These are sources that don’t depend on student status to apply for funding, but they could also be used by students!
MicroPasts – Progressive crowd-sourcing platform for conducting, designing, and funding research into the human past
Heritage Portal funding – Listing of heritage funding resources
Fellowships, Grants, and Scholarships at AIA – Listing of advertised Archaeological Institute of America-funding opportunities for students and non-students alike
Rotary Club Global Grants – Support for large international projects ($30,000+) with sustainable, measurable outcomes in the Rotary’s areas of focus (such as promoting peace, supporting education, growing local economies)
National Science Foundation Archaeology and Archaeometry Funding (US) – Archaeology grants from the US government, broadly funds scientific archaeological research projects including separate awards in archaeometry and high-risk archaeology/biological anthropology
Wenner-Gren Anthropology Grants – Postdoctoral fellowships, funding for returning to research locale to share results, funding for international collaboration between researchers
Lithics Studies Society John Wymer Bursary – open to students, academics, others professionally engaged in lithic study, and those simply pursuing an interest in lithics as a hobby (must be a member of the society).
Honor Frost Foundation – grants from this foundation are open to independent scholars, affiliated scholars and institutions for maritime archaeology projects.
