| 2025 | Professor Richard Bradley | Professor Emeritus, University of Reading | |
| 2024 | Professor Ian Hodder | ||
| 2023 | Professor Bernard Wood & Professor James Scott | ||
| 2022 | Professor Marilyn Strathern | ||
| 2021 | Professor Ruth Tringham | ||
| 2020 | Professor Caroline Humphrey | ||
| 2019 | Professor Karin Barber | ||
| 2018 | Professor David Parkin | ||
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