The Archeology Division of the American Anthropological Association was founded in 1983 to advance the study of archeology as an aspect of anthropology, to provide a forum for members to discuss issues central to the development of archeology, and to foster the publication and communication of the results of archeological research and interpretations to anthropologists, to other scholars, and to the general public. Members of the Archeology Division receive the AAA flagship journal, the American Anthropologist, and publications in the Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association series.
Bylaws of the Archeology Division
Responsibilities of Office
Officers of the Archeology Division
Membership in the Archeology Division
Special Information for Student Members
Awards of the Archeology Division
Archeology Division Distinguished Lecturer
The Archeology Division also selects the recipient of the A. V. Kidder Award presented by the American Anthropological Association.
Publications of the Archeology Division
Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association
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Membership in the Archeology Division entitles you to
Current membership rates:
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Regular |
$35 |
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Student |
$10 |
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Joint |
$15 |
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International |
$15 |
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Retired |
$15 |
Special Information for Student Members
The Archeology Division offers a special incentive for student members:
-mention the notice of this offer in AN section news or the SAA
Bulletin
-request the discount when joining the AAA and the AD
-submit a photocopy of your student ID with payment to the AAA
In addition, student members have the opportunity to participate as AD Executive Committee At-Large Student Member. Interested student members of the AD should contact the Nominating Committee chair (see above for link to name and address information).
Awards
Beginning with the 1989 Annual Meeting, the Archeology Division inaugurated a series of Distinguished Lectures. Each lecturer delivers a talk at the Annual Meeting, and the distinguished lectures may subsequently be published in American Anthropologist. Past Distinguished Lecturers and the titles of their talks were:
1989 Charles Redman: In Defense of the Seventies: The Adolescence of New Archaeology and its Progeny in the Nineties
1990 Bruce Trigger: Constraint and Freedom: A new Synthesis of Archeological Interpretation
1991 Elizabeth Brumfiel: Breaking and Entering the Ecosystem: Gender, Class, and Faction Steal the Show
1992 George Cowgill: Beyond Criticizing New Archaeology
1993 Mark Leone: Historical Archeology Of and Against the State
1994 Carol Kramer: The Quick and the Dead
1995 Patrick V Kirch: Microcosmic Histories: Island Perspectives on Global Change
1996 Jeremy Sabloff: The Past and Future of American Archaeology
1997 Margaret Conkey: Paleolithic Pathways: Archaeological Theory and Practice of the Deep Past
1998 Gil Stein: Diasporas, Colonies and World Systems: Rethinking the Archaeology of Interregional Interaction
1999 Theresa Singleton: Other Voices, Other Times: Historical Archaeology and Perceptions of the Past
This prize recognizes the best archeology paper published in the American Anthropologist over a period of three years. Named after Professor Gordon R. Willey, the award recognizes one of the few archaeologists to have served as President of the AAA, in 1961. It encourages archeologists to pursue Willey's well-known maxim (even if he did not first pen it!) that archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing.
The award winner is selected from those papers published in the American
Anthropologist in the three calendar years previous to the year of the award
(excluding the distinguished lectures). Since the inauguration of the award in
1997, the following papers have been selected for recognition:
1997 Melinda Zeder After the Revolution: Post-Neolithic Subsistence in
Northern Mesopotamia
1998 Patricia Crown and Suzanne Fish Gender and Status in the Hohokam
Pre-Classic to Classic Transition
Established in 1950, the Alfred Vincent Kidder Award for Eminence in the
field of American archeology is given every three years to an outstanding
archeologist specializing in the archeology of the Americas. The award has been
given alternately to specialists in North America and Latin America. Past Kidder
Award winners were:
Alfred Marsten Tozzer (1950)
Earl H Morris (1953)
Samuel K Lothrop (1956)
Charles C DiPeso (1959)
Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1962)
Neil Judd (1965)
Paul S Martin (1968)
Richard S MacNeish (1971)
Gordon R Willey (1974)
Emil W Haury (1977)
William T Sanders (1980)
Watson Smith (1983)
Ignacio Bernal (1986)
Richard B Woodbury (1989)
Kent V Flannery (1992)
Jesse D Jennings (1995)
Jeffrey R. Parsons (1998)
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updated 6/7/01