Recipients of the Barbara Lawrence Award
2008 Shawn Collins (Sandstone Archaeology, LLC), Deborah M. Pearsall (University of Missouri), and John G. Jones (Washington State University). Collapsing Assumptions: Climate and Agriculture in Prehispanic Coastal Guatemala. (Oral presentation). [Abstract]
J. Kevin Hanselka. (Washington University in St. Louis). Casual Cultivation among Contemporary Small Scale Farmers in Southwestern Tamaulipas, Mexico, and Implications for Prehistoric Low-level Food Production. (Oral presentation). [Abstract]
2006 Daniela Shebitz (University of Washington, Seattle). Consequences of fire on beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) growth and reproduction in former anthropogenically-maintained savannas on the Olympic Peninsula lowlands, Washington State: An Ethnobotanical and ecological analysis.
Sveta Yamin (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). Where mushrooms are taller than trees: A tundra landscape from an ethnomycological perspective.
2005 Sarah Dalle and co-authors (McGill University, Quebec). Landscape perception as a basis for understanding land-use trends in community forest management in the Maya Zone, Quintana Roo (Mexico).
2004 Eric Wohlgemuth (University of California-Davis). 9,000 Years of Plant Use in Native Central California: Implications of the Archaeobotanical Record for Archaeologists, Native Peoples, and Restoration.
2003 Kandace Detwiler (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and Deborah Keene (University of Georgia). Rethinking Late Prehistoric Subsistence on the Georgia Coast: Evidence for Agriculture at the Grove's Creek Site (09CH71).
2002 None awarded.
2001 Elisabeth Hildebrand (Washington University, St. Louis). Comparison of domestic and forest-growing enset (Enset ventricosum (Wewl.) Cheesman, Musaceae) in southwest Ethiopia: implication for early plant husbandry and domestication processes.
John R. Stepp (University of Georgia). Weeds in Traditional and Western Medicine.
2000 Sarah Walshaw (Washington University, St. Louis). Environmental Reconstruction using Phytoliths from Human Dental Calculus: A Case Study from Tell Leilan, Syria.
1999 Michele Stevens (University of California, Davis). The contribution of traditional resource management of white root (Carex barbarae) to cultural and ecological restoration in California.
1998 Kelly Bannister (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC) and Sandra Peacock (University of Victoria, Victoria, BC). The Bite is in the Bark: Pitcooked Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) and the Food-Medicine Continuum.
1997 Sandra Peacock (University of Victoria, Victoria, BC). Creating Carbohydrates: Inulin and the Chemistry of Pitcooking.
1996 Elaine Joyal (Arizona State University, Tempe). Assessing Traditional Resource Management for Sabal uresana.
1995 Anne S. Henshaw (Harvard University). Seal transport and consumption amongst historic Inuit: Implications for Inuit-European relations on southeast Baffin Island, Canada.
1994 Dana Lepofsky (University of California-Berkeley). Prehistoric human-induced ecosystem changes and agricultural production in the Opunohu Valley, Society Islands.
1993 Elizabeth J. Lawlor (University of California-Riverside). Accounting for bias in assemblages recovered by flotation: Results of experiments with Mojave desert rodents and ants.
1992 Lee Ann Newsom (University of Florida). Early Cucurbita pepo from a Florida wetsite.
1991 Joseph Laferrière (University of Arizona). A dynamic nonlinear optimization study of Mountain Pima ethnobiology.
1990 Kat Anderson (University of California-Berkeley). California Indian horticulture: Redbud management and use by Southern Sierra Miwok.
1989 None awarded.
Dana Bleitz-Sanburg (University of California-Santa Barbara). Ayelkwi, effigies, and rock art: The Ethnotaxonomy of the Takic speaking Canalino. Honorable mention.
1988 Darrel McDonald (Texas A & M University). A survey of public planting in front yards of residence in Galveston, Texas. USA.
Deena Decker (Marie Selby Botanical Gardens). Numerical analysis of archaeological Cucurbita pepo seeds from Hontoon Island, Florida. Honorable mention.
1987 Arlene Fradkin (University of Florida). Reconstructing folk classification of past cultures: The animal semantic domain of the protohistoric Cherokee.