ASV

Annual Meeting

Each year the ASV holds an annual meeting, generally in October. Usually held over three days in conjunction with the Council of Virginia Archaeologists (COVA), the meeting has a series of paper presentations, poster sessions, exhibits, a book room, an awards presentation, and a banquet that features a nationally known speaker. Meetings are held in various locations across the state. During the meeting weekend, the ASV conducts a business meeting to propose topics requiring membership approval and to elect officers and board members.

2016 ASV Annual Meeting

Hot off the press, here is the 2016 ASV Annual Meeting Preliminary Program and Agenda.

2016 ASV Annual Meeting

The 2016 ASV Annual Meeting will be held from October 13-16 in Williamsburg, VA, hosted by the Middle Peninsula Chapter of ASV. The first day will be for field trips. The meeting will be held what was the Holiday Inn Patriot but which has been bought out and is now the Colonial Plaza of Williamsburg, 3032 Richmond Road,Williamsburg, VA 23185. 1-757-565-2600 * Fax: 1-757-564-9738.
The deadline of 9/30/16 for the conference hotel room rate of $89.69 (all inclusive) has passed. If there are rooms still available, you may ask the hotel for the conference rate, but please be advised that there are no guarantees.
Thanks to those who registered for the meeting and banquet by our deadline of 9/30/16. Banquet registration is now closed and we cannot accept additional requests. However, meeting registration will be available at the door, and we invite you to join us. The meeting registration fee remains $40.00.

As usual, the Council of Virginia Archaeologists (COVA) will sponsor the Public Education session on Friday evening, which is open to all.

2016 ASV Annual Meeting Call For Papers

The 2016 ASV Annual Meeting will be held from October 13-16 in Williamsburg, VA, hosted by the Middle Peninsula Chapter of ASV. Click here for the Call For Papers for which the deadline is August 31, 2016.

2016 ASV Annual Meeting Call For Student Papers

The 2016 ASV Annual Meeting will be held from October 13-16 in Williamsburg, VA, hosted by the Middle Peninsula Chapter of ASV. Each year there is a Student Paper Competition. Click here for the registration form.

2015 ASV Annual Meeting

The 2015 ASV Annual Meeting was held from October 16-18 in Manassas, VA, hosted by the Northern VA Chapter of ASV. Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian was the Banquet Speaker, relating the ongoing work positing early settlement of eastern North America via an ice route from Europe, buttressed with archaeological evidence.

The meeting was quite successful with a wide variety of papers presented and a high quality to those papers. Over 100 people attended the banquet, which is the usual benchmark of the health of the meeting and by these numbers, ASV is very healthy.

2014 ASV Annual Meeting

The 2014 ASV Annual Meeting was held from October 10-12 in Richmond, VA. at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, hosted by the COL Howard MacCord Chapter of ASV.
The banquet speaker Dr. Al Luckenbach gave a superb talk on the enigmatic Pig Point Site in Maryland.

The following were recipients of ASV Annual Awards:
Kay Veith, Avocational of the Year
Michael Madden, Professional of the Year
Darrin Lowery, Out of State Professional of the Year
No Out if State Avocational of the Year

At the Business Meeting, the following were elected to ASV Office:

ASV President: Carole Nash (Term: 2015-2016)
ASV Vice President: Forrest Morgan (Term: 2015-2016)
ASV Secretary: Stephanie Jacobe (Term: 2015-2016)
ASV Treasurer: Carl Fischer (Term: 2015-2016)

For ASV Executive Board members:

Mike Barber (Term: 2015 to 2017)
Thane Harpole (Term: 2015 to 2017)
John Kelsey (Term: one year 2015)

2014 ASV Student Paper Competition

The Archeological Society of Virginia (ASV) provides cash prizes to the best student papers presented at the Annual ASV Meeting. Click here for the entry information.



ASV Annual Awards Winners

The ASV presented awards at the Annual Meeting in several categories this year. The categories and the 2011 winners are listed.

Categories of the Awards:

1. The Avocational Archeologist of the Year Award recognizes an individuals outstanding cumulative or within the year contribution to VA archaeology - Charlie Manson

2. The Professional Archeologist of the Year Award recognizes an individuals outstanding cumulative or within the year contribution to VA archaeology - Thane Harpole

3. The Presidents Award recognizes an outstanding contribution to VA archaeology - Shirley and Harry Jaeger

4. The Life-Time Achievement Award is for outstanding service to Virginia archeology - Keith Egloff, Mike Johnson and Randy Turner

5. The Out-of-State Professional Archaeologist Award is for outstanding service to Virginia archeology - Craig Lukezic of Delaware

6. The Past Presidents Award - Patrick O'Neill

Click here to see a list of the recipients of the ASV Awards through 2011.