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Building a Reconstructed Chalcolithic Roundhouse on Cyprus

AIA Site Preservation Grant Kissonerga Summer 2010 Update

Saving Antiquity: How an AIA Site Preservation Grant Is Making a Difference in Cambodia

The audience at Tuesday evening’s Archaeological Institute of America presentation at Boston University confronted some stunning evidence of what the chairman of the AIA Site Preservation Committee, Paul Rissman, calls […]

AIA Site Preservation Grant Will Protect Underwater Maya Wooden Structures

The AIA announced today that the only known Classic Maya wooden structures, located in Paynes Creek National Park in Belize, will benefit from a $25,000 Site Preservation Grant.

Ben’s House: Designing History at Franklin Court, Philadelphia

AIA Site Preservation Committee member Frank G. Matero discusses designing history and the conscious production of place at the former home of Benjamin Franklin.

Italy MOU Review

Thanks to your response, the AIA sent in hundreds of letters to the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) on your behalf. CPAC met May 6-7, 2010 to review the Memorandum of Understanding with Italy.

CPAC Hearing, Washington, D.C.: A Personal Account

The State Department’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee met on May 6, 2010, to consider renewing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the U.S. and Italy in 2001 and extended in 2006. Read AIA First Vice-President, Elizabeth Bartman’s personal account of the meeting.

AIA Site Preservation Program Launches $100,000 Pledge Drive at 2nd Annual Gala

The AIA Site Preservation program kicked off a pledge drive the night of the 2nd Annual AIA Gala in New York City.

Site Preservation Grant Awarded to Gault Site in Texas

In honor of World Heritage Day this weekend, the Archaeological Institute of America announced that its fifth Site Preservation Grant will be awarded to the Gault School of Archaeological Research in central Texas.

Overcoming the Crisis in Mosaic Conservation

Thomas Roby, Senior Project Specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute and an AIA Site Preservation Committee member writes about challenges in mosaic conservation.

Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (CPIA) of 1983: Fact Sheet

The Act: The Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act, 19 U.S.C. §§ 2601-13 (CPIA), is the legislation that implements the U.S.’s ratification of the 1970 UNESCO Convention to curb archaeological […]

Site Preservation a Live Auction Item at 2nd NYC Gala

Attendees were given the opportunity to place bids in $500 increments to help stop the destruction of archaeological sites and save our irreplaceable cultural heritage.

AIA Urges Protection of Iraq’s Archaeological Heritage

As the prospect for war in Iraq gains momentum, archaeologists have become increasingly concerned about the fate of that country’s archaeological sites, antiquities, and cultural property.

Open Declaration on Cultural Heritage at Risk in Iraq

The extraordinary global significance of the monuments, museums, and archaeological sites of Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia) imposes an obligation on all peoples and governments to protect them. In any military conflict that heritage is put at risk, and it appears now to be in grave danger.

Recovering Iraq’s Past – NEH Iraq Initiative

In the face of the recent destruction and looting of Iraq’s archaeological sites, museums and libraries, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced an initiative aimed at the preservation and documentation of “cultural resources in Iraq’s archives, libraries, and museums.

Sustainable Preservation Initiative (SPI) Announces First Grant Winner

SPI, an initiative supported by the AIA, awarded $48,000 for artisanal and touristic development and preservation to a Moche site in Peru.

Site Preservation Workshop at 2010 Annual Meeting

Site preservation experts, conservators, archaeologists, students, and AIA members gathered together at AIA’s 111th Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA, to discuss the effects of globalization, increased tourism, climate change, and warfare on archaeological sites.

Archaeological Institute of America Awards Site Preservation Grant to Heritage Watch

Northeast Cambodia—Paving the Way with More than Asphalt

Politics & Archaeology

A First-Person Account of the CPAC Meeting Reviewing Italian Import Restrictions

Computer Animation Not Just for Video Games

AIA Awards New Grant to Help Save Cultural Heritage – Project will use technology to recreate a five-thousand-year-old Chalcolithic roundhouse in Cyprus

The Reconstruction of Ruins: Principles and Practice

Read AIA Site Preservation Committee member Nicholas Stanley-Price’s recent chapter on reconstruction principles from the book Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths (edited by Alison Richmond and Alison Bracker).

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