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
- Oct 19th '26 - Jake Nabel (Penn State), “Misunderstanding in Ancient Interstate Relations: The Arsacid Princes of the Roman Empire”
- Oct 21st '26 - Zonian Archaeology: Sovereign Soil and territorializing American Identity in the Archaeology of Panamá
- Oct 22nd '26 - Women and the Judahite Economy
- Nov 5th '26 - Evidence of Afro-Eurasian Trade in the Iron Age Southern Levant
- Nov 12th '26 - “A City and a Mother in Israel”(?): Abel Beth Maacah in a Cultural and Economic Context in the Early Iron Age
Research Map
Recent Research
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
