Who funds archaeology research?

We count 115 funded archaeology projects, active between 2019 and 2032, from 4 funders. The most came from EU · ERC (48 projects), EU · MSCA (42 projects) and EU · Widening participation and spreading excellence (5 projects). The median award is $1.6M, across the 109 of 115 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

115

Funders

4

Median award

$1.6M

Open calls now

0

Top funders of archaeology research

Projects whose title or summary mentions archaeology. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open archaeology funding calls

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Funded archaeology projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• CAREER: OpenGPRxAI: Open-Source, AI-Powered Ground Penetrating Radar Technologies for Real-Time Subsurface Vision
  NSF · ENG · $560,865 · ends 2031
• Memory and Materiality in Conflict Landscapes: Psychological Impact of Spontaneous Memorials in the Russian-Ukrainian War
  Wellcome · £248,831 · ends 2031
• Pustules, Palaeogenetics and Pandemics from Galen to Rhazes: How to do the Early History of Smallpox and Measles
  Wellcome · £2,364,031 · ends 2030
• CAREER: Understanding Animal Domestication and Human-Environmental Relationships
  NSF · SBE · $419,696 · ends 2030
• Roman and Early Medieval Alloys Defined (REMADE): Reshaping Archaeological Metallurgy
  UKRI · UKRI FLF · £593,671 · ends 2030
• Taking galactic archaeology beyond the near field
  UKRI · UKRI FLF · £599,541 · ends 2029
• CDS&E: Asteroseismic modeling for galactic archaeology with hierarchical machine learning
  NSF · MPS · $499,202 · ends 2029
• Landscapes of Catastrophe: archaeology, social-ecological and biological contexts for the Great Irish Famine (1845-52)
  UKRI · AHRC · £1,260,394 · ends 2029
• From Refuse to Resource: Ceramic and bone wastescapes in the early Neolithic of Europe
  UKRI · AHRC · £342,960 · ends 2029
• Investigating Milk Consumption by Neolithic Farmers using a Novel Calcium Isotope Proxy (NeoCalcium)
  UKRI · NERC · £840,337 · ends 2028

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “archaeology or archaeological”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.