The Publications Committee is tasked with advising on strategic initiatives related to the publications of the AABA and with considering general publishing-related issues of importance to the members of the AABA.  The latter might include, for example, best practices around issues such as data-archiving, open access and others.

The Publications Committee is also charged with conducting periodic searches to fill the editorships of the AABA journals.  The committee thus serves in an advisory capacity to the Executive Committee on the appointment of both the AJBA and Yearbook of Biological Anthropology editors.