This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will support collaborative archaeological research to investigate the relationship between agriculture, environmental change, and social inequality over time. The $118,277 grant awarded to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) will enable a transdisciplinary team to analyze agricultural practices, food webs, and land use...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $102,340 to the University of Oklahoma to investigate the motivations and environmental factors behind the adoption of farming as a livelihood strategy in human history. The project aims to reconstruct the ecological contexts surrounding the spread of early agriculture, clarifying whether the adoption of farming occurred out of necessity or choice when...
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...
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) 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 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $321,936 to Texas A&M University to investigate human adaptation and resilience in high-altitude archaeological sites. The project aims to determine how small-scale foraging societies persisted in challenging environments over thousands of years by analyzing detailed environmental and behavioral data from multiple sites. In addition to scholarly...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $324,824 to Archaeology Southwest, a non-profit organization, to conduct research on the role of diet in the process of long-term cultural integration among migrant and local groups in the 14th century. The project examines changes over generations in how plants and animals were used for food, raw materials, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $221,164 to Washington State University to study the impact of environmental changes on traditional subsistence strategies of small-scale societies. The project examines how fluctuations in climate and environmental conditions over time affected the availability of food resources and the dietary choices of hunter-gatherer communities, as evidenced by...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $121,978 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. to investigate the long-term relationship between climate change and agricultural response, focusing on human interactions with plants and animals in dynamic natural and cultural landscapes. The research aims to illuminate how agrarian societies have responded to pronounced environmental...