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''Sussex Archaeological Collections'' is an annual
peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer revie ...
academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...
covering
archaeological Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscape ...
topics. The journal is published by the Sussex Archaeological Society and was established in 1848.


History

The Sussex Archaeological Society was founded in the 1840s and in 1847 its members decided to create a publication relating to the history of Sussex. The society was amongst the first organisations founded to study a county's history, and by 2012 it had published the third most articles amongst journals on English counties. Owen Bedwin (editor 1979–1983) introduced anonymous reviewing for articles. Florence Dodson was the first woman to write an article in the journal, published in 1880; no other women authored articles before 1900, though it became more common in the 1920s. A survey of articles found that between 1900 and 1950, 4% were written by women, a similar proportion to the '' Antiquaries Journal'' and '' Archaeologia'' (both published by the
Society of Antiquaries of London A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Soci ...
). The society was the first county-based archaeological society to share content through the
Archaeology Data Service The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) is an open access digital archive for archaeological research outputs. It is located in The King's Manor, at the University of York. Originally intended to curate digital outputs from archaeological researcher ...
, an online open-access platform. Initially, volumes from 1999 onwards were freely available two years after they were published. By 2012, only the Surrey Archaeological Society had done something similar, though this later became more common and the SAS's own work available through the ADS was extended to cover everything since the journal's inception. Marking the society's 175th anniversary in 2021, volunteers at the SAS completed a project digitising and indexing the whole catalogue of the journal. The issues were made freely available online through the ADS.


Editors

In 1909, Louis Francis Salzman became the first professional archaeologist or historian to edit the journal; professionalisation became the norm. The following people are or have been editors-in-chief:


References


Further reading

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External links

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Digitised volumes
available from the Archaeology Data Service Archaeology journals Annual journals Publications established in 1848