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Archaeology Grants Program


Projects Funded 2018
 
Listed by grant #, with links to project summaries. Project location maps linked to place names in  brackets.


RFF-2018-51      Angelina Locker, University of Texas at Austin.  "Unveiling Ancient Maya Migration Histories: Evidence from Stable Isotopes and aDNA.”   [La Milpa, Belize]

RFF-2018-52      Rita Wright, New York University. “Rural Archaeology in the Upper Indus Valley – Monitoring and Preserving an Urban Process on the Old Beas River
.” [Pakistan]

RFF-2018-53      Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma. “Deconstructing the Tophet in the Neo-Punic City of Zita, Tunisia.” [Zita, Tunisia]

RFF-2018-54      Linda R. Gosner, University of Michigan, Alexander J. Smith, State University of New York at Brockport, and Jessica Nowlin, University of Texas at San Antonio.  “Sinis Archaeological Project 2018: Landscape Survey in West-Central Sardinia.” [Sardinia]

RFF-2018-55      Tom Moore, Durham University. “Excavations at the Iron Age and Roman sanctuaries at the Sources de l’Yonne agglomeration, Burgundy, France: Examining the nature of Late Iron Age Urbanism in Gaul.”  [Bibracte, France]

RFF-2018-56      Sharon Stocker, University of Cincinnati. “Grave of the Griffin Warrior, Ancient Pylos, Greece.” [Pylos, Greece]

RFF-2018-57      Lisa Trever, University of California at Berkeley, and Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. "Siting Pañamarca: An Archaeological Study of Social History in the Lower Nepeña Valley, Peru.” [Pañamarca, Peru]

RFF-2018-58      Justin Toohey, University of Wyoming. “Development of Ritual and Social Complexity at the site of Callacpuma, Cajamarca, Peru.” [Cajamarca, Peru]

RFF-2018-59      Jan Driessen, University of Louvain. “The excavation of a Bronze Age Ceremonial Centre on the Kephali Hill in Sissi (Crete).” [Crete, Greece]

RFF-2018-60      Raymond A. Hunter, University of Chicago. “Households in Transition: Examining Material Change in Colonial Andean Domestic Economy and Ecology.” [Markaqocha, Peru]

RFF-2018-61      Ashley Maxwell and Robert Tykot, University of South Florida. “Exploring Variations in Diet and Health from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period in the Veneto, Italy: A Biochemical Analysis.”  [Sovizzi and Dueville, Italy]

RFF-2018-62       John Karavas, International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies and Michael Zahariade, Vasile Parvan Institute. "Archaeology at Halmyris." [Romania]

RFF-2018-63      Maureen Carroll, University of Sheffield. “The Making of an Imperial Estate in Italy: The Ceramic Evidence.”  [Apulia, Italy]  

RFF-2018-64      Sören Stark and Shujing Wang, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,  New York University. “Borderlands and Rural Landscapes in Central Asia during Antiquity (c.3rd century BCE-3rd century CE): Kurgan Burials and Pastoralism at the Fringes of Bukhara Oasis." [Bukhara, Uzbekistan]

RFF-2018-65      Michael Parker Pearson, University College, London. “Waun Mawn stone circle: the Welsh origins of Stonehenge.”  [Preseli Hills, Wales]  

RFF-2018-66      Simon Stoddart, University of Cambridge. “Romanisation of Umbria project.”  [Perugia, Italy]

RFF-2018-67      Gabriel Barkay and Zachi Dvira, P.E.F. Israel Endowment Fund. “The Temple Mount Sifting Project.”  [Jerusalem, Israel]

RFF-2018-68      Jane Buikstra, Arizona State University. “Cancer in Antiquity: Past Communities and the Port of Ancient Athens.” [Athens, Greece]

RFF-2018-69      Antonietta Catanzariti, Freer/Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution. “Late Chalcolithic Urbanization in the Zagros Highlands: A Case Study from Ban Qala in the Qara Dagh Valley.” [Iraqi Kurdistan

RFF-2018-70      Justine Shaw, College of the Redwoods and Alberto G. Flores Colin. “Exploring Settlement Dynamics in the Cochuah Region.” [Quintana Roo, Mexico]

RFF-2018-71      Claire Ebert, University of Pittsburgh. “The Cultural and Climatic Context of the Transition from Foraging to Farming in the Belize River Valley.” [Cahal Pech and Actun Halal, Belize]

RFF-2018-72      Gabriel Wrobel, Michigan State University. “The Maya Cranial Photogrammetry Initiative: Digital Preservation of Skeletons from Copan, Honduras.”  [Copan, Honduras]

RFF-2018-73      Krystal Britt, University of Illinois at Chicago. “Practice and Pottery: Migration, Interaction, and Community Formation in the Middle Little Colorado River Valley, Northern Arizona (1125-1275 C.E.).” [near Winslow, Arizona]

RFF-2018-74      Anna Bishop, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California- Los Angeles. “Maneuvering the Middle: How the middle stratum of Maya society adapted to the Classic collapse.[El Zotz, Peten, Guatemala]

RFF-2018-75      Danielle Riebe, Field Museum of Natural History. “Interaction and Socio-Cultural Boundaries During the Late Neolithic on the Great Hungarian Plain,” [Hungary]

RFF-2018-76      Nicole Rose, City University of New York (CUNY). “Pottery as Mobile Technology: Production and Curation by Pastoralists on the Southwest Russian Steppe.” [Rostov, Russia]

RFF-2018-77      Jennie Ebeling, University of Evansville. “Manufacture, Distribution, Function, and Symbolism of Basalt Artifacts in the Early Bronze Age Farming Community at Tel ‘Ein Jezreel, Israel." [northern Israel]

RFF-2018-78      Dennis Jenkins, University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. “Archaeology of the Connley Caves (35LK50): Dating Younger Dryas and Clovis Era Western Stemmed Tradition Components.” [Oregon]

RFF-2018-79      Salvatore Vitale, University of Pisa, Calla McNamee, American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and Toula Marketou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Dodecanese. “Serraglio, Eleona, and Langada Archaeological Project (SELAP).” [Kos, Greece]

RFF-2018-80      Emily Sharp, Arizona State University. “Diachronic Trends in Violence and Mortuary Practices among the Recuay in the Ancient Andes.” [Jecosh, Ancash, Peru

RFF-2018-81      Noa Corcoran-Tadd, University of Leiden. “Tacora Archaeological Survey Project 2018.” [northern Chile]

RFF-2018-82      Camille Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin. “Negotiated Subsistence: Desert Resources and Early Agriculture in the Late Paracas Period, Peru." [Jahuay, Peru]

RFF-2018-83      David McCormick, Yale University. “The Cotzumalhuapa Obsidian System: Procurement, Production, and Provisioning in a Classic Mesoamerican Polity.” [El Baúl, Escuintla, Guatemala]

      





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