Aims & Scope

Aims

Humans (ISSN: 2673-9461) is an international and cross-disciplinary open access academic journal publishing peer-reviewed papers on anthropological subjects (in its broadest sense) and its subfields including ethnology, archaeology, bioanthropology, and linguistic anthropology. Manuscripts that cross the traditional disciplinary and subdisciplinary boundaries are highly encouraged, as well as those within the relevant subdisciplines. The goal is to enhance a greater understanding of human behaviour through both time and space.

Humans prioritises research papers, reviews, and commentaries. Submissions for Special Topic volumes are also welcome. Authors should consult the “Instructions for Authors” regarding manuscript length and formatting.

Scope

Biological Anthropology:

• Evolutionary Anthropology;
• Human Biology: Genetics, Anatomy, and Physiology;
• Paleoanthropology: Human Evolution, and the Fossil Record;
• Human Variation and Adaptation: Similarities and Differences in Human Groups;
• Primatology: Study of Biology Evolution and Behavior of Primates;
• Forensic Anthropology;
• Medical Anthropology;
• Bioarchaeology.

Ethnology (Cultural /Social Anthropology):

• Political Anthropology;
• Anthropology and Linguistics and Communicative Practices;
• Anthropology and Religion;
• Anthropology of Social and Economic Development;
• Anthropology of Family and Marriage;
• Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity;
• Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality;
• Ecological Anthropology;
• Anthropology of Development;
• Anthropology of Kinship.

Archaeology:

• Environmental/Ecological Archaeology;
• Anthrozoology/Zooarchaeology/Archaeozoology;
• Experimental Archaeology;
• Prehistoric Archaeology;
• Historical Archaeology;
• Ethnoarchaeology;
• Paleobotany and Paleoethnobotany;
• Archeopedology;
• Geoarcheology;
• Underwater Archeology;
• Forensic Archeology.

Linguistic Anthropology:

• Evolutionary Linguistics;
• Historical Linguistics;
• Comparative Social Linguistics;
• Social Linguistics (Relationships with Gender, Class, Ethnicity);
• Descriptive Linguistics;
• Linguistics of Minority and Indigenous Languages;
• Ancient Languages.

History of:

• Anthropology and its Subfields;
• Cross- and Trans-Disciplinary Studies.

Other relevant topics will also be considered.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Humans will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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