from Portugal 2000: Margareta Biörnstad, former state antiquarian, Sweden 2001: Otto Braasch, member of the Aerial Archaeological Group (AARG), Germany 2002: Henry Cleere, ICOMOS Paris 2003: Viktor Trifonov, Institute of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences in Sankt Petersburg 2004: Illicit Antiquities Research Centre at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge 2005: Kristian Kristiansen, Sweden 2006: John Coles, UK 2007: Siegmar von Schnurbein, Germany 2008: Jean-Paul Demoule, France 2009: Ulrich Ruoff, Switzerland 2010: David John Breeze, Scotland 2011: Girolamo Ferdinando, UK and Avvocato Francesco Pinto, Italy 2012: Willem J.H. Willems, Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, Netherlands 2013: M. Daniel Thérond, former Head of Department of the Culture, Heritage and Diversity Department, Council of Europe, and Vincent Gaffney 2014: Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Erzsébet Jerem 2015: María Ángeles Querol Fernández and Martin Oswald Hugh Carver 2016: Unité d'Archéologie de la Ville de Saint-Denis and Caroline Sturdy Colls 2017: Unità di Crisi e di Coordinamento Regionale Marche del Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo 2018: Ivan Pavlů and Francisco Javier Sánchez-Palencia Ramos 2019: Osman Kavala and Fundación Catedral Santa María, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque country, Spain Student award A student award was instituted in 2002 and is awarded annually for the best paper presented at the EAA Annual Meeting by a student or an archaeologist working on a dissertation. 2002 - Laura M. Popova 2003 - Anita Synnestvedt 2004 - Jonathan D. Le Huray 2005 - Marta Caroscio 2006 - NOT AWARDED 2007 - Goce Naumov 2008 - NOT AWARDED 2009 - Pamela Cross 2010 - Camilla Norman 2011 - Heide Wrobel Norgaard 2012 - Maria Leena Lahtinen 2013 - Oliver Dietrich 2014 - Can Aksoy and Ziyacan Bayar 2015 - Patrycja Kupiec, and special commendation to Christine Cave and Alex Davies 2016 - Sian Mui and Shumon Hussain 2017 - Emma Brownlee and Yftinus van Popta 2018 - Hanna Kivikero Annual meetings The EAA inaugural meeting took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia in September 1994. The official first annual meeting took place in September 1995 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and an annual meeting has taken place every year since. The table below shows the meeting locations and dates. * Those marked with an asterisk are upcoming Publications The EAA publishes the quarterly European Journal of Archaeology (EJA), originally the Journal of European Archaeology (1993–1997), the monograph series THEMES In