Professor Curtis Runnels awarded the AIA Gold Medal Award!
Professor Curtis Runnels has been awarded the prestigious Gold Medal from the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), and there will be a session honoring his legacy to archaeology on Jan 4, 2019 at the annual meeting. The Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement is awarded by the Archaeological Institute of America in “recognition of […]
Professor John Marston recipient of the AIA James R. Wiseman Book Award!
Archaeological Institute of America has selected Professor John Marston to be the twenty-ninth recipient of the James R. Wiseman Book Award for his 2017 book, Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion. He will receive the award at the meeting in January 2019 (alongside Curtis Runnels receiving the Gold Medal award!). Congratulations Mac!
AJA Necrology: Thomas Warren Jacobsen by Tracey Cullen
American Journal of Archaeology of the Archaeological Institute of America Thomas Warren Jacobsen 1935-2017 by Tracey Cullen Volume 121, Number 3 July 2017 Pages 5050-8 Please click here to read journal.
AIA Pomerance Fellowship Spotlight: Daniel Fallu (GRS’16)
The 2014 recipient of the Archaeological Institute of America’s Harriet and Leon Pomerance Fellowship, Daniel “Dan” Fallu, thought for a long time that he would become a lawyer. Yet that same drive to solve puzzles, along with a strong desire to travel, eventually led Dan to study archaeology. Click here to read more.
Daniel Fallu (GRS’16) recipient of a GRAF and AIA Pomerance Fellowship
Dan Fallu, Boston University Department of Archaeology graduate student has been awarded the long term GRAF. The GRAF is specifically for his field work and residency in Greece. The bulk of the funding will be put towards coring the banks of the Chavos River (part of the natural fortification of Mycenae) in order to develop […]