Prize Laurel of the Committee for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
The Prize was established in 8th term of the Committee
Members of the Prize Chapter: prof. W. Chudziak (Head of the Prize Chapter),
prof. Michał Parczewski, dr hab. prof. UAM Maciej Kaczmarek, dr hab. prof. IAE PAN P. Włodarczak.
Rules for awarding the Prize "Laurel of the Committee for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences"
1. "Laurel of the Committee for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences" (further as Laurel) is award for the publication of outstanding scientific work in the field of archaeology or related to archaeological subject matter.
2. Laurel is given by the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences at the request of the Chairman of the Committee for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (further as Committee).
3. The application for the prize Laurel shall be taken by the Chapter composed of five members.
4. The Chapter shall be elected at the plenary meetenig of the Committee, at the beginning of the Committee's term of office.
5. Information on the Chapter's request for the award of the prize Laurel shall be presented at the plenary meeting of the Committee. The application for the prize is then forwarded to the Chairman of the Committee, who directs it together with the cover letter to the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
6. Every member of the Committe and the directors of the archaeological institutions (university institutes and departments, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Skills, archaeological museums) can submit candidates for the prize Laurel.
7. Candidates for the prize shall be submitted within the time limit announced by the Chapter of the Prize.
8. The entry for the prize must be in writing.
9. To the Laurel can be submitted:
a) single-author nad multi-authors publications, colletive publications (edited, including single-thematic publication cycles;
b) publications, whose authors are Polish scientists, but in collective works is admissible the participation of foreign authors;
c) publications issued in Poland or abroad;
d) publications in Polish or in congressional languages.
10. The Laurel can be awarded to two authors of two different publications.
11. The Laurel is awarded every two years.
12. The Laurel is in form of diploma and the statuette.
The rules were accepted by the Presidium of the Committee for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences in 24.03.2021.
Winners of the prize Laurel of the Committee for Prehistorc and Protohistoric Sciences:
1/ Prof. Michał Pawleta for the book: Przeszłość we współczesności. Studium metodologiczne archeologicznie kreowanej przeszłości w przestrzeni społecznej (Methodological study of the archaeologically created past in the social space) - prize in 2018;
2/ Prof. Anna Marciniak-Kajzer for the book: Rzeczy ludzi średniowiecza. W domu (Things of the people of the Middle Ages. At home), Łódź 2020 - prize in 2022;
3/ Prof. Tomasz Purowski for the book: Od fajansu do szkła. Kontakty ziem polskich z głównymi centrami cywilizacyjnymi w II-I tys. p.n.e. w świetle badań archeometrycznych tworzyw szklistych (From faience to glass. Contacts of the Polish lands with the main centers of civilization in II-I thousand BC in the light of archaeometric studies of glassy plastics), Warszawa 2019 - prize in 2022.