Journal of African Archaeology

The Journal of African Archaeology is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering archaeological studies on Africa. It was established by Sonja Magnavita in 2003. From 2003 to 2016, the Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies and the Department of African Archaeology and Archaeobotany of Goethe University Frankfurt published it in association with Africa Magna Verlag. Since 2017, the departments publish it in association with Brill Publishers.^[1][2]

Journal of African Archaeology

Discipline	Archaeology
Language	English
Edited by	Katherine Grillo
Publication details
History	2003–present
Publisher	Brill Publishers on behalf of the Goethe University Frankfurt
Frequency	Biannually
Open access	Delayed, after 3 years
Impact factor	1.4 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Afr. Archaeol.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1612-1651 (print) 2191-5784 (web)
LCCN	2019263235
JSTOR	16121651
OCLC no.	54060298
Links
Journal homepage

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Anthropological Literature^[3]
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index^[4]
• Current Contents/Arts & Humanities^[4]
• EBSCO databases^[3]
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature^[3]
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences^[3]
• Scopus^[5]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 1.4.^[6]

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief:

• Katherine Grillo (2018–present)
• Peter Breunig [de]^[7]
• Sonja Magnavita^[1]