NZAA Public Archaeology Award Nominations
With conference coming up, it means it’s also time for the annual NZAA awards!
Know someone who’s done some great public archaeology over the last year? Here’s your chance to nominate them for NZAA’s Public Archaeology Award.
This award is made biennially and recognises outstanding efforts to promote and share the archaeology of Aotearoa. The award is open to members of NZAA and the wider community, including individuals, groups and organisations (for example, territorial authorities and iwi).
The following factors are considered:
- contribution to the identification, protection and preservation of archaeological sites;
- contribution to the enhancement of public awareness and enjoyment of, and education about, archaeological sites or archaeology in general;
- contribution to the strengthening of the relationship between the archaeological community and Māori;
- and any other relevant information.
Nominations close at 5.00pm on Friday 31st May 2024. Nominations should be sent to the NZAA secretary (secretary@nzarchaeology.org). The award recipient will be announced at the conference dinner on Friday 5th July.
More information on NZAA awards and past award winners can be found here.
NZAA Conference 2024 Key Upcoming Dates
Registration for the 2024 conference is now open, register before 31st May 2024 to receive and early bird discount!
Reminder to get session, paper and poster proposal in before 17 May 2024. Please email papers@nzarchaeology.org with the following information:
- Contact details for the corresponding author (the person who will receive all communication regarding the presentation).
- Name and affiliation of all authors
- Paper title – should be no more than 20 words
- Abstract – no more than 250 words (no images)
Posters must be A1 or A2 size. Please email the author names, poster title and an 80 – 100 word abstract
Key Dates
- Closing date for sessions, paper and poster proposals 17 May 2024
- Notification of acceptance to presenters End May
- Early Bird Registration closes 31 May 2024
- Confirmation of programme Mid June
- Online registration closes 23 June 2024
- All presenters must register for the conference to be included in the programme. Presenter registration including payment of the registration fee must be completed no later than 23 June 2024.
More details can be found on the NZAA 2024 Conference page.
