Open Archaeology

MANUSCRIPTS

Open Archaeology encourages the submission of substantial full-length bodies of work. There are no specific length restrictions for the overall manuscript or individual sections; however, we urge the authors to present and discuss their findings in a concise and accessible manner.

Manuscripts must be submitted to the journal via online submission system Editorial Manager available at http://www.editorialmanager.com/opar/Default.aspx. In case of problems, please contact Editorial Office of the journal at AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com.

Submission of Manuscripts

Our contributors are asked to make sure their submissions comply with rules governing the formatting. For your initial submission, we recommend you upload your entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file. If you are invited to submit a revised manuscript, please provide us with individual files: an editable text and publication-quality figures.

For further instructions, please carefully follow the guidelines described in Instructions for Authors.

Publication Fees
Article accepted for publication in Open Archaeology is subject to an Article Processing Charge (APC).

EDITORIAL POLICY
Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.

Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.

Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. See Editorial Policy for details.

Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. The corresponding author grants the journal the license to use of the article, by signing the Open Access License that is available on the webpage. Scanned copy of license should be sent to the journal, as soon as possible.

Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.　For more details the role of authors please see: https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/for-authors/for-journal-authors/role-of-authors

Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research, together with relevant supplementary materials if requested by Referees, to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.

Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.

Editor-in-Chief
Joakim Goldhahn, The University of Adelaide, Australia

Managing Editor
Katarzyna Inga Michalak
katarzyna-inga.michalak@degruyterbrill.com

Editorial Contact
Assistant Managing Editor
Kumaran Rengaswamy
AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com

Editors:

Archaeological science:
Michele Abballe, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Marian Berihuete, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Rebecca Crozier, University of Aberdeen, UK
Richard Madgwick, Cardiff University, UK
José Ramón Rabuñal,  University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida, USA 

Theory and interpretation in archaeology:
Nelson J. Almeida, University of Évora & Centre for Archaeology, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Uroš Matić, University of Graz, Austria
Marta Díaz-Guardamino Uribe, Durham University, UK
Ana Paula Motta, Kiel University, Germany
Ulla Maarit Rajala, Stockholm University, Sweden
Katarzyna Ślusarska, University of Szczecin, Poland
Bruno Vindrola-Padrós, Kiel University, Germany 

World archaeology:
Manuel Fernández-Götz, University of Edinburgh, UK
Marianne Hem Eriksen, University of Oslo, Norway
Bisserka Gaydarska, University of Durham, UK
Tobias Richter, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Rada Varga, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania

Editorial Advisory Board:
Peter Akkermans, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Susan Alcock, Brown University, USA
Gilda Bartoloni, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
László Bartosiewicz, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Knut A. Bergsvik, University of Bergen, Norway
Wojciech Blajer, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Andrzej Buko, Institute of Ar chaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Alberto Cazzella, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Eric H. Cline, The George Washington University, USA
Israel Finkelstein, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Michael Galaty, Mississippi State University, USA
Cornelius Holtorf, Linnaeus University, Sweden
An Jiayao, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Peter Jordan, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Donna Kurtz, University of Oxford, UK
Maria Lityńska-Zając, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Li Liu, Stanford University, USA
Daniel Makowiecki, The Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Krzysztof Makowski, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Lima, Peru
Lynn Meskell, Stanford University, USA
Vito Messina, Università di Torino, Italy
Sarunas Milisauskas, State University of New York, University at Buffalo, USA
Peter Mitchell, University of Oxford, UK
Bjø rnar J. Olsen, University of Tromsø, Norway
Marcel Otte, Universite de Liege, Belgium
Eric Poehler, University of Massachussets, USA
Miriam Stark, University of Hawaii, USA
Lucijana Šešelj, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Robert H. Tykot, University of South Florida, USA
Peter S. Wells, University of Minnesota, USA

Editorial Assistants
Michał Kowalczyk, De Gruyter Brill Sp. z o.o.
Magdalena Skoneczna, De Gruyter Poland

Publisher
De Gruyter Brill Sp. z o.o.
ul. Nowogrodzka 4 m. 3
00-513 Warsaw, Poland
T: +48 22 701 50 15

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