PROPONTICA journal, deriving its name from the Sea of Marmara (Propontis), aims to bring scientific articles to the attention of the academic sphere whose focus will mainly be on the cultures around the Sea of Marmara together with others from the Mediterranean and the Black Sea basins. To do so it welcomes any paper written on the subjects of Protohistory, Classical Archaeology, Underwater, Ancient Languages and Cultures, Ancient History, Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Numismatics, Anthropology, Archeometry and Protection and Preservation of Cultural Assets and spanning periodically from the Prehistoric Ages to the end of Late Antiquity.

PROPONTICA journal is an international peer-reviewed journal that is published twice a year in March and September. It accepts original and qualified articles, either written in Turkish or English, that promise to bring innovation to its field or fill a gap in its field, offer new approaches or recommendations, evaluate studies addressed with a scientific method or offer new insights into previously published studies.

PROPONTIS-International Journal of Propontic Archaeology (PROPONTICA) is an international, scientific, open access periodical published in accordance with unbiased, and double-blinded peer-review principles. PROPONTIS-International Journal of Propontic Archaeology (PROPONTICA) is published twice a year, in March and September. Publication language is Turkish and English.

No fees are requested from the authors at any point throughout the evaluation and publication process. All manuscripts must be submitted via the online submission system, which is available at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/propontica The journal guidelines, technical information, and the required forms are available on the journal’s web page.
Statements or opinions expressed in the manuscripts published in the journal reflect the views of the author(s) and not the opinions of the editors, editorial board, and/or publisher; the editors, editorial board, and publisher disclaim any responsibility or liability for such materials.

PROPONTIS-International Journal of Propontic Archaeology (PROPONTICA) is an open access publication and the journal’s publication model is based on Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) declaration. Journal’s archive is available online, free of charge athttps://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/propontica PROPONTIS-International Journal of Propontic Archaeology (PROPONTICA)'s content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY NC).

PROPONTIS-International Journal of Propontic Archaeology (PROPONTICA); publishes research articles and compilation articles covering the fields of Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Languages and Cultures related to national, regional and world history.

The editorial and publication processes of the journal are shaped in accordance with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Council of Science Editors (CSE), Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), European Association of Science Editors (EASE), and National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The journal is in conformity with the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (doaj.org/bestpractice).

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