Creativity, earthquakes, labour, and celestial landscapes

Abstract

This edition of Time & Mind marks the transition to a new editorial team, formed by Mónica Palmero Fernández and Martina Revello Lami. Mónica is currently Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and specialises in ancient Mesopotamia. Her research interests revolve around gender, goddesses, ritual (and ritual landscapes), architecture, and power relations in early states and societies. Trained as an archaeologist, Mónica also dipped her toes into Assyriology and textual sources. Martina is appointed as lecturer at Leiden University and specialises in pre-Roman Italy. At the core of her research lies the study of material culture and technology and how cognitive processes may shape both our physical world and beliefs. Her background is in Classical Archaeology but she is also a pottery specialist trained in petrography. This year also marks Time & Mind’s 15th anniversary. On this joyful occasion, it is with great humility and excitement that we assume the mantle of the leading interdisciplinary journal in the field of cognitive archaeology and the flagship of the founding editors Paul Devereux and Neil Mortimer. The pre-eminence and storied history of the Time & Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture are the product of continuous effort and excellence exemplified by the prior editorial groups and the dedicated editorial staff. There is no better example than the previous chief editors, Tina Paphitis and Jack Hunter, whose contribution to the journal has been characterised by excellence and innovation. We sincerely thank them and hope to emulate and expand on their successes and superb editorial choices. What do we hope to accomplish in our editorial term? The major priority is the continued communication of scholarly works exploring the multifaceted relationship between sensory engagements, landscapes, and archaeological heritage and cultivating novel ways to transmit such information. We will work in close collaboration with our advisory board to develop the most efficient model for publishing and disseminating knowledge across the journal’s core interests and to support the mission of the journal and its foundational goals. As researchers gear up towards a post-pandemic environment, we do not forget about the academic inequalities that exist and which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. We will endeavour to work closely with and promote early career researchers, those from under-represented backgrounds, and those on atypical career paths who may have suffered disproportionately during this time but who have much to contribute to fulfil the core values and impetus that led Paul and Neil to found Time & Mind in the first place: to provide a space for interdisciplinary work that pushes disciplinary boundaries creatively and that acknowledges the multiplicity of knowledge production through rigorous research. TIME AND MIND 2022, VOL. 15, NO. 1, 1–3 https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2022.2085914