The abstract deadline for this call has been extended to 19 December 2022
JCAA is inviting proposals for a special issue to mark the 50th anniversary of the CAA. The issue will be structured around two collections of papers:
Please, send us a prospective title and a tentative abstract (around 500 words) for your contribution before 19th December 2022. Accepted proposals will be negotiated with editors to give coherence to the final volumes.
For more information read the full call.
Posted on 03 Nov 2022
Posted on 02 Feb 2022
We invite papers for a special issue on Computer applications and quantitative methods in Australasian archaeology, edited by Joshua Emmitt and Matthew Meredith-Williams.
Contributions are encouraged from people who have presented at the 2020 or 2021 CAA Australasia conferences, but are open to any Australasian based researchers or research based in Australasia and adjacent regions. Submissions are encouraged but not limited to; Indigenous engagement, artefact analysis, photogrammetry, machine learning, remote sensing, FAIR and CARE principals, landscape analysis, and data presentation.
Submissions are open until 1 May 2022
Read the full call and details on how to submit
Posted on 04 Nov 2021
We welcome abstracts of 500 words for a special issue on Spatial Computation in Archaeology and History, edited by Maria Elena Castiello, Damase Mouralis, Julie Gravier, and Lucie Nahassia.
Abstract submissions are open until 31 December 2021.
For further information, and to submit, please read the full call here.
Posted on 08 Dec 2020
We are currently looking for new members of our Editorial Board, who are motivated to help increase the journal’s reach and impact, for a term of 3 years.
Responsibilities:
Requirements:
If you are interested in helping to make our journal grow, diversify and increase its impact, you are encouraged to apply here. We aim to have maximum diversity in disciplinary subfields, geographical spread, seniority and gender. We are therefore especially encouraging applications from candidates from outside W Europe / N America, and from early career researchers.
Posted on 26 Jun 2020
Posted on 23 Mar 2020
We welcome abstracts of 500 words for a special issue on Fighting illicit trade in antiquities with digital technology, edited by Arianna Traviglia and Riccardo Giovanelli. The aim of this JCAA special issue is to bring together ongoing digital practices attempting to understand and fight the phenomena of pillage and illicit trade of archaeological objects, in order to boost the discussion and define a set of good practices.
Abstract submissions are open from 15th September to 15th November 2019. If accepted, you will be asked to submit a full manuscript by 30th April 2020.
For further information, and to submit, please read the full call here.
Posted on 13 Sep 2019
The call for contributions to a special JCAA issue on Digital Scholarship in archaeology is now open!
This prospective JCAA special issue aims to facilitate discussion on the theoretical and philosophical aspects of digital scholarship in archaeology as well as the implications of the use of digital technologies and computational methods across the extent of the archaeological knowledge chain: from discovery, through observation, explanation, and dissemination. How are research, synthesis, practice, and teaching within archaeology mediated and transformed by digital approaches?
Deadlines: June 15th (abstracts), December 31st (full papers)
More info here.
Posted on 18 Apr 2018
Rebecca Cannell is the author of the first article published in JCAA - Delineating an Unmarked Graveyard by High-Resolution GPR and pXRF Prospection: The Medieval Church Site of Furulund in Norway
She spoke to the editors about her research, digital archaeology, and the experience of publishing open access with JCAA.
Myself, I am a Post-doc at the University of Oslo, in the department of Archaeology, Conservation and History. My co-authors, Lars Gustavsen, Monica Kristiansen and Erich Nau, are at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), and form part of a specialised team using GPR in research and commercial archaeology. Between them they have greatly expanded the acceptance and potential of using geophysics in Norway, and it was NIKU that instigated the project described in the paper.
My current research concerns burial mound construction in the Viking Age from a geoarchaeological and theoretical perspective, and it is part of a larger research project, the Past in the Past at the department. I am unabashed in saying I am fascinated by the potential of studying soils in archaeology as an archive for past human activity on every scale. It is the medium of most archaeology, and there is huge potential to be unlocked.
Am I a digital archaeologist? I hope all of us are to one degree or another. Technology is radically changing archaeology, from the excavation to the museum, and from the laboratory to the classroom. It is such an exciting and challenging time, with the scales we can feasibly work on ever-growing. Handling the large datasets I need would be impossible without geospatial statistics, and working with cores requires working in 3 dimensions; near impossible without digital technology. I and my co-authors have attended CAA conferences in one guise or another for years, and I recently became a part of the CAA Norway steering group.
It is a case study of a poor, rural medieval church site in Norway, which needed locating and recording by non-intrusive methods. The paper combines GPR and geochemical data to record the spatial use of the site and its current state of preservation in order to provide essential data for mitigation strategies.
The site is what you may call an everyday reality. It is commonplace occurrence in archaeology in that there are many sites here in Norway and further afield that are poorly documented and at risk, where efficient, non-intrusively strategies are needed to understand how the site was used in the past. It is also evidencing a part of the past population that is often side-lined or difficult to trace; the everyday rural poor, who as a group of people probably outnumbered any other demographic. In collaboration, we used the skills, technology, and experience we had at hand and applied it to this site. It is essential that the methods we develop are realistic and functional, and we hope that this has shown that combining non-intrusive methods can be effective in the commercial and research arenas.
There were two reasons for choosing the JCAA. Firstly, we have full confidence in the editorial team’s ability to sculpt a far-reaching but relevant journal in the field of digital archaeology; a journal that unifies many sub-disciplines in archaeology. Secondly, there are few journals where archaeological prospection has a natural home, and therefore we wanted to support this new journal in its creation of a new, quality publishing channel for this and other areas of research.
It was such a positive experience not having to beg, steal and borrow from funding pots to be able to publish open access. Knowledge belongs to all, and if only a few can access our work, then our research into the human past becomes something for ourselves alone. We all work in archaeology because we are curious and seek to know more, but to me, we also do this so others can benefit and enjoy knowing more about our shared pasts. Research funds often come from the public purse, so the public should have access to it. Open Access, and Open Science, is a much needed redress against the prevailing closed system of publication, which dominated by a few publishing companies. It will take time, but at least it is the right direction.
So smooth! It was friendly but professional, and quick.
I have no hesitation in encouraging potential authors to support this much needed journal.
Be inclusive in terms of subject matter. All of our sub-disciplines and expertise in archaeology are inter-linked, and the increasing narrow niches of publication create barriers that hinder creative thinking and collaboration.
Posted on 20 Mar 2018
The JCAA now invites high quality papers on all the aspects of digital archaeology, including, – but not restricted to – databases and semantic web, statistics and data mining, 3D modelling, GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing and geophysics, other field recording techniques, simulation modelling, network analysis and digital reconstructions of the past for consideration for publication in the Journal. Papers can be targeted towards scientific research, cultural heritage management and/or public archaeology.
Posted on 31 May 2017
The Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology will be accepting submissions soon.
JCAA will aim to encourage communication between archaeology and informatics, in a variety of applications, to provide a survey of present work in the field and to stimulate discussion.
Posted on 15 Mar 2017