The Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia (ISSN 1034-4438) is the official annual publication of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, released each December. It is a fully Diamond Open Access journal, ensuring that articles are freely available to readers worldwide without subscription or access barriers, while authors are not charged any fees and retain full copyright under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. The journal publishes original research, reviews, and interdisciplinary studies in anthropology, archaeology, history, linguistics, and related applied sciences, with particular emphasis on Indigenous Australian studies as well as broader global perspectives. Indexed in Ulrichsweb and the 2015 ERA journal list, it maintains rigorous double-blind peer review and high ethical standards to advance scholarly knowledge and public understanding of human cultures, histories, and environments.