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Voting Open Now for 2025 Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month Poster
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- Published: Wednesday, 15 April 2026 16:58
LARAMIE, Wyo. – April 15, 2026 – Voting is now open for the annual Society for American Archaeology (SAA) State Archaeology Celebration Poster contest. Wyoming has been participating in this contest since its inception in 1996 and has a remarkable track record.
The Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) has submitted a poster to the competition each year, for a total of 29 submissions. Of those submissions, 13 have received first prize, eight have received second prize, and six have received third prize.
Show your support for this program and for Wyoming Archaeology by heading to this link to vote online. Alternatively, navigate to SAA.org > Education & Outreach > Poster Contest to vote. Online voting will remain open until Tuesday, May 5, 2026. Voting in person will also take place at the SAA conference in San Francisco from April 23 to 26. You do not need to be a member of the SAA to vote.
“The poster program is the shining star of Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month each year. Wyomingites really love the posters. Folks from all over our state come to my office asking for them on a regular basis,” says State Archaeology Month Coordinator Gwendolyn Kristy.
The posters are distributed statewide, nationally, and internationally to over 1,500 people and organizations each year. The posters are designed to generate interest in and understanding of archaeology among the public.
The 2025 poster, for which voting is now open, is titled “Threads through Time: Bone needles in Wyoming’s Archaeological Record,” features a bone needle fragment found at a site in Wyoming known as the La Prele Mammoth Site and is over 13,000 years old. The poster is available free of charge and may be picked up at the State Historic Preservation Office, Barrett Building, 2301 Central Avenue in Cheyenne, or at the Anthropology Building in Laramie, located at 12th and Lewis, Room 312. If you wish to have a poster mailed to you, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for details.
The Wyoming SHPO documents, preserves, and promotes Wyoming’s heritage with our preservation partners and through programs such as the National Register of Historic Places, Federal Review and Consultation, Site Stewardship, and Planning and Historic Contexts. For more information about the WY SHPO, contact Deputy Historic Preservation Officer Brian Beadles at (307) 777-8594 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
For more information about the Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month, please contact Gwendolyn Kristy at (307) 766-5366 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Figure 1: Image of the 2025 Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month Poster "Threads through Time," which is entered into the national contest.
Contact: Gwendolyn Kristy, (307) 766-5366; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.