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| Norwegian Archaeological Review | |
|---|---|
| Title | Norwegian Archaeological Review |
| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Language | English, Norwegian |
| Editor | Anne-Sofie Grønvik |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| Country | Norway |
| History | 1968–present |
| Frequency | Biannual |
| Issn | 0029-3652 |
| Eissn | 1502-7678 |
Norwegian Archaeological Review is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal publishing research on archaeology with emphasis on Scandinavian and Nordic contexts. It serves as a forum connecting fieldwork reports, theoretical debates, and historiographical studies produced by institutions across Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland, while engaging with international research communities. The journal features contributions from university departments, museum researchers, heritage agencies, and independent scholars, fostering links among practitioners in Oslo, Bergen, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Reykjavík.
Established in 1968 amid renewed interest in post-medieval and prehistoric investigations, the journal emerged alongside institutional developments at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, and the National Museum of Denmark. Early issues reflected methodological shifts promoted by figures associated with the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and the University of Reykjavík, and engaged with debates initiated at conferences such as the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences and the European Association of Archaeologists. During the 1970s and 1980s the Review published work responding to new radiocarbon chronologies developed at the University of California, the University of Helsinki, and the Max Planck Institute, and engaged with theoretical perspectives circulating from the University of Michigan, University College London, and the University of Toronto. In the 1990s the journal broadened readership through collaboration with publishers including Routledge and Taylor & Francis, and by responding to policy shifts influenced by UNESCO, the Council of Europe, and national heritage acts enacted in Norway and Sweden. Recent decades have seen contributions from researchers affiliated with the University of Cambridge, Aarhus University, the British Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and Leiden University, reflecting its sustained presence in international archaeological discourse.
The Review covers prehistoric, Viking Age, medieval, and early modern archaeology with frequent thematic intersections involving landscape archaeology, maritime archaeology, zooarchaeology, and archaeobotany. Articles often reference comparative material drawn from sites such as Oseberg, Gokstad, Jelling, Birka, Kaupang, and Hedeby, and engage with methods developed at laboratories like the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, the Uppsala DNA facility, and the Geological Survey of Norway. Each issue commonly includes excavation reports from municipal museums in Trondheim, Tromsø Museum, and Bergen Museum, alongside synthetic essays addressing artifact typologies discussed at seminars held at the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Institut Archaeologique du Musée. The Review also publishes methodological papers on stratigraphy, typology, dendrochronology, and geophysical prospection, referencing case studies from York, Dublin, Tallinn, Vilnius, and Riga.
The editorial board comprises scholars from major institutions including the University of Oslo, University of Bergen, University of Tromsø, Uppsala University, Aarhus University, and the National Museum of Denmark, coordinated by an editor-in-chief with advisory editors representing museum networks such as the British Museum, the National Museum of Ireland, and the Kulturhistorisk Museum. The journal employs double-blind peer review drawing reviewers from institutions like the University of Cambridge, University College London, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw. Editorial policies align with standards promoted by the Committee on Publication Ethics and are informed by disciplinary norms voiced at meetings of the European Association of Archaeologists and the Society for American Archaeology. Special issues are guest-edited by scholars from the University of Helsinki, the University of St Andrews, the University of Vienna, and the University of Copenhagen.
Published biannually by Taylor & Francis on behalf of editorial offices in Oslo, the journal circulates to university libraries, museum archives, and cultural heritage departments across Scandinavia and beyond. Institutional subscriptions include the collections of the British Library, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Norway, the Royal Library of Denmark, and the National Library of Sweden. Distribution channels connect to aggregators and platforms used by academic consortia at Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Toronto, and the Australian National University. Occasional open-access articles follow embargo and author-pays models similar to policies at PLOS and the Directory of Open Access Journals, while print runs are deposited with national legal deposit libraries in Oslo and Copenhagen.
The Review is indexed in major bibliographic and citation databases serving archaeological scholarship, including Scopus, Web of Science, Anthropological Literature, and the Archaeology Data Service. Abstracting extends to databases maintained by the British Library, the National Library of Norway, and the European Library, and article metadata is harvested by aggregators used by JSTOR, EBSCO, and ProQuest. The journal’s inclusion in citation indices facilitates discoverability through platforms operated by Clarivate Analytics, Elsevier, and Google Scholar, and supports linkages to project repositories at the Archaeology Data Service, the Digital Archaeological Record, and national heritage portals in Sweden and Norway.
Scholars from institutions such as the University of Cambridge, the University of Oslo, Aarhus University, the British Museum, the University of Helsinki, and the Max Planck Institute have cited the journal in monographs, edited volumes, and policy reports addressing Scandinavian and Baltic prehistory. The Review is recognized in tenure and promotion dossiers within departments at University College London, Leiden University, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Bergen for its role in disseminating fieldwork and theoretical contributions. Its impact is evident in citations within works published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and Brill, and in its presence at symposia organized by the European Association of Archaeologists, the Society for Historical Archaeology, and UNESCO-affiliated heritage forums.
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