This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $236,131 to Emory University to conduct a comprehensive archaeological study of early human settlements in rural settings. The research aims to investigate the relationship between imperial settlement policies and local community dynamics, focusing on agricultural organization, production, and the interaction between rural communities and the...
The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. received a three-year, $180,487 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DASS: A SOCIO-TECHNICAL FRAMEWORK FOR HANDLING DIGITAL EVIDENCE WITH SECURITY AND PRIVACY ASSURANCES." The award, made on October 1, 2021 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund the development of a socio-technical framework to securely and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $269,808 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Hawaii to conduct archaeological research on the development of social complexity in ancient societies. The project aims to better understand how variation in household interactions, activities, social roles, and relationships within and between communities led to the emergence of regionally-integrated socially complex societies....
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...
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) 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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $266,706 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Louisville to conduct archaeological and paleoenvironmental research on the role of coastal habitats in the survival of early humans. The research team will utilize fieldwork, data recovery, and analytical methods to generate new empirical data in the form of stone artifacts, paleoenvironmental records, and geochronological (age)...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $143,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Missouri Research Reactor to support historical archaeology research from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2024. The grant will fund an early career scientist to analyze consumer goods, food remains, and merchant ledgers from eight archaeological sites in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to provide new insights into how class shaped racial identity...
This $500,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a research project titled "Expanding Geoarchaeology Opportunities for Underrepresented Students through Multiproxy Investigations of Human-Environmental Dynamics." The project aims to expand training opportunities for students in archaeological field and laboratory methods, with a focus on removing barriers that limit...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $108,757, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to San Diego State University Foundation. The award, effective August 15, 2024 through July 31, 2026, supports a collaborative research project that investigates changes in prehistoric human foraging, mobility patterns, and population dynamics in response to environmental change during the later Pleistocene. The research...
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 standardized and geo-referenced and made accessible online. This dataset will be a valuable resource for researchers, students, educators, and others studying topics such as demography, cultural ecology, economic practices, urbanism, agriculture, and social and political evolution. In addition to establishing this publicly available archive, the project aims to advance understanding of the development of complex societies through testing models of institutional change across interacting groups over millennia. The funding was awarded on August 1, 2022 and work will be completed by July 31, 2024.