Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement

The Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement is awarded by the Archaeological Institute of America in "recognition of a scholar who has made distinguished contributions to archaeology through his or her fieldwork, publications, and/or teaching."

It is the institute's highest award. First awarded in 1965, it has been awarded annually since 1969.^[1]

List of AIA Gold Medal winners

• 2022: Elizabeth Fentress^[2]
• 2021: Katherine M.D. Dunbabin^[3]
• 2020: Jack L. Davis, University of Cincinnati^[4]
• 2019:Curtis Runnels, Boston University
• 2018:Ian Hodder, Stanford University
• 2017:John R. Clarke, University of Texas at Austin^[5]
• 2016:, University of Virginia^[6]
• 2015: Charles Brian Rose^[7]
• 2014: L. Hugh Sackett
• 2013: Jeremy B. Rutter^[8][9]
• 2012: Lawrence Richardson Jr.
• 2011: Susan Irene Rotroff^[10]
• 2010: John Humphrey^[11]
• 2009: Henry Tutwiler Wright^[12]
• 2008: James Wiseman^[13][14]
• 2007: Larissa Bonfante^[15]
• 2006: Maria C. Shaw and Joseph W. Shaw^[16][17]
• 2005: Lionel Casson^[18][19]
• 2004: David B. Stronach^[20]
• 2003: Philip Betancourt^[21][22]
• 2002: Robert McCormick Adams^[23]
• 2001: Emmett L. Bennett Jr.^[24]
• 1999: Patty Jo Watson^[25][26]
• 1998: Anna Marguerite McCann^[27][28]
• 1997: Clemency Chase Coggins^[29][30]
• 1996: Wilhelmina F. Jashemski^[31][32]
• 1995: R. Ross Holloway^[33]
• 1994: Emeline Richardson^[34]
• 1993: Charles Kaufman Williams, II^[35]
• 1992: Evelyn Byrd Harrison^[36]
• 1991: Machteld J. Mellink^[37][38]
• 1990: John W. Hayes^[39]
• 1989: Virginia R. Grace^[40]
• 1988: Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway^[41] and John Desmond Clark^[42][43]
• 1987: Dorothy Burr Thompson^[44]
• 1986: George F. Bass^[45][46][47]
• 1985: Saul S. Weinberg and Gladys Davidson Weinberg^[48]
• 1984: Margaret Thompson^[49]
• 1983: James Bennet Pritchard^[50]
• 1982: Peter H. von Blanckenhagen
• 1981: William Andrew McDonald^[51]
• 1980: John Langdon Caskey^[52][53]
• 1979: Dows Dunham^[54][55]
• 1978: George M.A. Hanfmann^[56]
• 1977: Lucy Shoe Meritt^[57]
• 1976: Edith Porada^[58]
• 1975: Eugene Vanderpool^[59]
• 1974: Margarete Bieber^[60]
• 1973: Gordon R. Willey^[61]
• 1972: Homer A. Thompson^[62]
• 1971: Robert John Braidwood^[63]
• 1970: George E. Mylonas^[64]
• 1969: Oscar Theodore Broneer, Rhys Carpenter, and William B. Dinsmoor Jr.
• 1968: Gisela M. A. Richter^[65]
• 1967: William Foxwell Albright^[66]
• 1966: Hetty Goldman^[67]
• 1965: Carl W. Blegen^[68]

See also

• Gold medal
• Gold medal awards
• List of history awards
• List of archaeology awards

References

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External links

• Gold Medal Awards Archaeological Institute of America web site