Posted on behalf of Natascha Mehler (Vienna University & SHA Newsletter Current Research Coordinator for Continental Europe):





	
	Introducing the online
journal „Historische Archäologie“In
spring 2009 the online journal “Historische Archäologie” was
introduced to offer a new and open access medium on research in the
field of Historical Archaeology. 


The
online journal wishes explicitly to present
research and analysis from the late medieval to the modern period in
all its aspects. Geographically the focus lies in German speaking
Europe. However, contributions from other countries are also most
welcome. The journal´s time frame ranges from the 14th/15th
century until today and wishes to offer young scientists and
established colleagues an opportunity to present their research. This
does not primarily mean data structure reports, but rather asks for
well-founded, methodologically or theoretically orientated papers,
which are likely to be discussed in professional circles.

The
journal also wishes to build a bridge to eastern Central Europe, to
Scandinavia and to Great Britain. It is
repeatedly said with regret that there is hardly any professional
interchange in archaeology between English and German-speaking
colleagues due to the language barrier. This is why we wish to
publish articles either in English or at the very least with a
detailed English summary. Only in this way can we draw international
attention to research from this language area and take part in
international discussion. Papers will be published with colour
illustrations and put online rather quickly, to draw upon the
advantages of online publishing. 


Up
to now German-speaking Europe had no
methodological or theoretical forum for post-medieval themes. This
gap is now filled. The bi-lingual journal (German / English) was
created by an editorial team consisting of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Müller
(University of Kiel), Prof. Dr. Jörn Staecker (University of
Tübingen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Theune-Vogt and Dr. Natascha Mehler
(both University of Vienna) and can be found at the website
www.histarch.org

For the editorial
committee

Dr. Natascha Mehler,
Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of
Vienna