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's oldest society and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology. AIA professionals have carried out archaeological fieldwork around the world and AIA has established re ...

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

*2022:

Elizabeth Fentress Elizabeth Barringer Fentress is a Roman archaeologist who specialises in Italy and North Africa. She has collaborated on the excavation of numerous sites in the Western Mediterranean and published their results. She is also the originator an ...

*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 1980–1990. At this time he had such ...

, Stanford University *201
John R. Clarke, University of Texas at Austin
*201

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 James Monteinez Wiseman (born March 31, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently in the NBA G League for the Santa Cruz Warriors. He played ...

*2007:

Larissa Bonfante Larissa Bonfante (March 27, 1931, Naples, Italy – August 23, 2019, New York City, New York) was an Italian-American classicist, Professor of Classics ''emerita'' at New York University and an authority on Etruscan language and culture. Biogra ...

*2006: Maria C. Shaw and Joseph W. Shaw *2005: Lionel Casson *2004: David B. Stronach *2003:

Philip Betancourt Philip P. Betancourt (born 1936 as Felipe Pablo Andreas Betancourt) is an American archaeologist, author, and a specialist in the Aegean Bronze Age. He was the Laura H. Carnellbr>Professor of Art History and Archaeologyat Temple University's Tyler ...

*2002: Robert McCormick Adams *2001:

Emmett L. Bennett Jr. Emmett Leslie Bennett Jr. (July 18, 1918 – December 15, 2011) was an American classicist and philologist whose systematic catalog of its symbols led to the solution of reading Linear B, a 3,300-year-old syllabary used for writing Mycenaean ...

*1999: Patty Jo Watson *1998:

Anna Marguerite McCann Anna Marguerite McCann (May 11, 1933 – February 12, 2017) was an American art historian and archaeologist. She is known for being an early influencer—and the first American woman—in the field of underwater archaeology, beginning in the 19 ...

*1997
Clemency Chase Coggins
ref name="Gibbon2005"> *1996: Wilhelmina F. Jashemski *1995:

R. Ross Holloway Robert Ross Holloway (August 15, 1934 – June 30, 2022) was an American archaeologist, founder of the independent center for Mediterranean archaeology at Brown University, and the Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor Emeritus of Brown University, w ...

*1994: Emeline Richardson *1993
Charles Kaufman Williams, II
*1992:

Evelyn Byrd Harrison Evelyn Byrd Harrison (June 5, 1920 – November 3, 2012) was an American classical scholar and archaeologist. She was Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and was for more than ...

*1991:

Machteld J. Mellink Machteld Johanna Mellink (October 26, 1917, Amsterdam – February 23, 2006, Haverford, Pennsylvania) was an archaeologist who studied Near Eastern cultures and history. Biography Mellink received her undergraduate training at the University o ...

*1990: John W. Hayes *1989: Virginia R. Grace *1988:

Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway (born 1929 in Chieti) is an Italian archaeologist and specialist in ancient Greek sculpture. Life The daughter of an Italian officer, she spent her childhood in Ethiopia and Eritrea, where her father was stationed. Afte ...

and

John Desmond Clark John Desmond Clark (10 April 1916 – 14 February 2002) was a British archaeologist noted particularly for his work on prehistoric Africa. Early life Clark was born in London, but his childhood was spent in a hamlet in the Chiltern Hills of B ...

*1987: Dorothy Burr Thompson *1986:

George F. Bass George Fletcher Bass (; December 9, 1932 – March 2, 2021) was an American archaeologist. An early practitioner of underwater archaeology, he co-directed the first expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck at Cape Gelidonya in 1960 a ...

*1985
Saul S. Weinberg
and

Gladys Davidson Weinberg Gladys Davidson Weinberg (December 27, 1909-January 14, 2002) was an American archaeologist known for her work on ancient and medieval glass and its manufacture in the Mediterranean. She was the editor of ''Archaeology'' magazine from 1952 to 196 ...

*1984: Margaret Thompson *1983: James Bennet Pritchard *1982: Peter H. von Blanckenhagen *1981:

William Andrew McDonald William Andrew McDonald (April 26, 1913 – January 11, 2000) was an American archaeologist. Life McDonald was born in Ontario, Canada. In 1935, he graduated from the University of Toronto (where he also played rugby union and hockey) with f ...

*1980:

John Langdon Caskey John Langdon Caskey (1908–1981) was an American archaeologist and classical scholar. He directed the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from 1949 to 1959, and was head of the Classics department at the University of Cincinnati from 19 ...

*1979: Dows Dunham *1978:

George M.A. Hanfmann George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann (born November 1911, in St. Petersburg, Russia; died March 13, 1986, in Watertown, Massachusetts) was a famous archaeologist and scholar of ancient Mediterranean art. Biography He studied at the University of Jena und ...

*1977:

Lucy Shoe Meritt Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt (August 7, 1906, in Camden, New Jersey – Austin, Texas, April 13, 2003) was a classical archaeologist and a scholar of Greek architectural ornamentation and mouldings. Biography Born in Camden, New Jersey, Lucy Shoe M ...

*1976: Edith Porada *1975:

Eugene Vanderpool Eugene may refer to: People and fictional characters * Eugene (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Eugene (actress) (born 1981), Kim Yoo-jin, South Korean actress and former member of the sin ...

*1974:

Margarete Bieber Margarete Bieber (31 July 1879 – 25 February 1978) was a Jewish German-American art historian, classical archaeologist and professor. She became the second woman university professor in Germany in 1919 when she took a position at the Unive ...

*1973: Gordon R. Willey *1972: Homer A. Thompson *1971:

Robert John Braidwood Robert John Braidwood (29 July 1907 – 15 January 2003) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist, one of the founders of scientific archaeology, and a leader in the field of Near Eastern Prehistory. Life Braidwood was born July 29 ...

*1970:

George E. Mylonas George Emmanuel Mylonas (Γεώργιος Εμμανουήλ Μυλωνάς, 9 December 1898, in Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey) – 15 April 1988, Greece) was a prominent Greek and Aegean archaeologist. Early life While a student in Athens during th ...

*1969: Oscar Theodore Broneer,

Rhys Carpenter Rhys Carpenter (August 5, 1889 – January 2, 1980) was an American classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College. Carpenter was unconventional as a scholar. He analyzed Greek art from the standpoint of artistic production and b ...

, and William B. Dinsmoor Jr. *1968: Gisela M. A. Richter *1967: William Foxwell Albright *1966:

Hetty Goldman Hetty Goldman (December 19, 1881 – May 4, 1972) was an American archaeologist. She was the first woman faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study and one of the first female archaeologists to undertake excavations in Greece and the Middl ...

*1965: Carl W. Blegen

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