Call for Submissions - Open Issue - Avar 4.2

Due Date: August 1, 2025 

Topic: Open Call and Special Feature Section on Non-Human Animals

Avar 4.2 will feature general submissions alongside a special themed section focusing on the interdisciplinary study of animals in the ancient Near East.

"We seek submissions that investigate (non-human) animals and animality within the historical and cultural contexts of the ancient Near East, with a particular emphasis on how animals were represented, interacted with, and understood across various ancient societies. We also encourage multi-species focuses, with the inclusion of ecological perspectives and discussion pertaining to inanimate beings. We invite interdisciplinary submissions that draw from a wide range of disciplines."

Submissions: Please submit papers via the submission platform. 

Have an idea but not a full paper? The editors are glad to review an abstract or the text of an AAR/SBL and/or ASOR presentation to see if your idea is a good fit for Avar. Feel free to send an abstract to avar@tplondon.com.

Guidelines: Details concerning style and the author checklist can be on our Author Page. 

Avar seeks submissions with interdisciplinary approaches that explicitly adopt, adapt, or integrate theories and methodologies from within the traditional fields of ancient Near Eastern studies (i.e., archaeology, Assyriology, biblical studies, Egyptology, Hittitology, etc.), as well as from socio-anthropological and scientific disciplines.

Avar is dedicated to publishing open-access, peer-reviewed scholarship on Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia from the third through first millennia BCE that crosses and disrupts disciplinary boundaries.

Avar accepts short notes (2,000-4,000 words) and articles (6,000-12,000 words) in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.