When an article is published by Southern African Field Archaeology, it is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 International License. We satisfy the definition of open access as stipulated by the Directory of Open Access Journals, such that: full text articles are freely available without an embargo period and without users needing to register to read the content.

The journal therefore does not take ownership of the copyright of the published article although the journal and UJ Press maintains the right of first publication and redistribution. In other words, authors retain the copyright to their work with only minor restrictions as listed below. They are free to republish their work as part of anthologies, books, or other materials under the following conditions:

• The reuse is indicated as copy, version or revision of the original text published in Southern African Field Archaeology.
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• Authors and re-publishers accept that the article remains first published by Southern African Field Archaeology.
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