Cooperative Agreement W9128F1720019

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...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $236,131 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Emory University in Atlanta, GA. The grant supports a comprehensive archaeological study of early human settlements in rural settings, focusing on the relationship between imperial settlement policies and local community dynamics. The research includes targeted excavations, remote sensing, and interdisciplinary analysis to investigate agropastoral...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $335,194 supports an archaeological investigation of recently discovered monumental hydraulic features at an important archaeological site. The project aims to establish when these features were constructed, whether they were contemporaneous with other monumental constructions, and the functions they served, such as ritual and aquaculture. The study will involve excavations, soil...

The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. will receive $179,650 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to create a comprehensive online archaeological dataset and archive. The awardee will assemble over 6,000 archaeological site records spanning more than 150 municipalities and multiple time periods. These records were originally collected by various research groups using consistent methodology and will be...

This $106,623 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund collaborative archaeological research to understand the relationship between urban neighborhood development, social investment, and city trajectories over time. The research team at the University of Illinois will conduct non-invasive geophysical surveys, soil coring, and targeted excavations at a prehistoric city site to compare two...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $109,829 to Wake Forest University will support research to investigate the role of public architecture and rituals in the development of ancient societies, including the transition to sedentary farming lifestyles and social complexity. The key objectives are to: 1) date ceremonial complexes, 2) locate associated residential areas, and 3) recover evidence of early foodways. The...

This $213,247 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research to advance understanding of how wear patterns form on stone tools and facilitate identification of worked materials. An interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and engineers will conduct controlled tribological experiments rubbing surrogate and organic materials against stone bits to generate...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totaling $157,233 will fund collaborative archaeological research at the University of South Florida from May 2022 through April 2024. The research aims to characterize the relationship between indigenous inhabitants and European settlers at an informal colonial trading encampment in Temple Terrace, Florida through remote sensing, geophysical surveys, coring, and excavation. The project...