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JOHN EVANS DISSERTATION PRIZE
John Evans (1941-2005) was an inspirational environmental archaeologist, responsible for advancing the discipline and fostering many of today’s top researchers in the field. His many books continue to make a contribution to practical and theoretical aspects of environmental archaeology. To honour the memory of John and his achievements within environmental archaeology, the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA) has an annual competition for the best undergraduate and Masters dissertations in any aspect of environmental archaeology.
2014 competition
Prizes of £75 will be awarded to the best undergraduate and Masters dissertation, which may be on any aspect of environmental archaeology worldwide. Abstracts from the winning dissertations will be published in the AEA newsletter (this is a condition of entry that all entrants will be agreeing to on submission of their dissertation). The John Evans Dissertation Prize winners will also be encouraged to submit an abridged version of their dissertation for publication in the Association’s journal, Environmental Archaeology, subject to the usual review process.
We invite each Department of Archaeology (or other relevant department) to submit the dissertation of their best candidate by 31st July 2014. Submissions from individual students are not accepted. English is the preferred technical language of submission although the committee will accept submissions in French, Spanish, German and Dutch, although these must be accompanied by an English summary (max. 2 pages) to conform to the submission rules. Departments wanting to submit in other languages should contact the prize administrator to determine whether the submission can be accommodated.
The result will be announced at the AEA autumn meeting in Plymouth, UK, 7-9 November 2014 (http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/research/ceres/AEA2014). Bound copies or pdf versions should be sent to Dr Robin Bendrey, who should also be contacted for further information:
Robin Bendrey
Department of Archaeology
University of Reading
Whiteknights Box 226
Reading, RG6 6AB
UK