IAD Blog

August 29, 2025

ArchaeoDoodles Returns for IAD 2025


Do you love art and archaeology? Show off your skills in our ArchaeoDoodles Art Contest starting August 25, 2025! We’re counting down to International Archaeology Day, and need your creative touch to bring our glossary of archaeological terms to life. Two winners (one youth and one adult) will have their designs featured on a special AIA T-shirt!


Submissions accepted: August 25 – September 8

Voting: September 9 – 12

Winners announced: September 13

This year’s terms:

Artifact
Cache
Ceramics
Conservation
Feature
Field Notes

Hypostyle
Knapping 
Linear B
Paleobotany
Pithos

Reconnaissance
Stylus
Tell/tel
Trench
Tumulus

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