Who gets a voice? Who is listening? Who do we want to (continue to) include?

Figures & data

Figure 1. Gender of sole/first authors* of articles in Australian Archaeology. Note that in six instances between 1974 and 1983, and three instances between 1994 and 2003, first names could not be identified for authors, so they were excluded from the summary. One exciting ‘first’ was recorded between 2014 and 2022 with the first Aboriginal Corporation-led article (see GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation 2020). *First names of the authors of articles (excluding editorials, obituaries and other such notices), either listed in the SM or determined through further research, were used as a proxy for gender. This method is comparable to bibliometric surveys in journals in the USA and UK (Beck et al. 2021; Hanscam and Witcher 2023). I recognise this perpetuates a gender binary and that I have not accounted for gender self-identification or queerness. I apologise if I have misgendered colleagues.

GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, R. Mullett, J. Fresløv and B. David 2020 Disrupting what, whose Country, whose paradise? Australian Archaeology 86(3):299–301.

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Beck, J., E. Gjesfjeld and S. Chrisomalis 2021 Prestige or perish: Publishing decisions in academic archaeology. American Antiquity 86(4):669–695.

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Hanscam, E. and R. Witcher 2023 Women in antiquity: An analysis of gender and publishing in a global archaeology journal. Journal of Field Archaeology 48(2):87–101.

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