期刊名称：ARCHAEOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
 Our award-winning popular magazine enters its 60th year of publication committed to bringing the excitement of archaeological discovery to a popular audience. Filled with incisive articles, colorful graphics, and stunning photos, each of Archaeology's bi-monthly issues is enjoyed by more than 730,000 readers worldwide. Available through membership in the AIA, at the newsstand, or by subscription. You may subscribe now or call (877) 275-9782, U.S. only or (815) 734-4151, outside the U.S. For more information visit www.archaeology.org.
Instructions to Authors
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine is one of two publications of the Archaeological Institute of America, a 125-year-old nonprofit organization. The magazine has been published continuously for more than 50 years. We have a total audience of nearly 700,000, mostly in the United States and Canada. Our readership is a combination of the general public, enthusiastic amateurs, and scholars in the field. Publishing bimonthly, we try to bring our readers all of the exciting aspects of archaeology: adventure, discovery, culture, history, and travel. Authors include not only professional journalists but professional archaeologists as well. If you are a scientist interested in writing about your research for ARCHAEOLOGY, see below for tips and suggestions on writing for a general audience.
What we publish:
Our feature-length articles cover all corners of the globe, from frozen settlements in Alaska to ancient temples on South Asian islands. Archaeology isn't just about digging, and we're always looking for a new angle on a subject. Articles (which generally range from 1,000 to 3,500 words) have covered such diverse topics as royal animal mummies, the discovery of an ancient Greek city swallowed by the sea, cultural heritage in Afghanistan under the Taliban, how Native Americans in the Southwest profited from an eleventh-century volcanic eruption, objects featured in the odd paintings of Hieronymous Bosch that have been found in excavations of his hometown, and the battle over WWI artifacts; as well as photo essays on Etruscan tombs and the terra-cotta solders of China; and profiles of people who have made great contributions to archaeology, from volcanologists to tree-ring specialists to Mayanists to novelists.
Our reviews department looks for short (250 to 500 word) articles on museums, books, television shows, movies, and websites of interest to our readers. While the material reviewed may not be purely archaeological in nature, it should have a strong archaeological element to it. Reviews should not simply summarize the material, but provide a critical evaluation.
Letter From... is often a personal rumination on a particular topic or site. "Letters" have included a visit to an alien-archaeology theme park, the account of an archaeologist caught in a civil war, an an overnight stay with the guards at Angkor Wat. "Letters" are usually about 2,500-3,000 words in length.
Conversations is a one-page interview in Q&A format with someone who has made a considerable impact on the field of archaeology. The interview may explain the researcher's general approach to his or her subject, or concentrate on a specific, and often controversial, discovery or theory.
Field Note features a compelling and intriguing photograph of someone (layperson or professional) involved in an archaeological activity, together with a 300-word first-person narrative of what the subject in the photograph is doing and thinking.
We do not accept fiction, poetry, or previously published articles.
Queries. Preliminary queries should be no more than one or two pages (500 words max.) in length and may be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, ARCHAEOLOGY, 36-36 33rd Street, Long Island City, NY 11106 or via email to editorial@archaeology.org. If you would like a reply to your query mailed to you, please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope. We do not accept telephone queries. Check our online index to make sure that we have not already published a similar article.
Your query should tell us the following: who you are, why you are qualified to cover the subject, how you will cover the subject, and why our readers would be interested in the subject. Clips and credentials are helpful.
While illustrations are not the responsibility of the author, it helps to give us a sense of how the article could be illustrated; if possible, email an example of 2 or 3 images that might accompany the article. Please do not email unusually large images or too many images at a time; we will request additional images if needed. Please do not mail us unsolicited diskettes, photographs, or transparencies as they will not be returned. If you do not have access to images, referrals to professional photographers with relevant material are appreciated.
Unsolicited queries should receive a reply within six to eight weeks. Commissioned articles found unsuitable for publication will receive a kill fee of one-quarter of the agreed payment price.
Please be familiar with our magazine and what we publish before you write up a query. For a sample copy of ARCHAEOLOGY, send a self-addressed stamped 9"x12" envelope to Guidelines, ARCHAEOLOGY, 36-36 33rd Street, Long Island City, NY 11106. Back issues can be ordered on our website.
Manuscripts. Accepted manuscripts should be sent electronically in a universal format, with no embedded images. The author's name and contact information must be included. Authors should be prepared to provide a list of publications and people consulted, along with contact information for each source. In addition, we request a list of five to seven general-interest books and/or websites, with a brief description of each, that may be of interest to readers who would like to learn more about the subject you've written about.
Style. Dates use A.D. and B.C., measures must be in miles and feet. When in doubt, refer to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.
Rights and payment. We purchase non-exclusive worldwide publication rights for texts and photographs. News and review articles are included in full on the magazine's website; feature articles are abstracted. Material published in ARCHAEOLOGY may be reproduced on our web site as purchasable html or pdf format files, and via third-party data bases such as EBSCO, in books of collected articles from ARCHAEOLOGY, and in translated form.
Tips for academic writers:
This is not an academic publication. It's critically important to remember that less than one-half of one percent of our readers are professional archaeologists. Your proposed article must clearly spell out why the other 99.5% of our readers--bank tellers, doctors, librarians, corporate raiders--would be interested in your story. Some research--say, the variance in arsenic levels of metal objects produced in the Near East from the beginning to end of the Assyrian period--is a hard sell for a popular publication. On the other hand, such unlikely topics as Sumerian beer and a fish bone conference have made for entertaining and accessible articles that give our readers what they're looking for--a fresh and interesting perspective on human history.
Put yourself in the piece. Many scientists are consistently surprised by the fact that the general public is not just interested in what they do, but who they are. This is especially true for archaeologists: chances are you've traveled to a lot more interesting places, met a lot more interesting people, and had many more interesting adventures than most people. Nobody becomes an archaeologist to get rich, they do it for the experience; let the guy who grew up wanting to be an archaeologist but ended up a lawyer live vicariously through you!
Enable your readers to see through your eyes, but don't lose them in technical details. If you're writing about a fabulous discovery you made in the depths of the rain forest, bring the complete experience to your readers: what does the jungle look like, smell like? What sort of animals are about? What's camp like? If you only have a limited number of sentences to evoke a site for a lay reader, you're better off describing the looming mountains or sun-baked bricks rather than the fact that the 4.5x10-foot structure is 3.3 feet south of the 15-foot-square platform, which is 10 feet from the two cooking pits, each averaging 24 inches in diameter. Explain or avoid technical or local terms.
Engage the locals. If you're ready to tell us about the remarkable discoveries you've made in your ten years of work at site X, solicit thoughts and opinions from the people who live around site X. Does it give them a new perspective on where they live? Has it taught them something about themselves? How has having an archaeological expedition around for a decade affected their lives? What role will they have in managing the site you've excavated? Are they glad to see your noisy Land Rovers go?
Talk to us. ARCHAEOLOGY understands the importance of sharing your research with the public, and we've been helping archaeologists do just that for over fifty years. If you'd like to explore the possibility of publishing your work in the world's largest-circulation archaeology magazine, please contact us at editorial@archaeology.org and we'll put you in touch with the editor who can best assist you.
Editorial Board
| Editor-in-Chief |
Peter A. Young |
| AIA Online Editorial Director |
Mark Rose |
| Senior Editors |
Eric A. Powell, Jarrett A. Lobell |
| Design Director |
Ken Feisel |
| Associate Editors |
Samir S. Patel, Zach Zorich |
| Copy Chief |
Eti Bonn-Muller |
| Contributing Editors |
Roger Atwood, Paul Bahn, Bob Brier, Blake Edgar, Brian Fagan, David Friedel, Tom Gidwitz, Stephen H. Lekson, Jerald T. Milanich, Kristin M. Romey, Angela M.H. Schuster, Neil Asher Silberman |
| Correspondents |
Athens: Yannis N. Stavrakakis
Islamabad: Massoud Ansari
Naples: Marco Merola
Paris: Bernadette Arnaud
Rome: Roberto Bartoloni, Giovanni Lattanzi
Washington, D.C.: Sandra Scham |
| Executive Publisher |
Bonnie R. Clendenning |
| Circulation Director/CFO |
Teresa M. Keller |
| Circulation Consultant |
Susan Sidler |
| Advertising Director |
Meegan Daly |
| Marketing Manager/Production Coordinator |
Stephen J. del Puerto |
| Advertising Representative (Latin America) |
Adelina Carpenter |
| Classified Sales Manager |
Karina Casines |
| Office Manager |
Malin Banyasz |
| Editorial Advisory Board |
George F. Bass, Lionel Casson, Ellen Herscher, Ronald Hicks, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Mark Lehner, Roderick J. McIntosh, Oscar White Muscarella, James Russell, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Kenneth B. Tankersley |
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