Rust Family Foundation

Archaeology Grants Program


Projects Funded 2019
 
Listed by grant #, with links to project summaries. Project location maps linked to place names in  brackets.



RFF-2019-84    Sarah Klassen, Arizona State University, and Damian Evans, École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris.  "Urbanism and Water Management at Koh Ker."  [Koh Ker, Siem Reap, Cambodia].

RFF-2019-85    Ramie Gougeon, University of West Florida.  "Prehistoric Pensacola: Reassessing the Butcherpen Mound Complex." [Pensacola, Florida, USA]

RFF-2019-86    Pam J. Crabtree, New York University. "Feeding Early Medieval Cities: Evidence from Late Saxon Southampton and Early Medieval Antwerp." [England and Belgium]

RFF-2019-87    Brady Liss, University of California at San Diego. "Copper; Culture and Collapse: Examining the Relationship between Natural Resource Depletion and Societal Collapse in Faynan, Jordan." [Faynan, Jordan]

RFF-2019-88    Daniel T, Potts, New York University, and Karen Radner,  Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich.  "Archaeological Excavations at Gird-i Rostam (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)." [Iraqi Kurdistan]

RFF-2019-89    Danny Rosenberg, University of Haifa, Zinman Institute of Archaeology. "Tracing the emergence of the Mediterranean diet in the Jordan Valley: Culinary traditions and cultural background at tel Tsaf, Israel." [tel Tsaf, northern Israel]

RFF-2019-90    Jean-Luc Houle, Western Kentucky University.   "Invisible Archaeology: Geophysical and Geoarchaeological Investigation of Mobile Pastoralist Campsites in Mongolia."   [Khanuy Valley. Arkhangai Province, Mongolia]

RFF-2019-91    Shawn G. Morton, Northern Arizona University, and Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown, Athabasca University.   "The Search for Pearce: LiDAR Survey in the Cockscomb Basin."  [Stann Creek District, Belize]

RFF-2019-92    Patricia Neuhoff-Malorzo, University of Texas at Austin. "Integrating Active and Passive geophysical survey techniques to map resource-specialized communities: Resistivity, Magnetometry, and GPR at the Maya sites of Tzak Nab, Las Abejas, and Medicinal Trail." [Orange Walk District, Belize]

RFF-2019-93    Corinna Riva. University College London, Institute of Archaeology.    "Sustainable Vulci: The Economy and Paleoenvironment of a City-State in the pre-Roman Mediterranean."  [Vulci, Montalto di Castro, Italy]
     
RFF-2019-94   Kimberly Munro, Trinidad State Junior College, Colorado.  " Early Communal Architecture at the Cosma Complex. Ritual and Communal Gathering in the Upper Nepeña River Valley, Ancash, Peru."  [Cosma, Ancash, Peru]

RFF-2019-95    Mark Altaweel, University College London, Institute of Archaeology, and Andrea Squitieri,  
Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich.  "The Peshdar Plain Chalcolithic Project."  [Sulaymaniyah Province, Iraqi Kurdistan]

RFF-2019-96    Rosemary Lieske, Vanderbilt University. "Negotiating Indigenous Power through Food Practices at Colonial Ciudad Vieja, El Salvador." [Ciudad Vieja, El Salvador]

RFF-2019-97    David W, Mixter, Binghamton University.  "Building Kingship on the Preclassic Maya Frontier: Excavations at Actuncan, Belize."  [Cayo District, Belize]

RFF-2019-98    Graeme Barker, University of Cambridge.  "Investigating Neanderthal Notions of Death and its Aftermath at Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan." [Shandidar, Iraqi Kurdistan]

RFF-2019-99    Heather Hurst, Skidmore College, and Franco Rossi, University of Illinois at Chicago.  "Preparing a High-Resolution Chronology of Xultun, Guatemala." [San Bartolo-Xultun, Petén, Guatemala]

RFF-2019-100  Maureen Carroll, University of Sheffield.  "Mobilisation of Resources at the Roman Imperial Estate at Vagnari." [Gravina, Puglia, Italy].
 
RFF-2019-101  Caitlín E. Barrett, Cornell University. "Rethinking Pompeian Households: The Casa della Regina Carolina (CRC) Project, Pompeii."  [near Naples, Campania, Italy].

RFF-2019-102  Robert Schiestl, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich.  "Kom el-Gir: Settling and Developing the Northwestern Delta in the Graeco-Roman Period." [Kafr esh-Shaikh, Nile Delta, Egypt].

RFF-2019-103  Anna Bishop, University of California at Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.  " The Abnormally Elite: Changing Political Structure Before The Ancient Maya Collapse." [El Zotz,
Petén, Guatemala].

RFF-2019-104  Jan Driessen, University of Louvain.  "Excavation of a Bronze Age Ceremonial Center on the Kephali Hill in Sissi, Crete." [Lassithi Province, Crete, Greece]

RFF-2019-105  Veronique Belisle, Millsaps College.  "Obsidian Trade Networks and the Impact of Wari State Expansion in Cuzco, Peru." [Livitaka, near Cuzco, Peru]

RFF-2019-106  Shawn Dolan, Los Alamos Laboratories, and Karl Laumbach, Human Systems Research, Las Cruces, NM.  "Understanding Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Domestication and Husbandry in the Mimbres Valley- Southwestern New Mexico using Mitochondrial DNA and Bone Isotope Analysis." [Elk Ridge, Mimbres Valley, New Mexico, USA]

RFF-2019-107 
Ted Goebel and  John T. White, Texas A&M University. "Preliminary Investigations of Paleoecology and Human Habitation of late Pleistocene southcentral Alaska." [Hinchinbrook Island and Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park, Alaska, USA]

RFF-2019-108  David Chicoine and Elizabeth Cruzado, Louisiana State University.  "Ancient Occupation of the Nivin Region: A Community-Based Co-Creative Approach to Andean Archaeology."  [Casma District, Ancash Province, Peru]

RFF-2019-109  Jennifer Farquhar, University of Pittsburgh.  "Human-Environment Interactions: The Role of Foragers in the Development of Mobile Pastoralism in the Desert Steppe Region of Mongolia."  [Ikh Nart Nature Reserve, Dornogovi Province, Mongolia]
 
RFF-2019-110  Rachel Witt and John Verano, Tulane University.   "Bioarchaeological and Biogeochemical Study of Late Intermediate Period (AD 1100-1450) Child Sacrifices from the Moche Valley, Peru."   [El Tablazo and Pampa la Cruz, Huanchaco, Peru]

RFF-2019-111  Baitzel, Sarah, Washington University in St. Louis. "Andean Vertical Exchange after Tiwanaku (10-12th century A.D.): Investigating subsistence, mobility, and social diversity in the Cabuza city of Los Batanes (Southern Peru)." [Los Batances, Peru]

RFF-2019-112  Sarah K. Gilleland and Karl P. Lipo, Binghamton University.  "Unraveling the mystery of Poverty Point, Louisiana through the novel use of eDNA to identify past food items." [Poverty Point, Pioneer, Louisiana, USA]

RFF-2019-113  Andrea Acosta, University of South Carolina, and Kristina Killgrove, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  "Bioarchaeology of Family Structure and Social Change in Iron Age Italy."  [Osteria dell’Osa and Gabii, Italy]

RFF-2019-114  Robert H. Tykot and Gianpiero Caso, University of South Florida.  "Recipes for the living and the dead: technological investigation of Late Bronze Age ceramics for a specific audience. The case studies of Sant’Angelo Muxaro and Polizzello." [central Sicily, Italy]

RFF-2019-115  Abagail M. Breidenstein, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich, Pearce Paul Creasman, University of Arizona, and Meghan E. Strong, Cleveland Museum of Natural History.   "The Genetic Landscape of an Ancient Nubian Necropolis: Pilot Study." [Nuri, northern Sudan]

RFF-2019-116  Christina Halperin, University of Montreal.  "Biographies of Classic Maya Bone Tools."   [Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala]

RFF-2019-117  Robert L. Schuyler and Elizabeth C. Clay, University of Pennsylvania.  "Life and Labor at Habitation La Caroline, French Guiana."  [Roura, French Guiana]

RFF-2019-118  Solsire Cusicanqui and Gary Urton, Harvard University.  "Identity through Movement: Domestic political units and pan-Andean relations in Pre-Hispanic Cajamarca."  [Iscoconga, Cajamarca Valley, Peru]

RFF-2019-119  Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan, Paolo Maranzana, and Marco Cavalazzi,  University of Bologna.  "Gabii after the Romans: history of settlement in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages." [Gabii, Lake Cavalcanti, Italy].

RFF-2019-120  Haagen D. Klaus, George Mason University. "The Bioarchaeology of the Moche Lords of Úcupe:   New Windows on Politics, Identity, and Human Biology In the Ancient Andes." [Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipán, Cuidad de Lambayeque, Peru]

RFF-2019-121  Tim Spahr, Kennebunkport Conservation Trust. "Cape Porpoise Archaeological Alliance 2019 -  Stage Island Study."  [Cape Porpoise, Maine, USA]






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