The Shaft Graves and Other Late Helladic I and II Remains (Lerna X), by Michael Lindblom, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports from the Archaeological Institute of America.

Each year, the Anna Marguerite McCann Award Committee recommends, in time for the presentation of the award at the Annual Meeting of the Institute, a report on fieldwork that it deems most worthy of recognition that year.

Lindblom, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University, was both stunned and excited when he received the news from Elizabeth Greene, President of the AIA. 

“Receiving the Anna Marguerite McCann Award is both an honor and a joy,” Lindblom said. “I immediately think of my coauthors and colleagues worldwide who have shared their expertise and friendship in creating the Lerna X volume. The experience has been profoundly rewarding. Sometimes it matters less where you arrive than with whom you make the journey. Still, if the Archaeological Institute of America considers the destination a meaningful one, I could not be happier.”

The Shaft Graves and Other Late Helladic I and II Remains presents a detailed study of funerary and domestic remains from the Late Helladic period at Lerna, illuminating the site’s role in early Mycenaean society. Through rigorous ceramic, stratigraphic, and scientific analysis, Lindblom situates Lerna’s pottery industry within broader sociopolitical shifts across the Aegean. This work offers crucial insights into community life, ritual practice, and emerging political identities at the dawn of the Mycenaean era.

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The Shaft Graves and Other Late Helladic I and II Remains 
by Michael Lindblom
Lerna X
514 pp, 126 figs, 17 pls, 36 tables
9” x 12”
Cloth, ISBN 978-0-87661-310-8