Research and Travel Grants for 2025 – Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society

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In 2025 we awarded $13,461 to fourteen individuals from nine different institutions to support their research and travel.

Research Grants

Caitlin Ainsworth (University of New Mexico) – Pre-Hispanic Turkey Rearing at Paquimé: Implications for cultural interaction, turkey domestication and diffusion – $1400.

Guadalupe Sanchez Carpenter (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia Sonora) – Sources of Obsidian Artefacts at Sierra del Pinacate, Sonora, Mexico – $750.

Emily Thurman (Arizona State University) – An Analysis of Spondylus Distribution in the Phoenix Basin – $1400.00.

Ismael Sanchez-Morales (Arizona Museum of Natural History – Typological analysis of the Archaic and later projectile point components from the Sonoran Desert sites of El Fin del Mundo and El Gramal, Northwest Mexico– $1400.

Jose Vivero Miranda (Unversity of Oklahoma) – Guasave, México: A contention point between Mesoamérica and the Greater Southwest “Excavation-Lab Stages – $1400.00.

Cordelia Sonnenschein (San Diego State) – Spinning Community: A Survey of Tucson Basin Spindle Whorls – $1045.

Charlotte Dawson (University of Arizona) – Reassembling Bison Relations: Cultural Resurgence and Bioscience in Bison Programs on Tribal Nations in New Mexico – $1400.

Travel Grants

$700 each for Students to attend the Society for American Archaeological Society Conference in Denver to Tuesday Critz (New Mexico State University), Mairead Doery, Rebecca Harkess, Noah Place, Michael Spears, and Emery Manuel, all of the University of Arizona.

$576 to Liv Winnicki (Binghampton University) to attend a Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course at the Univesrity of Arizona.