Felicia A. Holton Book Award

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2018     The fifth beginning : what six million years of human history can tell us about our future by Robert L. Kelly
2017     Bog bodies uncovered : solving Europe's ancient mystery by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
2016     A shark going inland is my chief : the island civilization of ancient Hawai’i by Patrick Vinton Kirch
2015     Outside the hacienda walls : the archaeology of plantation peonage in nineteenth-century Yucatan by Allan Meyers
2014     Tutankhamen : the search for an Egyptian king by Joyce Tyldesley
2013     Herculaneum : past and future by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
2012     Imagining Head-Smashed-In : Aboriginal buffalo hunting on the northern Plains by Jack W. Brink
2011     Civilizations of ancient Iraq by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster; Honorable mention: Uncorking the past : the quest for wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages by Patrick McGovern