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Launched in January 2001, The SAA Archaeological Record is issued five times a year. It is a four-color magazine encompassing SAA business, commentary, news, regular columns, opinions, and articles.

To view or download an up-to-date spreadsheet containing title, author, and publication information for all SAA Archaeological Record content from 2001 to the present, click here.

Launched in January 2001, the SAA Archaeological Record is issued five times a year, and is now available in "dynamic edition" format on the SAA website. It is a four-color magazine encompassing SAA business, commentary, news, regular columns, job listings, opinions, forums, and articles. The magazine is not a peer-reviewed publication and does not currently have an editorial board. Each Editor volunteers to serve a three-year term and is selected by the Board from among the SAA membership. The Managing Editor is a member of the SAA staff. The SAA Archaeological Record replaced the SAA Bulletin, which was published from 1993 to 2000. The SAA Publications Committee approved these guidelines in April 2012 at the Annual Meeting in Memphis, TN.

Submissions may be sent to the Editor:

Christopher B. Rodning
Tulane University
Deptartment of Anthropology
101 Dinwiddie Hall
6823 Saint Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
crodning@tulane.edu

Submission Deadlines and Details
The SAA Archaeological Record publishes articles and forums of interest to the organization’s diverse membership and is the SAA’s primary way of proactively reaching all of its members with organizational news and business. Authors wishing to publish in the SAA Archaeological Record should consider the appeal of their topic to the SAA’s professional, avocational, and student membership, and are encouraged to contact the Editor regarding potential articles, forums, and ideas for publication. Submissions and inquiries should be sent to the current Editor. Contact information for the current Editor may be found inside the front page of each issue of the magazine and on the SAA website. Electronic copies of manuscripts are preferred. Manuscripts should be sent as Microsoft Word documents.

Deadlines for time-sensitive materials including Letters to the Editor, Obituaries, and pieces for “News and Notes” and the Calendar are as follows: November 1 (January), January 1 (March), March 1 (May), July 1 (September), and September 1 (November).

News and Notes and Calendar items are published on a space-available basis.

The Editor does not solicit obituaries for publication, but memorials of colleagues are welcomed as submissions to the magazine. Individuals wishing to write a memorial piece should contact the Editor as soon as they are able.

Book reviews are published in SAA journals and are not a feature of the SAA Archaeological Record.

The above deadlines do not apply to authors wishing to publish an article in or organize a forum for the magazine. Generally, articles are published in the order the Editor accepts them; however, the Editor reserves the right to publish accepted materials in a manner that enhances content and accommodates time-sensitive material from the SAA and its members. Most articles are published within a year of their acceptance.

Forums may be proposed at any time and should include an abstract as well as a list of potential contributors. The Editor will evaluate the proposal, and if accepted the forum will be scheduled for publication in a specific issue of the magazine. The Editor will issue a deadline for forum participants. Most forums are published within a year of their acceptance. It is the responsibility of the forum organizer/guest editor to communicate relevant policies and procedures to contributors, to collect the manuscripts from contributors and provide them to the Editor, and to review the manuscripts to be sure authors have followed the guidelines and style guide for the magazine prior to submitting them to the Editor.

Advertising and placement ads should be sent to the manager, Membership and Marketing (advertising@saa.org).

Submission Lengths and Style Guide
Items for News and Notes and the Calendar should be between 50 and 150 words. Longer pieces and pieces with artwork cannot be accepted.

Obituaries should be kept to 650 words including selected bibliographies. Bibliographies will generally be published online only. A single photograph may accompany memorial pieces.

Article lengths vary, and authors are encouraged to contact the editor to negotiate an appropriate word count for their articles. Most articles are kept to fewer than 2,500 words, although occasionally items up to 4,500 words are accepted for publication. Longer articles generally are subjected to longer wait times for publication.

Because the SAA Archaeological Record is a magazine and not a peer-reviewed journal, authors are strongly encouraged to keep bibliographic citations to a minimum and to focus their content accordingly. If an extended bibliography is required, a selected bibliography may be published in the magazine and an author’s contact information furnished for those wishing to acquire a full list of citations.

The magazine does not publish abstracts, keywords, or summaries with articles, and these items do not need to be submitted.

Photographs and Images
High-quality color images are encouraged with each submission to the SAA Archaeological Record. The number of images is subject to approval by the Editor, but as a general rule between 3 and 5 images is considered ideal for the magazine format.

All photographs, images, and other figures submitted must be at least 300 dpi in resolution at 7 inches wide (4 megapixels). Written permission must be obtained from the copyright holder (usually the photographer), and also from each individual depicted in a recognizable fashion in the image. For further questions about copyright permissions, please contact the Managing Editor at publications@saa.org

Single images for the cover are welcome from all SAA members, whether or not they are authors in the magazine. Magazine images must also have at least a 300 dpi resolution when the image is expanded to a 9” × 12” size (2700 × 3600 pixels, or 9 megapixels).

Please contact the Manager, Publications at publications@saa.org. You will need to provide the volume/issue number of the magazine, the page number(s) of the material, and a brief description. Note that in most cases, the permission of the original author will also need to be solicited (to be included on the permission request form that will be provided by the SAA), and there will be a fee of $15.00 for the first page or significant part thereof, and $10.00 for each additional page or significant part thereof, to offset the costs that the SAA spent on copyediting the magazine.

New in June 2017 and updated in December 2023, the Society for American Archaeology has released a fully revised and updated publication policy and style guide in English and Spanish. The new guide provides updated submission requirements and policies, as well as procedures as they relate to our publishing partner, Cambridge University Press. In the updated guide you will find more robust guidance regarding diversity and inclusivity in language and for citing Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and various electronic sources (websites, blogs, etc.), updated protocols for certain formatting issues (e.g., references cited styling and including issue numbers for all periodicals), information regarding the requirement to document funding, data availability, and competing interests, and more. The submission and style requirements are effective immediately, so please be sure to carefully review the new guide before you submit a manuscript.

Download the PDFs here:

Editorial Policy, Information for Authors, and Style Guide for American Antiquity, Latin American Antiquity, and Advances in Archaeological Practice

or

Normas Editoriales, Información para los Autores y Guía Estilística para American Antiquity, Latin American Antiquity y Advances in Archaeological Practice

(If you do not have Acrobat, you can download it for free from the Adobe site.)

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As of January 2025, institutional subscriptions to the SAA Archaeological Record will no longer be available. Print subscriptions to the magazine will remain an SAA member benefit. Join today!

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