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Archaeology Grants Program


Projects Funded 2022
 
Listed by grant numbers, with links to project summaries.
Project location maps are linked to place names in brackets.


RFF-2022-171   Maria Nieves-Colon, Claire Maass, and J. Santa Cruz, University of Minnesota.  "La Quebrada Archaeology Project Pilot Ancient DNA Study. "   [Peru]

RFF-2022-172    Kenneth Seligson, California State University, Dominguez Hills. "Resilience and Abandonment of Small-Scale Communities in the Northern Maya Lowlands" [Yucatan, Mexico]

RFF-2022-173   Alexandria Brock, University of Central Florida. "Lived Experience at Plinkaigalis, Lithuania: An Integrated Approach Using Stable Isotopes, Spatial and Statistical Analysis."  [Lithuania]

RFF-2022-174    Antonis Kotsonas, New York University, Insitute of the Study of the Ancient World.  "Bringing to Light a 'Dark Age':The Excavation of an Archaic Cemetery (ca 600 BCE) at Lyktos, Crete, Greece." [Crete]

RFF-2022-175   Julia Earle, University of Texas, Austin.  "Building the Sacred Valley: Transformations of landscape during the Killke and Inka Periods (ca. 1000-1532 CE)."  [Peru]

RFF-2022-176  Kyle Shaw-Muller, University of Toronto. "Dating Alternative Urbanism at the Late Moche Settlement of Huaca Colorada, Peru. "  [Peru]

RFF-2022-177  Tim Spahr, Kennebunkport Conservation Trust. "Stage Harbor Archaeological Survey and Artifact Preservation."  [Maine]

RFF-2022-178   Attila Gyucha and Danielle Riebe, University of Georgia. "The Story in the Sherds: Studying Cultural Variation and Diachronic Changes from the Late Neolithic to the Early Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain."  [Hungary]

RFF-2022-179   Stephanie Fuehr, University of Central Florida. "Exploring Bioarchaeological and Forensic Implications of Multi-Isotope Analyses on Commingled Human Remains."   [Sai Island, Sudan

RFF-2022-180   Lisa Nevett, University of Michigan.  "Pella Urban Dynamics Project." [Macedonia, Greece].  

RFF-2022-181   Sarah Martini, Yale University. "Reconnecting the 'Empty Zone': Borders and networks of Exchange in the Highlands of Northern Peru ca. 2000-400 BCE." [Peru]

RFF-2022-182   Jing Cheng, Yale University.  "Collective Activities of Affluent Foragers in Southern China." [Shenzhen, China]

RFF-2022-183   Jan Driessen,  University of  Louvain.  "C-PEPL – Cyprus Pyla Exploration Project Louvain."  [Cyprus]

RFF-2022-184   Danny Rosenberg, University of Haifa. "Tracking abandonment patterns: The very end of Tel Tsaf and the WHY question." [Israel]

RFF-2022-185  Soren Stark, New York University, Insitute of the Study of the Ancient World.  "Rescue Excavations in the Inner City of Bukhara: The Early Muslim Cemetery (10th-early 14th cent CE). [Uzbekistan]

RFF-2022-186   Mariam Shakhmuradyan, University of Cambridge/Armenian Relief Institute.  "An Investigation of 'Desert Kites' at Aragatsavan & Tlik Armenia." [Armenia]

RFF-2022-187   Anisa Mara, University of Toronto.  "Gjyrashë Archaeological Project." [Albania]

RFF-2022-188   Katelyn N. McDonough, R. L. Rosencrance, and G. M. Smith, University of Nevada, Reno.  "Investigating Younger Dryas Lifeways in the Northern Great Basin and Southern Columbia Plateau through Cold Adaptations and Subsistence." [Washington and Oregon]

RFF-2022-189   Alexandre Tokovinine and  S. Balanzario,  University of Alabama.  "Re-arranging the puzzle: 3D documentation and reconstruction of El Resbalon hieroglyphic stairways." [Quintana Roo, Mexico]

RFF-2022-190   Daniel Rodriguez Osario, University of Texas, San Antonio.  "Collective Action,  Heterarchies, and ancient Urbanism: The case of La Palma - Sierra Nevade de Santa Marta."  [Colombia]

RFF-2022-191  Kristy Escalante, Tulane University.  "Looting and Lidar: An Analysis of Illicit Digging in the Maya Region using Airborne Laser Scanning."  [La Corona, Guatemala]  

RFF-2022-192  Tiffany Tung, Vanderbilt University.  "Uncovering Buried Stories: A Bioarchaeological Study of Slavery at the Grassmere Plantation in 19th Century Nashville, Tennessee." [Tennessee]

RFF-2022-193   Cassandra K. Scaffidi, University of California, Merced. "Droughts, Water Security, and the Rise and Fall of the Wari Empire."    [Arequipa, Peru]

RFF-2022-194  Jane Holmstrom, University of Central Florida. "Christianity on the Coast: Skeletal Analysis and Radiocarbon dating at the medieval convent of Saint-Pierre Almanarre." [France]

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