The Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement is awarded by the

Archaeological Institute of America The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is North America, North America's oldest learned society and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology. AIA professionals have carried out archaeological fieldwork around the world and ...

in "recognition of a scholar who has made distinguished contributions to archaeology through his or her fieldwork, publications, and/or teaching." It is the institute's highest award. First awarded in 1965, it has been awarded annually since 1969.

List of AIA Gold Medal winners

*2025: Andrea Berlin *2024: John Camp *2023: Andrew F. Stewart *2022: Elizabeth Fentress *2021: Katherine M.D. Dunbabin *2020: Jack L. Davis, University of Cincinnati *2019: Curtis Runnels, Boston University *2018:

Ian Hodder Ian Richard Hodder (born 23 November 1948, in Bristol) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980 and 1990. At this time he had suc ...

, Stanford University *2017
John R. Clarke, University of Texas at Austin
*2016

University of Virginia *2015: Charles Brian Rose *2014: L. Hugh Sackett *2013: Jeremy B. Rutter *2012: Lawrence Richardson Jr. *2011: Susan Irene Rotroff *2010: John Humphrey *2009: Henry Tutwiler Wright *2008: James Wiseman *2007: Larissa Bonfante *2006: Maria C. Shaw and Joseph W. Shaw *2005:

Lionel Casson Lionel Casson (July 22, 1914 – July 18, 2009) was a classical archaeologist, professor emeritus at New York University, and a specialist in maritime history. He earned his B.A. in 1934 at New York University, and in 1936 became an assistant pr ...

*2004: David B. Stronach *2003: Philip Betancourt *2002: Robert McCormick Adams *2001: Emmett L. Bennett Jr. *1999: Patty Jo Watson *1998: Anna Marguerite McCann *1997
Clemency Chase Coggins
ref name="Gibbon2005"> *1996: Wilhelmina F. Jashemski *1995: R. Ross Holloway *1994: Emeline Richardson *1993
Charles Kaufman Williams, II
*1992: Evelyn Byrd Harrison *1991: Machteld J. Mellink *1990: John W. Hayes *1989: Virginia R. Grace *1988: Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway and John Desmond Clark *1987:

Dorothy Burr Thompson Dorothy Burr Thompson (August 19, 1900 – May 10, 2001) was an American classical archaeologist and art historian at Bryn Mawr College and a leading authority on Hellenistic terracotta figurines. Early life Thompson was the elder of two da ...

*1986: George F. Bass *1985
Saul S. Weinberg
and Gladys Davidson Weinberg *1984: Margaret Thompson *1983: James Bennet Pritchard *1982: Peter H. von Blanckenhagen *1981:

William Andrew McDonald William Andrew "Bill" McDonald (April 26, 1913 – January 11, 2000) was a Canadian archaeologist. Educated at the University of Toronto and at Johns Hopkins University, he took part in the early excavations of Carl Blegen at the Mycenaean site k ...

*1980: John Langdon Caskey *1979: Dows Dunham *1978: George M.A. Hanfmann *1977: Lucy Shoe Meritt *1976: Edith Porada *1975: Eugene Vanderpool *1974: Margarete Bieber *1973: Gordon R. Willey *1972: Homer A. Thompson *1971: Robert John Braidwood *1970: George E. Mylonas *1969: Oscar Theodore Broneer, Rhys Carpenter, and William B. Dinsmoor Jr. *1968: Gisela M. A. Richter *1967:

William Foxwell Albright William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891 – September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics. He is considered "one of the twentieth century's most influential American biblical scholars," h ...

*1966: Hetty Goldman *1965: Carl W. Blegen

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Gold Medal Awards
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List of AIA Gold Medal winners

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