Interested student candidates are required to submit a PDF version of their poster by May 1st to: isa2020@isa2020-lisboa.pt with the subject: Martin Aitken Award.
HISTORY OF THE AWARD
The International Symposium on Archaeometry offers two
awards in every venue for the two best student posters in honour of Martin J.
Aitken. These awards were established after the ISA Meeting at Toronto in 1988,
following the suggestion by prof. Ronald Farquhar, the organizer of the Toronto
meeting, who offered for this purpose the surplus of money that had been left
over. After the exhaustion of the original fund the awards are now offered by
each venue organizer and at present they are at the level of 200 € each.
Martin
J. Aitken was a professor at the Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of
Art, Oxford University. He started a series of meetings at Oxford in 1960 which
were to become the International Symposium on Archaeometry. He was also the
founder of the Journal Archaeometry. Martin was the Chairman of the ISA
Standing Committee until his retirement after 1986. He was a specialist in
Thermoluminescence dating but his broad knowledge on all dating techniques and
other scientific approaches to archaeological finds made him a very important
figure in such a way that can be considered as the Godfather of Archaeometry.
The
ISA traditionally attracts many research students whose contribution to
research in the field of Archaeological Sciences and to the Symposium is
greatly appreciated.
The purpose of the best student poster awards is to further
encourage student participation in the ISA meetings and to highlight the
contribution and importance of students in the research in the field. The aim
of the awards is also to set examples for the best way of communicating and
presenting the results to other scholars in the field.
GENERAL
ISA student posters should demonstrate clarity of content, quality of research, and best use of the poster format.
SPECIFIC GUIDELINES