Viking Fund Medal

The Viking Fund Medal is an annual award given out by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for distinguishing research or publication in the field of Anthropology.^[1][2] From 1946 to 1961, nominees were selected by their respective societies: The American Anthropological Association, the Society for American Archaeology, and the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, respectively for the fields of General Anthropology, Archaeology, and Physical Anthropology. In 1961, the selection procedure was modified for international nominees selection to increase the number of qualified applicants; the Viking Fund Medal has no longer been awarded annually, due to the embezzlement SEK 40,000,000 from the foundation by the trustee, Birger Strid, who was convicted of financial irregularities in 1975, with many years between awards.^[3]

Year	General Anthropology	Archaeology	Physical Anthropology
1946	Alfred Kroeber	Alfred Kidder	Franz Weidenreich
1947	Robert Lowie	John Brew	Earnest Hooton
1948	John Swanton	Alex Krieger	Adolph Schultz
1949	George Murdock	Hallam Movius	William Gregory
1950	Clyde Kluckhohn	Emil Haury	Wilton Krogman
1951	Ralph Linton	Frank H. H. Roberts	Carleton Coon
1952	Julian Steward	Alfonso Caso	William Straus
1953	Melville Herskovits	Gordon Willey	T. Dale Stewart
1954	Robert Redfield	Wm. Duncan Strong	William Howells
1955	A.I. Hallowell	J. Eric Thompson	W.E. LeGros Clark
1956	Fred Eggan	Junius Bird	Mildred Trotter
1957	Margaret Mead	James Griffin	Raymond Dart
1958	Raymond Firth	Jesse D. Jennings	Henri Vallois
1959	Leslie White	Irving Rouse	William Greulich
1960	Leslie Spier	S.K. Lothrop	Sherwood Washburn

Year	Recipients
1961	E. E. Evans-Pritchard	Robert Heine-Geldern	Louis S.B. Leakey	Sol Tax
1966	Claude Lévi-Strauss
1972	Grahame Clark[4]
award suspended 1972-2003 (funds embezzled from foundation)
2003	Marilyn Strathern
2004	Jane H. Hill
2005	George Armelagos

See also

• List of anthropology awards
• List of archaeology awards