The winners of the 11th annual Current Archaeology Awards were announced on Friday 8 March, as part of Current Archaeology Live! 2019. The awards celebrate the projects and publications that made the pages of the magazine over the past 12 months, and the people judged to have made outstanding contributions to archaeology.
These awards are voted for entirely by the public – there are no panels of judges.
The winners were:
Archaeologist of the Year 2019:
Richard Osgood
Research Project of the Year 2019:
Prehistoric pop culture: deciphering the DNA of the Bell Beaker Complex
Iñigo Olalde et al.
Rescue Project of the Year 2019
A landscape revealed: exploring 6,000 years of Cambridgeshire’s past along the A14
MOLA Headland Infrastructure
Book of the Year 2019
The Old Stones: a field guide to the megalithic sites of Britain and Ireland
By Andy Burnham
For more information on all the nominees, click on the links below: