The Hungarian National Museum initiated a series of lectures and meetings on 27^th of February 2000 serving as a basis for the current periodical.

Our aim was to make interdisciplinary research of archaeological finds, features and phenomena understandable, conceivable and controllable in the spirit of mutual information. We aimed at offering a regular forum for the representatives of different branches of science, all contributing to the understanding of archaeological problems where not only the results but also the problems and open questions can be raised.

The creative atmosphere formed around the Workshop has already given impetus for several fruitful and lasting collaboration projects. The results, however, are often being lost without proper publication media.

The same can be raised upon the results of training, started in recent years at several universities and highschools all over Hungary. A number of worthy studies have been made and are currently in progress as university theses, student conference papers and PhD dissertations. Moreover, as a result of national and international collaboration projects, a number of new analytical data and archaeological results supported by scientific arguments are born. The traditional periodicals of the individual branches of sciences and arts cannot undertake the complete publication of resulting data thus a large part of valuable and costly pieces of information remain unpublished. It is absolutely necessary therefore to launch a new periodical, suitable for the fast and easily accessible publication of the new results. Electronic publication in a registered, reviewed paper published at suitable frequency seems a good solution. According to our current plans, we are publishing 3 issues annually, with the following technical deadlines:

Apart from publishing lectures and communications in the series Archeometriai Műhely, we are expecting studies, short communications, conference accounts and actual information on the subject of archaeometry and archaeological science. The submitted papers will be published in .pdf form, edited in A4 format, accessible at the following address:

The separate issues will be also printed for the purpose of archieving and sent to those special public libraries where this type of information is probably most needed. The printed volumes can also be ordered from the publisher on self-cost.

The papers should be submitted to the editor in electronic format. More details on format are given here in the Instruction for Authors.

The submitted communications should contain the article to be published, the typeset version of which should not exceed 10 pages. It could also contain further electronic appendices, immediately relevant to the article, attached as hypertext info to be deposited in the Data Repository. These appendices will neither be reformatted nor printed together with the text; they can comprise tables, maps, databases that would exceed the limits of the printed article. In the printed version the full text of the edited article will be printed while the Appendices will be attached on CD.

We are especially interested in your opinion: feedback notes are most welcome. We are also aiming at obtaining an impact factor for the new periodical to be able to help not only the dissemination of results but also the advance of the authors.