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| Nautical Archaeology (journal) | |
|---|---|
| Title | Nautical Archaeology |
| Discipline | Archaeology, Maritime history |
| Abbreviation | Naut. Archaeol. |
| Publisher | Archaeological Institute of America |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1962–present |
| Issn | 0028-0167 |
Nautical Archaeology (journal) is a peer-reviewed quarterly periodical that publishes research on the archaeology of ships, seafaring, and submerged cultural heritage linked to ancient, medieval, and modern maritime contexts. The journal provides a venue for scholarship connecting excavation reports, conservation studies, and interpretive analyses that intersect with institutions such as the British Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and the National Maritime Museum. Authors and readers include specialists affiliated with organizations like UNESCO, ICOMOS, the Society for Historical Archaeology, the International Congress of Maritime Museums, and the Council for British Archaeology.
Founded in the early 1960s amid rising international interest in underwater exploration, the journal emerged alongside expeditions at sites such as the Hercules wreck investigations, the salvage campaigns off Antikythera, and research projects connected to Mary Rose, Vasa (ship), and Uluburun. Its establishment paralleled institutional developments at the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, the British School at Athens, and the Society for Nautical Research, and occurred during eras marked by the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage debates and the expansion of conservation laboratories at the National Museum of Denmark and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Early editors worked with field teams from Texas A&M University, University of Southampton, University of Pennsylvania Museum, and the Archaeological Institute of America to standardize reporting of excavation methods and artifact conservation.
The journal emphasizes primary reports on shipwrecks, harbor structures, maritime landscapes, and material culture linked to seafaring communities, integrating case studies from regions such as the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Persian Gulf, and the Caribbean Sea. It publishes methodological advances referenced by projects at Portus, Ephesus, Pompeii, Pylos, Gadir, and Çeşme as well as laboratory analyses connected to the British Museum, Rijksmuseum van België, Musée national d'archéologie (France), and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. Interdisciplinary work often links to specialists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Natural History Museum, London for conservation science, dendrochronology, archaeometallurgy, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction.
Published quarterly and distributed through academic presses and institutions including the Archaeological Institute of America, major university libraries such as Bodleian Library, Library of Congress, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and consortia like JSTOR and Project MUSE, the journal reaches subscribers at universities including Harvard University, Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Sydney, and University of Leiden. Special issues have been produced in collaboration with conferences organized by the International Congress on Underwater Archaeology, the European Association of Archaeologists, and the Society for Nautical Research and have been distributed at venues such as the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution.
The editorial board comprises scholars affiliated with institutions such as the University of Southampton, Texas A&M University, University of Oxford, University of Copenhagen, University of Barcelona, National University of Ireland, Galway, and the Australian National University. Peer review follows anonymized procedures modeled after best practices advocated by bodies including IAMSLIC, ICZN, and the Committee on Publication Ethics and engages reviewers who have participated in projects at Antikythera Mechanism Research Project, Mary Rose Trust, Vasa Museum, Uluburun Shipwreck Project, and the Tucker's Point excavations.
The journal has published influential reports that shaped interpretations of shipbuilding traditions, such as analyses tied to Thonis-Heracleion, the Kyrenia ship, Dover Bronze Age Boat, Roman Barque of Lake Nemi, and studies informing policy framed by the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Articles reporting dendrochronological results, isotopic studies, and conserved assemblages have been cited in works from scholars at Oxford Archaeology, Danish National Research Foundation, Trinity College Dublin, CNRS, Max Planck Society, and museums including the Vasa Museum and the Mary Rose Museum. Citation impact is visible in cross-disciplinary references by researchers at University College London, Princeton University, Columbia University, and Leiden University.
The journal is indexed and abstracted in major bibliographic services and databases, including Scopus, Web of Science, Anthropology Plus, JSTOR, and subject-specific indexes used by libraries like the British Library, Library of Congress, and Bibliothèque nationale de France. It appears in university catalogues at University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and is discoverable through aggregators serving the International Council on Archives community.
Category:Archaeology journals Category:Maritime history journals