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The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America Source: American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 95, No. 2 (Apr., 1991), pp. 285-339 Published by: Archaeological Institute of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/505727 Accessed: 30-05-2015 14:01 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Archaeological Institute of America is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to American Journal of Archaeology. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 134.153.184.170 on Sat, 30 May 2015 14:01:56 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America was held in conjunction with the 122nd Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association in San Francisco, California, on 27-30 December 1990. On 28 December Martha Sharp Joukowsky, President of the Archaeological Institute of America, presented the Institute's 26th annual Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement to John W. Hayes. George F. Bass, Vice-President of the Institute, presented the 1 1th annual Pomerance Award of the Archaeological Institute of America for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology to Robert H. Brill. The second annual James R. Wiseman Book Award was presented by President Joukowsky to Oscar White Muscarella for Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lloyd E. Cotsen was given the Institute's Volunteer Service Award by Past President James R. Wiseman. On 29 December, at the 112th Meeting of the Council of the Archaeological Institute of America, the following were elected: Martha Sharp Joukowsky, President; James Russell, Vice-President; Joseph J. Bonsignore, Getzel M. Cohen, Daniel F. Morley, Andrew Oliver, Jr., and John J. Slocum, General Trustees; Clemency Chase Coggins, Timothy E. Gregory, and Karen D. Vitelli, Academic Trustees; and Raymond L. Den Adel, Society Trustee. Four members were also elected to the Nominating Committee: Nancy T. de Grummond, Charles La Follette, Anna Marguerite McCann, and G. Kenneth Sams. In addition, Vassos Karageorghis was elected as a Foreign Honorary Member. The AIA Council also adopted a Code of Ethics at the meeting. The text of the Code of Ethics and the four award citations are printed here, followed by the abstracts of the papers delivered on 28-30 December. ARCHAEOLOGICALINSTITUTE OF AMERICA CODE OF ETHICS The Archaeological Institute of America is dedicated to the greater understanding of archaeology, to the protection and preservation of the world's archaeological resources and the information they contain, and to the encouragement and support of archaeological research and publication. In accordance with these principles, members of the AIA should: 1) Seek to ensure that the exploration of archaeological sites be conducted according to the highest standards under the direct supervision of qualified personnel, and that the results of such research be made public; 2) Refuse to participate in the illegal trade in antiquities derived from excavation in any country after 30 December 1970 when the AIA Council endorsed the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property, and refrain from activities that enhance the commercial value of such objects; 3) Inform appropriate authorities of threats to, or plunder of, archaeological sites, and of the illegal import or export of archaeological material. AmericanJournal ofArchaeology 95 (1991) 285 This content downloaded from 134.153.184.170 on Sat, 30 May 2015 14:01:56 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 286 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA [AJA 95 ARCHAEOLOGICALINSTITUTE OF AMERICA AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ARCHAEOLOGICALACHIEVEMENT JOHN W. HAYES The abiding impression that many of us must share of John Hayes is one of a thinnish figure, bending over a table strewn with pottery, his spectacles halfway down his nose and long slender fingers sorting with an amazing rapidity. This figure is to be seen in excavation houses throughout the Mediterranean and beyond. The pottery he examines at those tables is inscribed forever on his memory, not only the color and fabric, but profiles and shapes. During this process, Hayes's mind has counted the sherds and placed them in their appropriate categories, many of which he is the author. Whether it be the fragment of an 18th-century Turkish pipe, some roughly made Slavic vessel, or even Mycenaean coarse ware, it is all assigned to its proper date and place. Few men or women have both the visual memory and the facility to order what has been seen that John Hayes possesses. To recount all the forms of pottery that Hayes has categorized definitively would produce a very long list. It is necessary, nevertheless, to provide some idea of the range of his achievements, both in the field and at the Royal Ontario Museum. Even before John Hayes went up to Cambridge to take the Classical Tripos, his interest in archaeology showed itself with his participation in excavations at Verulamium. At Cambridge, in the second part of the Tripos, he devoted himself to Classical Archaeology and began his life's work in that field. After his undergraduate work, he spent four years abroad writing his dissertation on Late Roman Pottery in the Mediterranean. Then, in 1968 he came to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, where he now resides as curator of the Classical collection. It is now 18 years since the appearance of his ground-breaking Late Roman Pottery gave us a "Hayes type" for five centuries of Roman vases. Equally definitive for early Roman fine wares is his work on Sigillate orientali for the Enciclopedia dell'arte antica (1986). John Hayes's appetite for breaking new ground did not stop simply with Roman pottery. His forthcoming massive book on ceramics from Sarachane in Istanbul establishes ceramic categories and chronologies from antiquity to the modern era, much of which had not previously been systematically defined. His publications of the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum have also led him back in time to include Greek and Etruscan wares. Beyond the confines of pottery, he has published catalogues on glass, lamps, and metalwork in Toronto, with one on arms and armor in progress. Each summer, however, John Hayes returns again to the field for several months, dividing his time among the several projects whose pottery he is studying. From surface survey on Crete, to Hvar off the coast of Yugoslavia, to the Isthmia Museum, to Cyprus, he covers a geographical breadth and chronological scope that few could hope to equal and none to surpass. All who excavate and carry on surveys in the Mediterranean area, or wherever potsherds are found, will ever be in his debt. This content downloaded from 134.153.184.170 on Sat, 30 May 2015 14:01:56 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 1991] THE 92ND ANNUAL MEETING 287 POMERANCEAWARD OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICALINSTITUTE OF AMERICA FOR SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARCHAEOLOGY ROBERT H. BRILL Robert H. Brill has spent an enviable life as a productive scientist and administrator. He has been a pioneer in the application of many scientific techniques to the study and understanding of artifacts and the technologies behind their manufacture. His research, his field projects, his lectures, and his impact have extended throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, and the Far East. Dr. Brill received all of his formal education in his native New Jersey including public schools in Newark, a B.S. in Chemistry from Upsala College in East Orange, and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Rutgers University in New Brunswick. After a six-year career as a chemistry professor at Upsala College in the 1950s, he embarked in 1960 on what can only be described as a wonderfully fruitful career at the Corning Museum of Glass where he continues to mix science and art in creative and prolific ways. It has been from his perch at the Corning Museum of Glass that he has flown literally to exotic lands (that archaeologists usually consider their own) and, equally, has flown figuratively to heights of exotic science in the service of archaeology. (At least it was exotic when he first perceived that the technique-for example, lead isotope analysis for provenance studies-could help solve an archaeological problem.) The archaeological community can well appreciate the significant administrative contribution Dr. Brill made when he took over the directorship at the Corning Museum of Glass and supervised the flood-recovery effort during the early 1970s. But his commanding love has remained archaeological chemistry and he returned to research in 1975. Archaeologists who begin to explore what natural science can do to further explicate ancient lifeways from the study of limited physical remains soon become aware of Dr. Brill's seminal volume entitled Science and Archaeology. Published in 1971 it has inspired the whole current generation of those who practice or draw on the fruits of archaeometry. In the Introduction to this book Brill entered a plea-a plea for close cooperation between the archaeometrist and the archaeologist. He pinpointed the danger that the capability for analyzing much greater numbers of samples and making ever more complicated types of measurements could lead the laboratory scientist unwittingly into a preoccupation with numerical data and a tendency to lose direct contact with archaeologists and the archaeological component of the problem.