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Submissions information for major archaeological and anthropological journals is provided below. Additional titles will be added to this listing on a regular basis and all entries will be reviewed periodically and updated as needed.

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General Anthropology and Archaeology Journals

• American Anthropologist (ISSN 0002-7294; quarterly) publishes articles that add to, integrate, synthesize, and interpret anthropological knowledge; commentaries and essays on issues of importance to the discipline; and reviews of books, films, sound recordings and exhibits. Article submissions to Robert Sussman, Editor-in-Chief, Department of Anthropology, MacMillan 112, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130.
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• American Antiquity publishes articles on the archaeology of the New World and on archaeological method, theory, and practice worldwide. Submissions to Lynne Goldstein, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, 354 Baker Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824. Contact the Editorial Staff of American Antiquity through e-mail at publications@saa.org.
• American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term. The editor welcomes topical papers in areas such as ecology, economy, social organization, ethnicity, politics, ideology, personality, cognition, ritual, symbolism, or cosmology, and focused on any human group or society. Papers that cut across specific topical areas, and that deal with culture diachronically as well as synchronically, are especially welcome. Submissions to Carol Greenhouse, Editor, Department of Anthropology, Student Building 130, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405.
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• American Journal of Physical Anthropology (ISSN 0002-9483; monthly) publishes original and significant articles on human evolution and variation, including primate morphology, physiology, genetics, adaptation, growth, development, and behavior, present and past. Submissions to Dr. Emoke J. E. Szathmary, Editor, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 5V5. E-mail: ajpa@umanitoba.ca.
• Antiquity (quarterly) is devoted to archaeological research on a world-wide scale. Each issue includes a personal editorial, research papers and notes, brief reports on current matters of concern to archaeologists, and a full review coverage of new archaeological books. Submissions to Dr. Caroline Malone, Antiquity Office, New Hall, Cambridge CB3 0DF, England, catm20@cam.ac.uk
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• Cultural Anthropology welcomes contributions of relevance to cultural studies broadly conceived. Articles, while presenting research results, should develop general theoretical implications and larger issues of debate. Submissions to: Daniel A. Segal, Editor, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 91711-6101.
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• Current Anthropology (ISSN 0011-3204; 5 times yearly) is a transnational journal devoted to research on humankind, encompassing the full range of anthropological scholarship on human cultures and on the human and other primate species. Communicating across the subfields, the journal features papers in a wide variety of areas, including social, cultural, and physical anthropology as well as ethnology and ethnohistory, archaeology and prehistory, folklore, and linguistics. Submissions to: Richard G. Fox, Editor, Washington University, Campus Box 1186, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899.
• General Anthropology (semiannual) provides timely and readable information and ideas from the four fields of anthropology and applied anthropology. Submissions to David W. McCurdy, Editor, Department of Anthropology, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105, 612/696-6587, fax 612/696-6324, or Patricia Rice, Editor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, 304/293-5801; fax 304/293-5994.
• Internet Archaeology (ISSN 1363-5387) is the "first fully refereed e-journal for archaeology" and  is  indexed by the British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. Registration required (but free) to read full text of articles. "Papers are chosen for their academic content and for their use of the electronic medium - there are no chronological and geographical restrictions, and papers in languages other than English are very welcome." The Editor is Judith Winters.
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• Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (ISSN 0278-4165; quarterly) publishes articles on the theory and methodology of archaeology as they relate to the understanding and explanation of the organization, operation, and evolution of human societies…contributions from related disciplines such as physical anthropology, ethnology, sociology, ecology, evolutionary biology, etc., often will be germane to the interests served by the journal. Submissions to: John M. O’Shea, Museum of Anthropology, University Museums Bldg., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079.
• Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (ISSN 1072-5369; quarterly) furnishes timely and authoritative "topical syntheses," substantial original articles that critically assess and integrate research on a specific subject in archaeological method or theory. Submissions to: Michael B. Schiffer, Editor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.
• Journal of Archaeological Research (ISSN 1059-0161; quarterly) is intended to improve access to the rapidly growing body of literature in archaeology by serving as an international forum for the publication of peer-reviewed original critical summaries of research covering the previous three to five years in a wide variety of geographic areas and topics. Submissions to Gary M. Feinman and T. Douglas Price, Co-Editors, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Social Science Bldg., 1180 Observatory Dr., Madison, WI 53706.
• Journal of Archaeological Science (biannual) provides an international forum for archaeologists and scientists from widely different scientific backgrounds who share a common interest in using scientific methods to increase the information derived from archaeological research. American and Canadian submissions to Richard G. Klein; Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2160, U.S.A.; all other submissions to John Grattan, Institute of Earth Studies, Llandinam Building, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 3DB, Wales. E-mail: jpg@aber.ac.
• Journal of Human Evolution (ISSN 0047-2484) publishes papers covering all aspects of human evolution. The central focus is aimed jointly at palaeoanthropological work, covering human and primate fossils, and at comparative studies of living species, including both morphological and molecular evidence. These include descriptions of new discoveries, interpretative analyses of new and previously described material, and assessments of the phylogeny and palaeobiology of primate species. Submissions to Dr. Fred Spoor, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, Rockefeller Bldg., University St., London WC1E 6JJ England, or Prof. Terry Harrison, Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003.
• Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford (ISSN UK 0044-8370; 3 times yearly) welcomes contributions on topics in social anthropology from students and scholars in any discipline. Submissions to The Editors, JASO, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE, England; fax: 01865 274630; e-mail: JASO@ermine.ox.ac.uk.
• Journal of World Prehistory is an international forum for the publication of peer-reviewed original articles that synthesize the prehistory of an area or of a time-horizon within a larger region, or describe technical advances of wide and general application. The journal focuses on prehistory, including the beginnings and early development of complex societies, with broad coverage of all fields in space and time. Submissions to Angela E. Close, Editor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
• The Review of Archaeology (semiannual) deals with the unrecorded past, with prehistory. Its primary objective is the evaluation of significant publications in archaeology and related disciplines, but also in other areas of study that may contribute to our understanding of the prehistoric past. Salem, Massachusetts 01970. Editorial correspondence should be addressed to Frederick Hadleigh West, Editor, The Review of Archaeology,10 Liberty Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970.
• Transforming Anthropology is concerned with all subfields of anthropology and contributions of other disciplines as they relate to anthropology. Preference is given to contributions dealing with the formulation of conceptual and methodological frameworks to advance the understanding of all forms of human diversity and commonality; the construction of more adequate theories for explaining the conditions that engender social inequalities based on race, ethnicity, class, gender, and other invidious distinctions; and the development of research that involves both the peoples studied and local scholars in all stages of investigation and the dissemination of findings. All articles are peer-reviewed. Submissions to Irma McClaurin, Editor, Department of Anthropology, 1350 Turlington Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7305, 352/392-4627, fax 352/392-6929.
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• Anthropology and Education Quarterly (quarterly) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarship on schooling in social and cultural context, and on human learning both inside and outside of schools. Articles rely primarily on ethnographic research to address immediate problems of practice as well as broad theoretical questions. AEQ also publishes on the teaching of anthropology. Submissions to Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, Editor, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Dearborn, MI 48128, 313/593-5049.
• Archaeoastronomy (ISSN 0190-9940; annaul) advances research, education, and public awareness of archaeoastronomy, including ethnoastronomy, and promotes archaeology as a discipline within the sciences, the arts, and the humanities. Submissions to John B. Carlson, Editor, P.O. Box X, College Park, MD 2074103922, 301-864-6637, fax 301-699-5337
• Nutritional Anthropology is the peer reviewed, official publication of the Council on Nutritional Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association. For further information, contact the current editor, Gretel Pelto, at gp32@cornell.edu. You may send manuscripts directly to Dr. Pelto at 3M01 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell U, Ithaca, NY 14853.
• Culture and Agriculture (3 times yearly) welcomes position papers, discussions of theoretical developments and methods of inquiry, and results of empirical research from any tradition of scholarship, particularly work exploring the connections between environment, ecology, agriculture and aquacultural practices, fisheries, natural resources, food processing, and nutrition, as they relate to cultural dimensions of gender, class, property relations, and labor processes. C&A welcomes contributions on matters related to sustainability and biodiversity. Submissions to James H. McDonald or Laura J Levi, Division of Behavioral and Cultural Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, 6900 North Loop 1604 West, San Antonio, TX 78249-0652, 210/458-5712, fax 210/548-5728.
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• Current Research in the Pleistocene is currently reviewing manuscripts for publication in the year 2000. Bradley T. Lepper, Editor. Submissions to CRP/Alice Hall, CSFA, 355 Weninger, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-6510.
• Ethnohistory (ISSN 0014-1801; quarterly) is the official journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Style guide: 45(2):399–408. Submissions to Neil Whitehead, Editor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706. E-mail: ethnohis@macc.wisc.edu
• IA (Industrial Archaeology) (biannual) publishes original material concerning industrial heritage. Broadly conceived, the focus extends to the considerations of sites, artifacts, processes, landscapes, and individuals related to the development of industries and industrialized societies. An emphasis on the importance of physical evidence keeps IA in the archeological realm of inquiry and understanding. Submissions to Dr. Patrick E. Martin, Editor, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931-1295 USA, Telephone: 906/487-2070, Fax: 906/487-2468.
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• International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (ISSN 1047-482X) publishes papers dealing with all aspects of the study of human and animal bone from archaeological contexts from any area of the world. Submissions to Dr. A. Stirland, 92 Priory Close, Whitchurch, Tavistock, Devon PL19 9DG England (A.Stirland@binternet.com), or Dr. T. Waldron, Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Sq., London WC1H OPY England (Waldron@binternet.com), or Dr. L. Eisenberg, Burial Site Preservation, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 816 State St., Madison, WI 53706 (leslie.eisenberg@mail.admin.wisc.edu)..
• Journal of Ethnobiology (ISSN 0278-0771; semiannual). English submissions to: Eugene S. Hunn, Editor, Department of Anthropology, Box 353100, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3100; Spanish submissions to: Alejandro de Avila B., Associate Editor, Jardín Etnobotánico, A.P. 367, Oaxaca, Oaxaca C.P. 68000 Mexico.
• Journal of Field Archaeology is published for archaeologists, anthropologists, classicists, historians, scientists, and others concerned with the recovery and interpretation of primary archaeological data. Submissions to Ricardo J. Elia, Editor, Journal of Field Archaeology, Room 345, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215. E-mail: jfa@crsa.bu.edu.
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• Lithic Technology (biannual) publishes on topics of interest to lithic analysts; both descriptive and methodological contributions are welcome. Submission to George Odell, Department of Anthropology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104; phone: 918-631-3082; fax: 918-631-2540; e-mail: george-odell@utulsa.edu.
• Medical Anthropology Quarterly (ISSN 0745-5194; quarterly) publishes research and theory in the field of medical anthropology. This field is broadly taken to include all inquiries into health, disease, illness, and sickness in human individuals and populations that are undertaken from the holistic and cross-cultural perspective distinctive of anthropology as a discipline. Submissions to: Mac Marshall, Editor, Department of Anthropology, 114 Macbride Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1322.
• NASA Bulletin (quarterly) is a publication of the National Association of Student Anthropologists, a Section of the American Anthropological Association that works to establish a greater voice for students within the AAA and promote the interests of all anthropology students. Submissions to Robert J. Stokes, Editor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, 405/325-7200.
• Museum Anthropology (ISSN 0892-8339; 3 times yearly) welcomes contributions of relevance to museum anthropology and the study of material culture broadly conceived. Submissions to: Susan S. Bean, Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970.
• PoLAR (Political and Legal Anthropology Review) (semiannual) welcomes the submission from practitioners and scholars of articles, book reviews, correspondence, bibliographies and syllabi that represent current theories and research in the intersection of law, political science, anthropology and sociology. Submissions to Bill Maurer, Editor, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Department of Anthropology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717.
• Radiocarbon (3 times yearly) publishes research articles and date lists relevant to ¹⁴C and other isotopes and techniques used in archaeological, geophysical, oceanographic, and related dating. (Note: click on the animated electron logo for a treat.)
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• Visual Anthropology Review welcomes submissions relating to visual studies, broadly conceived--projects rethinking the meaning of cultural and theoretical visualization. Visual anthropology includes both the study of visual aspects of human behavior (including the anthropology of art and museology), and the use of visual media in anthropological research, representation, and teaching.Submissions to Nancy Lutkehaus, Editor, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0032, 213/740-1917, fax 213/747-8571, or J. David Sapir, Editor, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, 804/924-6821.
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• Voices (annual) is a yearly review of activities in feminist anthropology. Submissions to Suzanne Baker, Editor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Administration Building, 4th Floor, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178, 402/280-1424.

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Regional Archaeological Journals

• Ancient Mesoamerica (ISSN 0956-5361; semiannual) is an international forum for the method, theory, substance, and interpretation of Mesoamerican archaeology, art history, historical linguistics, and related fields. Submissions to William R. Fowler Jr., Editor, Vanderbilt University, PO Box 6307-B, Nashville, TN 37235.
• Andean Past (biannual) publishes articles on Andean archaeology and ethnohistory; ethnohistorical contributions are limited to those directly concerned with the pre-Columbian peoples of the Andes. Submissions to Daniel E. Sandweiss, Department of Anthropology, S. Stevens Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, or Monica Barnes, 377 Rector Place, Apt. 11-J, New York NY 10280; e-mail: Dan_Sandweiss@umit.maine.edu
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• Archaeology in Oceania (ISSN 0003-8121; quarterly) accepts articles on the archaeology and physical anthropology of the lands of the western Pacific rim and all the islands of the Pacific Ocean including Australia. Submissions to J. Peter White, Editor, 116 Darlington Road--H42, University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia.
• Central Plains Archeology publishes papers on the archeology of the Central Plains area of North America. Submissions to Melissa Conner and William Hunt, Editors, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Federal Bldg., Rm. 474, 100 Centennial Mall, Lincoln, NE 68508-3873.
• Kiva (ISSN 0023-1940; quarterly) welcomes unsolicited, original papers related to the prehistoric and historic archaeology , ethnology, history, and ethnohistory of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Submissions to Acquisitions Editor, Ronald H. Towner, at RHTowner@aol.com.
• Latin American Antiquity: Katharina J. Schreiber, University of California, 507 Mesa Road, Department of Anthropology, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7000; phone: 805-893-4291, fax: 805-893-8707, e-mail: schreibk@sscf.ucsb.edu.
• Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology (ISSN 0146-1109; semiannual) publishes original papers on the archaeology of the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Great Plains, from the Boreal Forests to the Gulf of Mexico, and on closely related subjects. Submissions to: William Green, Editor, Office of the State Archaeologist, 700 Clinton St. Bldg., University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1030.
• Near Eastern Archaeology (formerly Biblical Archaeologist; ISSN 0006-0895; quarterly) publishes on life in the ancient world from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean. Submissions to Brian Hesse and Paula Wapnish, Department of Anthropology, 338 Ulman, University of Alabama–Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294; phone: 205-934-3508; e-mail: pbhesse@uab.campus.mci.net.
• North American Archaeologist (ISSN 0197; quarterly) is concerned with all aspects of American Archaeology, covering the continent north of the region of high cultures in Mesoamerica. Submissions to Roger W. Moeller, Editor, Archaeological Services, 68 Sunny Ridge Road, Box 386, Bethlehem, CT 07651.
• Plains Anthropologist (ISSN 0032-0447; quarterly) publishes original papers on the anthropology of the Plains and adjacent areas of North America. Manuscripts of a more general nature, or those concerned with other areas, will be considered if they are of theoretical importance or if they bear upon problems of humans in Plains environments. Submissions to: Dr. Linea Sundstrom, Department of Anthropology, PO Box 413, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201.
• Southeastern Archaeology (ISSN 0734-587X; semiannual) publishes papers on the prehistoric and historic archaeology of the southeastern United States and neighboring regions. Submissions to: Robert C. Mainfort Jr., Editor, Arkansas Archaeological Survey, PO Box 1249, Fayetteville, AR 72702-1249.

State Archaeological Journals

• Illinois Archaeology (ISSN 1050-8244; semiannual) publishes original articles relating to the archaeology of Illinois and surrounding regions. Submissions to Thomas E. Emerson, Editor, Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois, 103 Horticultural Field Lab. MC-001, 1707 South Orchard Street, Urbana, IL 61801.
• Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society (ISSN 0535-5279; annual). Submissions to Joe B. Thompson and Colleen Vaugh, Editors, Bear Creek Archaeology, Inc., PO Box 347, Cresco, IA 52136.
• Michigan Archaeologist (ISSN OS43-9728; quarterly) reviews and accepts manuscripts of interest to the amateur and professional archaeologists in Michigan and surrounding states and provinces. Submissions to Janet G. Brashler, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Grand Valley State University, 256 Au Sable Hall, Allendale, MI 49401.
• The Midden (quarterly) contains information germane to the archaeology of British Columbia.
• Mississippi Archaeology (ISSN 0738-775X; semiannual)
• South Dakota Archaeology (Journal of the South Dakota Archaeological Society; ISSN 0276-5543; annual) contains articles of enduring scientific interest to South Dakota and Midwestern archaeology. Submissions to: L. Adrien Hannus, Editor, Archaeology Laboratory, Augustana College, 2032 South Grange Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57105.
• Wisconsin Archeologist (ISSN 0043-6364; quarterly) publishes original articles dealing with the anthropology (ethnology, physical anthropology, archaeology) of the state of Wisconsin and adjoining regions of the United States and Canada. Articles of general topical and/or theoretical interest will be considered also. Submissions to PO Box 1292, Milwaukee WI 53201.

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