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AIA News

Politics & Archaeology
A first-person account of the CPAC meeting reviewing Italian import restrictions

Computer Animation Not Just for Video Games
AIA Site Preservation Grant will help fund project to recreate a five-thousand-year-old Chalcolithic roundhouse in Cyprus using 3-D animation technology

111th AIA Annual Meeting
We invite you to join us for the 2010 Annual Meeting in sunny California January 6-9. The Meeting is open to professionals and enthusiasts alike. Register now!

ARCHAEOLOGY Receives NAC Gold Medal
On October 14, the President, Board of Governors, and Archaeology Committee of the National Arts Club awarded ARCHAEOLOGY, AIA's award-winning popular magazine, its medal of Honor. Accepting on behalf of ARCHAEOLOGY and AIA was the magazine's Editor-in-Chief, Peter A. Young. Click here for more about this event.

AIA 2009 Gala Wins "Best Overall Catering at an Event" in the Big Apple

Dispatches from the AIA
Dispatches from the AIA invites readers to explore specific ways in which we carry out the Institute's core mission of understanding and preserving the past. It also details the exciting work of our members, who are continually finding new ways to reveal, conserve, and publicize the world's cultural heritage. For example, you will read about two important yet diverse projects: our efforts to preserve Easter Island's iconic moai statues, and an innovative archaeology program for high-school students in Belize. We hope that as you get better acquainted with our activities, you will also become more involved with the AIA's programs. Click here to download a pdf of this exciting new publication.

AIA-MoS 3rd Annual Archaeology Fair
The AIA and Museum of Science, Boston, held a very successful 3rd Annual Archaeology Fair on October 16 and 17. Hundreds of children and their parents explored the past with archaeologists, museum specialists, and local experts, and experienced writing in cuneiform, digging in simulated excavations, exploring the depths of the "ocean" in an underwater excavation, seeing spear throwers, flint knappers and glass blowers in action, and much more! At the AIA booth, children learned about archaeological concepts such as stratigraphy and context, as well the importance of site preservation. This event was sponsored in part by Mass Humanities.

AIA Selects Easter Island as its Second Site Preservation Project
The Archaeological Institute of America has selected Easter Island's Rapa Nui sculptures in Chile as its second site preservation project. With a $94,000 grant from the organization's AIA Site Preservation Task Force, the Easter Island Statue Project will develop stone preservation techniques to arrest the rapid deterioration of these statues as a result of the fragile nature of their volcanic stone, climate change and tourism. The Easter Island Statue Project is directed by UCLA archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg and co-directed by Cristin Arivalo Pakarati.