Notice of Intent to Award - Archaeological Fieldwork and Research for Unanticipated Discoveries

Funding Opportunity Number: R13SS60011 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)CFDA Number: 15.511Eligible Applicants Public and State controlled institutions of higher educationPrivate institutions of higher educationAgency Name: DOI-BOR-GPClosing Date: May 16, 2013Award Ceiling: $155,660Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: May 02, 2013Funding Opportunity Description: In consultation with Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) archaeologists in the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma office, the Oklahoma Archeological Survey (OAS) is proposing an addition to the existing work on sites along Lake Altus, Greer County, Oklahoma. The proposed project is an outgrowth of previous work designed to identify high probability areas for buried human remains. The previous work identified several confounding factors that decreased the effectiveness of predicting the location of subsurface features that could contain burials. These factors include the presence of a large surface scatter of fire fractured rock, stone artifacts, ceramic sherds, animal bone, and historic metal objects. Any ferrous metal and/or burned objects produce a magnetic signal that appears as an anomaly in magnetometer geophysical surveys. Assessing the content of anomalies identified in the previous project showed that...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Other (see text field entitled Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity for clarification) Source Type: funding