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 AIA President C. Brian Rose with 2010 Pomerance Award Winner Paul Goldberg The committee for the AIA Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology invites nominations for the 2012 award. Eligibility is not restricted to members of the AIA, and candidates for the medal may be sought internationally with no geographical limitations. The recipient may be a professional or amateur scientist, or a team, whose interdisciplinary work with archaeologists merits recognition. Persons who have received the Gold Medal of the AIA are not excluded from eligibility. Due Date for Nomination Please send name(s) and a CV or statement about the nominee's contributions to the field to: Atten: Awards, AIA Pomerance Medal Committee 2010 Pomerance Award Winner: Paul Goldberg Paul Goldberg is currently a professor in the Department of Archaeology, Boston University. He obtained his B.A. in geology from the University of Colorado (1965), Boulder, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geology from The University of Michigan (1973). He then continued as a Lady Davis Post Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and moved up to the rank of Associate Professor (1973-1991). During this period, he conducted research on cave sediments, and began to study Quaternary landscapes in Israel associated archaeological sites. Concomitantly, began to develop the technique of micromorphology and its application to geoarchaeological problems, resulting in the publication of Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology (M.A. Courty, P. Goldberg, R.I. Macphail, Cambridge University Press, 1989). From 1991to 1995 he carried out geoarchaeological research at the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory (TARL), the University of Texas at Austin, studying the geology and micromorphology of the Paleoindian-Prehistoric site of Wilson-Leonard. Since 1995, he has been at the Department of Archaeology, Boston University, teaching courses in geoarchaeology, micromorphology, and site formation processes. His current research includes the application of micromorphological techniques to Pleistocene caves in France, Israel, Germany, and South Africa; the geoarchaeology of open-air sites in California, and the use of micromorphology in interpreting anthropogenic deposits ranging from Pleistocene sites in the Old World, to 16th century Spanish settlements in Jamaica. Past Winners of the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology
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