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The AIA works to safeguard the world's archaeological heritage for future generations through direct preservation, raising awareness of threats to sites, education, outreach, and by facilitating the spread of best practices.

News

Site Preservation Workshop at Annual Meeting
Read about the topics covered at the AIA’s Site Preservation Workshop at the 2010 Annual Meeting

AIA Award for Best Practices in Site Preservation Announced
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The Reconstruction of Ruins: Principles and Practice
Read AIA Site Preservation Committee member Nicholas Stanley-Price's recent chapter on reconstruction principles from the book Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths (edited by Alison Richmond and Alison Bracker). Download pdf.

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

Grants

AIA Site Preservation Grant Program
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Protecting Banteay Chhmar
A 12th-century temple complex in Cambodia, overrun by jungle growth and plagued by looters, is confronted with increased tourism

The AIA Site Preservation Grant will help fund a project to recreate a five-thousand-year-old Chalcolithic roundhouse in Cyprus using 3-D animation technology.

UCLA-AIA Program
The AIA, along with the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA is supporting an innovative new program called the Sustainable Preservation Initiative, which utilizes local economic development to preserve our sites and global heritage. Read more about the Sustainable Preservation Initiative's executive director, Larry Coben.

Other Funding Opportunities
Other non-AIA grant opportunities, aimed particularly at sites in developing nations

Professional Workshops

Amherst - November 9-10, 2009
Heritage in Conflict and Consensus: New Approaches to the Social, Political, and Religious Impact of Public Heritage in the 21st century
Workshop organized by UMass Amherst Center for Heritage & Society and supported by the AIA. For more about the conference and comments by its co-organizer Neil Silberman, click here.

Anaheim - January 2010
The 2010 Annual Meeting will include a workshop entitled, "Lessons from the Field: Pursuing Best Practices in Site Preservation."

Site Preservation & Kids

San Francisco
The AIA created lessons plans for the de Young Museum's Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs School Curriculum. Click here to see the curriculum online.

Boston
The AIA featured site preservation activities at this year's AIA-MOS fair October 16-17 at the Museum of Science, Boston.

Further Information

Contact the Site Preservation Programs and Grants Coordinator at Sitepreservation@aia.bu.edu.