*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
<http://www.archaeological.org/sitepreservation/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
<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
<http://archaeological.org/awards/conservationheritage>. 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] <[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 <http://archaeological.org/awards>.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions.*
*Best wishes, *
Samantha
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Samantha Craig
Development Associate
Archaeological Institute of America
656 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02215
617.353.9364
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