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2022-2024

The Lower Lacantun River and the Lakamtuun Dynasty: Investigating an At-Risk Archaeological Landscape

Whittaker Schroder, University of Florida

 

2020–2021

Stelae Documentation: The New Monuments of Xulbe, Guatemala

Heather Hurst, Skidmore College

 

2018–2019

Battle at Los Batanes? Rescue Excavations at a Fortified Tiwanaku Colony in Sama, Peru

Sarah Baitzel, Washington University in St. Louis

Shifting to Sedentism: Salvaging Evidence of the Earliest Inhabitants of Quito

Eric Dyrdahl, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

 

2017–2018

Salvaging Sources of Power at Uci, Yucatan, Mexico

Scott Hutson, University of Kentucky

 

2016–2017

La Florida/Namaan: Research and Preservation at a Classic Maya Commercial Port

Joanne Baron, University of Pennsylvania

Stone Figures and Funerary Complexes: Tracing the Manteño-Guancavilca of Coastal Ecuador

Maria Masucci, Drew University

 

2015–2016

The Roots of the Inca State: Ritual Practice and Sacred Space at Huanacauri (Cuzco, Peru)

Steve Kosiba, University of Alabama

 

2014–2015

Documentation of Group R-183, an Ancient Maya Metalworking Houselot of Mayapán, Yucatan, Mexico

Elizabeth Paris, Wichita State University

 

2013–2014

Revitalizing Guaytan

Ana Lucia Arroyave, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala

Early Horizon and Early Intermediate Period Rock Art of the Nasca Valley

Ana Nieves, Northeastern Illinois University

 

2012–2013

Salvage Excavations of V–05, a Siguas-Ramadas Cemetery in the Vitor Valley of Southern Peru

Maria Cecilia Lozada, University of Chicago

 

2011–2012

The Thorny Oyster and the Inca Empire: The Spondylus Workshop at the Inca Site of Cabeza de Vaca, Tumbes

Carolina María Vílchez Carrasco, Ministerio de Cultura, Programa Qhapaq Ñan

 

2010–2011

Leaving No Stone Unturned: Emergency Recording of Chontales-Style Sculpture at the Nawawasito Site in Central Nicaragua

Alexander Geurds, Leiden University / University of Colorado at Boulder

The Investigation and Protection of Cave Sites in the Periphery of Pacbitun, Belize

Terry Powis

 

2009–2010

Exploration of an Early Archaeological Site Threatened with Destruction in Oaxaca, Mexico

Stephen Whittington, Wake Forest University

 

2008–2009

Saving the Palace of Atahualpa: The Late Imperial Inca Site of Caranqui, Imbabura Province, Ecuador

Tamara Bray, Wayne State University, and José Echeverría, FONSALCI, Ibarra, Ecuador

Rescuing the Site of Cerro Narrío, Ecuador

J. Scott Raymond, University of Calgary, and Florencio Delgado, Universidad de San Francisco, Quito

 

2007–2008

La Joya Pyramid, Central Veracruz, Mexico: Classic Period Earthen Architecture

Annick Daneels, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

 

2006–2007

Rescue Excavations at the Tumilaca La Chimba Cemetery: Late Tiwanaku Bioarchaeology and Iconography

Patrick Ryan Williams, The Field Museum, Chicago, Michael E. Moseley, University of Florida, Maria C. Lozada, University of Chicago, and Nicola Sharratt, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

2005–2006

Paracas Necropolis: Salvaging Contextual Relationships

Ann H. Peters, Visiting Scholar, Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University

 

2004–2005

Salvage, Conservation, and Consolidation at the Classic Maya Site of Tecolote, Guatemala

Sierra del Lacandón Regional Archaeology Project: Charles Golden (Director); Rene Muñoz, Andrew Scherer, Luis Romero (Co-Directors); Kimberly Machovec-Smith, Margaret Kipling, Leslie Rainer, and Arlen Heginbotham (Conservators)

 

2003–2004

Emergency Archaeology at Gran Pajatén

Warren Church

Uncovering Cancuen’s Royal Palace: The Political Role of Classic Maya Art

Arthur Demarest

 

2002–2003

The San Bartolo Mural Rescue Project

William Saturno

Excavation of the Platform of Women Weavers

Carol Mackey

 

2001–2002

Cueva de los Vampiros: Emergency Excavation of a Deep Rock Shelter on the Central Pacific Coast of Panama

Richard Cooke

 

2000–2001

Emergency Excavations at Conchapata: Huari Temple Architecture and Iconography in Ayacucho, Peru

Anita Cook, Catholic University of America, and W. H. Isbell, State University of New York, Binghamton

 

1998–1999

Socioeconomic Organization in the Late Prehispanic Lambayeque Sphere, Northern North Coast of Peru: Excavations on the Pampa de Burros

Hartmut Tschauner, Harvard University, with Lucía Balbuena Cotlear, Víctor Curay Rufasto, Natalia Guzmán Requena, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

 

1997–1998

The López Viejo Project, Ecuador

Elizabeth J. Currie, University of York