Project Grant 2316773
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $122,071 to Washington State University to conduct research on the origins and diffusion of animal domestication. The project aims to gain critical insights into past subsistence systems and human-environment relationships by analyzing archaeological faunal remains through a combination of genetic, isotopic, and morphometric analyses. The research contributes...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $138,337 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Trustees of Dartmouth College to investigate how livestock domestication shaped historical shifts in food production and economic organization. The project aims to advance understanding of the origins of agriculture and the development of early social structures through innovative biotechnological methods, microfossil analysis, dental calculus...
- This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $105,569 to the University of Connecticut to conduct research on human behavior within the context of long-term environmental change during the last glacial period from approximately 71,000 to 21,000 years ago. The research will combine high-resolution paleoclimate and zooarchaeological data from...
- 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 $185,194 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the role of human and animal mobility and migration in enabling the persistence of cities in fragile environments. Led by Stony Brook University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the research team will examine skeletal remains from one ancient city in a floodplain region using strontium, neodymium, and lead isotope analysis to determine the geographic origins of human and...
- This $170,902 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the biological implications of gender roles among mobile pastoralist societies. Funded under the NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the three-year award to Western Michigan University will advance scientific understanding of human adaptive strategies employed in shifting social and natural environments. The investigators will examine osteological markers, conduct isotopic and dental...
- 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 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 three-year, $279,546 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research into the drivers and proxies of behavioral diversity among late Pleistocene and Holocene hunter-gatherers. A team led by Yale University will conduct archaeological excavations and analyses in two regions where ancient DNA analysis has revealed hunter-gatherer populations began maintaining separate biological groupings near the end of...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $139,516 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Division to support a collaborative, multidisciplinary research project exploring the origins and early economic role of horse dairying in ancient pastoralist societies. The project aims to investigate archaeological evidence and trace the development of horse husbandry and milking practices, which contributed...
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 $222,011 to Wesleyan University over 4 years to investigate the geographic spread of pastoralism using a combination of paleogenomic and archaeological approaches. The research aims to clarify the timing of cattle, sheep, and goat domestication, explore their genetic histories, and study the cultural and environmental impacts of expanding pastoralism. Key activities include zooarchaeological analysis of animal bones, ancient DNA extraction and sequencing, and bioinformatics to detect evidence of wild and domesticated animal admixture. This research adds a critical missing dimension to the scholarly understanding of animal domestication and offers opportunities for student participation and public outreach around archaeological science.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $222.0k | 7/13/23 |