Poster Awards - Archaeological Institute of America

Poster Awards

At each AIA Annual Meeting, there is a single session that includes all poster presentations. This session is generally assigned a five-hour time period (e.g., 11 AM–4 PM) on the first day of the meetings. The presenter or, in the case of multiple presenters, one of the presenters is stationed at the presentation for the first four hours of the session. Presenters are provided with a 4 × 8 foot space to display their materials.The PAMC regards poster presentations as a particularly effective way to present complex graphic and/or quantitative data.

Beginning in 2005, three awards were given to the best posters: the first is awarded to the presentation judged “best poster” by a panel of three judges appointed by the Program Committee; the second is presented to the poster judged “first runner-up” by the panel of judges; and the third will be presented to the poster deemed “Best poster designed entirely by a student or students.” Student posters are also eligible in the best poster and first runner up categories.

2013 Poster Award Winners

2013

Best Poster

Disinterring a Pompeian Middle-Class Neighborhood by Ambra Spinelli, University of Southern California, and Aimee Scorziello, Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia

Ambra-Spinelli and Aimee Scorziello
2013 Best Poster winners Ambra Spinelli and Aimee Scorziello with AIA VP Andrew Moore

2013

First Runner Up

An Exploration of Remote Sensing as a Tool for the Detection and Intensive Analysis of Historical Trail Features as Applied to the Old Spanish Trail in the Silurian Valley, California by Amy M. Oechsner, United States Bureau of Land Management

2013 First Runner Up Amy Oechsner with AIA VP Andrew Moore

2013

Best Poster Designed Entirely by Students

Revealing Domestic Religous Practice: A Study of the Distribution of Private Altars in Olynthus by Chelsea Gardner, University of British Columbia

2013 Student Poster winner Chelsea Gardner with AIA VP Andrew Moore

Past Poster Award Winners

2012	Best Poster	Horae in Roman Funerary Inscriptions by Simeon D. Ehrlich, University of Western Ontario
	Runner Up	Learning from their Mistakes: Try-Pieces, Wasters, and Other Evidence for Ceramic Production from the Potters'Quarter at Corinth by Bice Peruzzi, University of Cincinnati, and Amanda S. Reiterman, University of Pennsylvania
	Student Poster	Innovation or Desperation: An In-Depth Analysis of the Apodyterium Mosaic at Poggio del Molino, Populonia, Italy by Jennifer Altman-Lupu, Archeodig Project
2011	Best Poster	The Construction and Use of Leather Goods in the Roman World by Elizabeth M. Greene, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	Runner Up	Analyzing Bronze Age Terrestrial and Marine Communication Routes in the Saronic Gulf and Argolid by Angelina D. Phebus, James M. L. Newhard, Norman Levine, College of Charleston
	Student Poster	Destruction and Death: Preliminary Observations of Archaeological Fauna from the Petsas House Well by Gypsy Price, University of Florida, and Jackie Meier, University of Connecticut
2010	Best Poster	“Reconstructing and testing Ancient Greek Linen Body Armor: The UWGB Linothorax Project” by Gregory S. Aldrete and Scott Bartell, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
	Runner Up	“Making a Table: A Case Study of Provincial Late Antique Craftsmanship” by Nicolas Beaudry, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Elio Hobdari, Institute of Archaeology, Tirana and Alexia Grammatikaki, Athens
	Student Poster	“The Mopsos Archaeological Survey: New Thoughts on the Battle of Issus” by Brandon R. Olson, Thaddeus J. Olson, and Jeffrey T. Herrick, Penn State University
2009	Best Poster	"Also 10 Tribal Unites- The Grouping of Cavalry on the Parthenon North Frieze" Toshihiro Osada, Tsukuba University
	Runner Up	"Dowel-holes and Marble Veneers: the Pantheon's Lost Original Exterior" Amanda Reitrman, University of Pennsylvania
	Student Poster Award	"Prehistoric Pottery from Lofkënd, Albania: From Bronze to Iron Age in the Balkans” Seth Pevnick and Esmeralda Agolli, UCLA, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
2008	Best Poster	Dating Roman Mortar and Concrete with Radiocarbon Analysis: John R. Hale, University of Louisville, Åsa Ringbom, Åbo Akademi University, Jan Heinemeier, Aarhus University, Alf Lindroos, Åbo Akademi University, Lynne Lancaster, Ohio University, and Fiona Brock, Oxford University.
	Runner Up	The Imperial Temple Project at Antiocheia ad Kragos in Turkey: 2007 Season: Michael Hoff, University of Nebraska, Rhys Townsend, Clark University, Ece Erdogmus, University of Nebraska, and Seher Turkmen, Alanya Archaeological Museum
	Student Poster Award	Grad Student: Dovetails or Lashings? A Case Study in Middle Kingdom Ship Construction and How to Prove It: Pearce Paul Creasman, Texas A&M University
2008	People's Choice	First Place and Grad Student: Rapid Cooling Effects in Copper Smelting Slags from Chrysokamino: Miriam G. Clinton, University of Pennsylvania, Shannon Martino, University of Pennsylvania, George H. Myer and Dennis O. Terry, Jr., Temple University; and Philip P. Betancourt, Temple University. Runner up: Byzantium Beneath the Black Sea: Bridget Buxton, Robert Ballard, Michael Brennan, Dwight Coleman, Katy Croff, University of Rhode Island, Dan Davis, The University of Texas at Austin, Dennis Piechota, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Sergiy Voronov, Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Download Poster (PDF) The People's Choice awards have been discontinued.
2007	Best Poster	The Foundations of Empire: Research on the Engineering Characteristics of Roman Maritime Concrete John Peter Oleson, University of Victoria, Christopher J. Brandon, Pringle-Brandon Architects, and Robert L. Hohlfelder, University of Colorado at Boulder 2007 Best Poster Winner
	Runner Up	Obsidian Studies in Southern Armenia: Work by the Vorotan Project in 2005-2006 John F. Cherry, Brown University, Elissa Z. Faro, University of Michigan, and Ruben Badalyan, Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography, Yerevan 2007 Poster Runner Up
	Student Poster Award	Late Bronze Age Hard Stone Seals with the Motif of a Pair of Recumbent Bulls from the Greek Mainland Eleni Drakaki, New York University
	Student Poster Award Honorable Mention	A Compositional Study of Blackgloss Ware and Pre-Sigilatta from Cetamura del Chianti (Italy) Scott C. Gallimore and J. Theodore Peña, University at Buffalo-SUNY
2006	Best Poster	Excavations at Hawara (Modern Humayma, Jordan), 2005 M. Barbara Reeves, Queen’s University, Erik de Bruijn, University of British Columbia, John P. Oleson, University of Victoria, and Andrew N. Sherwood, University of Guelph
	Runner Up	Painters on Pots? John Muccigrosso, Drew University
	Student Poster Award	Late Neolithic Pottery from Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan Kevin T. Gibbs, University of Toronto
	Student Poster Award Honorable Mention	The Early Occupation Levels at Vindolanda Roman Fort: The Potential of Anaerobic Preservation in Archaeological Environments Elizabeth Marie Greene, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2005	Best Poster	Road Works in Roman Corinth: A Newly Excavated Street in the Panaghia Field Jennifer Palinkas, Emory University, and James A. Herbst, Corinth Excavations, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
	Runner Up	Aeginetan Ware Technology, Production and Exchange: An Archaeological Reappraisal Christine M. Shriner, James G. Brophy, and Haydn H. Murray, Indiana University, and George E. Christidis, Technical University of Crete
	Best Graduate Student Poster	Before Antikythera: The First Underwater Survey in Greece Alexis Catsambis, Texas A&M University
**Please note that prior to 2005 only the Best Poster Award was given.
2004	Best Poster	CGMA: Collaboratory for GIS and Mediterranean Archaeology Rebecca K. Schindler and Pedar W. Foss, DePauw University