Publishing Archaeology

The Society for American Archaeology has an election right now on whether or not to add a ninth principle to the society's list of princ...

The annual meeting of the SAA (Society for American Archaeology) just concluded in Austin, Tx. It was a fun and exhausting meeting. I was ab...

Suppose you take a photo of your excavation, which happens to be within a modern town, and some bystanders end up in the photo. Later you wa...

The new issue of Latin American Antiquity (vol 21, no. 1, March 2010) just arrived, and it continues the pattern that ended 2009 (vol. 20, ...

I just got a ballot from the SAA (Society for American Archaeology) with the regular voting on committees and positions. The ballot also inc...

What would be the positive and negative impacts if the SAA were to transform its scholarly journals (American Antiquity, “AA;” and Latin Ame...

Greetings from lovely Hermosillo, Sonora. One of my students just brought the latest issue of Latin American Antiquity (LAA) down to Mexic...

I was thinking about this issue while driving through the Sonoran desert today, and I can't resist the opportunity to post from Navojoa,...

There has long been uncertainty and unease about the relationship between the two scholarly journals published by the Society for American A...

There are a few OA (Open Access) journals in archaeology, and these are listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals: http:...