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Author Guide

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.

Author warranties, a permissions form template, checklists, and figure preparation guidelines are available in Supporting Material.

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Virginia R. Herrmann

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Virginia R. Herrmann received a doctorate in Near Eastern archaeology from the University of Chicago in 2011. She is currently a Junior Research Group Leader at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Tübingen and codirector of the Chicago-Tübingen excavations at Zincirli. Her research interests include the dynamics of ancient empires, household archaeology, urban organization, and the social role of mortuary cult, particularly in the Bronze and Iron Ages of the Levant and Anatolia.