Objectives Accordingly, the main objective of this project is to develop a fully electronic, regular, online only, refereed journal. Internet Archaeology aims to become one of the world s archaeological journals of record, by publishing refereed papers of high academic standing which also use the potential of electronic publication to the full. The project consortium is led by the University of York. The project is constituted as a charitable trust, with a formal management structure including a steering committee, an editorial board and a technical panel. The chair of the committee and Honorary Editor is Professor Barry Cunliffe, from Oxford.
Archaeology is well suited to the application of advanced electronic techniques.
It is multidisciplinary subject, which makes calls on many different skills and methods of analysis. One instance of this is its use of many different data types text, images, numerical data, GIS modelling etc. Practitioners already make use of electronic tools, and a body of experience in multimedia publication is growing. An electronic journal will be an ideal vehicle to convey archaeological information. It will provide new tools to allow archaeologists to say things about the past in ways which where not previously possible.