AIAR Awards

 

The Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize was established in 2001 by Norma E. Dever and Professor William G. Dever in memory of their son Sean. The award offers $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.

The recipient of the 2004 Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize is Laura B. Mazow, of the University of Arizona, for her paper "Competing Material Culture: Philistine Settlement at Tel Miqne-Ekron in the Early Iron Age."

The third recipient was Ms. Christine Thompson of the University of California, Los Angeles. Ms. Thompson's paper was entitled "Sealed Silver in Iron Age Cisjordan and the 'Invention' of Coinage."

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)."

The first recipient of the Albright Institute's Sean W. 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."