The first issue of the international peer-reviewed scientific periodical of the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) titled “Tempus Pontem: Azerbaijan Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology” has been published.
The Institute informed “Tehsil365” about this development.
It was noted that the only English-language scientific periodical in the field of social sciences and humanities in Azerbaijan covers all existing areas of archaeology (aerial archaeology – aerial photography, ground-penetrating radar and LiDAR measurements, archaeogeography, archaeometry, bioarchaeology, archaeobotany, archaeozoology, battlefield archaeology, digital and computational archaeology, experimental archaeology, environmental archaeology, epigraphy, landscape archaeology, numismatics, maritime archaeology, museology, remote sensing research, etc.), including paleopathology, as well as the fields of biological and cultural anthropology, and, in particular, the philosophy of archaeology and anthropology.
The scientific journal has been equipped with modern international standards, including journal metadata, publication details, journal identifiers (ISSN, DOI, etc.), and contemporary journal specifications. Articles are prepared in accordance with the APA style (American Psychological Association guidelines) adopted for the social and behavioral sciences.
The English-language journal’s official online platform, ajaa.az, is accessible to the international readership. The electronic resource of the journal, which has a dedicated ISSN identifier, has been developed in line with the website parameters of modern global academic journals. Hosted on the open-source Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, created by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) for the management, editing, publishing, and online presentation of scholarly journals, the ajaa.az website provides open access to articles. PDF-format articles are integrated—within the capabilities of the OJS platform—into indexing and data systems such as CrossRef, Google Scholar, ORCID, and others.
The editorial board includes prominent archaeologists and anthropologists from Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, Japan, Italy, the United States, and Germany. The Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Farhad Guliyev, PhD in History, Associate Professor, Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of ANAS, and Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute.
Represented in international identification databases via ISSN and DOI, the journal will initially be published twice a year. The strategic goal of the editorial team is for the journal to secure a position in prestigious indexing databases.
The articles featured in the inaugural issue primarily cover recent archaeological research conducted in the territories of Azerbaijan, especially in the liberated lands. Among the co-authors of these articles, alongside Azerbaijani scholars, are archaeologists from Japan, Italy, and Germany.