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    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
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    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

  • 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
  • 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”
  • Dec 3rd '26 - Alice Ziegler (AHMA), “Satrap to Madubar: A Preliminary Social Network Analysis of the Parthian Ostraka from Old Nisa”
more events

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

May 21, 1925 letter from Melvin R. Gilmore to George G. Heye
Reviewing Archival Collections to Understand Lost Domesticates in Eastern North America
Blackman, 2026
Author studying an animal bone
Fragmentation Patterns at The Late Bronze Age Cemetery At Aidonia
Hyytiainen-Jacobson, 2026
Classic Maya Figurine excavated at Tonina
Figuring Out Classic Maya City Life in Chiapas
Joyce, 2026
Author next to ruins in Pompeii
Living under Lock and Key: Slavery and Security in the Houses of Pompeii
LaPasta, 2026
Pedestrian bridge over muddy river in metropolitan
Bioarchaeological Study of Embodiment & Structural Vulnerability in Antioquia, Colombia
Rosenberg, 2026
Research team using ground penetrating radar at the Moab Utah Japanese American Internment Camp
Community-accountable Research across the US West
Sunseri, 2026
Taskscapes in the Sacrificial Calendar of Thorikos
Brambila, 2025
Timing and cause of local aggradation on the Erbil Plain
Brown, 2025
Picuris Pueblo and Avian-Human Relationships
Coostona, 2025
Erny project
Studying the Ceramics from an Open-Air Sanctuary at Anavlochos, East Crete; A New Environmental and Archaeological Survey in Eastern Attica (ARTEMIS)
Erny, 2025
more research

Recent Publications

ARF Contributions #71 cover
The Study of Indigenous Landscape and Seascape Stewardship on the Central California Coast
Kent G. Lightfoot, Michael A. Grone, Gabriel M. Sanchez, 2025
Reflections on Volcanic Glass
Reflections on Volcanic Glass
Lucas R. M. Johnson, Kyle P. Freund, Nicholas Tripcevich, 2024
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
more publications

Fall 2026

Welcome to Fall 2026! 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

Excavation at Peralta
ARF Field School 2026
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.
Sunseri missing aircraft parts
ARF team working on MIA recoveries
Jun Sunseri's lab is featured on Veteran's Day
Kim Shelton
Welcome Note from New ARF Director Kim Shelton
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