This $254,602 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research on how marginalized communities navigated changing social and economic landscapes through the production, exchange, and use of everyday ceramic objects. The project team will use innovative comparative techniques to analyze archaeological "big data" from colonoware pottery fragments, in collaboration with descendant...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $226,427 project grant to the California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc. on August 15, 2021 for an archaeology project titled "An Archaeology of Industry and Inter-Ethnic Dynamics" with a completion date of July 31, 2024. The grant is funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields as well as monitoring science resources and...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $212,756 awarded on September 1, 2022 will fund research into the economic integration of rural regions in prehistoric times. Under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), Arizona State University will investigate trade and economic behavior in a peripheral rural area located far from major population centers through analyzing excavated archaeological artifacts. Researchers will determine if elite trade networks,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $180,912 Project Grant to the University of Missouri System, doing business as the Curators of the University of Missouri, to support a collaborative research project on the role of long-distance metallurgy trade in establishing social complexity. The project aims to reconstruct the early history of mining and long-distance trade of metals, such as copper and tin, in a region where metallurgy first...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under CFDA 47.075 (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) supports a collaborative research project to investigate the relationship between agricultural practices and social change during periods of crisis. The $110,305 award to Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina will fund archaeological excavations, laboratory analyses, and computational modeling to study how...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Project Grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $185,270 to the University of Massachusetts Boston to conduct archaeological investigations of an 18th-century Spanish ranch in New Mexico. The project explores the processes of early modern colonization and development of colonial societies, focusing on the creation of Hispanic society in the United...
This two-year, $148,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports modeling of long-term urban and rural settlement dynamics through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant recipient will conduct archaeological and geospatial analyses to develop a predictive rural site distribution model and targeted survey of an urban hinterland in order to refine global urbanism models. Specifically, the recipient will use low-cost aerial and satellite imagery...
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 $102,546 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to the University of Arizona funds a collaborative research project reconstructing the early history of mining and long-distance trade of metals, such as copper and tin, within a region that saw the origins of metallurgy between approximately 400 and 1750 AD. The project focuses on indirectly reconstructing precolonial...
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...