Archaeology Southwest received a three-year, $802,714 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA #47.075). The award will support the development of cyberinfrastructure for interdisciplinary research on households and landscapes in the ancient American Southwest. Specifically, Archaeology Southwest will create an integrated database and online mapping...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant awarded to Washington State University totals $221,164 over the period from May 15, 2025 to April 30, 2027. The grant supports a comprehensive study examining how environmental changes have impacted the traditional subsistence strategies and food practices of small-scale societies. Researchers will analyze a range of dietary remains preserved at archaeological sites and integrate this...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $191,700 to Arizona State University (ASU) to investigate changes in prehistoric human foraging, mobility patterns, and population dynamics in response to environmental change during the later Pleistocene. The research aims to provide broader context to occupations in a coastal region by comparing new archaeological data analyses to detailed models of the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $147,602 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will support collaborative research to document the origins and early consumption of key Neotropical food crops like maize and manioc through micobotanical analysis of samples from archaeological sites in northern Neotropical forests dating from 12,500 to 1,000 calibrated years before...
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 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) 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 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...
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...
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...