The Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis advances archaeology and benefits society through specific projects that bring archaeologists and other social scientists together to investigate large-scale social patterns and processes, in ways that transcend time and space. Many of our projects involve open calls for interested researchers to get involved.
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In response to the pressing global conversation on urban adaptation to climate change, this project is facilitating a dialogue between urban archaeologists and non-archaeologists engaged in the design of adaptive
Emerging from the 2019 CfAS design workshop, “Understanding human migration from a long-term perspective,” the goal of this working group is to develop a synthetic model of the relationship between
CfAS and the Amerind Museum are sponsoring this effort to develop long term, comparative and synthetic understandings of how political arrangements and processes—or governance, broadly construed—underlie differences in societal well-being
cyberSW is a cyberinfrastructure and collaborative space for exploring and conducting interdisciplinary research with the pre-Hispanic archaeological record of the US Southwest and Northwest Mexico. It is a living database
The main objective of the Initiative for Sustainable Development in Africa (ISDAf) is to make development and conservation planning in Africa successful and sustainable at the local level. It brings
With funding from the John Templeton Foundation, the Santa Fe Institute, and the Center for Collaborative Synthesis in Archaeology, this project brings together archaeologists, historians and cultural evolutionary theorists for
This project leverages an important outcome of research into complex systems—that pervasive scaling laws capture how the productivity of human networks co-varies with their size and topological structure—to seek mechanisms
Human migration is much in the news. Often, the public debate is loud and divisive, striking at core issues of global economics, national politics, and social relations. While much of
People, Fire, and Pines in the Border Lakes Region of North America Organizer: Evan Larson, University of Wisconsin-Platteville READ THE PROJECT FINAL REPORT HERE Initial Working Group Members: Jessica Atatise, enrolled member
The ArchaeoEcology Project: How Human Interactions with Biodiversity Shape Socio-Ecological Dynamics and Sustainability Organizer: Stefani Crabtree, Pennsylvania State University Proposed Working Group Members: Andy Dugmore, University of Edinburgh; Jennifer Dunne, Santa Fe
This project is seeking to advance systematic understandings of the long-term causes and consequences of economic inequality using the archaeological record of house sizes. A working group of ten collaborators
