Southern African Field Archaeology

Aims & Scope

About the Journal Southern African Field Archaeology (a.k.a. FIELD) in its revived format is a non-profit, open-access journal currently funded by the Palaeo-Research Institute , University of Johannesburg, the Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST) , Johannesburg, South Africa, and previously by the Wenner-Gren Foundation . The journal publishes continuously. When an article is approved, it is published online and all publications from a single year are combined into an annual volume. Aims and Scope: FIELD aims to communicate basic data, findings, syntheses and opinions about all aspects and periods of southern and/or sub-Saharan African archaeology, the palaeo-sciences, and heritage collections and management, to professional archaeologists, heritage practitioners, students, governing authorities and the public. It therefore serves everybody concerned with field and laboratory research, methods development, experimentation, data analysis and the interpretation of the archaeological and palaeo-science records, as well as with collections and heritage management pertaining to the sub-continent. Types of Submissions: We accommodate a broad range of original contributions in the form of: Peer-reviewed research reports. Concise peer-reviewed comparative studies, syntheses or overviews. Peer-reviewed critiques or discussion pieces around previously published papers in FIELD or elsewhere that are relevant to the themes of the journal. Non-peer-reviewed short notes. Non-peer-reviewed editorials and opinion pieces. Contributions published in the journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 International License . Authors therefore retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication. Contributions by Africa-based authors are free of charge. Non-Africa-based authors (also those with honorary affiliations at African institutions) will be charged a competitive fee of ~R30 000.00 (~$1685.00 or ~€1475.00, excluding local tax charges) for

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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