2003 Student Paper Awards

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1. 2003 CAARI President's Award

The Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) has established the President's Award of $500 which will be granted in early 2004 to a graduate or undergraduate student of any nationality who presents in any session at the ASOR annual meeting in November 2003 in Atlanta or the AIA meeting in January 2004 in San Francisco the best paper which significantly increases our knowledge of Cyprus in any period. The paper will be judged both on presentation and content.

To participate applications should be sought soon after the paper has been accepted for presentation and well before the annual meetings. CAARI reserves the right to not make the award if there is no paper of sufficient quality. If there are any questions or for applications, contact David Detrich, CAARI President, at ddetr@aol.com.

2. Sean Dever Memorial Prize

The Albright Institute is pleased to announce the third annual Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize. This award provides $500 for the best published article or paper presented at a conference by a Ph.D. candidate in Syro-Palestinian and biblical archaeology. Authors may be of any nationality, but the articles/papers must be in English. All submissions should include the academic affiliation of the author and his/her mailing, fax, e-mail addresses and phone numbers. Submission of conference papers should also include the name of the conference and the date when the paper was presented. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2003. All submissions should be sent to:

Mr. Sam Cardillo
W. F. Albright Institute
P.O. Box 40151
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Email: cardillo@sas.upenn.edu

The Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize was established in 2001 by Professor William G. Dever and Mrs. Norma Dever in memory of their son Sean. It is given annually to a pre-doctoral student in Ancient Near Eastern archaeology.

The first recipient of the Dever Memorial Prize was Mr. Edward F. Maher of the University of Illinois at Chicago for his submission "Food for the Gods: The Identification of Sacrificial Faunal Assemblages in the Ancient Near East." The second recipient was Mr. Juan Manuel Tebes of the University of Buenos Aires for his submission "A New Analysis of the Iron Age I `chiefdom' of Tel Masos (Beersheba Valley)."


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