SAA Book Award

Established in 1995 to honor a recently published book that has had, or is expected to have, a major impact on the direction and character of archaeological research. The prize was awarded for the first time at the 1996 Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

1996	Mary C. Stiner Honor Among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neandertal Ecology
1997	Bruce D. Smith The Emergence of Agriculture Carmel Schrire Digging Through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist
1998	Tom D. Dillehay Monte Verde, A Pleistocene Settlement in Chile Stephen Plog Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest
1999	Jon Muller Mississippian Political Economy Mark Lehner The Complete Pyramids
2000	Clive Gamble The Paleolithic Societies of Europe
2001	William W. Fitzhugh and Elisabeth I. Ward Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
2002	Lewis R. Binford Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets Ann-Marie Cantwell and Diana Dizerega Wall Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City
2003	Kathleen Deagan and José María Cruxent Archaeology at La Isabela: America's First European Town and Columbus's Outpost Amogn the Tainos Thomas F. King, Randall S. Jacobson, Karen Ramey Burns, and Kenton Spading Amelia Earhart's Shoes: Is the Mystery Solved?
2004	Brian Fagan T.J. (Tony) Wilkinson
2005	Kelley Hays-Gilpin Susan Toby-Evans
2006	Peter Bellwood James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner

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