Text mapuje působení amerických archeologů a antropologů v moravských lokalitách v období meziválečného Československa. V této době český antropologický a archeologický výzkum z USA nejvýznamněji ovlivňoval Aleš Hrdlička, jehož vliv se projevil i v kontaktu s Karlem Absolonem v Brně. Vedle toho o moravské paleolitické lokality jevily zájem i účastníci American School of Prehistoric Research, jejichž prostřednictvím se do různých sbírek v USA dostávala řada originálních nálezů z našich archeologických lokalit. and The text traces the work of American archaeologists and anthropologists at Moravian sites in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars. At the forefront of American anthropological and archaeological research in the country in this period was the Czech-born American Aleš Hrdlička, whose influence was also manifested in contacts with Karel Absolon in Brno. Participants from the American School of Prehistoric Research were also interested in Moravian Palaeolithic sites, and many original finds found their way into various collections in the USA from Moravian archaeological sites thanks to the activities of this institution.
The second year of the Golden Mammoth Award 2019 was symbolically concluded by the winner’s announcement ceremony in the Anthropos Pavilion of the Moravian Museum on 21 September 2020. The “Karel Absolon Award for the Popularisation of Archaeology” came into existence in 2018 due to the joint endeavour of three prominent Moravian institutions: the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, the Moravian Museum and the Department of Archaeology and Museology of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. The principal idea of the newly founded prize is to motivate colleagues across the professional community to develop attractive and creative popularisation activities, which legitimise the irreplaceability and social benefits of archaeology in the modern world in the eyes of the public. Forty projects were registered in the first year of the competition; in 2019, the committee chose from seventeen projects. The winners of the academic prize are the projects “Bohemia-Bavaria ArchaeoCentre” subtitled “To Protect and Share Common Cultural Space” (1st place), the book “The Tales of Civilisation and Barbarism” (2nd place) and the “Flint Summer School of Archaeology” (3rd place). The exhibition “World of Medieval Games” won the museum category, the project “Twentieth Year of School Excursions in Prehistory Archaeopark Všestary” came second and the “Archaeology Autumn in the Litovel Region” third. Only the first prize was announced in the student category, awarded to the project “Autumn with Prehistoric Technologies”. An extraordinary prize has been awarded for the book “We Do Not Kick the Dead – An Amateur Archaeologist’s Manual”.