ArcheoLogica Data
The call for submissions for the third issue of ArcheoLogica Data is now open
Deadline May 31st, 2023
ArcheoLogica Data offers researchers and professionals the opportunity to publish Open Access and peer-reviewed articles free of charge, as required by the European community and desired by the ANVUR national directives.
A MOUNTAIN OF DATA
In recent years, archaeological research has become increasingly interested in studying both high-altitude and “middle” (neither hilly nor high-altitude) mountain spaces. Data has been collected to investigate the mountain settlement network and its transformations over time and to understand the intertwined dialectical relationships between humans and the environment, as well as their continuous and mutual co-evolutionary relationships.
The cataloguing of archaeological sites in the mountain area; the study of building techniques; the collection of environmental data; the analysis of the changes in resource management practices, landscape and organization of local communities; the investigations of the abandonments that have produced the economic-social marginality and the loss of anthropogenic niches linked to the shapes of the disappeared landscape; the study of the mountain as a theatre of military operations; the application of archaeological, archaeo-botanical, archaeozoological or digital methods are just some of the topics relating to mountain areas that the next issue of ArcheoLogica Data wants to explore in the whole diachrony. The invitation is aimed at researchers, professionals, graduate and PhD students, and postdoc research fellows who wish to share their datasets with the scientific community by integrating them with a long or short paper, thus enhancing the “mountain of data” collected and the many thematic and methodological hints that the mountain offers. Nonetheless, papers not related to the central theme will also be considered for publication in the same issue.
The volume will give space to two types of contributions:
- Long paper: articles of minimum 30,000 max 60,000 characters (spaces, notes and bibliography included) with the possibility of inserting up to a maximum of 15 colour or b/w images (.jpeg format, 300 dpi resolution).
- Short paper: synthetic articles of up to 15000 characters (spaces, notes and bibliography included), with the possibility of inserting up to a maximum of 6 colour or b/w images (.jpeg format, 300 dpi resolution).
Each paper must be linked to one or more datasets, containing the raw information generated during the study (gray literature, photos, drawings, 3D models, shapefiles etc.). Each paper will be published in electronic format with CC-BY 4.0 license and related DOI, and a print format, while the datasets will be stored in the MAPPA Open Data repository (MOD). For more information, see the editorial norms and guide for authors.
The journal accepts datasets and papers in Italian or English. Publication of papers in the journal is contingent on the outcome of the Peer Review procedure. The editorial committee reserves the right to publish, reject or request revisions for the submitted papers.
Contributions must be sent within the deadline to the archeologicadata@mappalab.eu address in compliance with the checklist below.
Checklist and deadlines:
By May 31st:
– Send the paper in compatible word format, according to the editorial norms
– Fill in and attach the Annex A (dataset description form)
– Fill in and attach the Author statement guideline
By September 30th:
– Send the final version of the paper
– Send the full dataset in compliance with the editorial norms
– Send the consent form (Annex 1) and a copy of the identity document for each author
– If needed, send the third parties consent form (only if sensible data of third parties, different from the authors, are mentioned in the dataset) (Annex 2) and a copy of the identity documents.