Events

Upcoming Events

Feb 11th '26 - Social belonging in Mycenaean chamber tombs: an interdisciplinary multiproxy analysis
Mar 13th '26 - Animal Commodities and some of the Earliest Vestiges of the Silk Roads

Past Events

2026

Jan 29th '26 - Peopling the Sea: Contextualizing Ancient Maritime Worlds
Jan 28th '26 - Seeking Sedges: the Archaeobotanical Identification of Wetland Taxa on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia

2025

Dec 11th '25 - Restrictions on a Driver’s License: The Reception of Disabilities in Official Identification from Graeco-Roman Egypt (Ella Karev)
Dec 3rd '25 - First fieldwork at Julcatambo Grande, a large Wari-like complex in the high puna grasslands of central Peru
Nov 19th '25 - Archaeology Undergraduate Research Highlights
Nov 19th '25 - Archaeology Undergraduate Resesarch Highlights
Nov 14th '25 - Workshop on the Japanese Collection of the Hearst Museum, Part 3
Nov 13th '25 - Interpreting Ancient DNA: A Panel Discussion
Nov 12th '25 - Kin Making in the Past: Reconsidering Spatial Proximity and Genetic Distance in Neolithic Southwestern Asia
Nov 6th '25 - Digging into Disability: How Experience Affects Theory (Mason Shrader)
Nov 5th '25 - Slag and Mag on the Silk Road: 2025 Field Season at Tugunbulak
Oct 29th '25 - An “Incorruptible Ally”: Land Reform and the Caatinga in Northeastern Brazil
Oct 23rd '25 - The Real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians (Eric Harvey)
Oct 22nd '25 - Do (archaeometallurgical) data corrode? A dissertation re-analysis on early metallurgy in Mallorca, Spain
Oct 17th '25 - Workshop on the Japanese Collection of the Hearst Museum, Part 1
Oct 15th '25 - Turning Stone to Gold: Museum Exchange and Archaeological Value
Oct 11th '25 - Gregg Jamison | Seals of the Indus Tradition: Insights into the People and Cultures Who Made and Used Them (The Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture on Pakistan)
Oct 8th '25 - The Rest of the Boscoreale Treasure: tracking down and recontextualizing the artifacts from the Villa della Pisanella near Pompeii
Sep 25th '25 - Accessing Ancient Egypt: Inclusive Strategies for Museum Learning with Collections and Digital Tools (Lissette Jiménez & Elizabeth Minor)
Sep 24th '25 - The Dynamics of Mycenaean Sacred Space: Insights from the Cult Centre at Mycenae
Sep 18th '25 - Using Ecological Succession to Advantage: Archaeological Case Studies from Japan
Sep 17th '25 - The FS Louie Company of Berkeley: A Contemporary Archaeology of a Chinese American Business
Sep 10th '25 - From Stone to Clay: Rethinking Maya Art at Tonina
May 15th '25 - Archaism as Resistance in the Funerary Art of Roman Era Thebes (Dr. Lissette Jiménez)
May 3rd '25 - The Del Chiaro Lecture 2025: Slavery and Enslavement in Antiquity - A Global Historical Investigation
May 2nd '25 - First images of the Gautama Buddha and the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara in the light of new discoveries from Gandhāra
May 2nd '25 - The Origin and Evolution of Avalokiteśvara Images in the Light of New Discoveries from Gandhāra
Apr 30th '25 - Potential Pike Use in Paleolithic Megafauna Hunting: Lithic/Skeletal Associations, Rock Art Depictions and Ethnohistorical Comparisons
Apr 16th '25 - Forest-homes along the Pueblo path: in search of Gallina plants and people
Apr 11th '25 - Reconstructing Sogdiana: Archaeological Discoveries and Historical Narratives
Apr 9th '25 - Jomon Subsistence-Settlement Practices and Environmental Management: A View from Northern Japan
Apr 9th '25 - The Japanese Collection at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum: Historical Contexts, Cultural Values, and New Opportunities for Teaching and Outreach
Apr 9th '25 - In search of Artemis-Tyche: the cult and sanctuary of Artemis in the Decapolis city of Gerasa
Apr 3rd '25 - Caucasus Connections: Kura-Araxes Migration and Diaspora in the 3rd Millennium BCE, a View from the Southern Levant (Sarit Paz)
Apr 2nd '25 - Excavations at el Hibeh, 2024 Season
Mar 19th '25 - Acorns, Shellfish, and Uplands: Archaeology of the Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Mar 14th '25 - Urban Dissolution at Late Bronze Age Knossos. The Contributions of Legacy and Urban Survey Data
Mar 14th '25 - CANCELED: POSTPONED: Urban Dissolution at Late Bronze Age Knossos. The Contributions of Legacy and Urban Survey Data
Mar 13th '25 - Egyptian Borderlands: Immigration in the Eastern Delta in the Second Millennium BCE (Danielle Candelora)
Mar 12th '25 - Díí Agódzáá (This Happened): The Theodore Roosevelt School Ethnographic Project
Mar 7th '25 - Cultural Resource Management Panel Discussion
Mar 7th '25 - Stones of the Butterfly: Archaeological Investigation of Yapese Stone Money Quarries in Palau, Micronesia
Mar 5th '25 - Nomadic Hubs: Urban Flourishing in Mobile Pastoral Landscapes
Feb 28th '25 - Tradition and Innovation Reflected in Japanese Material Culture: 日本の物質文化からみた伝統と革新
Feb 28th '25 - Africans in Byzantium: Kings, Merchants, and Holy Men | A lecture by Dr. Andrea Myers Achi
Feb 26th '25 - The Hidden History of the Hermitage: Revealing the Enslaved Peoples’ Cemetery at Andrew Jackson’s Plantation through GPR Survey
Feb 22nd '25 - Recovering Culinary Practice and Household Dynamics in the Pompeian Home
Feb 21st '25 - “Radiant Beasts: An Archaeology of Feathers, Wings, and the Senses in Achaemenid Persia”
Feb 21st '25 - Resilient Foodways: Kalispel Ethnoarchaeology, Earth Ovens, and the Science of Ancestral Diets (ARF Spring Lecture with Dr. Shannon Tushingham)
Feb 20th '25 - Shifting Boundaries, Moving People? Investigating Change in Archaic Western Anatolia (Jana Mokrišová)
Feb 19th '25 - The Itinerary of a Lead Repair, or: How to Do an Archaeology of Slavery in Ancient Greece
Feb 12th '25 - Greeting the Ostiarius: A Preliminary Exploration of Doorkeepers’ Rooms in the Houses of Pompei
Feb 5th '25 - Birds, Reciprocity, and Knowledge Exchange in Northern New Mexico: Zooarchaeology and Oral Histories at Picuris Pueblo
Jan 30th '25 - ‘Their Servitude I Loosened:’ A Reexamination of Persian Period Judean Re-migration in Light of the U.S. Bracero and Border Industrialization Programs (Marvin Wiser)
Jan 30th '25 - Katherine Blouin | From Turtle Island to Palestine: Doing Ancient History in a Time of Genocide
Jan 29th '25 - Black + Archaeology: Being a Member of the Society of Black Archaeologists in 2025 and Beyond

2024

Dec 12th '24 - Movers and Shakers: Exploring Migration in the Classical Period Near East Using Bone Chemistry
Dec 4th '24 - Collaborative Archaeology Field School: Perspectives from the Central California Coast
Nov 20th '24 - ARF 2024 Field School
Nov 19th '24 - Living and dying as an immigrant in Classical Athens
Nov 14th '24 - Early Israel and the Philistines: The Materiality of Migrants, Refugees, and Colonizers at the End of the Bronze Age
Nov 13th '24 - Tamga Troubles: Marked Ceramics in First Millennium Southwest Afghanistan
Nov 6th '24 - Early Occupants of Cyprus: Coastal Arrivals and Inland Explorations
Nov 6th '24 - The Pritchett Seminar. “Writing the history of the polis: pitfalls and prospects”
Nov 5th '24 - The 2024/25 Pritchett Lecture. “Autonomy and the social history of empire: the Helvetii in 69 CE”
Oct 30th '24 - Excavating Seminole Food and Wellness: A Journey in Collaborative Research
Oct 30th '24 - Asta Mønsted | What’s Europe got to do with it? - Introduction to new faculty at Scandinavian
Oct 25th '24 - Macrohistorical Dynamics in Eurasia
Oct 23rd '24 - ‘Artifacts and Echoes: Potential and Challenges in Connecting Arctic Oral Testimonies to Land and Objects’ - Introduction to the works of new faculty at Scandinavian
Oct 23rd '24 - Translocal archaeologies of the Chinese diaspora
Oct 18th '24 - From the American Southwest to India’s Deccan Plateau: John M. Fritz at Hampi Vijayanagara
Oct 9th '24 - The Concept of ‘Meaning’ in Ice Age Art
Oct 8th '24 - Adventures in Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Case Studies from the Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley and the Global Museum at SF State
Oct 3rd '24 - Canaan’s Seed: Ancient Near Eastern Folkways in the Western Mediterranean
Oct 2nd '24 - The Pompeii Artifact Life History Project – A closer look at some of the artifacts
Sep 26th '24 - Phoenician Immigrants in the Ancient Mediterranean: Integration, Identity, and Immigration?
Sep 25th '24 - Traversing an Oasis
Sep 18th '24 - Archaeology in Space: The Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the International Space Station
Sep 17th '24 - AIA Reports from the Field
Sep 13th '24 - Urgent Archive
Sep 11th '24 - Envisioning the past: Creating a graphic novel for children of Bolivia in three languages
May 16th '24 - Ritual actions of Phoenician women in the Levant in the 1st millennium BC: purposes and modalities (Dr. Ida Oggiano)
May 2nd '24 - Gender and masks. A look through the Phoenician/Punic lens (Dr. Adriano Orsingher)
Apr 25th '24 - Integrating biomolecular techniques to explore the migration and artefacts of Upper Paleolithic humans in Europe (Elena I. Zavala)
Apr 24th '24 - Forests and Foods of Ancient Arenal, Costa Rica (Venicia Slotten)
Apr 18th '24 - Sitting on a throne or working with vases: from deities to ordinary women in Phoenicia (Dr. Tatiana Pedrazzi)
Apr 16th '24 - Researching Outstanding Universal Value for the Murujuga Cultural Landscape World Heritage Nomination (Professor Jo McDonald, Director, Center for Rock Art Research and Management)
Apr 16th '24 - Nemea 100: from Blegen to Berkeley and Beyond
Apr 10th '24 - Isobiographies of enslavement – How isoscapes enable us to assess individual life histories within the transatlantic slave trade (Vicky M. Oelze, UC Santa Cruz)
Apr 3rd '24 - From Farming to Importing Food: Colonial Racial Capitalism, Sovereignty, and Cuisine in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico from 1919 to the present (Natasha Fernández-Preston)
Mar 28th '24 - Phoenician women in textual documentation (epigraphical and literary) (Dr. Maroun Khreich)
Mar 27th '24 - Temporary Exhibit - FoodStore: Food Storage in the Late Fifth, Fourth, and Third Millennia BC in the Northern Fertile Crescent

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