All Grants AAHS Research and Travel Grants for 2018
In 2018 AAHS funded 15 grants to applicants from seven institutions. Awards included 4 research grants in the amount of $1000 each, 1 research grant in the amount of $990, 2 partial research grants for $500, 1 partial research grant for $400, and 7 travel grants for $300. The total amount awarded was $8,490.
Research Grants
Jenny Adams (Desert Archaeology), $1000 to fund travel to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) to examine ground stone artifacts from Pueblo Bonito. AMNH holds collections from excavations at Pueblo Bonito by George Pepper as part of the Hyde Exploring Expedition of 1896-1899.
Karen Adams (University of Texas, San Antonio), $990 for two AMS radiocarbon dates on prehistoric uncharred cotton (Gossypium) seeds from two archaeological sites in different culture areas of the U. S. Southwest.
Leslie Aragon (graduate student, University of Arizona), $1000 for her research project entitled “Dating the Cliff Phase Salado in the Upper Gila Area”. The funding will be used for AMS dating of two construction wood beams from Room 302 at the Gila River Farm site and two annuals from the hearth fill in that room.
Lori Barkwell Love (graduate student, University of Texas, San Antonio), $1000 for her project entitled “Formal Chronological Modeling for the Development of Mogollon Village”. The project will use Bayesian chronological modeling of new and existing radiocarbon dates to examine the occupation and contemporaneity of the Early Pithouse period (A.D. 200- 700) pithouses at Mogollon Village (LA 11568).
Mary Ownby (Desert Archaeology), $1000 for sourcing specular hematite paint on ceramic vessels in southern Arizona. Specifically, to analyze the paint on Broadline Purple-on-Red sherds from two sites in the Tucson Basin and, for comparison, possible Broadline Purple-on-red sherds from the site of Snaketown along the Gila River.
Christopher Schwartz (graduate student, Arizona State University), $500 for radiogenic strontium isotope analysis to determine whether scarlet macaws (Ara macao) discovered in the northern Sinagua region of north-central Arizona, specifically Wupatki Pueblo, were raised locally or transported from the macaw’s natural habitat in southern Mexico and Central America.
Kimberly Sheets (graduate student, Washington State University), $500 for strontium isotope analysis to source nonlocal bighorn sheep identified in faunal assemblages recovered from the Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster (HSC), northeast Arizona.
Reuven Sinensky (graduate student, University of California Los Angeles ), $400 for his project “Niche Construction and Common Pool Resource Management in Marginal Locales The proposed project employs multiple lines of evidence to explore the development and maintenance of land tenure systems, and routine food processing/consumption practices, and will require synthesis and reanalysis of existing data.
Benjamin Bellorado (graduate student, University of Arizona), $300 for travel to the 83nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, D.C.. Benjamin has been invited to speak in a sponsored forum entitled: Bears Ears, the Antiquities Act, and the Status of Our National Monuments. He is also presenting a paper titled: Fancy Threads and Tree-Ring Dates: New Chronometric Controls for the Development of Cotton Weaving Technologies and Ritual Textile Production in the San Juan Basin, A.D. 1150-1300.
Krystal Britt (graduate student, University of Illinois, Chicago), $300 for travel to the 83nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, D.C.. Krystal is presenting a paper titled Sunset at Rock Art Ranch: Human Use and Occupation of the Middle Little Colorado River Valley before the Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster as an invited member of the symposium, Learning from Homol’ovi: Papers in Honor of E. Charles Adams and Richard C. Lange.
Kelsey Hanson (graduate student, University of Arizona), $300 for travel to the 83nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, D.C.. Kelsey is serving as the co-chair for the session Performing in the Shadows: Ritual Production in Caves and Rockshelters, presenting a paper titled On the Persistence of Tradition: Caves, Ritual Performance, and Secrecy among Multi-Ethnic Communities in the U.S. Southwest, and co-authoring a paper titled The Space of Liminality: Between Ritual and Theater in Late Classic Ancient Maya Cave Rites.
Jordan Krummel (graduate student, University of Arizona), $300 for travel to the 83nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, D.C.. Jordan is presenting a co-authored paper titled Interpreting mortuary practices in the Prehistoric Sonoran Desert: Archaeothanatological analysis of the La Playa burials.
Katie Richards (graduate student, Washington State University), $300 for travel to the 83nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, D.C.. Katie is presenting a poster titled A Low Technology Approach to Understanding Fremont Ceramic Production.
Amy Schott (graduate student, University of Arizona), $300 for travel to the 83nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, D.C.. Amy is presenting a paper titled Soil Quality and Agricultural Productivity in Petrified Forest National Park.
Caitlin Wichlacz (graduate student, Arizona State University), $300 for travel to the 83nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, D.C.. Caitlin is a co-chair of the session titled Pottery in Practice: the Production and Use of Ceramics in the Ancient Southwest and presenting a paper titled An Efficient and Reliable Mechanism: The Human Experience of Hohokam Ceramic Exchange during the Middle Sacaton Period (A.D. 1000-1070).