Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia

This periodical has, as its purpose, the presentation and analysis of materials relating to the archaeology, ethnology and anthropology of Eurasia, including North and Central Asia. The Editorial Board would also be interested in materials that extend the understanding of Eurasia to the Pacific Rim and where appropriate, to the Americas.

The journal is published both in English and Russian versions four times a year.

Types of Contributions

The journal publishes papers and develops discussions on a wide range of research problems, e.g. human evolution and dispersals; Quaternary geology and ecology; paleoeconomic reconstructions; physical anthropology; paleopopulation genetics; prehistoric art; archaeological and anthropological methodology, ethnocultural processes, etc.

The journal also publishes results of field investigations conducted by archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnologists, and announcements of symposia and professional meetings. It is the goal of this publication to provide authors with an international forum for the presentation of their materials and ideas.

The Supreme Certification Commission of the Russian Ministry of Education has included Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia in the list of Russian Federation periodicals recommended for the publication of the main results of dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Sciences.

Contact Details



Any questions regarding publication in the journal can be directed to Olga Volkova-Kozintseva, Issuing Editor, at: eurasia.ola@gmail.com.



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Conflict of interest

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Submission declaration

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.

Changes to authorship

This policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such requests and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.

Retained author rights

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Role of the funding source

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Language and language services

Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission please visit http://webshop.elsevier.com/languageservices or our customer support site at http://support.elsevier.com for more information.

Russian submissions are also accepted. Use decimal points (not decimal commas); use a comma for thousands (10,000 and above).

Submission
Authors should submit English language articles electronically to this journal. Via the journal's online submission and tracking tool at: http://ees.elsevier.com/aeae you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. The system automatically converts source files to a single PDF file of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to a PDF file at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail, removing the need for a paper trail.

Russian language manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to: The Editors, Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Pr Akademika Lavrentieva, 17, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. FAX: (383) 330-83-66, E-mail: eurasia@archaeology.nsc.ru

Note that contributions may be either submitted online or sent by email. Please do NOT submit via both routes. This will cause confusion and may lead to your article being reviewed and published twice!



Additional information

The Editors reserve the right to make necessary revisions and to accept or reject manuscripts. One or two possible referees with their addresses and e-mail accounts should be suggested.



Use of Word Processing Software

Manuscripts should not exceed 32 double-spaced typewritten pages, including illustrations. Review articles and informational notes should not exceed 4 pages. Please use Times New Roman 14-pitch font (approximately 28 lines per page). All pages should be numbered. No automatic word processing commands (e.g. auto-numbering of references, paragraphs, foot- and endnotes etc.) or macros should be used.

Article Structure

All papers submitted should be organized as follows: Introduction, Data presentation, Discussion and Conclusion.

Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

Material and methods
Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.

Results
Results should be clear and concise.

Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.

Essential title page information

• Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
• Author names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address. Contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding author.
• Present/permanent address. If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.

Optimizing the title and abstract of an article for your audience

In order to increase the exposure of your article, we suggest the following:
• The title of your article must be clear and descriptive, using keywords that are relevant to the subject area, and would most likely be used in an online search.
• The abstract must also contain keywords and common phrases for the subject area, perhaps using wording from the title. These carefully chosen keywords and phrases can also be emphasised in the text, however please do this with caution as some search engines can reject overly repetitive webpages.

Abstract

A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.

The abstract should be 10-15 lines in length.

Keywords

Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, "and", "of"). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.

Units

English common names of plants and animals should be supplemented with Latin taxonomic equivalents. Measurements should be given only in the metric system.

Footnotes

Footnotes should be between number symbols (#) within the text and marked with an asterisk, i.e. *#*Footnote#.

Artwork

Electronic artwork
General points
• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Save text in illustrations as 'graphics' or enclose the font.
• Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Times, Symbol.
• Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
• Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.
• Submit each figure as a separate file.

A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website:
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless of the application used, when your electronic artwork is finalised, please 'save as' or convert the images to one of the following formats (note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS: Vector drawings. Embed the font or save the text as 'graphics'.
TIFF: Color or grayscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale): a minimum of 500 dpi is required.
If your electronic artwork is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) then please supply 'as is'.
Please do not:
• Supply files that are optimised for screen use (e.g., GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
• Supply files that are too low in resolution;
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.

Non-electronic Artwork

The approximate location of figures should be indicated in the manuscript. Original line drawings, black-and-white and colour photographs, and 35 mm transparencies (slides) are all acceptable. Only high-quality photocopies of illustrations will be accepted. Illustrations should not exceed 190 x 270 mm in size. Colour photographs will be mainly published from 60 x 60 mm transparencies. On the reverse side of each illustration, please pencil the author's name, an abbreviated title of the paper, the number of the illustration, and indicate its top.

Figure captions
Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.

Provide the list of figure captions at the end of the paper, after the bibliography.

Tables

The approximate location of tables should be indicated in the manuscript. Tables and graphs may be produced in Microsoft WinWord and ExcelTM with font sizes equal to or exceeding 9-pitch. Each table may not exceed 190 x 270 mm in size and each should be printed on a separate sheet.

References

Books and Monographs: authors' names and initials, full title of book, place of publication, publisher, date of publication and total number of pages.
Journal articles: authors' names and initials, full title of article and journal, date of publication, volume number, issue number and page numbers.
Please note that for Russian and Eastern European books and journal articles, authors' names, titles of articles and journals should be given in the original language in Latin transliteration.

Examples:

Reference to a book or monograph:

Kohl Ph. 2007
The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 296 p.

Reference to a journal article:

Varine H. de 1985
Editorial: The word and beyond. Museum, vol. 148, No. 4: 184-185.

Citation in Text

Text citations should list the author's last name, date of publication and page numbers, e.g. (Oliver, 1982, 301). Full bibliographic references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper.

Submission checklist

The following list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending it to the journal for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
Ensure that the following items are present:
One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
All necessary files have been uploaded, and contain:
• Keywords
• All figure captions
• All tables (including title, description, footnotes)
Further considerations
• Manuscript has been 'spell-checked' and 'grammar-checked'
• References are in the correct format for this journal
• All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)
• Color figures are clearly marked as being intended for color reproduction on the Web (free of charge) and in print, or to be reproduced in color on the Web (free of charge) and in black-and-white in print
• If only color on the Web is required, black-and-white versions of the figures are also supplied for printing purposes
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Use of the Digital Object Identifier

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication. The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly 'Articles in press' because they have not yet received their full bibliographic information. The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows (example taken from a document in the journal Physics Letters B):
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.09.059
When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, the DOIs are guaranteed never to change.

Proofs

One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail, or by post. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article if no response is received.

Offprints

The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively, 25 free paper offprints. If the corresponding author opts for paper offprints, this preference must be indicated via the offprint order form which is sent once the article is accepted for publication. Additional paper offprints can also be ordered via this form for an extra charge. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.



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