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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.

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William G. Cavanagh

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William G. Cavanagh is professor of Aegean prehistory and director of the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies at the University of Nottingham. He has codirected and published a number of field projects in Laconia: the Laconia Survey (with Joost Crouwel et al.), the Laconia Rural Sites Project (with C. Mee et al.), and the Kouphovouno excavations. He has also written on mathematical applications in archaeology (e.g., Bayesian Approach to Interpreting Archaeological Data [with Caitlin Buck and Cliff Litton]) and on burials (e.g., A Private Place: Death in Prehistoric Greece [with C. Mee]).