Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Last updated ISSN 1072-5369
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory is published by Springer Science+Business Media in earth and planetary sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,190.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Language and cultural evolution
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1072-5369, 1573-7764 |
| Subject area | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,190 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Arts & Humanities Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 935 |
| Publishing since | 1994 |
| Journal website | link.springer.com/journal/10816 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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