Collections and calls for papers

Archaeological Science Approaches to Pyroarchaeology

This topical collection comprises papers presenting multiproxy data on different aspects of pyrotechnology such as combustion processes and residues, and their signature in the archaeological record. The dat...

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Open

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Ongoing

Characterizing technology, subsistence and settlement dynamics of the Middle Stone Age and Middle Paleolithic

The Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Middle Paleolithic correspond to the time in which modern humans evolved in Africa and began to disperse across Eurasia. While some researchers highlight the differences betwee...

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Open

Submission deadline

08 February 2025

Faraoskop Research Project

Faraoskop is a case study that speaks to the broader question – of general anthropological interest and importance – of interpersonal violence in small-scale societies. The papers in this Special Issue showc...

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Open

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Ongoing

Lessons from the Past: Archaeology and Sustainability (invitation only)

Archaeological research is increasingly attuned to the needs of our contemporary society. Our collective interest in the past is shedding important light on the daily and long-term strategies that allowed fo...

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Open

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Ongoing

Microvertebrate Studies in Archaeological Contexts: Middle Paleolithic to early Holocene past environments

This collection focuses on new insights and reconstructions of past environments from the Middle Paleolithic to the early Holocene of Europe, Asia and South America derived from microvertebrate studies. In g...

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Open

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Ongoing

New methods and approaches to spatial and taphonomic analyses on Lower and Middle Pleistocene sites across Africa and Eurasia

This special issue focuses on robust geostatistical and taphonomic approaches to important archaeological sites with significant records to the understanding of hominin behaviour during the Lower and Middle ...

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Open

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Ongoing

Palettes of the Past: Archaeology of the extraction, production, exchange, and use of pigments (Invitation only)

Pigments form an integral part of the archaeological record due to the large quantity, variety and ubiquity of objects and contexts that evidence their use. Material evidence from various regions of the worl...

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Open

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Ongoing

The Origin of Music and its Links to Evolution (invitation only)

The collection we propose covers an exciting novel topic discussed by the talks presented at a recent (November 2023) Symposium held in Venice (Italy). Based on the fundamental discovery in excavations in So...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 September 2024

Towards the sea: human ecology, subsistence and adaptations along the European coasts from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Neolithic (invitation only)

This special issue aims to increase the knowledge on the role of coastal environments for hominids throughout the Prehistory, which is crucial for the understanding of human-environment interactions over tim...

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Open

Submission deadline

15 May 2024