The J. C. Harrington Award was established in by the Society for Historical Archaeology and is named in honor of J. C. Harrington (1901–1998), a pioneer founder of historical archaeology in North America. The award is presented for a "life-time of contributions to the discipline centered on scholarship". The award is an inscribed medal. No more than one Harrington Award is presented each year.
List of medal recipients Source: Society for Historical Archeology 1982 J. C. Harrington 1983 Charles H. Fairbanks 1984 John L. Cotter 1985 Kenneth E. Kidd 1986 George I. Quimby 1987 Arthur Woodward*, Stanley South 1988 Edward B. Jelks 1989 Bert Salwen* Carlyle Shreeve Smith 1991 Ivor Noël Hume 1993 Bernard L. Fontana 1995 Kathleen K. Gilmore 1997 James Deetz 1999 George F. Bass 2000 Roderick Sprague 2001 Roberta S. Greenwood 2002 Charles E. Cleland 2003 Merrick Posnansky 2004 Kathleen A. Deagan 2005 Marcel Moussette 2006 Donald L. Hardesty 2007 William Kelso 2008 James E. Ayres 2009 Robert L. Schuyler 2010 Judy Bense 2011 Pilar Luna Erreguerena 2012 George Miller 2013 Mary Beaudry 2014 Theresa A. Singleton 2015 Douglas D. Scott 2016 Mark P. Leone 2017 Leland Ferguson 2018 Julia A. King 2019 Charles E. Orser 2020 Henry M. Miller 2022 Martha A. Zierden 2023 Julia G. Costello 2024 Paul R. Mullins*, David G. Orr 2025 Paul A. Shackel
* awarded posthumously
See also List of archaeology awards List of history awards
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