Cooperative Agreement JSA011007T02

Mackinac State Historic Parks will inventory archaeological collections from multiple sites under a $347,442 Institute of Museum and Library Services Project Grant through August 2025. The grant supports hiring two full-time archaeology inventory assistants for three years to inventory, rehouse, and document objects in the Mill Creek Archaeological Collection as well as artifacts from Michilimackinac, French Farm Lake, Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, and Mackinac Island. This represents the...

This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $111,310.00, is provided by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Experienced Services Program (CFDA 15.016). The project archaeologist will review survey reports and site documentation for accuracy and compliance with the Section 106 consultation process. The project archaeologist will advise BLM leadership and the project manager on policies and regulations related to the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and...

This $170,710 National Science Foundation project grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will fund collaborative research by Bryn Mawr College to reconstruct the landscape of one of the earliest urban centers in the United States. The researchers will conduct a high-resolution magnetometry survey covering over 5.5 square kilometers to map archaeological features below the surface. This will be the largest such survey ever performed in the...

The Alexandria Archive Institute will receive $480,624 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities. The grant will support the "Networking Archaeological Data and Communities" program, which aims to make archaeological data and skills for understanding data more broadly accessible. Key products and services will include professional development workshops for archaeologists on topics like ethically managing data,...

This $313,226 National Science Foundation project grant will fund collaborative research to reconstruct the landscape of one of the earliest cities in the United States through non-invasive archaeological techniques. The awardee, Colorado State University, will perform high-resolution magnetometry surveys covering over 5.5 square kilometers to map buried archaeological features across the entire urban landscape. This will be the largest such geophysical survey ever conducted in the Americas on...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will support an archaeological investigation focused on understanding the environmental and social strategies that enabled the transition from hunting and gathering to farming in a dense tropical forest context. The $276,441 award to the Dominguez Hills Foundation at California State University, Dominguez Hills, a Hispanic-Serving Institution, will...

This $109,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region will fund a study of the Roberts' Great House Archaeological Site in Nageezi, New Mexico from July 1, 2022 through August 1, 2025. Under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System program (CFDA 15.945), the Museum of Northern Arizona will collaborate with partners to conduct archaeological, geophysical, and geomorphological...

This $170,992 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research effort led by Brown University to develop AI-based tools for conducting continental-scale archaeological surveys. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award (Aug 2024 - Jul 2027) include: Developing new deep learning models to automatically identify abandoned archaeological structures in...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $270,834 Project Grant through its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Alexandria Archive Institute, a non-profit technology company, for a 5-year project titled "OPEN CONTEXT: SUSTAINING A COLLABORATIVE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY". The project aims to sustain and enhance the Open Context platform, which has emerged as a globally recognized platform for reviewing, curating, and publishing...

This $141,318 National Science Foundation award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund collaborative research to reconstruct the landscape of one of the earliest cities in the United States. The researchers will conduct a high-resolution magnetometry survey covering over 5.5 sq km of the urban landscape, making it the largest such subsurface survey ever performed in the Americas for an archaeological site. This near-total geophysical survey of the subsurface will...