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The Journal of Social Archaeology (JSA) is a fully peer-reviewed international journal covered in the ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index. The journal promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, and cognitive studies. JSA is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.
The idea of journal devoted to social approaches in archaeology developed in 1998, and the first issue was published in 2001. The editorial panel includes high-profile archaeologists, as does the larger advisory board which also...
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Meskell, L. (2014). Journal of Social Archaeology. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1284
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