[Abstract] With the prosperity of online media and development of mobile Internet, newspapers, magazines and other traditional medias are gradually fade out of sight of young people at present. In2012, two famous American print medias ceased their business which initiated a wide range discussion of print media survival status. Archeology journals as a branch of print media industry, people wonder that what its survival statues is and whether it suffers from the huge impact like other print media such as online media. Therefore, this article describes several main topics including that the exploration of the present situation and development of archeology journals; systematic pectination and description of a history of the development of archeology journals; analyzes the status of contemporary archeology journals and problems they faced; and the direction of development of archeology journals are explored and discussed due to the specific characteristics of the present era of archeology journals mentioned above. |