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Archaeology Grants Program


Projects Funded 2023
 
Listed by grant numbers, with links to project summaries.
Project location maps are linked to place names in brackets.


RFF-2023-195   Cruz, M. Dores, University of Cologne. "Bitter Island: exploring Portuguese colonial landscapes in São Tomé’s sugar plantation cycle (16th-17th century)."  Praia Melão island of São Tomé      [Gabon, Africa]

RFF-2023-196    Loy, Michael,  University of Cambridge. "West Area of Samos Archaeological Project-2023 Summer Season."     Karlovasi Basin    Samos, Greece  [Greece].

RFF-2023-197   Shaw, Justine M.,  College of the Redwoods.  "After the Apocalypse: Analysis of Late Terminal Classic Round Structures in the Cochuah Region."    Sacalaca+San Felipe     [Quintana Roo, Mexico]

RFF-2023-198   Tafani, Aurelian, University of South Florida. "Performing Strontium Isotopic Analysis of Tooth Enamel to Explore Mobility at the Eneolithic Necropolis of Sultana-Malu Rosu, Romania."      Sultana necropolis    [Romania]

RFF-2023-199  Blong, John C., Washington State University. "Establishing the age of the Western Stemmed Tradition and Traditional Nimíipuu Subsistence Practices at the Kelly Forks Work Center Site Idaho."   Idaho  [Washington and Oregon]

RFF-2023-200  Patania, Ilaria, Washington University at St. Louis. " Early Occupation of Sicily (EOS)." Pedagaggi cave-Fontana del Paradiso    Siracusa Sicily 

RFF-2023-201  Hunter, Raymond A.,  Brown University. "Ollantaytambo Before the Inka: Evaluating Agricultural Intensification in the Andean Past."    [Peru]

RFF-2023-202   Goebel, Ted, University of Kansas.  "Early Human Settlement of Southern Patagonia: A Proposal for Rescue Excavations at the Paleoindian Locality of La Gruta 1, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina."  Argentina

RFF-2023-203  Moore, Tom, University of Durham. " Examining the nature of Late Iron Age urbanism in Gaul: Completing excavations of the Iron Age and Roman sanctuaries at the Sources de l’Yonne agglomeration, Burgundy, France:     [France]

RFF-2023-204  Frykholm, Soren    Univrsity of Michigan,  Museum of Anthropology.   "Colonialism and culture contact as viewed through the excavation of households in Teozacoalco, Oaxaca"  [Oaxaca, Mexico]

RFF-2023-205   Bevan, Andrew, University College London. "Emborio Hinterland Project."  Emborio region    Chios, Greece    [Greece].

RFF-2023-206   Yagi, Hiroaki, Tulane University. "Understanding Early Monumentality: Initial archaeological investigations at Hoja de Sol  Guatemala."  [Guatemala]  

RFF-2023-207   LeBlanc, Megan,  University of Florida.  "Digging for Disasters: El Niño, Drought, and Floods on the Far Southern Coast of Peru."  Tacahuay Tambo   [Peru]

RFF-2023-208   James, Sarah A., University of Colorado, Boulder.  "The Brac Island Project."      [Croatia]

RFF-2023-209  Emberling, Geoffrey, University of Michigan, Kelsey Museum. "Changing climate and local environment at a capital city of ancient Kush: Geoarchaeology at Jebel Barkal,  Northern Sudan."    [Sudan

RFF-2023-210  Cutright, Robyn, Centre College. "Local Experiences on the Edge of Empire in the Chira Valley, Peru"  Monte Lima, Piura       [Peru]

RFF-2023-211  Wallace, Saro,  HERITAGE Foundation. "Karphi Revisited: Excavation Project Main Phase 2023-27: 2023 season."   Karphi Megali Koprana     [Crete]

RFF-2023-212  Flores Blanco, Luis,  University of California at Davis. " Seeds of Leadership at Kaillachuro: Lab analysis." [Peru]

RFF-2023-213   Cameron, Asa and  B. Dashzeveg, Yale University.  "Creating the Nomadic State: Isotopic Perspectives into Pastoral Practices, Mobility, and Subsistence during the Xiongnu Period (c.300 BC-150 AD) of Mongolia."   Shiriin Chuluu, Dorongovi Province    Mongolia    [Mongolia]

RFF-2023-214   Stark, Robert J., American Sudanese Archaeological Research Center." Old Dongola Medieval Burials Project. "  Old Dongola    Sudan    Old Dongola Medieval Burials Project    [Sudan

RFF-2023-215  Torvinen, Andrea,  University of Florida.  "Compositional Analysis of Regional Ceramic Traditions in Epiclassic (600-900 CE) Northwestern Mesoamerica."     Quemada    Mexico  

RFF-2023-216  Zavodny, Emily,  University of  Central Florida.  "Excavations at the Earliest Bronze Age Hillfort in Lika, Croatia."    [Croatia]

RFF-2023-217   Warriner, Christina and John Walden,  Harvard University.  "Understanding the Political Dynamics Associated with the Rise of a Late Classic Maya Polity."  Lower Dover    [Belize]

RFF-2023-218  Horowitz, Mara T.,  SUNY Purchase.  "Kalavasos-Laroumena and Arkhangelos Archaeological Research Project."   Kalavasos-Laroumena    [Cyprus]

RFF-2023-219   Wai, Christopher, University of Toronto.  "Fortifying the Ancestors: An Investigation into the Fortified Sacred Mountainsides and Cliffs of North Coastal Peru."
Cerro Prieto Espinal     [Peru]  

RFF-2023-220  Smith, Alexander, A. Perez-Juez, and K.Forste,  SUNY. "The Menorca Archaeological Project 2023: Carthaginian Crossroads at Torre d’en Galmés."  Alaior,   [Menorca, Spain]

RFF-2023-221  Vieugué, Julien (CNRS) & Anna Eirikh-Rose (IAA),  Sha’ar Hagolan and the second Neolithic Revolution in the Near East (7th millennium cal. BC)".  [Israel]

RFF-2023-222  Sheets, Payson, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Archaeological Research at Joya de Ceren, El Salvador."   [El Salvador]

RFF-2023-223  Stocker, Sharon and Julie Unruh    University of Cincinnatti, Institute for Mediterranean Studies. "Armor from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior: The First Scientific Study of the Organic Components of Mycenaean Armor."      Koryfasio    [Greece].

RFF-2023-224   Wood, Rachel,  University of California- Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute.    "Divergence in  Decoration: Opaque Red Glass Producction in Europe from the Late Iron Age to Early Roman Empire."    Mt Beuvray    Burgundy  [France]

RFF-2023-225  Herrera, Roberto A., CUNY, Medgar Evans College.  "Osa Peninsula Heritage Project."  Sitios Cantarero + Pejeperro    Costa Rica  

RFF-2023-226  Barrett, Caitlin,  Cornell University.  "Rethinking Pompeian Households: The Casa della Regina Carolina (CRC) Project, Pompeii."   [Italy]

RFF-2023-227  Munro, Kimberly    Otero College.   "Early Community Practice and Ritual Enactment, an Examination of Religious Architecture in the Cosma Basin, Peru."   [Peru]  

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