The ''Journal of Field Archaeology'' is a

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that covers archaeological fieldwork (

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, surveys, and related laboratory research) from any part of the world. It is published by

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on behalf of

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and its

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is Christina Luke. The journal was established in 1974 by the Association for Field Archaeology. Its founding editor James R. Wiseman, described its purpose as promoting international and

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research in archaeology, as opposed to other regional or period-specific journals, and it has been cited as an example of a journal that bridges the divide between anthropological archaeology and classical archaeology. Originally published internally by Boston University, it moved to

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in 2010, and to Routledge in 2016 (when the company acquired Maney). A 2002 study found no evidence of a gender citation gap in papers published in the journal between 1989 and 1998, unlike in some other major anthropology journals.

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in the

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