The Oceanic Archaeology Laboratory (OAL) is one of several research labs which together comprise the Archaeological Research Facility, an organized research unit of the University of California at Berkeley. The OAL is under the direction of Patrick V. Kirch, Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology.


Currently there are two Archaeological Field Schools, one in Nemea and the other in Mycenae. The purpose of the field schools is to provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in archaeological research in Greece and receive academic credit from the UCB Classics Department.


Principal Faculty: Professor S. Shackley
UC Berkeley Course Listing: Anthropology 134A.2, Summer 2009


Principal Faculty: Professor Junko Habu
UC Berkeley Course: Anthropology 134A.3
This six-week summer program (July 6 - August 14, 2009) provides an introduction to the field and laboratory methods of the archaeology of prehistoric Jomon hunter-gatherers in Japan. Fieldwork takes place at the Middle Jomon Goshizawa Matsumori site in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan.


The Nemea Center is committed to teaching, research, and public service in an on-going research project at Nemea in Greece. The center is directed by Kim Shelton, Classics professor at UC Berkeley.


Located in central Turkey, Çatalhöyük (”cha-tal-hu-yuk”) is the site of a Neolithic farming community that flourished from 9,400 until 7,700 years ago. The website is a production of Berkeley Archaeologists at Çatalhöyük (BACH), directed by Ruth Tringham a professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.


This six-week program provides an intensive introduction to field practice in archaeology. The summer session is part of a long-term research project on the colonial period in the Ulua River Valley of northwest Honduras under the sponsorship of the Honduran Institute for Anthropology and History.

Faculty: Rosemary Joyce
UC Berkeley Course: Anthropology 134A.4
Duration: 05/26-07/02/09


Faculty: Laurie Wilkie
UC Berkeley Course: Anthropology 134A.1
Duration: 05/26-07/02/09

Historical archaeology at a late 19th early 20th century house, Berkeley, California