2020 Carryl B. Martin Award goes to Thatcher Rogers
The 2020 Carryl B. Martin award of $5,00o has been given to Thatcher Rogers of the University of New Mexico for his project entitled Between Casas Grandes and Salado: Community Formation and Interaction at the Pendleton Ruin Site in the Borderlands of the American Southwest/Northwest Mexico Region, A.D. 1200-1450.
This project seeks to examine how groups located in fringe and peripheral areas adopt cultural technologies and behavioral attributes from cultural cores and will explore these processes on both a local and a regional scale through an examination of late prehispanic settlements in the International Four Corners area of the American Southwest/Mexican Northwest region.
Eight excellent proposals from eight different institutions were received making the choice difficult for the Awards Committee.
2021 Hayden Paper Competition Winner
We are pleased to announce this year’s Hayden Paper winner is James Wade Campbell of Harvard University for his paper Na’nilkad bee na’niltin – Learning from Herding: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Historic Pastoralism on the Navajo Nation. His submittal on the ethnoarchaeology of pastoralism, results from six months of living and working with shepherds on Black Mesa and studying the spatial signatures of their lives.
The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society and Arizona Archaeological Council sponsor the annual Julian D. Hayden Paper Competition, named in honor of long-time southwestern scholar Julian Dodge Hayden. The winning entry receives a cash prize of $1,000 and publication of the paper in Kiva, The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History. The competition is open to any bona fide undergraduate and graduate student at any recognized college or university. Co-authored papers will be accepted if all authors are students. Subject matter may include the anthropology, archaeology, history, linguistics, and/or ethnology of the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico, or any other topic appropriate for publication in Kiva.
