The Society for the American Journal of Archaeology

As a life member of the Archaeological Institute of America I am pleased to support our publishing efforts by also being a member of the Society for the American Journal of Archaeology. It has been an honor for my research colleagues and me to disseminate the work of the Pompeii Forum Project through the pages of the AJA.

The AJA has been a staple of my scholarly life since graduate school. Its articles and reviews epitomize professional standards of scholarship and fieldwork, setting a high bar for scholars worldwide. I am proud to be a member of the Society for the American Journal of Archaeology and, through the Society, to help in a small way to ensure the journal’s publication well into the future.

The leading U.S. and international journal, the American Journal of Archaeology makes an unparalleled contribution to classical and Mediterranean archaeology through in-depth articles, notes, reviews, lists of recent books, “State of the Discipline” articles, reviews of regional discoveries, and use of new technologies. As a member of the Society for the AJA, I encourage others to support the long-range development of the journal and help ensure its future success.

For more than a century the AJA has been the premier journal for classical archaeology (in the broadest sense of that term) in the U.S. and also one of the foremost archaeological periodicals in the world. A contribution to the Society for the AJA is a contribution to the preservation of civilized life, past and present.

I first subscribed to the AJA almost 30 years ago. It was at the time the flagship journal of Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology; it still is. The impact of the journal has been immense, and as an author, reviewer, and a member of the Society for the AJA, I feel privileged to have been a small part of its continued success.

The AJA has been my primary source of professional information since my graduate days, and it remains so even in my retirement from teaching. Its level of accuracy and professionalism are well known in the field and make it an excellent choice for any archaeologist considering a submission for publication.

I have used the AJA to start my publishing career, to mark significant turning points in my early development as a scholar, and, as a senior scholar, to support young and developing scholars as they make their opinions of cutting-edge scholarship known.

The ultimate goal of archaeology is not digging up ancient remains but making that material accessible to others through publication in journals such as the AJA. I am a member of the Society for the AJA because I consider it to be the premier journal for the fields of classical and Mediterranean archaeology.

I am proud that, as a member of the Society for the AJA, I have been able to help our journal in becoming what it is today—one of the most distinguished archaeological journals in the world. It is indeed difficult to imagine the field of Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology without it.