HEINZ GRANT FOR LATIN AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY

The Heinz Grant Program for Latin American Archaeology was established by Senator H. John Heinz III in 1986 and funded and administered by the H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust. Upon the passing of Senator Heinz, Mrs. Theresa Heinz continued the program, which was administered by the Heinz Family Foundation through 2003. In 2004, the Howard Heinz Endowment provided funds to the Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh to continue the program founded by Senator Heinz. The program awarded 10 grants at $8,000 each through 2005. Since 2006, the evaluation committee decided to award 8 grants at $10,000. From 1986 through 2006, 530 proposals were received for evaluation and 175 funded. The numbers of grants funded by country are Argentina (4), Belize (9), Bolivia (14), Brazil (1), Colombia (11), Chile (2), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (1), Ecuador (6), El Salvador (2), Guatemala (9), Haiti (1), Honduras (4), Mexico (36), Panama (2), Peru (64), Puerto Rico (3), Republica Dominicana (1), and Venezuela (3). The total funding for the awards to 2006 is $1,298,690.50.

In 2005, the Heinz Grant Program for Latin American Archaeology celebrated its 20^th year of providing support for archaeological projects throughout Latin America. In 1986, it was recognized that there was a great need for a program that concentrated upon Latin American archaeology, due to the fact that there were no Grants programs that were specifically devoted to Latin America. It was recognized that the archaeological record was disappearing at an alarming rate and that such a program could provide support for research projects that addressed significant problems relating to cultural development through time in Latin America. The program’s focus is primarily upon field research that involves survey, testing and site excavations. The program’s intent is three fold: 1) to provide funding to investigate a site or region, based upon a problem oriented research design. The results of this research would then be used as the foundation for developing a longer term research strategy and to seek major funding to carry out the research objectives. In this regard the Heinz grants are viewed as providing seed money to enable investigators to gather the data necessary to submit grants to NSF and other funding agencies for major funding; 2) the program also recognizes that funding from Heinz for a discrete part of a larger project, funded by other sources, could be of significant aid in bringing the project to its full research potential and 3) to fund the completion of a long term project enabling the investigators to finalize their research objectives.

Latin American Archaeology Program of the Department of Anthropology, administered through the Center for Latin American Studies, was initiated in 1988 with a grant from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 1996 this program was endowed by the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program provides 12 month, 3 year fellowships, primarily to students from Latin America, to pursue a Ph.D. program in archaeology. The program also supports ABD students for a year to complete their dissertations. The web site for the program is http://www.pitt.edu/~pittanth/grad/laa.html

Latin American Archaeology Bilingual Publication Program of the Department of Anthropology, administered through the Center for Latin American Studies, publishes Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology, Latin American Archaeology Reports and Arqueologia de Mexico. The department also distributes for sale, books and monographs from Latin American institutions and individual authors to buyers throughout the Americas. These publications are sold at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology and at the web site http://www.pitt.edu/~laap/.

The Center for Latin American Studies is one of the top centers in the United States. The first 40 years of the history of the center (The Story of a Center: 1964-2004) can be downloaded at http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/publications/The_Story_of_a_Center.pdf

1986
Burger, Richard	Yale University	Investigation of the Initial Period Friezes of Cardal, Lurin Valley, Peru.
Fash, William	Northern Illinois University	The Copan Mosaics Project, Honduras.
Kolata, Alan	University of Illinois at Chicago	Mapping Two Tiwanaku Administrative Sites in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Bolivia.
Moseley, Michael	University of Florida	Modeling Andean Agricultural Dynamics: Coastal Land Loss Patterning in South Peru.
Pohl, Mary	Florida State	Prehistoric Maya Riverine Adaptations in Northern Belize, Central America.
1987
Aldenderfer, Mark	Northwestern University	Excavations at Asana, A Stratified, Open-air Archaic Period Site in the Osmore Drainage, Department of Moquegua, Southern Peru.
Brumfiel, Elizabeth	Albion College	Aztec Xaltocan: Regional Articulation in the Late Postclassic Valley of Mexico.
Isbell, William	State University of New York, Binghamton	Steps of an Empire: An Archaeological Study of Huari's Provincial Administrative Center at Honcopampa in the Callejon de Huaylas, Peru.
Niles, Susan	Lafayette College	The Palace of Huayna Capac at Quispiguanca, Peru.
Santley, Robert	University of New Mexico	Specialized Ceramic Production at El Salado, Veracruz, Mexico.
1988
Bowden, Garth	University of New Mexico	The Ilo Project, Testing a Model Which Holds that Peruvian Coastal Development Occurred Independently of that of the Higher Elevations, Representing Successful Long-Term Manipulation of a Unique Ecological Context.
Donnan, Christopher and Walter Alva	University of California, Los Angeles	Excavation of the Royal Tomb of Sipan, Peru.
Guderjan, Thomas	University of Texas at San Antonio	Pilot Study of Chan Chich, a Mayan Late Classic Center in Western Belize.
Hastings, Charles	Central Michigan University	Archaeological Survey of Prehistoric Colonization of the Montara Margin in Eastern Junin, Peru
1990
Cook, Anita	Catholic University of America	Prehistoric Settlement Patterns on the South Coast of Peru.
Feinman, Gary	University of Wisconsin	Mapping Prehispanic Ejutla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Ford, Anabel	University of California, Santa Barbara	Reconstructing the Role of Stone Tool Craft Specialists in the Ancient Maya Economy of the Upper Belize River Area, Belize.
Herrera, Luisa Fernanda	Fundacion Erigaie	Early Agriculturists in Amazonia-Ararcuara, Colombia.
Hoopes, John W.	University of Kansas	Archaeological Survey of Prehistoric Coastal Settlement of Golfito Bay, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica.
Moseley, Michael	University of Florida	Characterizing an Ancient Niño Catastrophe.
Stanish, Charles	University of Chicago	Archaeological Research in Juli, Peru: The Moyopampa Raised Field System.
1991
Goldstein, Paul	American Museum of Natural History	Tiwanaku Peripheral Integration in the Azapa Valley, Chile.
Pozorski, Shelia	University of Texas - Pan American	Initial Period Bureaucratic Organizarion in the Casma Valley, Peru.
Sandweiss, Daniel H.	Cornell University	Hot or Cold: Evaluating Hypothesis for the Origin of the El Niño Countercurrent, Peru.
Wise, Karen	Northwestern University	Specialization Among Late Preceramic Period Coastal Communities in the South Central Andes of Peru.
1992
Arnold, Phillip J.	Loyola University	Formative Period Settlement Dynamics in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico.
Donnan, Christopher B.	University of California, Los Angeles	Excavation at Moro, Peru
Erickson, Clark L.	University of Pennsylvania	Prehispanic Raised Field Agriculture in the Llanos de Mojos of Bolivia.
Hirth, Kenneth	University of Kentucky	Archaeological Excavations of Prehispanic Obsidian Craft Production at Xochicalco, Morelos, Mexico.
Love, Michael W.	University of California, Berkeley	Archaeological Exploration of the Ujuxte Region (Guatemala).
Masucci, Maria A.	Massachusetts Institute of Techonology	Everyday Dishes and Fine China: An Investigation of Guangala Ceramic Production in Ancient Ecuador.
Pool, Christopher	University of Kentucky	Formative House Lot Structure in Southern Veracruz, Mexico.
Quilter, Jeffry	Ripon College	Archaeological Investigation of a Late Prehistoric Chiefdom Village, The Rivas Site, Costa Rica.
Smith, Michael E.	State University of New York	Late Postclassic Urbanism at Yautepec, Morelos, Mexico: Stage I Fieldwork.
Smyth, Michael P.	University of Cincinnati	Large Site Archaeology at Sayil, Yucatan, Mexico: A Study of Community Organizarion and Settlement History.
1993
Burger, Richard L.	Yale University	Third Season of Excavations at Mina Perdida, Lurin Valley, Peru.
Dillehay, Tom D.	University of Kentucky	Mapuche Ceremonial and Domestic Site Relations in Southern Chile
Fedick, Scott L. and Karl A. Taube	University of California, Riverside	The Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project: Ancient Maya Political Structure and Resource Management in the Northern Maya Lowlands.
Herrera, Luisa Fernanda	Fundacion Erigaie	Holocene Preceramic Site in Colombia, Northwestern Amazonia.
Hodge, Mary	University of Houston, Clear Lake	Prehispanic Sites and the Changing Environment: Investigating Human-Environmental Interactions in the Basin of Mexico, 1500 B.C - A.D 1520
Neely, James A.	University of Texas at Austin	Ecology of Prehistoric and Colonial Canal Irrigation in the Northern Tehuacan Valley, Puebla, Mexico.
Stothert, Karen E.	Trinity University	Archaeological Assessment of the Guangala Site at Icera, Ecuador.
Voorhies, Barbara	University of California, Santa Barbara	Mobility and Food-Getting Behavior of Late Preceramic Coastal People of Southern Mexico.
1994
Aldenderfer, Mark	University of California, Berkeley	A Proposal for a Buried Site Reconnaissance for Middle to Late Preceramic (6500 to 3500 years ago) Archaeological Sites in the Southwestern Lake Titicaca Basin, Southern Peru.
Alexander, Rani	Northern Illinois University	Archaeological Research at Isla Cilvituk, Campeche, Mexico.
Blick, Jeffrey	University of Pittsburgh	Paez River Valley Archaeological Project, Tierradentro, Colombia.
Joyce, Arthur A.	American Museum of Natural History	Settlement History of the Lower Rio Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Kaulicke, Peter	Universidad Catolica del Peru	Origins and Development of the Inka Road System on the Extreme North Coast of Peru.
Kolata, Alan	University of Chicago	Human-environmental Interactions in the Bolivian Altiplano.
McEwan, Gordon	Denver Art Museum	Archaeological Studies at the Chokepukio site: An Investigation of the Origin of the Inca Civilization in the Valley of Cuzco, Peru
Robinson, Eugenia	Tulane University	Formative Village Life in the Guatemalan Highlands: Preliminary Investigation at Rucal, Valley of Antigua, Guatemala.
Stanish, Charles	Field Museum of Natural History	Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Extreme Southern Titicaca Basin, Peru.
Van Buren, Mary	Colorado State University	At the Margins of Greatness: An Archaeological Investigation of the Indigenous Population of Colonial Potosi.
Wise, Karen	Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County	Archaeological Excavations at Kilometer 4, Ilo, Peru: Preceramic Period Mortuary Patterns.
1995
Barse, William	Smithsonian Institution	Test Excavation at the Site of Pozo Azul Sur-2, Amazonas State, Venezuela.
Brown, David O.	University of Texas, Austin	A Proposal to Conduct Investigations of Intermediate Levels of the Inka Period Administration System in the Central Highlands of Peru.
Cook, Anita G.	Catholic University of America	The Nature of Wari Imperial Presence on the South Coast of Peru.
Dunning, Nicholas	University of Cincinnati	Ancient Maya Agricultural Land Use: Changing Adaptations in Northwestern Belize.
Feinam, Gary M.	University of Wisconsin	Systematic Settlement Survey Surrounding Guirun, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Janusek, John W.	University of Chicago	Social Complexity and Inter-Regional Interaction in the Bolivian Eastern Valleys: The Development of the Yampara Polity.
McEwan, Gordon F.	Denver Art Museum	Archaeological Studies at the Chokepukio Site: An Investigation of the Prehistory of the Valley of Cuzco, Peru.
Rogers, J. Daniel	Smithsonian Institution	Society and Ecology in the Early Contact Period: Surface Collections from Two Sites in the Toluca Valley, Mexico.
Rossen, Jack	University of Kentucky	Preceramic Subsistence and Material Culture at the Mouth of the Zaña River, Northern Peru.
Topic, John	Trent University	Cerro Carachugo: Mine Labor Organization in Prehistoric Peru.
1996
Curet, Antonio L.	Gettsburg College	Household Economy and Social Complexity in Prehistoric Puerto Rico.
Fedick, Scott L.	University of California, Riverside	Ancient Wetland Management and the Political Landscape of the Northern Maya Lowlands.
Fish, Paul R.	University of Arizona	The Formation and Settlement Role of Sambaquis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Gasco, Janine L.	University of California, Los Angeles	The Dynamics of Change in Postclassic Mesoamerica: Evidence from the Soconusco Region, Chiapas, Mexico.
Inomata, Takeshi	Yale Univesity	Aguateca Archaeological Project: A Study of Classic Maya Households.
Lesure, Richard G.	University of California, Los Angeles	A Regional Perspective on the Emergence of Social Inequality in Chiapas, Mexico, 1550-1000 B.C.
Masucci, Maria A.	Drew University	Ecuadorian Coastal Traders and the Fate of the Peoples called "Guangala".
Moore, Jerry	California State University	Core and Periphery in Ancient Andean States: The Chimu Empire in the Lower Tumbes Valley, Peru
Norr, Lynette	University of Florida	Early Village in the American Tropics: Archaeological Investigations among the Pacific Coast of Panama.
Russell, Glen	Fowler Museum of Cultural History	Geophysical Exploration of Mocollope, a Moche Ceremonial Center in the Chicama Valley, North Coast of Peru.
Sandweiss, Daniel H.	University of Maine, Orono	Mollusk or Mastodon: Archaeological Investigation of the Earliest known Maritime Adaptations in South America.
White, Christine D.	University of W. Ontario	Isotopic Definition of Teotihuacan Ethnicity
1997
Aldenderfer, Mark S.	University of California, Santa Barbara	A Proposal for Excavations at Jiskairumoko, a Terminal Archaic Village in the Southwest Lake Titicaca Basin, Southern Peru.
Bauer, Brian S.	University of Illinois at Chicago	The Cuzco Valley Archaeological Project.
D'Altroy, Terence	Columbia University	The Dynamics of Inka Rule in the South Andes: The Imperial Complex at Cortaderas, Argentina.
Joyce, Rosemary A.	University of California, Berkeley	Obsidian Exploitation at the Household Level in Early Formative Honduras
Keegan, William	University of Florida	Taino Cultural Development on the North Coast of Haiti.
Pearshall, Deborah M.	University of Missouri-Columbia	Horticultural and Environmental Reconstruction in Prehistoric Puerto Rico
Russell, Glen	Fowler Museum of Cultural History	Geophysical Explorations of Mocollope, a Moche Ceremonial Center in the Chicama Valley, North Coast of Peru.
Voorhies, Barbara	University of Georgia	Paleobotany of the Chantuto People: An Early Prehistoric Society in South Coastal Mexico.
Webster, David	Penn State University	Archaeological Settlement and Agricultural Research at Piedras Negras, Guatemala
1998
Billman, Brian	Center for Indigenous Studies in the Americas	Investigating Coastal-Highland Interaction and the Formation of the Moche State on the Central Andean Coast.
DeFrance, Susan D.	Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History	Quebrada Tacahuay: the Archaeology of an Early Maritime Site on the South Coast of Peru.
Demarrais, Elizabeth	Institute of Archaeology, Fowler Museum	Ideology and Strategic Action: The Political Economies of the valle Calchaqui Polities (AD 1000-1410)
Feinman, Gary M.	University of Wisconsin	Mapping and Conservation of the Mitla Fortress: Domestic Production, Exchange and Defense at the Edge of the Valley of Oaxaca.
Fowler, William R., Jr.	Vanderbilt University	The Cultural Landscape of Conquest: The Archaeology of Ciudad Vieja, El Salvador.
Goldstein, Paul	Dartmouth College	Early States and Multiethnic Coexistence in the Ancient Andes: The Moquegua Archaeological Survey, Phase II.
Jaramillo, Luis Gonzalo	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Regional Systematic Survey and Excavations in the Risaralda River Valley.
Lentz, David L.	New York Botanical Garden	Archaeobotanical Investigations at the Ceren Site, El Salvador.
Pozorski, Sheila	University of Texas - Pan American	Exploring the Sechin Alto Site, Administrative Center of the Casma Valley Polity in Northern Peru.
Proulx, Donald A.	Univesity of Massachusetts	Settlement Patterns and Society in South Coastal Peru
Quattrin, Dale	Indiana University, South Bend	Valle de la Plata Agricultural Project.
Williams, Patrick Ryan	University of Florida	1998 Cerro Baul Excavation Project: Investigations within Elite Domestic and Craft Production Components of the Site.
1999
Barse, Williams P.	Smithsonian Institution	Initiating Household Archaeology in the Orinoco: Test Excavations at Pozo Azul Norte-2, Amazonas State, Venezuela.
Boada, Ana Maria	Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia	Patterns of Pre-Hispanic Regional Organization in the South Sabana de Bogota, Colombia.
Burger, Richard L.	Peabody Museum of Natural History	The 1999 Excavations at Initial Period Center of Manchay Bajo, Lurin Valley, Peru.
Hayashida, Frances	Pennsylvania State University	The Racarumi Project: Prehispanic Agriculture on the North Coast of Peru.
Houston, Stephen and Richard Terry	Briham Young University	The Archaeology of Soil Chemistry: Decoding Ancient Artifacts and Land Use at Piedras Negras, Guatemala.
Liendo, Rodrigo	Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia	Political Integration in the Palenque Region, Mexico, during the Late Classic Period.
Quattrin, Dale	Indiana University, Southbend	Documenting Changing Economies in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia.
Redmond, Elsa M.	American Museum of Natural History	Excavations at El Palenque, San Martin Tilcajete: A Late Formative Period Center in the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico.
Shimada, Izumi	Southern Illinois University at Carbondale	Reconstructic the Technology and Organization of Prehispanic Ceramic Production in Peru.
Simmons, Scott E.	Southeastern Louisiana University	Copper Production in the Southern Maya Lowlands.
2000
Athens, Stephen	International Archaeological Research Institution	Inventory of Earthen Mound Sites of Northern Highland Ecuador.
Benz, Bruce F.	Texas Wesleyan University	The Origins of Mesoamerican Agriculture, Jalisco, Mexico.
Cardale Schrimpff, Marianne and L. Herrera	Colombia	The Enclosure Complex at Malagana in the Cauca Valley, South-Western Colombia: Ditches for Defense against Man, Beast or Floods?
Douglas, John E.	University of Montana	The Origins and Development of Prehistoric Agricultural Communities in Eastern Sonora, Mexico.
Langebaek, Carl Hendrik	Universidad de los Andes, Colombia	Documenting the Emergence of Elites in an Archaeological Settlement in Tierradentro, Colombia.
Mackey, Carol J.	California State University	The Farfan Archaeological Project: Mapping and Excavation of a Chimu/Inka Administrative Center, Peru
Middleton, William D. and Gary Feinman	Field Museum	An Investigation into the Use Xerophytic Plant Resources in the Economy and Subsistence of El Palmillo, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Pollard, Helen Perlstein	Michigan State University	Emergence of the Tarascan State: Survey and Excavation at Erongaricuaro, Michoacan, Mexico.
Quattrin, Dale	Saint Mary's College	Documenting Changing Environments in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia.
Shaw, Justine	College of the Redwoods	Initial Mapping and Excavation at Yo'okop, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
2001
Baser, William P.	National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	Stratigraphic Testing on Isla Wayuco and Isla Paria, Venezuela.
Bauer, Brian S.	University of Illinois at Chicago	The Chanka Archaeological Project.
Blom, Deborah E	Vanderbilt University	Tiwanaku Urban Diversity: Mortuary and Residential Archaeology in Mollo Kontu.
Cook, Anita G	Catholic University of America	Defining Temple and Civic Architecture at the Huari Site of Conchopata (AD 600-1000)
Cordero, Maria Auxiliadora	University of Pittsburgh	Agriculture, Settlement Patterns and the Cayambi Chiefdom in Prehispanic Northern Ecuador.
LeCount, Lisa J.	University of Alabama	The Actuncan Early Classic Project: An Archaeological Investigation of Lowlan Maya Kingship and Statecraft.
Malpass, Michael A. and Daniel H. Sandweiss	Ithaca College and University of Maine	One if by Land, Two if by Sea: Preliminary Research on Coast-Highland Interaction in Southern Peru during Early Settlement of the Americas.
Simmons, Scott D.	University of New Orleans	Craft Production and Socioeconomic Complexity: Provenance Studies of Copper Ore Deposits and Analysis of Copper Artifacts from Lamanai, Belize.
Williams, Sloan R.	University of Illinois at Chicago	Genetic Variation at Kilometer 4, A Preceramic Site on the Far South Coast of Peru.
Yaeger, Jason	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Tiwanaku and the Construction of Inka Imperial Ideology
2002
Alcolinini, Sonia	Catholic University of America	The Inka Frontier in Southeastern Bolivia: Effects of the Imperial Frontier in the Local Populations.
Aldenderfer, Mark	University of California, Santa Barbara	Excavations at a Ceremonial Locus at Jiskairumoko, a Late Archaic-Early Formative Site in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru.
Balansky, Andrew	George Washington University	Santa Cruz Tayata and Emergent Complex Society in the Formative Period Mixteca Alta, Mexico.
Conlee, Christina	University of California, Santa Barbara	Inter-Site Variability and Social Differentiation at the Late Prehispanic Center of La Tiza, Nasca, Peru
Hendron, Julia	Gettysburg College	Economic Relations and Social Inequality in Terminal Classic Honduras.
Pozorski, Shelia and Thomas Pozorski	University of Texas, Pan American	Investigating the Residential Sector of the Sechin Alto Site, Casma Valley, Peru
Ramos Roca, Elizabeth and Sonia Archila	Universidad de Caldas and Universidad de los Andes	Subsistence Economies and Development of Social Complexity in the Formative Communities of Northern Colombia.
Robin, Cynthia	Northwestern University	The Chan Project: The Rise and Demise of an Ordinary Farming Village in Belize.
Singelton, Theresa	Syracuse University	Slavery on a Cuban Coffee Plantation: An Archaeological Investigation.
Vaughn, Kevin	Pacific Lutheran University	Feasibility Study for Investigating Nasca Craft Economies.
2003
Bandy, Matthew B.	University of California, Berkeley	Southern Titicaca Basin Settlement Data Set Normalization
Billman, Brian	University of North Carolina	Investigating Possible Early Intermediate Period Highland Colonies in the Middle Moche Valley, Peru.
Cooke, Richard	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	Archaeological Research into Early Humans and Coastal Resource Use in Central Pacific Panama: A Third Testing Project on Cerro El Tigre
Fitzsimmons, James L.	Harvard University	Secondary Centers and Sculptures of Unknown Origin: the Monument Provenance Project in the Sierra Lacandon, Guatemala.
Hastings, Charles M.	Central Michigan University	Eastern Outposts in the Chanchamayo Frontier, Peru.
Lesure, Richard	Univesity of California, Los Angeles	Pre-State Social Transformations in Central Mexico: Excavations at the Formative Village Site of Amomoloc, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
Shimada, Izumi	Southern Illinois University	The Pachacamac Project: Social Foundation and Natural Context
2004
Bauer, Brian S.	University of Illinois at Chicago	The Chanka Archaeological Project
Bray, Tamara L.	Wayne State University	At the Edge of Empire: Mitmaqkuna and the Social Dynamics of Frontiers in Tawantinsuyu
Canuto, Marcello A.	Yale University	On the Edge of the Maya World: Identity and Regional Interaction at El Paraiso, Copan, Honduras
Conrad, Geoffrey W. and Frederika A. Kaestle	Indiana University	Feasibility Study for the Analysis of Ancient DNA from sites near La Isabela, Dominican Republic
Curet, L. Antonio	The Field Museum	Study of Migration and Subsistence in four Ancient Sites in Puerto Rico through Bone Chemistry and Genetic Analysis
Elson, Christina M.	American Museum of Natural History	Investigating the Collapse of the Zapotec State (Oaxaca Valley, Mexico): A view from the Secondary Site of Jalieza
Gero, Joan M.	American University	Defining the Early Formative of the Calchaqui Valley, Northwest Argentina: Assessing the Village Site of Cardonal
Janusek, John W.	Vanderbilt University	Iruhito: Regional Adaptation and Local Complexity in the Desaguadero Basin, Bolivia
Kembel, Silvia Rodriguez	University of Pittsburgh	Andean Formative Social Development at Chavin de Huantar, Peru: Chronological and Functional Relationships between the Monumental Center and Surrounding Settlements
Mackey, Carol J.	California State University Northridge	The Farfan Archaeological Project: The Final Season
2005
Alconini, Sonia	University of Texas San Antonio	Imperial Marginality and Frontier: Kallawayas and Chunhos in the Eastern Inka Frontier
Beaule, Christine	University of Pittsburgh	The Andean Political Economy on the Periphery: Households, Status and Gender at Condor Chinoka, Bolivia
Brumfiel, Elizabeth M.	Northwestern University	Kinship and State Organization at Postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico
Emery, Kitty F.	Florida State Museum of Natural History	Tracking Maya Animals in the Archaeological Record: Modern and Ancient Evidence from the Guatemalan Peten
Franco, Nora	Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas, CONICET	Chorrillo Malo 2: Additional Information about the Early Human Peopling of the Upper Santa Cruz basin (southern Patagonia, Argentina) and of the Slow Process of Incorporation of the Are to Regular Hunter-Gatherers Home-Ranges
Klarich, Elizabeth	University of California Santa Barbara	Scale Layout and Diversity: Documenting the Regional Center of Pukara, Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru
Mantha, Alexis	University of Michigan	The Impact of the Inca Conquest on the Population of the Rapayan Valley, Central Andes of Peru
McEwan, Gordon	The Cuzco Archaeology Institute	Excavating an Inca Capaccocha Sacrifice from the Chokepukio Site, Cuzco, Peru
Shady Solis, Ruth and Michael E. Moseley	Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and University of Florida	Monumental Architecture at Aspero, Peru: Maritime Contributions to the Rise of Coastal Civilizations
Wendt, Carl J.	California State University Northridge	Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Rio Pesquero Region, Veracruz, Mexico
2006
Bonzani, Renée, Gyarmati, Janós and Carola Condarco	University of Kentucky and Museum of Ethnography, Budapest	Archaeological Investigations of Settlements along the Inka Royal Roads of the Paria River Basin, Department of Oruro, Bolivia
Covey, R. Alan	Southern Methodist University	2006 Regional Archaeological Survey in the Sacred Valley (Cusco, Perú)
Fisher, Christopher and Helen P. Pollard	Colorado State University and Michigan State University	Human Ecodynamics and the Formation of the Tarascan State in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Mexico
Goldstein, Paul and Mónika Barrionuevo Alba	University of California, San Diego and Instituto Riva Agüero de la Pontificia Unversidad Católica del Perú	An elite Tiwanaku cemetery at Rio Muerto, Moquegua, Peru: Mortuary evidence for the rise of status distinction in a colonial state society
Justeson, John S.	University at Albany	Completing the photographic documentation of epi-Olmec hieroglyphic texts, Mexico
Rice, Prudence	Southern Illinois University Carbondale	The Spanish Conquest of the Itza Kingdom in 1697, Guatemala
Rivera Casanovas, Claudia	Universidad Mayor de San Andrés	The Inka Expansion in the San Lucas Region, Chuquisaca, Bolivia: Imperial Strategies of Control
Scherer, Andrew K., Charles W. Golden and A. René Muñoz	Wagner College, Brandeis University and University of Arizona	Ancient Maya Defensive Structures of the Sierra del Lacandón, Guatemala
Yaeger, Jason	University of Wisconsin	Deer Hunting and Landscape Change: Chemical Analysis of Deer Remains in the Belize Valley
Zaro, Gregory	University of New Mexico	Historical Ecology and Agriculture along the Arid Tambo-Ilo Coast, Southern Peru. Phase I

The Heinz Grant Program for Latin American Archaeology was founded in 1986 and funded and administered by the H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust and later by the Heinz Family Endowment. Since 2003, the Howard Heinz Endowment has supported the program through a grant to the Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh that now administers the program. The program supports archaeological research in Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. The Heinz grants are awarded for the fieldwork component of archaeological research, but can include field laboratory analysis and funds for dating. It is expected that the grant funds will be expended in 2007. Grants are awarded annually for the following kinds of research activity:

Field projects aimed at determining the feasibility of future full-scale explorations.

Field projects that will carry to completion an important phase of a larger exploration.

Field Projects that will carry to completion the last phase of a long-term project.

ELIGIBILITY: Grants will be awarded directly to the principal investigator by contact with the Office of Research of the University of Pittsburgh. Thus there is no need to process your proposal through your institution’s office of research. The funds will be sent directly to the principal investigator. The principal investigator should have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree or experience and hold a position at a college, university, museum, research institution or cultural resource management organization. NOTE Applications for dissertation research will not be considered.

AMOUNT OF GRANT: The maximum amount per grant will be $10,000 and 8 grants will be awarded. No overhead charges will be paid.

DEADLINE: Five copies of the proposal must be received at the address below by November 17, 2006. Notification of awards will be made in March 2007. For proposals from Latin American, electronic submission is an option.

REPORTS: Awardees must submit a five to ten page report within six months after completion of the field research. The report should summarize the results of the research in terms understandable to the non-archaeologist. It should also specify plans for publishing full results for seeking funding from other sources to pursue the research on a larger scale, if appropriate. The report should also include location and site maps as well as a one page summary of the research and a few photographs that can be used on the Heinz web site. A financial statement of expenditures with original supporting documentation must be included in the final report.