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Archaeology Grants Program


Projects Funded 2021
 
Listed by grant numbers, with links to project summaries.
Project location maps are linked to place names in brackets.


RFF-2021-146   Luis Flores-Blanco,  University of California, Davis.  "The Seeds of Leadership at Kaillachuro Lake Titicaca Basin Peru 4000 BP. "   [Peru]

RFF-2021-147    Jordan Dalton and  Brett Kauffman,  Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History. "Mortuary Practices and Metallurgical Technologies during the Inca Empire (AD 1450-1534) and Spanish Colonial Period (AD 1534-1821)." [Peru]

RFF-2021-148   Alexandria Mitchem, Columbia University.  "Excavating the Roots of Bartram’s Botanical Gardens: Science and Commerce in 19th Century America." [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

RFF-2021-149    Markus Eberl, Vanderbilt University.  "Ancient Maya Identity Formation: Initial Archaeological Investigations at Tzikin Tzakan  Guatemala." [Guatemala]

RFF-2021-150   Corey Ragsdale,  University of Southern Illinois, Edwardsville.  "Population continuity and cultural interaction in Poland during the Middle Ages." [Poland]

RFF-2021-151  Lea Cline and Kathryn Jasper, Illinois State University. "Northwest Bolsena Archaeological Project: Valle Gianni Survey. "  [Italy]

RFF-2021-152  Ian Hodder and Gabriella Oppitz, Stanford University. "Community ways and historical paths: a comparative study of socio-environmental change on the southern coast of Brazil (5000-600 BP)." [Brazil]

RFF-2021-153   Rachel Horowitz, Washington State University. "Understanding Maya Economies: Preliminary Investigation at the Manzanero Lithic Production Area in western Belize."   [Belize]

RFF-2021-154   Jon Spenard, California State University, San Marcos. "Initial Investigations of Nohoch Batsó, a Newly Recorded Maya Site in the Mountain Pine Ridge, Cayo,  Belize."   [Belize]

RFF-2021-155   Joseph Jean,  Royal Netherlands  Institute.  "Cavescapes Archaeological Project in Dondon (northern Haiti)."  [Haiti]

RFF-2021-156   Matthew Pailes, University of Oklahoma. "Beyond the Mesoamerican Frontier: The Early Spread of Agriculture in North America."  [Sonora, Mexico]

RFF-2021-157   Ariana Lambrides,  James Cook University.  "Uncovering the deep history of Indigenous fisheries on the Great Barrier Reef: Expanding knowledge with novel high-resolution collagen fingerprinting." [Australia]

RFF-2021-158   Salvatore Vitale, Calla McNamee, and Toula Marketou,  INSTAP.  "Cultural Transitions Settlement  and Land Use Practices on Northeastern Kos from the Neolithic to the Modern Era: The New Late Bronze Age Site of Ayios Panteleimon." [Kos]

RFF-2021-159   Jane Holmstrom, University of Central Florida. "Saint-Jean de Todon and Saint-Victor-la-Coste: An Isotopic Comparison of Origins Between the Medieval French Religious Elite and Lower-Class." [France]

RFF-2021-161   Saro Wallace, University of Manchester/ HERITAGE.  "Karphi Revisited: 2-Year Excavation at a Mountaintop Defensible Town of the Bronze–Iron Age Transition. [Crete, Greece]

RFF-2021-162   Whittaker Schroder, University of Florida.  "The Benemérito de las Américas – Lacantún Archaeological Project." [Chiapas, Mexico]

RFF-2021-163   Nathalie Abell, University of Michigan.  "Chronological and Environmental Assessment of Charcoal from Neolithic and Bronze Age Kea." [Cyclades, Greece]

RFF-2021-164   Sheldon Scaggs, CUNY.  "Uncovering a Late Classic Maya Stone Working Community at Pacbitun Belize."  [Belize]

RFF-2021-165   Yannis Hamilakis, Brown University.  "Animal management  human-animal relationships and their social significance in Middle Neolithic central Greece: isotopic analyses of cattle and sheep teeth from Koutroulou Magoula."  [Greece]

RFF-2021-166    Bethany Simpson and Emily Cole, Virginia Commonwealth University.  "Northeast Fayyum Lakeshore Project."  [Egypt]

RFF-2021-167  Whitney Goodwin, University of Missouri.  "Pottery Production and Consumption in Feasting Contexts in Northeast Honduras."  [Honduras]

RFF-2021-168  Rachel Johnson and Jason Nesbitt, Tulane University.  "Ceramic Production and Distribution in the Central Andes and Upper Amazon During the Early and Middle Formative Period (1800-800 BCE). " [Peru]

RFF-2021-169   Christopher Lyes, Oxford University.  "The Tufo Quarries of Ancient Rome: Documentation; Interpretation and Significance."  [Italy]

RFF-2021-170   Emily Brennan, University of South Carolina.  "Histories of Stress: A Life Course Approach to Population Health in Late Medieval and Early Modern Berlin  Germany."  [Germany]

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