This summer we conducted the 2026 ARF Archaeology Field School at Peralta Historical Park! We expanded a unit from the 2024 season and encountered more 20th century refuse.
Upcoming Events
- Nov 18th '26 - Colonial Encounters and Resource Exploitation in Ancient West-Central Sardinia: New Work from the Sinis Archaeological Project
- Nov 20th '26 - Scott Arcenas (University of Montana), “The Causes and Dynamics of Political Violence in Ancient Greece”
- Nov 20th '26 - Scott Arcenas (University of Montana), “Why the Causes of Political Violence Didn’t Matter in Ancient Greece”
- Dec 3rd '26 - Alice Ziegler (AHMA), “Satrap to Madubar: A Preliminary Social Network Analysis of the Parthian Ostraka from Old Nisa”
- Jan 28th '27 - The Sacred Geography of Exchange: Inscribed Landscapes and Caravan Networks in Sinai and the surrounding Red Sea region during the Late Iron Age
Research Map
Recent Publications
The Study of Indigenous Landscape and Seascape Stewardship on the Central California Coast
Kent G. Lightfoot, Michael A. Grone, Gabriel M. Sanchez, 2025
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Fort Ross, California. Vol. 1 (2nd ed., 2019)
Lightfoot, Kent G., Wake, Thomas A., Schiff, Ann M., 1991
Khonkho Wankane: Archaeological Investigations in Jesus de Machaca, Bolivia
Janusek, John Wayne, 2018
Metini Village: An Archaeological Study of Sustained Colonialism in Northern California
Lightfoot, Kent G., Gonzalez, Sara L., 2018
Te Henua Enana: Images and Settlement Patterns in The Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Millerstrom, Sidsel N, 2017
