2024 – Neville Ritchie. Read citation here.
2021 – Kevin Jones. Read citation here.
2020 – No award
2019 – Atholl Anderson. Read citation here.
2018 – Geoff Irwin. Read citation here.
_____ Nigel Prickett. Read citation here.
2017 – Jill Hamel. Read citation here.
2016 – No award
2015 – No award
2014 – Janet Davison. Read citation here.
_____ Michael Trotter. Read citation here.
2023 – Warren Gumbley
2021 – Rod Wallace. Read the citation here
2019 – No award
2024 – Issac McIvor
2023 – Des Kahotea
2024 – Matt Schmidt. Read the citation here.
2022 – HMS Buffalo Re-examination Project. Read citation here
2019 – Arakite Charitable Trust. Read the citation here
2017 – No award
2015 – Dave Wilton, Archaeology of Thames
2013 – Katharine Watson, Canterbury earthquake
2011 – Don Millar
2009 – Susan Stevens, Gibbston River Trail, Central Otago
2007 – David Dowset, Te Aro pā protection
____ Highly commended: Rachael Egerton, Auckland Islands
2005 – Richard Walter and Chris Jacomb
2003 – Project Freeflow, Auckland Motorway enhancement Cornwall Park Trust Board, Māori history extension to the visitor centre
2001 – Queens Redoubt Project Committee
2016 – Sian Keith
2015 – No ward
2014 – Matt Schmidt
2009 – 2013 – No award
2008 – Kevin Jones
2007 – No award
2006 – Anne Leahy
2005 – No award
2004 – Ken Phillips
2003 – No award
2002 – Louise Furey and Brenda Sewell
2001 – No award
2000 – Vanessa Tanner
1999 – Warren Gumbley
1998 – Owen Wilkes
2022 – Brooke Tucker, for ‘A history of archaeological investigation of The Old Neck, Rakiura‘
2021 – Brooke Tucker, for ‘The value of records: archaeological monitoring and investigation on Whenua Hou’
2020 – No award
2019 – Jessie Garland, for ‘An archaeological survey of Catlins Lake and Estuary, Southland’
2024 – Brendan Kneebone, Andrew McAlister, Alex Jorgensen and Dante Bonica ‘Adze manufacture in Tīkapa Moana: A view from Rakino Island’
2023 – Anthony Hoete, Geoffrey Irwin, Alex Jorgensen and Jeremy Treadwell, ‘An Archaeology of Seismic Resilience’
2022 – Charlotte King et al, ‘Story of a Chinese Sojourner: Using bioarchaeological evidence to reconstruct life histories from our colonial past’
2021 – Matiu Prebble, ‘The archaeobotany and palaeoecology of leafy green vegetables in Aotearoa’
2020 – No conference
2019 – Jeremy Moyle, ‘The archaeology of a kitchen and servants’ quarters in Māori Hill, Dunedin’
2017 – Ian Smith
2015 – James Robinson, ‘Tawhiti Rahi’
2014 – Karen Greig, ‘Old dogs, new tricks: ancient DNA analysis of dog bones from early New Zealand sites’
2024 – Latisha Lee ‘Preliminary research into niche construction and indigenous Māori plant economy in southern Te-Ika-a-Māui before 1800 CE’
2023 – Adelie Filippi. ‘Māori Plant Subsistence and Medicine – a microbotanical case study at Opoutama Cook’s Cove, northern Te-Ika-a-Māui’
2022 – Brooke Tucker; Fishing for Data: A deep dive into the analysis of Barracouta harvest and preservation (PhD)
_____ Rebecca Benham, Critiquing Starch and Raphides as Evidence of Cultigens from Wetland Archaeological Māori Ditch Systems (MA)
2021 – Isaac McIvor, ‘Pā tawhito in Waikato at the interface of mātauranga Māori and archaeology’
2020 – No conference
2019 – Rob Henderson, ‘Changes in Lapita mobility and interaction: insight from the analysis of obsidian from Apalo, West New Britain, PNG’
2016 – Baylee Smith
2015 – Nicholas Sutton, ‘Pots on the move: ceramic production and mobility at Oposisi, PNG’ (with co-authors G Summerhayes and Anne Ford)
2014 – Kurt Bennett, ‘Ship to shelter: salvage and reuse of abandoned vessel material on Rangitoto Island, New Zealand’
2013 – Steve Brown, ‘Gardening and Archaeology: Digging Pasts, Planting Futures’
2012 – Jessie Garland
2011 – Andrew Brown (first)
____ Anna Gosling (second)
2010 – Kirsty Potts
2009 – Ella Ussher
2008 – Ben Davies
2007 – Ben Shaw
2006 – Tiffany James-Lee
2005 – Amy Findlater
2004 – Yolanda Vogel
2003 – Joanna Wylie
2002 – Jacqueline Craig
2001 – Emma Brooks
2024 – Ian Barber and Fiona Kirk ‘Evidence of specialist whale and shark processing from Māori archaeological site N27/119, Bell Island, Waimea Inlet, Whakatū’
2023 – Lucy Arrell, ‘What’s the Point?’ Usewear Analysis and Functional Interpretations of the Auckland Museum Pitcairn Point Collection’
2022 – Anne-Claire Mauger et al., ‘Otago Coastal Erosion’
2021 – No award
2020 – No conference
2019 Dr Rachel Darmody, Ken Phillips, and Eleanor Sturrock, ‘Unfolding Tauranga’s story’
2021 – Meriam van Os, ‘Pathogen detection in ancient human remains from the Asia-Pacific region: what are the options?’
2020 – No conference
2019 – Ruby Parker, ‘Hair today, gone tomorrow: investigating exposure of arsenic, mercury and opium in hair samples of Otago early settlers’
2016 – Josh Emmitt
2014 – Julia Lewis, ‘Moa remains from Wairau Bar’
2013 – Hamish Williams, ‘Drainpipes of Dunedin: A Regional Chronology Based on Socket Morphology’
