This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) Program grant award (CFDA 47.075) provides $170,000 in funding to develop an open-access ethnobotanical and archaeobotanical comparative plant collection. The goal is to analyze ancient plant use by hunter-gatherer societies and contribute to studies of human-environment interactions. The 2-year project, running from August 2024 to July 2026, will construct the plant collection through ethnobotanical research, botanical voucher specimen collection, and analysis of plant remains from previously excavated archaeological sites. This foundational scientific resource will enable enhanced understanding of past human behaviors and landscape management practices that are not well represented in existing studies focused primarily on stone tools and animal bones. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.
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