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Congratulations to JIAAW doctoral student Daniel Plekhov, who won this year's Society for American Archaeology Student Poster Award, with his co-author Elic M. Weitzel (University of Connecticut Anthropology), for their poster, "Contact-Period Settlement Changes in Eastern North America: A Test of the Ideal Free and Ideal Despotic Distribution Models."