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The Journal

Joint Editors John Allan and Hugo Blake

Post-Medieval Archaeology is a biannual journal devoted to the study of the material evidence of European society wherever it is found in the world. This fascinating period saw the transition from medieval to industrial society, the foundation of the modern European world on new Renaissance and Reformation values, the shift from collective to individual mentalities, increasing social segregation, new notions of privacy, family, gender and space, global expansion, and revolutions in the modes and scales of production. The journal wishes to foster a multidisciplinary approach to the past, exploiting material, textual, iconographic and scientific evidence, and to engage in the latest theoretical debates.

Post-Medieval Archaeology is an international journal, covering a range of subjects, which illustrates the increasingly broad scope of post-medieval archaeology today, including pottery, glass, metalwork, fortifications, vernacular architecture, landscape studies and industrial archaeology. The European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), published by the European Science Foundation in 2007, places  Post-Medieval  Archaeology  in its category 'A' :  high-ranking international publications with a very strong reputation among researchers of the field in different countries, regularly cited all over the world.

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Journal 40

Next Issue

Volume 41, part 1 of Post-Medieval Archaeology will be published soon.

Papers will include:

Excavations at the Quaker burial ground Kingston-upon-Thames, London
By Louise Bashford & Lucy Sibun

A survey of the charcoal-fuelled ironworking industries of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire
By Nigel Page

An assemblage of 17th-century pottery from Bombay Wharf, London SE16
By Jacqueline Pearce

Portuguese coarsewares in early modern England: reflections on an exceptional pottery assemblage from Southampton
By Alejandra Gutiérrez

Excavation at Aguas Buenas, Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile, of a gunpowder magazine and the supposed campsite of Alexander Selkirk, together with an account of early navigational dividers
By Daisuke Takahashi, David Caldwell, Iván Cácares et al.

Living in times of war: material and environmental data from two late 16th- to early 17th-century garderobe chutes in the castle of Middelburg-in-Flanders (East-Flanders province, Belgium)
By Wim De Clercq et al.

The transformation of an early post-medieval town into a major modern city: excavation and survey of the Waverley Vaults, New Street, Edinburgh, Scotland
By Ronan Toolis and Diana Sproat

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Notes for contributors

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The editors of Post-Medieval Archaeology welcomes original papers of national and international significance that match the aims and scope of the journal on the understanding that their contents have not previously been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by independent referees. It is a condition of publication that papers become the copyright of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology. Funding by grant is not a pre-requisite for publication in the journal.


Further information

Post-Medieval Archaeology is published on behalf of the SPMA by Maney Publishing. For full information, including the journal's scope, Editorial Board, subscriptions, and the availability of previous volumes, please see www.maney.co.uk/journals/pma.

 
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