Thank you for your interest in contributing to the Archaeological Research Facility. Please visit the ARF Gift Fund website to make a secure on-line donation with your credit card. You may also donate by check to "UC Berkeley Foundation" (with fund number "U0703" on the memo line), mailed to: University of California, Berkeley, Donor and Gift Services, 1995 University Ave., Suite 400, Berkeley, CA 94704-1070. 

The Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) is dedicated to supporting archaeological field and laboratory research conducted by U.C. Berkeley archaeologists and related specialists (for more information on what we do, see our mission statement).

The ARF Field School Program: A New Opportunity to Support Students Pursuing Careers in Archaeology

In 2020, we began fundraising specifically for the development of a new ARF Field School program. This program aims to meet the critical need for local field school opportunities that provide training and experience required for students to pursue careers in archaeology. Most employment opportunities in archaeology require field experience, but field schools often take place in other countries over a long (6-8 week) period and cost upwards of $4,000, making them inaccessible to many students. Even if students can obtain a scholarship to cover the cost, they cannot necessarily take time off work or away from other responsibilities at home.

To help more students prepare for careers in archaeology and to expand participation in archaeology by those currently underrepresented in the discipline, the ARF has an ongoing program to raise funds to support a local, commuter-based field school. This program, which launched in the summer of 2022, involves pre-excavation training with archaeological equipment, field-based data collection, and post-excavation workshops on analysis of excavated remains. The program takes place at the ARF as well as at the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park. Our fundraising efforts are aimed at supporting all aspects of this program, including stipends for participants, which make up half of the budget. (Know a student who might be interested in this program? Please share the program information and application link with them!)

We welcome your help in supporting this program! 

In addition to the ARF Field School program, general donations benefit our program in many ways, including:

  • providing grants to support field and lab work for dozens of research projects conducted around the world; 
  • enabling the purchase of new field and lab equipment to facilitate the work of ARF researchers and others; 
  • engaging with the public through lectures and events; and
  • expanding our series of archaeology publications.

 

  

You can also contact one of the following individuals to make a donation or to request additional information:

Prof. Christine Hastorf
ARF Director
hastorf@berkeley.edu		 Sarah Kansa
ARF Program Associate
(510) 642-2212
skansa@berkeley.edu