| 2025 | Isabelle Winder | Human Evolution: Hierarchy and Heterarchy |
| 2023 | Maxime Brami | |
| 2021 | Rachel Crellin | |
| 2019 | Oliver Harris | |
| 2017 | Andrea Migliano | |
| 2015 | Noel Lobley | |
| 2013 | Liana Chua | |
| 2011 | Graeme Were | |
| 2009 | Joost Fontein | |
| 2007 | Daniel Nettle | |
| 2005 | Miguel Alexiades | |
| 2003 | Ruth Mace | |
| 2001 | Steven Mithen | |
| 1999 | Julian Thomas | |
| 1997 | Peter Gow | |
| 1995 | Martin Stokes | |
| 1993 | Robert Foley | |
| 1991 | Rebecca Cann | |
| 1989 | Tim Ingold | |
| 1987 | Roy Ellen | |
| 1985 | Norman Hammond | |
| 1983 | R.D. Martin | |
| 1981 | John Baines | |
| 1979 | David Parkin | |
| 1977 | Richard Leakey | |
| 1975 | Anthony Boyce | |
| 1973 | Caroline Humphrey | |
| 1971 | Warwick Bray | |
| 1969 | Peter Ucko | |
| 1967 | G. Ainsworth Harrison | |
| 1965 | Anthony Forge | |
| 1963 | D.F.B. Roberts |
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