Submissions

Research Articles

Research articles should present original research on completed projects or significant discoveries and must present clear conclusions. Research articles must contain the raw data either within the articles or as an attached supplementary file (referenced in the article). 
Word limit: 6000 words
Download the instructions for authors.

Reports

Reports should present project descriptions. They may be either general reports on completed projects, significant updates for on-going projects, or additional results from previously reported projects. They do not necessarily need to present conclusions or conclusions could be preliminary.

Word limit: variable depending on the content

Summary, synthesis, and annotated bibliography articles

These articles present an overview of a particular topic or sub-field with a connection to archaeology or prehistory. This may be research in a particular country or region. It may also be a historical overview of a topic (e.g., historical perspective of a prehistoric technology, or historical overview of a particular theory), or it may be a summary of knowledge about a material itself or a scientific method. In general, these articles should include an overview of the history of the topic (e.g., history of archaeologiucal research in the region) as well as an overview of the current research being done on the topic. They should contain a large bibliography so that readers can use the articles as a starting point for finding references. The author should indicate recommended references. New data is not necessary for these articles.
Recommended word limit: 4000 words.
See the descriptions of different types of summary articles on the instructions page. 

Biographies

Short biographies of people involved in archaeology or prehistoric studies.

Book reviews

Book reviews should include an overall summary of the book as well as chapter summaries. The author should note the highlights or special aspects of this book. We particularly encourage reviews of books that are not in English as this helps disseminate information that readers in other countries may not otherwise know about.

Authors must declare whether they have reviewed the same book for another journal, and if so they should send us a copy of the other review. This declaration should be made before requesting to be assigned a book review. The journal Arqueologia might publish a book review which the reviewer has already reviewed for another journal if the new review is significantly different from the previous one and either it is a general book of importance to researchers in the Americas as a whole or the original review was published in a way which limits its dissemination (grey literature, small or regional publication, print only publication, in another language, self-published). The editors of the journal will decide on a case-by-case basis. If someone intends to review a book for us which they have already reviewed, they are advised to let us know about the situation before writing the review.
Length: maximum two pages (including the title, cover image, and first page footer). Reviews of editted volumes written by individual authors, may be up to four pages in total. 
Download the book review template from the instructions page.

Event reviews

These articles give a summary of an event (e.g., a conference, workshop, lecture series, etc.). They should include opinions and may include a few images.
Word limit: 500 words
Download the event review template from the instructions page. 

Interviews

Interviews may be conducted with well-known or otherwise important people in their field of studies. This category of article is presented mainly in the form of an audio file accompanied by an abstract, a transcript of the audio file and short commentary (up to 300 words) which is not part of the audio transcript. In addition to contacting the editorial board for approval to submit an interview, interview questions and discussion points must also be presented to the editors for review prior to conducting the actual interview.

Time limit: flexible but 10 minutes is ideal

Letters to the editor

These are short replies or comments by readers relating to an article in Arqueologia, particularly important additions to the topic of the article. Authors should clearly state which article they are commenting on, and if applicable they should cite the passage in which they are specifically interested. Letters should be concise and objective.

Monographs

These are large publications which will comprise an entire issue. They may be separated into chapters or other relevant sections.

Instructional Manuals

These are long publications which detail methodology which is or may be used when researching a specific topic or conducting a specific type of reserach. They are intended to be instructional, particularly to new researchers (for example, students). These publications will comprise an entire issue and may be separated into chapters or other relevant sections.

Articles

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