OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Archaeological Research in Asia 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Holocene vegetation and climate history in Baikal Siberia reconstructed from pollen records and its implications for archaeology	26
The earliest herders of East Asia: Examining Afanasievo entry to Central Mongolia	22
Millet agriculture dispersed from Northeast China to the Russian Far East: Integrating archaeology, genetics, and linguistics	21
Bridging the time gap in the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia and Southwest China	19
Mitochondrial DNA of domesticated sheep confirms pastoralist component of Afanasievo subsistence economy in the Altai Mountains (3300–2900 cal BC)	18
Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: Combined impacts of the boreal forest, bow-and-arrow, and fishing	16
Post-Neolithic broadening of agriculture in Yunnan, China: Archaeobotanical evidence from Haimenkou	13
Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: Chronology and dietary trends	12
Hoabinhian variability in Mainland Southeast Asia revisited: The lithic assemblage of Moh Khiew Cave, Southwestern Thailand	12
Resource processing, early pottery and the emergence of Kitoi culture in Cis-Baikal: Insights from lipid residue analysis of an Early Neolithic ceramic assemblage from the Gorelyi Les habitation site,	12
The Khmer did not live by rice alone: Archaeobotanical investigations at Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm	11
Evidence of increasing functional differentiation in pottery use among Late Holocene maritime foragers in northern Japan	10
Hand stencil discoveries at Lene Hara Cave hint at Pleistocene age for the earliest painted art in Timor-Leste	9
Spatio-temporal patterns of cemetery use among Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia	7
Middle Paleolithic technological diversity during MIS 3 in the Western Tian Shan piedmonts: Example of the Katta Sai 1 open -air loess site	7
The emergence of walled towns in prehistoric middle Yangtze River valley: Excavations at the Zoumaling site	7
A functional study of denticulate sickles and knives, ground stone tools from the early Neolithic Peiligang culture, China	7
Feeding the herds: Stable isotope analysis of animal diet and its implication for understanding social organisation in the Indus Civilisation, Northwest India	7
Animals, metal and isotopes: Mikhailo-Ovsyanka I, the Late Bronze Age mining site of the steppe Volga region	6
Middle Holocene hunter–gatherer mortuary practices in the Little Sea microregion on Lake Baikal, part II: Late Neolithic	6
A tale of two hearth sites: Neolithic and intermittent mid to late Holocene occupations in the Jubbah oasis, northern Saudi Arabia	6
Mammoth ivory paleoart objects from the upper Paleolithic assemblage of Ust-Kova (eastern Siberia): A technological approach	5
The metal age of Thailand and Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage	5
Kinship and migration in prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia: An overview of isotopic evidence	5
Investigating changes in lithic raw material use from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic in Jebel Qalkha, southern Jordan	5

Animal sacrifice in burial: Materials from China during the Shang and Western Zhou period	5
Changing settlement patterns and subsistence strategies in Northeast China: Results of the Yueliang regional survey	5
Excavating tailing piles at Kakal Spur (Kerem Ben Zimra) locality in the Nahal Dishon prehistoric flint extraction and reduction complex, northern Galilee, Israel	5
New data and perspectives on the early stages of the Neolithic in the Middle Kura River Valley (South Caucasus). The 2017–2019 excavations at Kiçik Tepe, Western Azerbaijan	5
Cobbles during the final Pleistocene-early Holocene transition: An original lithic assemblage from Maomaodong rockshelter, Guizhou Province, southwest China	5
Neolithization during the 6th millennium BCE in western Central Asia: New evidence from Kaynar Kamar Rockshelter, Hissar Mountains, Southeast Uzbekistan	5
Plant remains recovered from the Houtaomuga site in Jilin Province, Northeast China: A focus on Phase I (12,900–11,000 cal. BP) and Phase II (8,000–7,000cal. BP)	4
The Neolithic occupants in the Yanyuan Basin: Excavation of the burials at the Guijiabao site, Sichuan Province, Southwest China	4
The invention of twill tapestry points to Central Asia: Archaeological record of multiple textile techniques used to make the woollen outfit of a ca. 3000-year-old horse rider from Turfan, China	4
Understanding the transition to agropastoralism in North China: Archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological evidence	4
Initial insights into ceramic production and exchange at the early Bronze Age citadel at Shimao, Shaanxi, China	4
The newly discovered bronze age site of Koken: Merging micro-regions with major study zones in the high steppes of Kazakhstan	4
Making impact: Towards discovering early projectile technology in Island South East Asian archaeology	4
Chronological and regional variation in developmental stress and behavior of Early and Late Neolithic Cis-Baikal hunter-gatherer juveniles: Insights from diaphyseal cross-sectional geometry	4
Reconstruction of the Shimao citadel gate: Planning and construction of Huangchengtai gate during the 2nd millennium BCE, China	4
Hunting, herding, and people in the rock art of Mongolia: New discoveries in the Gobi-Altai Mountains	4
Asia in the Horn. The Indian Ocean trade in Somaliland	4
Pulau Ampat site: A submerged 8th century iron production village in Matano Lake, South Sulawesi, Indonesia	4
Islamic ancient Termez: An active and long-established ceramic manufacturing centre along the silk road	3
Occupation of highland Central Asia: New evidence from Kurteke rockshelter, Eastern Pamir	3
Symbolic bead exchange and polity interaction in Mahan civilization (c. 100 BCE–300 CE), South Korea	3
Freshwater reservoir effects in Cis-Baikal: An overview	3
Recent research on the Western Zhou period: Introduction to the 2019 essays	3
Ritual, settlement and land-use practices: Towards a social history of Neolithic though Medieval period Maski, southern India	3
Climate control since 6 ka and human impact on landscapes near Starorechenskoye fortress (Russian South Far East): From Bohai farmers to modern agrocomplexes	3
Microstratigraphy reveals cycles of occupation and abandonment at the mid Holocene coastal site of Thach Lac, northern-central Vietnam	3
Revisiting the emergence of pastoralism in the Altai Mountains through interactions between local hunter-gatherer and Afanasievo communities	3
Local trend of symbolism at the dawn of the Neolithic: The painted bone plaquettes from PPNA Körtiktepe, Southeast Turkey	2
Spatial and temporal differences in Late Neolithic Serovo to Early Bronze Age Glazkovo forager diet in Lake Baikal's Little Sea Microregion, Siberia	2
The Neolithic regional settlement of Darestan, Southern Lut Desert, Iran	2
Mongol fleet on the way to Java: First archaeological remains from the Karimata Strait in Indonesia	2
Lingjiatan early complex societies and social organization in the Yuxi Valley, China	2
Ban Pha Tai: The excavation and dating of a buried megalithic jar in Xieng Khouang, Lao PDR	2
Stable isotope and radiocarbon analyses of livestock from the Mongol Empire site of Avraga, Mongolia	2
An archaeological perspective of the Western Zhou domain	2
Turning eastward: New radiocarbon and stable isotopic data for Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers from Fofanovo, Trans-Baikal, Siberia	2
The human cultures in South-Eastern Caspian region in final Pleistocene – Holocene period	2
The typology, production and adornment of Gandharan beads during the mid-3rd century BCE – 1st century CE: Preliminary results from Barikot, Swat, Pakistan	2
A local perspective on China's initial unification: Archaeological survey and historical documents from southeastern Shandong	2
Neolithic fishing in the South Caucasus as seen from Aruchlo I, Georgia	2
The missing deposits of South Sulawesi: New sources of evidence for the Pleistocene/Holocene archaeological transition	2
Ru Diep and the Quynh Van culture of central Vietnam	2
Late Pleistocene handaxes from the Korean Peninsula: New discoveries from the Unjeong District Site Complex (UDSC)	2
Chariots in the Bronze Age of Central Mongolia based on the materials from the Khoid Tamir river valley	2
Building a scientific model for East Asian pastoral origins: A reply to Honeychurch et al.	2
Above ground and underground – An integrated approach of the burial mounds within the Suusamyr plateau, Kyrgyzstan	2
Nazugum, a new 4000 year old rockshelter site in the Ili Alatau, Tien Shan	2
Late Neolithic to Early-Mid Bronze Age semi-precious stone bead production and consumption at Oakaie and Nyaung’gan in central-northern Myanmar	2