Author Guide

Submissions

In most cases, the time from submission to decision for articles submitted to the American Journal of Archaeology is from four to six months.

Submissions should not exceed 20,000 words, including abstract, article body, works cited, notes, and figure captions.

All submissions should follow the AJA Policy on the Publication and Citation of Unprovenanced Antiquities.

Author warranties, a permissions form template, checklists, and figure preparation guidelines are available in Supporting Material.

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SpencerPope

Spencer Pope

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Spencer Pope is an assistant professor in the Department of Classics at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) and received a Ph.D. in classical archaeology from Brown University in 2006. His research focuses on Greek architecture, urbanization, and the development of the built environment with special interest in the expansion of the Greek world and the establishment of overseas settlements in Sicily and South Italy. He has excavated extensively in Italy and is currently completing a monograph on the frontiers of the Greek cities of Sicily in the Archaic and Classical periods.

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