SPI, an initiative supported by the AIA, awarded $48,000 for artisanal and touristic development and preservation to a Moche site in Peru.
Site preservation experts, conservators, archaeologists, students, and AIA members gathered together at AIA’s 111th Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA, to discuss the effects of globalization, increased tourism, climate change, and warfare on archaeological sites.
Northeast Cambodia—Paving the Way with More than Asphalt
A First-Person Account of the CPAC Meeting Reviewing Italian Import Restrictions
AIA Awards New Grant to Help Save Cultural Heritage – Project will use technology to recreate a five-thousand-year-old Chalcolithic roundhouse in Cyprus
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).
Site Preservation Workshop held at Annual Meeting
Approximately 100 scholars from around the world and representing many disciplines met in Amherst, Massachusetts, November 9-10, at the Heritage in Conflict and Consensus workshop.
The AIA is supporting Heritage in Conflict and Consensus: New Approaches to the Social, Political, and Religious Impact of Public Heritage in the 21st Century, a workshop that will take place at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Bard College November 9–13.
Read about our efforts to preserve Easter Island’s iconic moai statues, and an innovative archaeology program for high-school students in Belize.
