The AIA is seeking nominations for two awards: the Best Practices in Site Preservation and Conservation Award and the Heritage Management Award.  Please forward this information to appropriate colleagues.

Best Practices in Site Preservation Award

The Archaeological Institute of America’s Best Practices in Site Preservation Award is presented to a group or project recognized by their peers for doing exemplary work in the field of site preservation and conservation. A $5,000 grant will be awarded to the winners to further their best practices in site preservation. Award winners will be selected by a committee of professional archaeologists, conservators, and heritage specialists before the AIA’s Annual Meeting in January 2016. 

Please nominate deserving projects through the nomination form on the AIA’s website at http://www.archaeological.org/sitepreservation/award.  The deadline for this award is May 1, 2015; no nominations will be accepted after this date. Early submission is encouraged.

Conservation and Heritage Management Award

The AIA’s Conservation and Site Preservation Committee invites nominations for the Conservation and Heritage Management Award. This award is made in recognition of an individual's or institution's exceptional achievement in any of the following areas:

1)      Archaeological conservation

2)      Archaeological conservation science

3)      Archaeological heritage management

4)      Education/public awareness of archaeological conservation through teaching, lecturing, and exhibition, or a publication.

Please send name(s), a CV, and a substantive statement about the nominee's qualifications for the award to: [log in to unmask] no later than May 1, 2015.

Past Winners

Best Practices in Site Preservation

2015    Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Resource Management – Jordan
2014    California Archaeological Site Stewardship Program - California, USA
2013    George Bey - Kaxil Kiuic, Mexico
            Cristina Vidal Lorenzo and Gaspar Muñoz Cosme - La Blanca, Guatemala
2012    Donald Haggis and Margaret Mook - Azoria, Crete
2011    Giorgio Buccellati - Tell Mozan, Syria

Conservation and Heritage Management Award

2015     Elizabeth Pye

2014     Staffordshire Hoard Conservation Project

2013     Sudharshan Seneviratne

2012     James R. McCredie

2011     Archaeological Conservancy

2010     Henry Cleere

2009     Heritage Watch

2008     Catherine Sease

2007     Pointe-à-Callière Musée d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de Montréal

2006     Hester A. Davis, Arkansas Archaeological Survey, William Lipe, Washington State University, and Charles R. McGimsey, III, Arkansas Archaeological Survey

2005     Parks Canada Agency, les Services d'Archéologie Subaquatique à Agence Parcs Canada, under the direction of its Chief Archaeologist, Robert Grenier

2004     Nicholas P. Stanley-Price

2002     Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Working Group

2001     Museum of London

1999     Lawrence J. Majewski

1998     Department of Conservation and Materials Science at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London

More information about AIA Awards can be found at: http://archaeological.org/awards.  Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Best wishes,