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Archaeology and the National Science Foundation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John E. Yellen  and
Mary W. Greene
John E. Yellen
Affiliation:
Anthropology Program, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. 20550
Mary W. Greene
Affiliation:
Anthropology Program, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. 20550
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In 1954, nineteen years after the founding of the Society for American Archaeology and four years after President Harry S Truman signed its enabling legislation, the National Science Foundation (NSF) inaugurated a Program of support for ”Anthropology and Related Sciences,” which expended its entire research budget for that year on two awards. Dr. Gordon Willey of Harvard University received a one year grant of $11,500 to examine “Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Maya Area” and Dr. Robert Braidwood, University of Chicago, was provided with $23,500 to be expended over a three-year period to conduct “Human Population Studies in the Fertile Crescent.”

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 332 - 341
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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