Journal of African Archaeology

The Journal of African Archaeology is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering archaeological studies on Africa. It was established by Sonja Magnavita in 2003. From 2003 to 2016, the Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies and the Department of African Archaeology and Archaeobotany of Goethe University Frankfurt published it in association with Africa Magna Verlag. Since 2017, the departments publish it in association with Brill Publishers.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 1.4.
 * Anthropological Literature
 * Arts and Humanities Citation Index
 * Current Contents/Arts & Humanities
 * EBSCO databases
 * International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
 * International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
 * Scopus

Editors-in-chief
The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief:
 * Katherine Grillo (2018–present)
 * Peter Breunig
 * Sonja Magnavita