On Thursday, September 27, please join us for a panel discussion on Archaeological Perspectives on Fire and People: From Ancient Neanderthals to Contemporary California. This timely event brings together experts from UC Berkeley’s Archaeological Research Facility and the US Forest Service in a panel discussion exploring what we can learn from humanity's long experience with fire.
Driving 20,000 miles this year, we visited multiple Ancestral Places together and developed research projects aligned with the priorities of our Tribal Mentors, including TEK officers, Tribal Vice Chairwomen, and the Flicker (InterTribal Ecological Restoration) Crew.
We also built a weekend-long event at Blodgett UC research forest to discover modes and policies for co-management of UC properties aligned with Tribal priorities, including our unique combination of archaeology and cultural fire.
Shannon Tushingham, PhD, is an anthropological archaeologist from Ontario, Canada. Her research explores how humans interact with their environments, with a focus on hunting, gathering, and fishing societies and Native communities in western North America. Most recently a professor at Washington State University, Tushingham joined the Academy in 2023 to further explore human behavior and use of ecosystems over deep time, and to continue her work with ancestral and descendant Indigenous communities of California.
The pilot ARF Field School in 2022 was designed to increase the representation of diverse groups in the archaeological profession and succeeded in offering this training to 10 deserving students. The success of the Field School earned ARF staff a 2023 Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award, presented to individuals and teams who demonstrate exceptional initiative in contributing to the UC Berkeley campus community.
ARF participation at the 2023 Society for California Archaeology conference in Oakland California.
The ARF team presented a poster, participated in the forum "Public Archaeology of the San Francisco Bay Area" organized by Kari Jones, and co-hosted the Job Fair and Resumé tune-up event on Saturday, March 18 at CSUEB's Oakland Center Campus across the street from the conference.
View our 2021 Cultural Resources Management workshop online. We hosted seven professionals from consulting firms in the western region and learned about opportunities for archaeologists in cultural resource management (CRM) with brief presentations from each panelist followed by a discussion on the state of consulting.
Albert Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) in Hayward, California, where he has taught since 2015. He earned BA and MA degrees in history at the University of Texas at Dallas and the MA and PhD in anthropology at Southern Methodist University.
Read about Indigenous archaeology projects with UC Berkeley archaeologists featured in Berkeley News.
