The ''Journal of African Archaeology'' is a biannual

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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

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published it in association with Africa Magna Verlag. Since 2017, the departments publish it in association with

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: *

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/Arts & Humanities * EBSCO databases *

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Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief: *Katherine Grillo (2018–present) * *Sonja Magnavita

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* Publications established in 2003 Archaeology journals African history journals Goethe University Frankfurt Brill Publishers academic journals Biannual journals English-language journals Delayed open access journals {{archaeology-journal-stub