2023 SAF Awards Nomination Form
The SAF Awards recognize individuals and organizations that have achieved distinction through innovative, creative, and rigorous works relating to our human past, and have generated new knowledge that has particular relevance to the contemporary world and our common future. It aims to promote excellence and innovation in archaeological research, advance public awareness and appreciation of archaeology, foster the protection and conservation of the world’s archaeological resources and heritage, and encourage international collaboration and partnerships between scholars and others from different countries.
The SAF Awards consist of two categories: major archaeological field-discoveries (Field Discovery Award) and major research findings (Research Award) which may be based on, although not themselves primarily comprising, fieldwork; no more than ten awards are made for each category. The award in the first category is made for archaeological excavations or surveys that have yielded major discoveries significantly furthering or even altering our knowledge of the human past, locally and/or globally. The award in the second category is made for archaeological research that is based on rigorous studies on specific subjects and/or laboratory and scientific analyses. They may be comprehensive and multi-year research projects, or major breakthroughs in theory, method or technique, or groundbreaking works of synthesis based on updated archaeological findings.
The nominated works must be original and directly derived from legal and scientific archaeological excavations or surveys or from other rigorous archaeological research. The nominations are reviewed and adjudicated by the Selection Committee according to the highest international standards of excellence and impartiality.
The SAF Awards Nomination Guidelines Instructions can be downloaded here.