Kojun Ueno Sunseri

Jun Sunseri
Affiliated Faculty
Research Website: 
Bear Bones Lab website
Teaching Website: 
Anthropology Department Profile

 My research focuses on colonialism, foodways, landscapes, historical archaeology, preservation and heritage in the western US and northern South Africa. Members of my research cluster bring together complementary lines of evidence of varied types and spatial scales, including analysis of archaeological ceramic and faunal assemblages related to domestic foodways and GIS analysis of remote sensing, geophysical survey, and excavation data to reveal tactical, engineering, and ritual patterning of cultural landscapes.

Region(s): 
US Southwest, Northern South Africa
Research Theme(s): 
Colonialism, Foodways, Landscapes, Historical Archaeology, Contemporary Archaeology, Preservation and Heritage

Community-Accountable Archaeology with Community Partners

Abiquiu Mesa Surveying

This field season included collaboration with and within the research agendas outlined by the Merced Board at Abiquiú, the descendants and land owners of the main plaza at Conejos CO, the Pueblo of Picuris, NM and with the help of a small crew of experienced excavators, analysts, and local community leaders.The Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiu Community Board has identified several excavation-based research opportunities for their community regarding the first use dates of some of their ancestral agricultural fields, plazas, and acequias and requested that we report to them during their annual

Creative Approaches to Engaged Research in Archaeology

Anita Collage

Making My Way Down the Acequia is a hand-made magazine (zine) made by the high-school interns of the Berkeley-Abiquiú Collaborative Archaeology (BACA) project with production assistance by myself and artist Brea Weinreb. The interns brought their own knowledge about their family histories and the high desert landscape together with archaeological skills while collaborating on the 2017 season of archaeological fieldwork surveying el Pueblo de Abiquiú’s historic acequia irrigation ditches.