of a Treasure. A Transdisciplinary Study of Medieval Gold Workings Biographies	4
Female Microhistorical Archaeology	4
Human Mobility and the Spread of Innovations – Case Studies from Neolithic Central and Southeast Europe	4
Plant Use and Cereal Cultivation Inferred from Integrated Archaeobotanical Analysis of an Ottoman Age Moat Sequence (Szigetvár, Hungary)	4
From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and Back: Sardinia, Iberia, and the Transfer of Knowledge in Late Bronze Age Networks	4
A Blocked-Out Capital from Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast)	3
Critique of Lithic Reason	3
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
“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Mesolithic Colonisation Processes and Landscape Usage of the Inner-Alpine Region Kleinwalsertal (Prov. Vorarlberg, Western Austria)	3
Assessing the Role of Wooden Vessels, Basketry, and Pottery at the Early Neolithic Site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)	3
Animal Teeth and Mesolithic Society	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
A Multi-Method Study of a Chalcolithic Kiln in the Bora Plain (Iraqi Kurdistan): The Evidence From Excavation, Micromorphological and Pyrotechnological Analyses	3
Archaeology of the Late Local Landscapes of the Hualfín Valley (Catamarca, Argentina): A Political Perspective from Cerro Colorado of La Ciénaga de Abajo	2
Combining Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems to Create a New Approach for Modelling Movement Dynamics: A Case Study of Mesolithic Orkney	2
Nuraghi as Ritual Monuments in the Sardinian Bronze and Iron Ages (circa 1700–700 BC)	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

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 Neolithic Sequence of the Middle Dunajec River Basin (Polish Western Carpathians) and Its Peculiarities	2
From Foragers to Fisher-Farmers: How the Neolithisation Process Affected Coastal Fisheries in Scandinavia	2
Microhistory, Archaeological Record, and the Subaltern Debris	2
Quantifying Patterns in Mortuary Practices: An Application of Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis to Data From the Taosi Site, China	2
Goats and Goddesses. Digital Approach to the Religioscapes of Atargatis and Allat	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
Circular Economy in the Roman Period and the Early Middle Ages – Methods of Analysis for a Future Agenda	2
On Class and Elitism in Archaeology	2
From Coastal Sites to Elevated Hinterland Locations in the Mesolithic – Discussing Human–Woodland Interaction in the Oslo Fjord Region, Southeast Norway	2
Corrigendum to “Plant Use and Cereal Cultivation Inferred from Integrated Archaeobotanical Analysis of an Ottoman Age Moat Sequence (Szigetvár, Hungary)”	2
The Time of the Last Hunters: Chronocultural Aspects of Early Holocene Societies in the Western Mediterranean	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
Unveiling Local Power Through Microhistory: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Early Modern Husbandry Practices in Casaio and Lardeira (Ourense, Spain)	2
Tracing Mobility Patterns of Buried Species of the Late Iron Age Funerary Staggered Turriform of Son Ferrer (Calvià, Spain)	2