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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA A I A B U L L E T I N Volume 95 Fiscal Year 2004 AIA BULLETIN, Fiscal Year 2004 Table of Contents GOVERNING BOARD . 3 AWARD CITATIONS Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement . 4 Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology . 5 Martha and Artemis Joukowsky Distinguished Service Award . 5 James R . Wiseman Book Award . 6 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award . 7 Conservation and Heritage Management Award . 8 Outstanding Public Service Award . 8 ANNUAL REPORTS Report of the President . 10 Report of the First Vice President . 11 Report of the Vice President for Professional Responsibilities . 12 Report of the Vice President for Publications . 13 Report of the Vice President for Societies . 14 Report of the Treasurer . 14 Report of the Publisher, Archaeology . 20 Report of the Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Archaeology . 22 Report of the Development Committee . 22 MINUTES OF MEETINGS Executive Committee: July 2, 2003 . 24 Executive Committee: August 6, 2003 . 30 Executive Committee: September 10, 2003 . 34 Governing Board: October 18, 2003 . 38 Executive Committee: November 12, 2003 . 52 Executive Committee: December 10, 2003 . 56 Governing Board: January 2, 2004 . 62 nstitute of America nstitute I 125th Council: January 3, 2004 . 68 Executive Committee: February 11, 2004 . 79 Executive Committee: March 10, 2004 . 84 Executive Committee: April 12, 2004 . 88 Governing Board: May 1, 2004 . 95 Executive Committee: June 9, 2004 . 109 MARCH 2006 95 (July 2003–June 2004) Volume BULLETIN, the Archaeological © 2006 by Copyright 2 ARCHAEOLOgic AL INStitute OF AMERic A LECTURES AND PROGRAMS Special Lectures . 113 AIA National Lecture Program . 114 ROLL OF SPECIAL MEMBERS . 119 DONORS . 120 ANALYSIS OF MEMBERSHIP . 124 AIA DIRECTORY Honorary Presidents . 126 Institute Headquarters . 126 American Journal of Archaeology . 127 Archaeology Magazine . 127 Dig Magazine . 127 Committees of the AIA . 127 Interest Groups . 132 Delegates and Representatives . 132 LOCAL SOCIETY OFFICERS . 133 GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE . 138 APPENDIX Independent Auditor’s Report . 141 bulletin, FISC AL YEAR 2004 3 Governing Board OFFICERS ACADEMIC TRUSTEES Andrea Berlin President John McK . Camp, II Jane C . Waldbaum Susan Downey Kevin Glowacki First Vice President Jerald Milanich C . Brian Rose Andrew M . T . Moore Vice President for Professional Robert Murowchick Responsibilities Barbara Tsakirgis Malcolm Bell, III Patty Jo Watson Vice President for Publications SOCIETY TRUSTEES Susan Kane Alexandra Cleworth Donald Morrison Vice President for Societies Kathleen Donahue Sherwood Cameron Jean Walker PAST PRESIDENT Vice President for Education and Outreach Nancy C . Wilkie Shelby Brown Treasurer TRUSTEES EMERITI Jeffrey Lamia Richard H . Howland Norma Kershaw GENERAL COUNSEL Leonard V . Quigley AIA-CANADA REPRESENTATIVE of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (EX OFFICIO) Lea Stirling EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Bonnie R . Clendenning GENERAL TRUSTEES Elie Abemayor Elizabeth Bartman Mary Beth Buck Jerome Glick Charles S . La Follette Richard Leventhal Dorinda Oliver Kathleen A . Pavelko Alice S . Riginos Paul Rissman John J . Roche Lucille Roussin Joan Schiele Ava Seave Charles Steinmetz John H . Stubbs Michael Wiseman Robyn Woodward 4 ARCHAEOLOgic AL INStitute OF AMERic A Award Citations The 105th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America was held January 2–5, 2004, in conjunction with the American Philological Association, in San Francisco, California . At that meeting, the Archaeological Institute of America presented several awards to distin- guished recipients . GOLD MEDAL AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ARCHAEOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENT The Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement was awarded to David Stron- ach . Jane C . Waldbaum, President of the Institute, read the citation and presented the award . David Stronach Field archaeologist of consummate skill, esteemed scholar, and revered mentor to scores of younger practitioners, David Stronach is one of the great Near Eastern archaeologists of our time . Excavator of major historic sites in Mesopotamia, Iran, the Caucasus, and Anatolia, Stro- nach has illuminated the world of the early empires, especially of the Assyrians, Medes, and Persians . It is through this research, amply published, that he has made his greatest contribu- tions to archaeology . Stronach’s first significant excavation was in 1960 at the prehistoric site of Ras al ‘Amiya in southern Iraq . This substantial early village demonstrated that the ‘Ubaid culture had a continu- ous development on the alluvial plains of Mesopotamia . The excavation, rapidly published in the journal Iraq, demonstrated his emerging mastery of field technique . Following his appointment in 1961 as Director of the new British Institute of Persian Studies in Teheran, Stronach significantly enlarged our understanding of the empires of the Medes and the Persians . At Pasargadae, Stronach conducted new studies of the layout of the site and dem- onstrated for the first time the distinctive nature of Achaemenid site planning and architecture . His studies of the Tomb of Cyrus the Great cast new light on the construction and significance of this renowned monument . In the late 1960s Stronach began the decade-long excavation of the site that has brought him most renown, the Median sanctuary of Tepe Nush-i Jan . At this remarkably preserved site, with its fortress and Fire Temple, he has demonstrated that fire worship was embraced very early by the peoples of the Iranian plateau . The distinctive structural features of these buildings have confirmed that the Medes and the Persians were architectural innovators and no mere copi- ers of Babylonian and Greek styles, as had long been believed . Above all, Professor Stronach’s excavations have illuminated the distinctive place of the Medes among the early high cultures of western Asia . As Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of California at Berkeley since 1981, Stronach has undertaken campaigns of excavation at other sites across western Asia, partly to resolve key archaeological problems but also to provide training for his many gradu- ate students . His brief excavation at Nineveh from 1987 to 1990 was extraordinary in its vivid demonstration of the impact of the assaults of the Medes and the Babylonians in 614 B .C . and again in 612 B .C . All of those who have heard Stronach lecture on these excavations and have seen his slides of the exposed skeletons of the slaughtered Assyrian defenders of the Halzi Gate share a keen sense of the horror that attended the sack of this once great city . The results demon- strate once again that Stronach has always known exactly where to dig to get the information he needed, an ability that the rest of us can only marvel at . Stronach’s scholarly interests extend well beyond the topics of his own excavations . Among his other more distinctive contributions has been a series of remarkable papers on the early his- tory of gardens in the ancient Near East . Drawing on his work at Nineveh and other Assyrian and Babylonian sites, Stronach has provided convincing evidence of the political as well as aes- thetic importance of gardens for the rulers of the Mesopotamian empires of the first millennium B .C . But it is his insights derived from his excavations at Pasargadae that resonate most strongly . For he has demonstrated clearly that Cyrus and his successors originated a type of monumental bulletin, FISC AL YEAR 2004 5 garden design, the symmetrical fourfold garden or chahar bagh, that was once thought to have been developed in the Islamic period 1,500 years later . Throughout a long and distinguished career, Stronach has maintained the warmest of rela- tions with diverse colleagues, students, and a wide circle of admirers, including the many officials of the antiquities departments of the countries in which he has worked . He is a man of many friends and no enemies who is known as a gentleman and archaeologist of distinction across the world . It is with great pride that the Archaeological Institute of America awards Da- vid David Stronach the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement . POMERANCE AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT The Pomerance Award for Scientific Achievement was awarded to Ian Freestone . C . Brian Rose, First Vice President, read the citation and presented the award . Ian Freestone Ian Freestone has researched the ancient technologies of glass and ceramics with great sensitiv- ity to the geological resources that serve as their base . As Deputy Keeper of the Department of Scientific Research at the British Museum, he has pursued a distinguished research career, trained and mentored students, and managed the research staff of some 75 members . As Honor- ary Professor of the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London, and Ph .D . examiner for 10 other universities, he has had a major influence on the future of archaeological science . Freestone conceived and cocurated the exhibition, “Pottery in the Making—World Ceramic Traditions,” and is coeditor of a book that resulted from the exhibition . He has organized or co- organized 10 meetings, both within the British Museum and internationally, that focused on the problem areas of archaeological science and on ways of making instrumental breakthroughs in the analysis and interpretation of material culture . These have included early vitreous materi- als, glass making and forming processes of the Roman
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