This list of archaeology awards is an index to articles on notable awards given for archaeology, the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. View the individual articles for more detail.
Country | Award | Sponsor | Description |
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United Kingdom & Ireland | Archaeological Achievement Awards | Council for British Archaeology | Various contributions to archaeology from UK and Ireland [1] |
United Kingdom | Archaeology Awards | Current Archaeology | Various contributions to archaeology [2] |
United Kingdom | Chalmers-Jervise Prize | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland | Biennial prize for the best paper on any subject in the prehistory or archaeology of Scotland before AD 1100 accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. [3] |
Germany | Ceram Prize | Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn | Non-fiction books in archaeology [4] |
United States | Cornplanter Medal | Cayuga County Historical Society | Scholastic and other contributions to the betterment of knowledge of the Iroquois people [5] |
United States | Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement | Archaeological Institute of America | Scholar who has made distinguished contributions to archaeology through his or her fieldwork, publications, and/or teaching [6] |
United Kingdom | Grahame Clark Medal | British Academy | Academic achievement involving recent contributions to the study of prehistoric archaeology [7] |
United States | J. C. Harrington Award | Society for Historical Archaeology | Life-time of contributions to the discipline centered on scholarship [8] |
United Kingdom | Kenyon Medal | British Academy | Work in the field of classical studies and archaeology [9] |
United Kingdom | Martyn Jope Award | Society for Medieval Archaeology | "Best novel interpretation, application of analytical method or presentation of new findings" [10] |
United Kingdom | Peter Neaverson Award | Association for Industrial Archaeology | "Outstanding scholarship in industrial archaeology" [11] |
Canada | Smith-Wintemberg Award | Canadian Archaeological Association | Outstanding lifetime contributions to Canadian archaeology [12] |
Sweden | Viking Fund Medal | Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research | Distinguishing research or publication in the field of Anthropology [13] [14] |
The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spanning all disciplines across the humanities and social sciences and a funding body for research projects across the United Kingdom. The academy is a self-governing and independent registered charity, based at 10–11 Carlton House Terrace in London.
Burton Richter was an American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.
Bruce Graham Trigger was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian. He was appointed the James McGill Professor at McGill University in 2001.
Lisa Anne Jardine was a British historian of the early modern period.
Homer Armstrong Thompson was a Canadian classical archaeologist of the twentieth century, specializing in ancient Greece. As a fellow of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Thompson led the excavations of the Athenian Agora from May 25, 1931 until 1970. He was married to a fellow archaeologist, Dorothy Burr Thompson.
Britton "Brit" Chance was an American biochemist, biophysicist, scholar, and inventor whose work helped develop spectroscopy as a way to diagnose medical problems. He was "a world leader in transforming theoretical science into useful biomedical and clinical applications" and is considered "the founder of the biomedical photonics." He received the National Medal of Science in 1974.
Caroline Walker Bynum, FBA is a Medieval scholar from the United States. She is a University Professor emerita at Columbia University and Professor emerita of Western Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She was the first woman to be appointed University Professor at Columbia. She is former Dean of Columbia's School of General Studies, served as president of the American Historical Association in 1996, and President of the Medieval Academy of America in 1997–1998.
George Fletcher Bass was an American archaeologist. An early practitioner of underwater archaeology, he co-directed the first expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck at Cape Gelidonya in 1960 and founded the Institute of Nautical Archaeology in 1972.
Cato T. Laurencin FREng SLMH is an American engineer, physician, scientist, innovator and a University Professor of the University of Connecticut.
David Boyle was a Canadian blacksmith, teacher, archaeologist, musicologist, and historian.
Reginald Henry Campbell was a British artist born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Geraldine Lee Richmond is an American chemist and physical chemist who is serving as the Under Secretary of Energy for Science in the US Department of Energy. Richmond was confirmed to her DOE role by the United States Senate on November 5, 2021. Richmond is the Presidential Chair in Science and professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon (UO). She conducts fundamental research to understand the chemistry and physics of complex surfaces and interfaces. These understandings are most relevant to energy production, atmospheric chemistry and remediation of the environment. Throughout her career she has worked to increase the number and success of women scientists in the U.S. and in many developing countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Richmond has served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and she received the 2013 National Medal of Science.
Robin Fleming is a medieval historian and a professor of history at Boston College. She is the president of the Medieval Academy of America and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. She has written several books focusing on the people of Roman Britain and early medieval Britain, using both archaeological evidence and written records.
The Cornplanter Medal was named for the Iroquois chief Cornplanter and is an award for scholastic and other contributions to the betterment of knowledge of the Iroquois people. It was initiated by University of Chicago anthropologist Frederick Starr with seed money from nine associates in order to engrave and print sketches of Iroquois games and dances. Starr had two main goals while he planned the medal:
The British Academy presents 18 awards and medals to recognise achievement in the humanities and social sciences.
The President's Medal is awarded annually by the British Academy to up to five individuals or organisations. It is awarded for "outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences". It cannot be awarded to Fellows of the British Academy and was created to reward "academic-related activity rather than academic achievement alone". The medals were first awarded in 2010.
Anna Marguerite McCann was an American art historian and archaeologist. She is known for being an early influencer—and the first American woman—in the field of underwater archaeology, beginning in the 1960s. McCann authored works pertaining to Roman art and Classical archaeology, and taught both art history and archaeology at various universities in the United States. McCann was an active member of the Archaeological Institute of America, and received its Gold Medal Award in 1998. She also published under the name Anna McCann Taggart.