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Reconstructing a Roundhouse in Kissonerga, Cyprus

An update from Lindy Crewe about the AIA Site Preservation Grant awarded to Kissonerga, Cyprus.

Help Preserve Archaeology in Greece

Greece, a country in which many AIA members have worked or studied, has asked the United States to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that would require documentation for […]

Gault Holds Teacher’s Workshop

An update from AIA Site Preservation Grant Winner, the Gault School of Archaeological Research (Texas), about a recent Teacher’s Workshop held at the Gault Site.

Understanding the U.S. Border: Archaeologists, Law Enforcement, and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

An overview of how law enforcement works to protect cultural heritage.

A Museum’s Online Artifact Database as a Tool to Support Teaching and Research

Staff members from the Museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University discuss how implementing a well designed artifact database greatly increases accessibility to the museum’s collections.

Grant to Protect Jordanian Archaeological Site and Educate Children

The site of Umm el-Jimal in Jordan will benefit from the AIA’s next Site Preservation Grant which will be used to ensure the long-term preservation through education and outreach.

The Importance of Education for Site Preservation

An update from the AIA’s April 2010 Site Preservation Grant winner—the Gault School of Archaeological Research

Update from AIA Site Preservation Grant Winner Heritage Watch

English classes and heritage workshops have commenced at Banteay Chhmar, Cambodia

Building a Reconstructed Chalcolithic Roundhouse on Cyprus

AIA Site Preservation Grant Kissonerga Summer 2010 Update

Saving Antiquity: How an AIA Site Preservation Grant Is Making a Difference in Cambodia

The audience at Tuesday evening’s Archaeological Institute of America presentation at Boston University confronted some stunning evidence of what the chairman of the AIA Site Preservation Committee, Paul Rissman, calls […]

AIA Site Preservation Grant Will Protect Underwater Maya Wooden Structures

The AIA announced today that the only known Classic Maya wooden structures, located in Paynes Creek National Park in Belize, will benefit from a $25,000 Site Preservation Grant.

Ben’s House: Designing History at Franklin Court, Philadelphia

AIA Site Preservation Committee member Frank G. Matero discusses designing history and the conscious production of place at the former home of Benjamin Franklin.

Italy MOU Review

Thanks to your response, the AIA sent in hundreds of letters to the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) on your behalf. CPAC met May 6-7, 2010 to review the Memorandum of Understanding with Italy.

CPAC Hearing, Washington, D.C.: A Personal Account

The State Department’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee met on May 6, 2010, to consider renewing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the U.S. and Italy in 2001 and extended in 2006. Read AIA First Vice-President, Elizabeth Bartman’s personal account of the meeting.

AIA Site Preservation Program Launches $100,000 Pledge Drive at 2nd Annual Gala

The AIA Site Preservation program kicked off a pledge drive the night of the 2nd Annual AIA Gala in New York City.

Site Preservation Grant Awarded to Gault Site in Texas

In honor of World Heritage Day this weekend, the Archaeological Institute of America announced that its fifth Site Preservation Grant will be awarded to the Gault School of Archaeological Research in central Texas.

Overcoming the Crisis in Mosaic Conservation

Thomas Roby, Senior Project Specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute and an AIA Site Preservation Committee member writes about challenges in mosaic conservation.

Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (CPIA) of 1983: Fact Sheet

The Act: The Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act, 19 U.S.C. §§ 2601-13 (CPIA), is the legislation that implements the U.S.’s ratification of the 1970 UNESCO Convention to curb archaeological […]

Site Preservation a Live Auction Item at 2nd NYC Gala

Attendees were given the opportunity to place bids in $500 increments to help stop the destruction of archaeological sites and save our irreplaceable cultural heritage.

AIA Urges Protection of Iraq’s Archaeological Heritage

As the prospect for war in Iraq gains momentum, archaeologists have become increasingly concerned about the fate of that country’s archaeological sites, antiquities, and cultural property.

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