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  • The Book of the Dead in 3D, Featuring Items from the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum and Others
    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
  • ARF has an active program of open access publications since 1965
    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

  • Mar 10th '26 - Aspects of Early Modern Japanese Life and Culture Reflected in the Hizen Porcelain Collection of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology | ハースト人類学博物館所蔵の肥前磁器を通して近世日本の生活文化の一端をみる
  • Mar 12th '26 - Disability in David Narratives in light of Armed Conflicts in Africa (Huli Ramantswana)
  • Mar 13th '26 - Animal Commodities and some of the Earliest Vestiges of the Silk Roads
  • Apr 1st '26 - Ableism When Accessing the Past: Studies of Disability in the Ancient World (Hannah Vogel)
  • Apr 9th '26 - Physical Witness: Atrocity X Disability in the Hebrew Bible (Corinna Guerrero)
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

Informant describing knowledge
Birds, Reciprocity and Knowledge Exchange in Northern NM : Zooarchaeology and Oral Histories at Picuris Pueblo
Cootsona, 2024
Lab work in Crete
Studying the Pottery from an Open-Air Sanctuary at Anavlochos, Crete
Erny, 2024
Processing samples
Sample Processing and Curation from recent TAP fieldwork
Hastorf, 2024
Site Tiers
City Life at Classic Maya Palenque, Mexico
Joyce, 2024
Cyprus survey image
Ancient Seafaring Explorers of Cyprus Project
Maher, 2024
Flot station
Archaeobotanical Sample Processing, Taraco Archaeological Project
McKenzie, 2024
Plaster cast of the inner side of a door found in situ in the rear entrance of residence with a wooden bar and iron lock and latch fittings
Pompeii Artifact Life History Project (PALHIP)
Peña, 2024
100 Year anniversary exhibit
Nemea, Sanctuary of Zeus Excavations at 100
Shelton, 2024
Blodgett Station
Community Accountable Archaeological Partnership with Shingle Springs Band of Miwok and Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribes
Sunseri, 2024
Sunflower sample
Demystifying the origin of the highly divergent chloroplast sequence found in Mexican archaeological sunflower remains
Blackman, 2023
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

Spring 2026

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.

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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
Christine Hastorf
Christine Hastorf Receives AIA Award
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