The Journal of Anthropological Archaeology is
devoted to the development of theory and, in a broad sense, methodology for the
systematic and rigorous understanding of the organization, operation, and
evolution of human societies.
The discipline served by the journal is
characterized by its goals and approach, not by geographical or temporal
bounds. The data utilized or treated range from the earliest archaeological
evidence for the emergence of human culture to historically documented
societies and the contemporary observations of the ethnographer,
ethnoarchaeologist, sociologist, or geographer. These subjects appear in the
journal as examples of cultural organization, operation, and evolution, not as
specific historical phenomena. The concomitant range of socioeconomic
complexity encompasses the simplest human culture, or
"proto-culture," as well as the most complex states or empires. ISSN 1090-2686
1982-