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Archaeological Institute of America The AIA promotes archaeological inquiry and understanding of the material record of the human past
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The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is North America's oldest and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology. The AIA is a nonprofit group with some 200,000 Members belonging to over 100 Local Societies.

Your experience matters! Join our letter writing campaign to save a place you love.The Cultural Property Advisory Commit...
06/11/2026

Your experience matters! Join our letter writing campaign to save a place you love.

The Cultural Property Advisory Committee will meet soon to consider requests from Albania, Nigeria, or Romania to renew bilateral agreements that protect their cultural resources from being illegally imported into the United States.

If you appreciate the cultural heritage of any of these countries, you can help preserve the past by writing a letter of support for the renewal of these agreements before the Committee’s July meeting.

Deadline: July 5, 2026, at 11:59 PM EST

To submit comments, use regulations.gov, enter docket DOS-2026-0628, and follow the prompts.

Scan the QR code or visit buff.ly/ybRlYmf for letter templates and submission instructions.

📸 “Butrint (Buthrotum) – The Great Basilica,” © 2014 by Pudelek, used under CC BY-SA

Time is running out to join the matching challenge! Any donation made between now and June 30 will be matched, dollar fo...
06/11/2026

Time is running out to join the matching challenge! Any donation made between now and June 30 will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to $50,000!

Your support is needed now more than ever. A gift to the Annual Fund sustains the AIA’s core programs and ensures that critical research, site preservation, and outreach efforts continue to thrive year after year.

Boost your impact while the match lasts and give today: https://buff.ly/oTcFrkF

📸 Tomb of Mehu, Oxford Expedition to Egypt. Photo by Julia Clare Francis Hamilton

Congratulations to Team ROBOTECH from Barcelona on winning the FIRST® LEGO® League Champion’s Award for their ARKEODENS ...
06/09/2026

Congratulations to Team ROBOTECH from Barcelona on winning the FIRST® LEGO® League Champion’s Award for their ARKEODENS project! 🎉 ARKEODENS is an automated flotation and sediment-processing system designed to help archaeologists recover tiny remains from soil samples, including seeds, small bones, bark, shells, charcoal, and other micro-remains.

We spoke with the team to learn more about their Innovation Project and how they explored this season’s theme on their journey to becoming FIRST® LEGO® Champions.

Click here to learn more: https://www.archaeological.org/team-robotech-of-barcelona-wins-the-2026-first-lego-league-champions-award/

Congratulations to the 24 recipients of this year’s Archaeological Field School Scholarships! This year, the AIA awarded...
06/08/2026

Congratulations to the 24 recipients of this year’s Archaeological Field School Scholarships!

This year, the AIA awarded the highest total amount of funding in the program’s history. These scholarships support undergraduate juniors, seniors, and first-year graduate students launch their careers in archaeology.

American School of Prehistoric Research Archaeological Field School Scholarship
• Karter Hanley (University of New Hampshire)
• Mackenzie Harris (McMaster University)
• Michaela Maguin (Rice University)
• Morgan McGuire (Texas State University)
• Kathryn Snyder (Brock University)
• Lola Vieuxloup-Boulain (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

Jane C. Waldbaum Field School Scholarship
• Ava Anthony (Franklin and Marshall College)
• Madison Cardiel (Binghamton University, SUNY)
• Alexandra Falvella (Florida State University)
• Emilee Foulk (Florida State University)
Katarina Hemeleski (Michigan State University)
• Omar Ibrahim (Montclair State University)
• Tori Korman (Pennsylvania State University)
• Willow MaGinnis (SUNY Oneonta)
• Catalina Montes Lagos (University of Arizona)
• Raine Neely (Vanderbilt University)
• Christina Ortiz (Arizona State University)
• Jillienne Robinson-Warren (University of New Hampshire)
• Alisa Vazgryna (Northwestern University)

Obolensky Field School Scholarship
• Rachel Hsieh (UCLA)
• Claire Malone (St. Olaf College)
• Olivia Neer (California State University San Marcos)
• Summer Tucker (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Charley Walsh (UCLA)

Congratulations to all of this year’s scholars!

06/05/2026

New issue of Archaeology Magazine—online and on newsstands now! Who was Egypt’s first queen? Who built Ohio’s iconic Serpent Mound? Why did the medieval French start playing tennis? We’ve got stories about fantastic sites and finds, both famed and unexpected, this go-round. Plus, get to know the Massachusetts folks whose lives were upended in the American Revolution. Check it out.

archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2026/

(📸 © Araldo De Luca)

Our $50,000 matching challenge is underway—and your gift right now will go twice as far. Every dollar supports critical ...
06/04/2026

Our $50,000 matching challenge is underway—and your gift right now will go twice as far.

Every dollar supports critical research, site preservation, and programs that bring archaeology to life for people everywhere.

Click here to donate: https://bit.ly/4ealhTS

If you've already given, thank you! If not, we hope you'll take advantage of this opportunity to help us meet the full match and amplify the power of your gift.

The Photo Challenge kicks off today!The DigThis Challenge is an archaeology-themed photo scavenger hunt open to partic...
06/02/2026

The Photo Challenge kicks off today!

The DigThis Challenge is an archaeology-themed photo scavenger hunt open to participants of all skill levels. Starting today, you’ll have all summer to complete photo prompts and compete for exciting prizes.

Here’s how it works:

✅️ Participants will receive a bingo card filled with photo prompts.
✅️ You will have from June 1—August 31 to complete and submit entries through the submission form.
✅️ Each completed bingo row counts as one entry into the prize drawing. Rows may be completed vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
✅️ You may submit multiple entries, and each additional completed row increases your chances of winning!

Five winners will be randomly selected to receive a one year AIA Supporting (or student, if applicable) membership including ARCHAEOLOGY magazine in the digital format.

The more bingo rows you complete, the more opportunities you have to win!

Access the bingo card and submission form here: www.archaeological.org/digthis-photo-challenge/

We have exciting news: a generous donor has just unlocked a $50,000 matching challenge—and every dollar you give between...
05/28/2026

We have exciting news: a generous donor has just unlocked a $50,000 matching challenge—and every dollar you give between now and June 30 will be doubled!

This is a rare chance to make twice the impact in protecting archaeological sites, supporting emerging scholars, and sharing discoveries with the world.

Will you help us meet the match by June 30?

Click here to donate: https://bit.ly/4ealhTS

Thank you for your ongoing support of the archaeological community!

AIA Fellowships in Action: Monuments in Motion in Roman GreeceWhat stories can “wandering” monuments tell? Scholars have...
05/27/2026

AIA Fellowships in Action: Monuments in Motion in Roman Greece

What stories can “wandering” monuments tell? Scholars have long debated whether architectural spolia—materials reused from earlier structures—reflects pragmatic recycling or ideological motivations. However, repurposed religious buildings are not so easy to put in a box.

Katrina Kuxhausen-DeRose (UCLA), recipient of the 2026 Colburn Fellowship, is tracing the exceptional journeys of reused sacred monuments in Roman Greece in order to follow how temples and altars were selected, dismantled, transported, and rebuilt under imperial rule.

With support from the AIA, Katrina will travel to Greece to reconsider legacy data from the early Athenian Agora Excavations a century ago, combining architectural materials analysis with spatial reconstruction to understand the behaviors, movements, and transformations enacted on reused blocks.

Her research treats material reuse as an active, risky, and diversely meaningful process of negotiation. As reused sacred architecture gathered or lost meaning through movement, ancient people could shape cultural heritage, ritual, identity, and authority across communities and generations.

Click here to learn more about Katrina and her background in archaeology: https://buff.ly/LvNkTH7

AIA Grants in Action: Climate Aridity and the Spread of Early Herding into Southern AfricaAround 2,000 years ago, herdin...
05/27/2026

AIA Grants in Action: Climate Aridity and the Spread of Early Herding into Southern Africa

Around 2,000 years ago, herding arrived in southern Africa—one of the last places on Earth where people made the shift from hunting and gathering to food production.

But why then, and why there?

Justin Pargeter (New York University), one of this year's Boochever Grant recipients, is investigating whether climate change played a key role in that transformation.

By analyzing nitrogen isotopes preserved in ancient rock and ostrich eggshells excavated from Boomplaas Cave in South Africa’s Cango Valley, Justin’s project reconstructs environmental conditions surrounding the arrival of the region’s earliest sheep herders.

Beyond archaeology, this research offers valuable insight into how human societies adapt to environmental stress, innovation, and shifting landscapes; questions that remain deeply relevant in today’s changing climate.

Click here to learn more about Justin and his background in archaeology: https://buff.ly/0tw3NXR

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