TEA is the newsletter of EAA members for EAA members. TEA is happy to publish not only reports on excavations and teaching, current research projects and public archaeology, exhibitions and conferences, but also comments to previous TEA as well as EJA contributions. You may want to use TEA to advertise or report on seminars, workshops or events that you believe are of interest to EAA members. Session organizers from the EAA Annual Meetings may want to publish summaries or follow-ups. Formats published also include notes, announcements, letters, requests etc. Reports should range between 2,000-3,000 words and may contain ca. 5 images. Other formats should be shorter.

References should follow the Harvard or scientific convention. Bibliographic references in the text should contain within parentheses the author's surname or some conventional shortening of the title of the work if no immediate author or editor is listed (note that this should correspond to the bibliographic entry in the references at the end of the paper) and date of publication and page references, such as (Childe 1954:117) or (Radiocarbon Handbook 1988:iv). Multiple references by the same author should be separated with a comma, e.g. (Nadelkopf 1888, 1893) and dates should be separated from pages with a full colon (e.g. Tete d'épingle 1901:22). Multiple references by different authors should be listed alphabetically in the text, not chronologically, and should be separated by semi-colons (e.g. Bright 2005; Fellows 2006; Soloman 1996). References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper with book or journal titles italicized or underlined, including place of publication and publisher, issue and page numbers. 

Examples: 

FISHER, G., 1988. Sociopolitical organization in early Anglo-Saxon England. In M. Littlechick (ed.), England in the Old Days: 128-144. Oxford: British Archaeological Publications (British Series 329). 

SILVER, M., 1985. Economic Structure of the Ancient Near East. London/Sydney: Croom Helm. 

TROTTER, M. and G.C. GLESER, 1952. Estimation of stature from long bones of American Whites and Negroes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 10:463-514. 

WILLIAMS, J., ed., 1997. Money: A History. London: British Museum Press. 

Illustrations: all line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing) on a CD as TIFF or EPS files (all fonts embedded) with a resolution of 600dpi. They should be reproducible to within a maximum final printed text area of 115 mm x 185 mm. Photographs should preferably be submitted as TIFF or EPS files or as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on a separate sheet. 

Tables should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets. All tables should have short descriptive captions with footnotes and their source(s) typed below the tables. AUTHORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OBTAINING PERMISSIONS FROM COPYRIGHT HOLDERS for reproducing through any medium of communication any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.

Style: use a clear readable style, avoiding jargon. If technical terms or acronyms must be included, define them when first used. Use non-racist, non-sexist language and plurals rather than he/she. Capitalize sparingly. Never capitalize archaeological features, e.g. pit B and not Pit B. Capitalize magnetic directions only when part of a recognized name, such as South America, otherwise, e.g. northern England. Capitalize archaeological periods, such as Neolithic, whether as noun or adjective. Chemical elements should be spelt out in textual passages, but given in their abbreviated form, e.g. Au, Pb, in statistical paragraphs, tables and figures. Ratios should be presented thus: 1:10 or silver:gold.

Dates: give dates as date, month, year: e.g. 4 July 1776. Use 1960s (not sixties) without an apostrophe and spell out the number of centuries or millennia: e.g. fourth century AD or third millennium BC. Invert the order of date and AD when using specific numbers, e.g. AD 980. There are no commas in thousands of years old, but there are in tens of thousands of years old: e.g. 4500 BC and 12,000 BP. Uncalibrated radiocarbon years follow the international convention (mean value ą standard deviation BP, using the 5568-year half-life; always give the laboratory code number), Calibrated dates should be given as date ranges cal BC and cal AD, together with the probability level (1 sigma or 2 sigma); specify which calibration curve is being used.

Spellings: UK or US spellings may be used but always use '-ize' spellings as given in the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. organize, recognize).

Punctuation: use single quotation marks with double quotes inside single quotes. Do not use points in abbreviations, contractions or acronyms (e.g. AD, USA, Dr, PhD).

Copyright: Copyright of and responsibility for contents and images remains with the authors.