Project Grant 1842204

This two-year, $143,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program will fund postdoctoral research examining the long-term effects of socioeconomic activity on ecological stability. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Kristina Douglass at Columbia University, the early career scientist will study the impacts of different small-scale foraging, herding and agricultural livelihood strategies on soil and vegetation diversity. By shifting...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $180,706 to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY Oswego) to conduct research on the role of political fragmentation and competition in long-term market development. The goal is to understand how factors like political shifts, development of common symbols, and new exchange networks impact the commercialization of everyday items...

This $185,779 National Science Foundation project grant to The University of Toledo will fund collaborative research to understand how neighborhoods at the geographical margins of an ancient city may have been socially peripheral or fully engaged in central city projects and activities. The research team will examine two neighborhoods at the physical periphery of a prehistoric city occupied for roughly three centuries by both local and non-local peoples. Through non-invasive geophysical...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, funds a comprehensive archaeological study of early human settlements in rural settings. The research builds on previous work, combining targeted excavations and remote sensing techniques to examine site occupancy during both the height and decline of the local society. The $236,131 award, valid from January 15, 2025 to December 31, 2027, investigates the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $106,623 to the University of Illinois will fund collaborative archaeological research to understand the relationship between people's investment in and identification with urban neighborhoods and the historical development of cities. The research team will use non-invasive geophysical survey, soil coring, and targeted excavation to compare two peripheral neighborhoods of an...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $252,253 to Washington State University to investigate the relationship between economic and sociopolitical structures in a prehistoric society. The key activities include: Conducting excavations of known lithic (stone tool) production areas, analyzing previously excavated materials, and using geochemical analysis techniques like inductively coupled...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $297,566 to support research assessing scales of power and inequality in early states. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the award to the University of Texas at Austin from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2026 will evaluate how environmental setting, differential access to resources, and trade networks impacted inequality at nested...

This three-year, $714,600 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to advance understanding of state formation in fragile post-conflict settings. The grantee, the National Bureau of Economic Research, will collaborate with local government and a non-governmental organization to experimentally evaluate a legal capacity building program implemented in a target city. The program has two treatment arms - a "punitive" arm in...

This $284,304 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports a multidisciplinary research initiative led by the University of Central Florida to investigate how the actions of non-elite individuals shaped the development of early urban centers. The project will employ intensive archaeological surveys, excavations, and scientific analyses to evaluate patterns of wealth, health, and economic activities among the...

This $181,302 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative archaeological research at the University of South Alabama from May 2022 to April 2025. The research will investigate how communities form and cultural traditions develop through migration and settlement in new ecological contexts. Researchers will examine social relationships and networks formed through the production and use of pottery in a coastal region, some by recent migrants. They will employ social network...