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  • The Book of the Dead in 3D, Featuring Items from the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum and Others
    The Book of the Dead in 3D, Featuring Items from the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum and Others
  • A 16,500 yr old fox recovered in a pre-Natufian context in Jordan
    A 16,500 yr old fox recovered in a pre-Natufian context in Jordan
  • ARF Graduate Student Alec Apodaca engages with young archaeologists at iDig Benicia 2018
    ARF Graduate Student Alec Apodaca engages with young archaeologists at iDig Benicia 2018
  • ARF has an active program of open access publications since 1965
    ARF has an active program of open access publications since 1965
  • Collecting micromorphology samples at Chiripa, Bolivia
    Collecting micromorphology samples at Chiripa, Bolivia
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Upcoming Events

  • Mar 18th '24 - Temporary Exhibit - FoodStore: Food Storage in the Late Fifth, Fourth, and Third Millennia BC in the Northern Fertile Crescent
  • Mar 19th '24 - Temporary Exhibit - FoodStore: Food Storage in the Late Fifth, Fourth, and Third Millennia BC in the Northern Fertile Crescent
  • Mar 20th '24 - Temporary Exhibit - FoodStore: Food Storage in the Late Fifth, Fourth, and Third Millennia BC in the Northern Fertile Crescent
  • Mar 20th '24 - Disability Justice and Community Archaeology at a 20th Century Eugenic Institution in Western Massachusetts (Laura Heath-Stout, Stanford University)
  • Mar 20th '24 - Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia: Ziggurats, Royal Sculpture, and the Shaping of the Akkadian Empire during the Ur III Period (c. 2100-2000 BCE)

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Research Map

This map shows the location of recent projects by ARF scholars. This includes research funded by the Stahl grant supporting Berkeley archaeologists.

Recent Research

Ancient Seafaring Explorers of Cyprus: Coastal Cliffhangers of the Epipalaeolithic
Maher, 2023
New Light on Scribal Practice in the Dakhla Oasis (Excavations at Amheida, Egypt))
Packard-Grams, 2023
Martha Diaz-Longo
Material Culture and Archaeology of Citizenship on the United States/Mexico Border
Diaz-Longo, 2022
Chiripa 2022 Group photo
Reconstructing Animal, Plant, and Landscape Management Processes at the Onset of Food Production in the Lake Titicaca Basin
Hastorf, 2022
Jordan Kobylt
City life at Classic Maya Palenque, Mexico
Joyce, 2022
Grotto of Tiberius: Scenes from the Odyssey and Iliad
Pasquino Group Research in Sperlonga, Italy
Levitan, 2022
Cemetery outside the walls of San Felipe del Morro Fort
Geophysical Survey of a Choleric Mass Grave in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Marrero-Rosado, 2022
Nemea 2022Excavation and Conservation of the Early Christian Basilica, Sanctuary of Zeus, Ancient Nemea
Excavation and Conservation of the Early Christian Basilica, Sanctuary of Zeus, Ancient Nemea
Shelton, 2022
Gazelle teeth
Gazelle Tooth Enamel Stable Isotope as a Paleoclimate Proxy at Kharaneh IV, Jordan
White, 2022
Whole Epigenome Pilot Study from Medieval Italy
Agarwal, 2020

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Recent Publications

Fort Ross 1 Cover
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Fort Ross, California. Vol. 1 (2nd ed., 2019)
Lightfoot, Kent G., Wake, Thomas A., Schiff, Ann M., 1991
Khonkho cover
Khonkho Wankane: Archaeological Investigations in Jesus de Machaca, Bolivia
Janusek, John Wayne, 2018
Cover of the publication
Metini Village: An Archaeological Study of Sustained Colonialism in Northern California
Lightfoot, Kent G., Gonzalez, Sara L., 2018
Cover of the publication
Te Henua Enana: Images and Settlement Patterns in The Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Millerstrom, Sidsel N, 2017
Spirit Fire book cover
Spirit Fire and Lightning Songs: Looking at Myth and Shamanism on a Klamath Basin Petroglyph Site
David, Robert J., 2016
Triangulating book cover
Triangulating Archaeological Landscapes: The US Coast Survey in California, 1850-1895
Byram, R. Scott, 2013

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Spring 2024

During the academic year the ARF is open daily and the Wednesday lunchtime lectures are offered both online and in-person unless otherwise noted. Subscribe to our Weekly Events email list for updates.

Recent News

Dr. Alexandra Jones
Interview with alumna Dr. Alexandra Jones
Link to Interview
White Sands artist's recreation
ARF Affiliate D. Wahl's research on footprints
dating to 22,000 years ago at White Sands NM
Robert Knapp
In memoriam: Robert Knapp
It is with great sadness that we report that Robert Knapp, Emeritus ARF Faculty Affiliate and Prof.

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