Archaeology is also included within the humanities in the
          United States.  The National Foundation on the Arts and the
          Humanities Act of 1965, which established the National
          Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowmnent for
          the Humanities (NEH), specifies the following about the
          NEH:
 
          "The term 'humanities' includes, but is not limited to, the
          study of the following: language, both modern and classical;
          linguistics; literature; history, jurisprudence; philosophy;
          archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history,
          criticism, and theory of the arts; those aspects of the
          social sciences which have humanistic content and employ
          humanistic methods; and the study and application of the
          humanities to the human environment with particular
          attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions,
          and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the
          current conditions of national life." (NEH Overview of
          Endowment Programs, 1995:1).
 
          In an unpublished study I prepared for a Wenner-Gren
          conference on funding in anthropology held last February, I
          noted that 30 of 35 NEH programs that existed in 1994-1995
          fund programs in anthropology (archaeology, cultural and
          linguistic anthropology).  Those that did not were, in the
          main, in primary and secondary education.  NEH does not fund
          scholarship in physical anthropology (primatology and
          biological human evolution).
 
          Therefore, archaeology is considered a social science at the
          NSF and a humanities discipline at NEH.  Given the current
          political climate, we hope that these programs will continue
          although the future of NEH as a federal funding agency is
          cloudy.
 
          Information about NEH archaeology programs can be sought
          electronically from the Division of Research Programs:
 
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          The current program officer for the program is Bonnie
          Magness-Gardiner:
 
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          I hope this helps to clarify some recent postings.
 
          Charlie Kolb
 
          Charles C. Kolb
          National Endowment for the Humanities
          Division of Preservation and Access
          1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
          Washington, D.C.  20506
 
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