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Archaeology Grants Program


Projects Funded 2020
 
Listed by grant numbers, with links to project summaries. Project location maps are linked to place names in brackets.



RFF-2020-122    Alyson Thibodeau, Dickinson College.  "Tracing Turqoise from platform mound communities in the Tonto Basin, Arizona, AD 1275-1450."  [Tonto Basin, Arizona]

RFF-2020-123    Sue Hamilton, University College, London.  "Rapi Nui Landscapes of Construction: Taheta Survey."  [Easter Island, Chile]

RFF-2019-124   Tamara Bray, Wayne State University.  "An Archaeological Investigation of Inca Resettlement Policy & Colonial Practice in Southern Ecuador: Exploring the Inter-Ethnic Relations through Ceramic Production Technologies."  [San Miguel de Porotoros, Ecuador]

RFF-2020-125    Sarah E. Jackson and Linda A. Brown, University of Cincinnati.  "Sacred Landscapes and Emerging Complexity at the Maya Site of Say Kah, Belize.  " [Say Kah, Belize]

RFF-2020-126   Michael Parker Pearson, University College, London. "The Origin of Stonehenge: Waun Maun Stone Circle and Beyond."  [Waun Maun, Wales]

RFF-2020-127  John Walden, University of Pittsburgh. "Charting the Changing Roles of Intermediate Elites in an Emerging Classic Maya Polity."  [Barton Ramie, Belize].

RFF-2020-128  Travis Stanton, Vera Travis, and James Sickman, University of California, Riverside. "Surviving the Maya Collapse in the Yucatan Peninsula: Reappraising Diets, Migrations, and Climate Changes through Isotopic Research at Chichen Itza and El Rey." [Chichen  Itza and El Rey, Yucatan, Mexico].

RFF-2020-129   Nicola Lercari, University of California, Merced. "Part to Whole: Shedding Light on the Organization of a Late Classic Residential Group at Palenque through Spatial Analysis and Field Investigation."  [Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico]

RFF-2020-130   Susan Johnston, George Washington University, and Zenobie S. Garrett, University of Oklahoma. "A New Radiocarbon Chronology for the Prehistoric Ceremonial Center at Dun Ailinne (County Kildare, Ireland)."  [Dun Ailinne, Ireland]

RFF-2020-131   John Bratten and Michelle Jenson, University of West Florida.  "Isolation and Characterization of Ancient DNA from a 1559 Spanish Shipwreck."  [Pensacola Bay, Florida]

RFF-2020-132   Fred Valdez and Angelina Locker, University of Texas, Austin. "The Rancho Archaeology Project: Archaic and Preclassic Maya Developments."  [Colha, Belize]

RFF-2019-133   Borja Legarra and Mercedes Murillo, University College,  London.  "Human Mobility and Long-term Social Change in the West Mediterranean: The case of the Vera Region (Almeria, Spain)."  [Vera, Almeria, Spain]

RFF-2019-134   Maria Boza and Nathaniel Kitchel, University of Wyoming.  "The Archaeology of Fishing and Sea-Faring Communities of Arequipa, Peru." [Arequipa,  Peru]

RFF-2020-135   Julie Hoggarth, Baylor University. "Drought and its Demographic Effects in the Maya Lowlands."  [Baking Pot, Belize]

RFF-2019-136   Denton Walthall, University of Texas, Austin/ Friends of Morgantina.  "Life on the Edge: The American Excavations at Morgantina - Contrada Agnese Project (AEM-CAP)."  [Morgantina, Sicily, Italy].

RFF-2019-137   Diane Wallman and Heidi Miller, University of South Florida.  "A Diachronic View of the Impacts of Interactions between Indigenous West Africans and Europeans during the Trans-Atlantic Trade. A Biocultural Analysis from Elmina, Ghana." [Elmina, Ghana.]

RFF-2019-138   Krish Seetah and Weronica Tomczyk, Stanford University.  "Human-Animal  Relationships in the Wari Empire's Northern Provinces, Modern Peru." [San Pablo, Peru]

RFF-2019-139   Zachary McKeeby, University of Virginia.  "The Socioeconomic Context of Iron Production and Exchange in the Machili Valley, Zambia, 700-1500 CE: An Archaeology of Places In-between." [Machili Valley, Zambia]

RFF-2019-140   Jan Driessen, University of Louvain. "Cyprus Pyla Exploration Project, Louvain (C-PEPL)."  [Pyla-Kokkinokremo, Cyprus].

RFF-2020-141   Jeffrey Blomster, George Washington University.  "Crafting Complexity: Ceramic and Figurine Analysis from Etlatonga, Oaxaca."  [Etlatonga, Oaxaca, Mexico]

RFF-2019-142    Holly Pittman and Steve Renette, University of Pennsylvania.  "Lowland-Highland Relations during the Early Bronze Age in Southern Iraqi-Kurdistan: Post-Fieldwork Analysis of Excavations at Kani Shaie."  [Kani Shaie, Iraqi Kurdistan]

RFF-2020-143   Danny Rosenberg, University of Haifa.  "Testing the Neolithic-Chalocolithic Transition in the Southern Levant: Exploring the Earliest Levels of Tel Tsaf."  [Tel Tsaf, Israel]

RFF-2019-144   J. Marla Toyne, University of Central Florida.  "Exploring Mortuary Landscape and Social Complexity among Pre-Columbian Chachapoya of the Eastern Andean Mountains of Peru." [Chachapoya, Peru]

RFF-2019-145   Rui Gomez Coelho, Brown University.  "A Town of Three Worlds: Archaeology of Violence and Cosmopolitanism in the Slave Trade Port of Cacheu." [Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau]

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