Project Grant 2317293
- 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $222,784 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to investigate the role of metallurgy and trade in sociopolitical complexity across historical time periods. The research will analyze tin isotopes to trace the sourcing and exchange of critical metals like tin, which were necessary for Bronze Age metal production and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $118,941 to the University of Missouri System to develop new methods for analyzing a large-scale database of over 30,000 ceramic compositional analyses using machine learning and social network analysis techniques. The goal is to facilitate exploration of regional-scale interactions and social organization in past societies based on ceramic production and...
- 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 SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $148,000 Project Grant to Columbia, MO to support research investigating obsidian and ochre exchange from Aug 1, 2021 through Jul 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Through this funding, researchers in Columbia, MO will conduct a...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $252,253 to Washington State University to investigate the relationship between economic and sociopolitical structures in a prehistoric society. The key activities include: Conducting excavations of known lithic (stone tool) production areas, analyzing previously excavated materials, and using geochemical analysis techniques like inductively coupled...
- 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....
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 emerged between 400 and 1750 AD. By analyzing the chemical and lead isotopic ratios of metal objects from dated archaeological sites and comparing them to ore mineral samples, the researchers will indirectly determine when specific mines were exploited and how far the metals were distributed through internal trade networks. This project, funded from July 2023 to June 2025, falls under NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) and is expected to provide the first direct evidence of the origins and early history of regional metal mining and long-distance trade in the precolonial era.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $180.9k | 7/14/23 |