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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Ugly Duckling: Understanding the Making of an Early Copper Age Atypical Ceramic Vessel from the Great Hungarian Plain	13
The Time of the Last Hunters: Chronocultural Aspects of Early Holocene Societies in the Western Mediterranean	11
Conceiving Elements of Divinity: The Use of the Semantic Web for the Definition of Material Religiosity in the Levant During the Second Millennium BCE	11
From Coastal Sites to Elevated Hinterland Locations in the Mesolithic – Discussing Human–Woodland Interaction in the Oslo Fjord Region, Southeast Norway	11
Disentangling Technological Traditions: Comparative Analysis of Chaînes Opératoires of Painted Pre-Hispanic Ceramics From Nariño, Colombia	9
Raw Materials and Technological Choices: Case Study of Neolithic Black Pottery From the Middle Yangtze River Valley of China	9
The Origin, Development and Decline of Lengyel Culture Figurative Finds	8
Archaeology of the Late Local Landscapes of the Hualfín Valley (Catamarca, Argentina): A Political Perspective from Cerro Colorado of La Ciénaga de Abajo	8
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	8
Wealth Consumption, Sociopolitical Organization, and Change: A Perspective from Burial Analysis on the Middle Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin	7
Weak Ties on Old Roads: Inscribed Stopping-Places and Complex Networks in the Eastern Desert of Graeco-Roman Egypt	7
The Geological Mining Historical and Environmental Park of Sardinia and the Preservation of the Obsidian Heritage in the Sardinian Territory	7
First Archaeological Record of the Torture and Mutilation of Indigenous Mapuche During the “War of Arauco,” Sixteenth Century	7
Alpine Hunting Grounds and Pastoral Landscapes: Patterns, Hiatuses, and the Impact of Hydropower on Archaeological Sites – A Case Study from Southern Norway	7
Listening in Sacred Spaces: The Sanctuary of Poseidonia and Selinunte’s Main Urban Sanctuary	6
Ritual and Connectivity in Nuragic Sardinia: An Interdisciplinary Study of Ceramics and Metalwork from Nuraghe Barru	6
Bridging the Post-Excavation Gaps: Structured Guidance and Training for Post-Excavation in Archaeology	6
From Periphery to Center: An Overview of Pre-Qin Urbanization from an Urban Architectural Perspective in Jiangxi Province, China	5
The BIAD Standards: Recommendations for Archaeological Data Publication and Insights From the Big Interdisciplinary Archaeological Database	5
Crafted Landscapes: The Uggurwala Tree (Ochroma pyramidale) as a Potential Cultural Keystone Species for Gunadule Communities	5
Early Neolithic Pottery Production in the Maltese Islands: Initiating a Għar Dalam and Skorba Pottery Fabric Classification	5
The Chaîne Opératoire Approach for Interpreting Personal Ornament Production: Marble Beads in Copper Age Tuscany (Italy)	4
The Houses of al-Andalus: A Synthesis of a Domestic Model	4
Lessons From Ceramic Petrography: A Case of Technological Transfer During the Transition From Late to Inca Periods in Northwestern Argentina, Southern Andes	4
Mediterranean Trade Networks and the Diffusion and Syncretism of Art and Architecture Styles at Delos	4

Corrigendum to “Plant Use and Cereal Cultivation Inferred from Integrated Archaeobotanical Analysis of an Ottoman Age Moat Sequence (Szigetvár, Hungary)”	4
Investigating the Early-to-Late Mesolithic Transition in Northeastern Italy: A Multifaceted Regional Perspective	4
Etched in Stone: The Kevermes Stone Stela From the Great Hungarian Plain	4
Reconsidering the Chaîne Opératoire: At the Crossroad Between People and Materials	4
The Impact of Transportation on Pottery Industries in Roman Britain	4
Recording, Sharing and Linking Micromorphological Data: A Two-Pillar Database System	4
Female Microhistorical Archaeology	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
Bigger Fish to Fry: Evidence (or Lack of) for Fish Consumption in Ancient Syracuse (Sicily)	4
Networks of Knowledge, Materials, and Practice in the Neolithic Zagros	4
Seriality and Individualization: Carving the Fluted Sarcophagi from Hierapolis of Phrygia	4
Synopsis of a Treasure. A Transdisciplinary Study of Medieval Gold Workings Biographies	4
A Framework for Archaeological Involvement with Human Genetic Data for European Prehistory	3
Salt Production in Central Italy and Social Network Analysis Centrality Measures: An Exploratory Approach	3
Movement or Diaspora? Understanding a Multigenerational Puebloan and Ndee Community on the Central Great Plains	3
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	3
Arab Migration During Early Islam: The Seventh to Eighth Century AD from an Archaeological Perspective	3
Technical Transfers Between Chert Knappers: Investigating Gunflint Manufacture in the Eastern Egyptian Desert (Wadi Sannur, Northern Galala, Egypt)	3
Urban Success and Urban Adaptation Over the Long Run	3
The Role of the Road in Settling a Mountainous Region	3
Transport, Interaction, and Connectivity	3
Music and Storytelling at Rock Art Sites? The Archaeoacoustics of the Urkosh Area (Russian Altai)	3
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	3
Rock-Cut Monuments at Macedonian Philippi – Taking Image Analysis to the Religioscape	3
Everyday Reorientation: Critical Cartographic Praxis in Non-Specialist Archaeological Maps	3
Earthen Architecture in Nordic Countries: Future Directions	3
Contribution of the Microhistorical Approach to Landscape and Settlement Archaeology: Some French Examples	3
One, Two, Three! Can Everybody Hear Me? Acoustics of Roman Contiones. Case Studies of the Capitoline Hill and the Temple of Bellona in Rome	3
Settlement Dynamics and Fortification Practices in the Middle Bronze Age: Geoarchaeological Evidence from Dabas–Dabasi Szőlők and the Kakucs Microregion	3
Monastic Estates in the Wachau Region: Nodes of Exchange in Past and Present Days	3
Archival Paradata and Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology	3