In most cases, the time from submission to decision for articles submitted to the American Journal of Archaeology is from four to six months.
Submissions should not exceed 20,000 words, including abstract, article body, works cited, notes, and figure captions.
All submissions should follow the AJA Policy on the Publication and Citation of Unprovenanced Antiquities and the Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Emlyn Dodd (FSA FRHistS FHEA) is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. He was Assistant Director for Archaeology at the British School at Rome from 2021–23 and previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens and Macquarie University. He has published extensively on ancient wine and olive oil production in Greek and Roman antiquity, including the books Vine-growing and Winemaking in the Roman World (2025), Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology (2024), and Roman and Late Antique Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean (2020). Emlyn co-directs the Falerii Novi Project in Italy and directs surveys in the Cyclades, Greece. He features regularly in public media and his research has appeared in The Guardian, Washington Post, The Conversation, on the BBC and ABC, and with National Geographic.
