Great
Basin Anthropological Conference Founders
Lifetime Achievement
Award
The Great Basin
Anthropological Conference was organized by Jesse D. Jennings, James
Bennyhoff, Robert Heizer and Alex Krieger in 1953 and the first
meeting held at Gila Pueblo in Globe, Arizona in 1954. From its founding, the
Conference has grown to the respectable 500 member Great Basin
Anthropology Association that you see today, an organization filled
with many exceptional individuals of local, national, and
international renown. The Great Basin Anthropological Conference
Founders Lifetime Achievement Award will recognize the exceptional
contributions of members that have participated for more than 20
years in the development of Great Basin Anthropology.
There are 5 purposes of the
GBAA listed in our By-laws.
- The first is to enhance
communication among the various components which comprise the
Anthropology community in the Great Basin, as well as the greater
Anthropology community
nationwide.
- Exchanging ideas and methods
which will help all Anthropology programs to increase and improve
their effectiveness and improve the quality of all research,
teaching and services provided by the Anthropology field.
- Improving communications
among individual anthropologists and state, federal and private
agencies providing anthropological services, education and
research.
- Reviewing and making
recommendations on all proposed guidelines and policy changes and
to seek changes in federal, state and local regulations which are
deemed by the GBAC to be in accord with the performance and goals
of the GBAC.
- Serving as coordinators of
the biennial Great Basin Anthropology Conference.
The By-laws imply that
participants in the Conference may make significant lifetime
contributions to the Anthropological Community in at least two ways,
through research and publications and through distinguished service
that improves communications and interaction between individuals,
groups, and various state, federal, and local agencies. The GBAC
Founders Lifetime Achievement Award will be awarded to nominees for
whom significant contributions spanning 20 or more years can be
documented.
Nominations
Nominations for
up to two GBAC Founders Lifetime Achievement Awards will be reviewed
by an Achievements Award Committee. In the first year of the award
(2008) the committee will be selected by the Board. After that the
committee will be selected by the General Membership. Nominations
documenting the significant contributions
of the nominee and the length of their participation
in Great Basin Anthropology may be submitted in writing either
by mail or email to the GBAA President. Nominations should
be submitted for review no later than August 1 in the year of the
Conference. Nominations may be made by all General Members
(including GBAC Board Members).
2006 Great Basin Anthropological Association
Student Poster Award Winners
The
first ever student poster awards were presented at the 2006 meeting
in Las Vegas.
A panel of
three members of the GBAA who are not on the Board of Directors, and
who represent diversity in geographic residence, age, gender and
employment type served as judges for the awards. Thanks to the
judges who found that selecting the two top posters was a lot of
work, and rewarding. The winning posters were the
following:
First place $400 prize and 1 year subscription to a
journal of your choice
Kelly R. Beck Ph.D. student Department of
Anthropology University of Utah & State of Utah, School and
Institutional Trust Lands Administration The Effect
of Expected Transport Distance on Debitage Assemblage Diversity At
Toolstone Procurement Sites: An Application of the Field Processing
Model
Second place $250 prize and 1
year subscription to a journal of your choice
Brenda L. Hill & David A.
Byers Masters & Ph.D. students Department of
Anthropology University of Utah Pronghorn Dental Age Profiles and
Seasonality Data From Hogup Cave, Utah
This award will continue and we encourage students to
submit posters to the 2008 conference in Portland, Oregon. For
more information about how you might be involved with the Great
Basin Anthropological Conference Student Poster Awards at our 2008
meeting - just click on the GBAC link, or see the Awards
link on our About the GBAA
page.
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