WYOMING — The Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month poster has been judged the nation’s best by the Society for American Archaeology voting for a record 12th time.
In 1996, the first State Archaeology Celebration Poster Contest was held at the annual Society for American Archaeology meeting. Since that first contest, Wyoming has placed in the top three of the SAA poster contest 25 times, second place eight times, third place five times and now first place 12 times.
“Wyoming is a beautiful state with amazing archaeology,” says Judy Wolf, who recently retired from the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office and produced the archaeology posters for the past 26 years. “It has been a pleasure and honor to create the archaeology posters for Wyoming each year.”
This year’s Wyoming poster “The Enclosure” features a stone structure near the top of Grand Teton and discusses how and why it was built more than 150 years ago.
