AIA News

March 10, 2014

Call for Nominations: 2015 Best Practices in Site Preservation Award


The California Archaeological Site Stewardship Program (CASSP) is the 2014 recipient of the Best Practices Award for their efforts in training local site stewards. (Photo: CASSP/Society for California Archaeology)

The Archaeological Institute of America’s Best Practices in Site Preservation Award is presented to groups or projects recognized by their peers for doing exemplary work in the field of site preservation and conservation. A $5000 grant is awarded to the winner(s) to encourage future best practices and recipients benefit from publicity for their projects through the AIA. The award is presented each year at the AIA Annual Meeting in January.

Past Best Practices Awards have been given to professionals with a number of different backgrounds and accomplishments, from Giorgio Buccellatti’s groundbreaking efforts to preserve mudbrick in Syria to George Bey’s efforts to create a bio-cultural reserve in Mexico to the sustainable preservation and conservation program implemented by Donald Haggis and Margaret Mook at Azoria, Crete. To learn more about past award winners, visit the BP Award webpage.

Please nominate deserving scholars and groups through the nomination form on the AIA’s website. While electronic submission is preferred, you can also submit nominations to the AIA’s Site Preservation Program Administrator, Kelly Lindberg, or by mail to:

Site Preservation Award Program

Archaeological Institute of America

44 Beacon Street

Boston, MA 02108

The deadline for this award is May 1, 2014; no nominations will be accepted after this date. Early submission is encouraged.

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