Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
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Just learned about this game -- you're given 10 artifacts / day (from The Met's collection) and have to guess where they were made and when. 🏺🧪 And it's hard! I only got top 35%, which is kinda sad as an archaeologist & author of our Astonishing Artifacts column @livescience.com. anthropeum.com
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A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Upcoming Events Cultural Heritage in a Small State: The Archaeology of Montenegro through the Case of Budva events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31... Wed, April 29th @ 12:10 PM Dušan Medin, University of Donja Gorica, Montenegro ARF and online bit.ly/ARFtalks-2526 More... www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
Upcoming Events ARF LUNCH TALK Avian-Human Worlds of Picuris Pueblo, NM Wed April 8, 2026 @ 12:10 PM events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31... Speaker: Melanie Cootsona Location: In person at the ARF and on Zoom (register here: bit.ly/ARFtalks-2526). Other events www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
Avian-Human Worlds of Picuris Pueblo, NM
Picuris Pueblo, NM has a rich history of bird-human relationships. These relationships are characterized differentially based on species, spatialit...
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ARF Lunch Talk Moving Inland: Coastal and Mountain Landscapes in Cyprus' Hunter-Gatherer Past Wed. April 1 @ 12:10 PM Lisa Maher & Bri Jones events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31... Other events this week: www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
Moving Inland: Coastal and Mountain Landscapes in Cyprus’ Hunter-Gatherer Past
Pre-Neolithic occupations in Cyprus remain rare but are increasingly documented through recent fieldwork. The Ancient Seafaring Explorers of Cyprus...
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Archaeological Career Opportunities with Agencies: A Panel Discussion Fri Apr 3, 2-4pm Moderator: Jun Sunseri, UC Berkeley Eric Blind (Calif Parks and Rec) Annamarie Guerrero (East Bay Parks) Linn Gassaway, (National Park Service, retired) Kathleen Forrest (PG&E) events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31...
ARF LUNCH TALK Wed. Feb. 25, 2026 @ 12:10 PM Archaeology by and for Robots? Publishing, Data Curation, and Asserting Humanity in the AI Ecosystem Speaker: Eric C. Kansa, Open Context In person at the ARF or on Zoom bit.ly/ARFtalks-2526 Abstract and more events: www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
UPCOMING EVENTS Wednesday, February 18, 2026 @ 12:10 PM ARF LUNCH TALK Scaling Time, Scaling Rites: Industry in the Sacrificial Calendar of Thorikos events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31... Speaker: Yesenia Brambila Location: In-person at the ARF Other Events www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
ARF Director Kim Shelton on Nolan's forthcoming film The Odyssey news.berkeley.edu/2026/02/06/w...
Watch: an archaeologist’s guide to Christopher Nolan’s 'The Odyssey' - Berkeley News
The film's trailer offers glimpses of the ancient world that UC Berkeley Professor Kim Shelton digs up in Nemea, Greece.
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ARF Lunch Talk Wed Feb 11@12:10 Social belonging in Mycenaean chamber tombs: an interdisciplinary multiproxy analysis events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31... Speaker: Irene Högner Location: In person at the ARF or online Register at bit.ly/ARFtalks-2526 More info www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
Social belonging in Mycenaean chamber tombs: an interdisciplinary multiproxy analysis
Chamber tombs are among the most numerous and significant lines of evidence in the Mycenaean world and are central to social-archaeological questio...
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ARF LUNCH TALK Feb 4 @ 12:10 Cemetery and Social Structure in Mycenaean Greece Dr. Sophie Cushman events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31... In person at ARF or online. Register bit.ly/ARFtalks-2526 More Upcoming Events www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
Cemetery and Social Structure in Mycenaean Greece
For over a century, archaeologists have used mortuary evidence to reconstruct the major social, political, and economic developments of the Late Br...
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UPCOMING EVENTS Seeking Sedges: the Archaeobotanical Identification of Wetland Taxa on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia Wed Jan 28, 2026 @ 12:10 PM Speaker: Milly McKenzie In person at the ARF (2251 College Building) events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31... More events www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
Seeking Sedges: the Archaeobotanical Identification of Wetland Taxa on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia
In conversation with paleoethnobotanical analyses conducted by the Taraco Archaeological Project, whose research centers around early settled life ...
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Upcoming Events Networks of City Life in Classic Maya Chiapas Wed. Jan. 21 @ 12:10 PM Rosemary Joyce, Jeanne Lopiparo, and Esther Parpal Cabanes Location: In person at the ARF (2251 College Building) Sponsor: Archaeological Research Facility Additional events www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
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UPCOMING EVENTS ARF LUNCH TALK Wednesday, January 21, 2026 @ 12:10 PM Networks of City Life in Classic Maya Chiapas Time: Wednesday, January 21, 2026 @ 12:10 PM Speakers: Rosemary Joyce, Jeanne...
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The work of ARF Director Kim Shelton and her students and alum is featured artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/unearth...
ARF LUNCH TALK Wed, Dec 3 @ 12:10 PM First fieldwork at Julcatambo Grande, a large Wari-like complex in the high puna grasslands of central Peru Speakers: Bruce Owen and Manuel Perales events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31... In person at the ARF and on Zoom bit.ly/ARFtalks-2526
This fine presentation by Eric Harvey in the series "Disability in the Ancient Near East" co-hosted with the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology is now available on our video channel youtube.com/live/IttCzxq...
2025-10-23 “The real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians” (Eric Harvey)
YouTube video by Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
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ARF Affiliated archaeologists are part of the team investigating this site www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arch...
Archaeologists May Have Found the Lost Iron City of the Silk Road in the Remote Highlands of Uzbekistan
Researchers are uncovering what they think is the metropolis of Marsmanda, an iron-making city that could rewrite the history of the famed trade route
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Upcoming Events The ARF Lunch Talk this week (Wed Nov 19 at noon) is three separate talks "Archaeology Undergraduate Research Highlights" with Allison Champ, Regina Delgado, and Liam McEvoy events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31... For more details and other events www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
A feature on ARF Affiliate Jun Sunseri's project recovering MIA servicemembers on Veteran's Day news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/07/h...
How crowdsourcing and phone cameras could help bring fallen soldiers home - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley archaeologist is building a reference system that can expedite recovery of the remains of service members killed in World War II.
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Ancient DNA at the ARF today in a special two part Fall Event! An ARF Lunch talk at noon by Dr. Sabina Cveček titled "Kin Making in the Past" is followed at 5pm with a reception and a panel with S. Cveček, M. Chintalapati, S. K. Joseph, and G. Price, moderated by Meg Conkey. tinyurl.com/35z8p6c7
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UPCOMING EVENTS Please join us on Wednesday for two special events on Ancient DNA -- a lunch talk and an afternoon panel discussion -- taking place at the ARF. The afternoon panel discussion will...
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ARF LUNCH TALK Slag and Mag on the Silk Road: 2025 Field Season at Tugunbulak (Uzbekistan) Wed, Nov 5 @ 12:10 PM S. Medina, N. Tripcevich, L. Packard-Grams, S. Mehendale, and M. Frachetti events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31... Other events this week www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
Upcoming Events Wed, Oct 29 at 12 noon ARF LUNCH TALK An "Incorruptible Ally": Land Reform and the Caatinga in Northeastern Brazil with Gabriel Silva Collins (UCLA) Register: bit.ly/ARFtalks-2526 More events this week listed here www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
Today! Oct 20, 2025 at 6:30pm Corrina Gould: Sogorea Te' Land Trust | Institute of Urban & Regional Development Lecture 112 Bauer Wurster Hall events.berkeley.edu/ced/event/30...
Today! Oct 20, 2025 at 6:30pm Corrina Gould: Sogorea Te' Land Trust | Institute of Urban & Regional Development Lecture 112 Bauer Wurster Hall events.berkeley.edu/ced/event/30...
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TODAY! Friday, October 3 exhibit open 12pm - 3pm 🐻 Berkeley on the Map: Exploring our campus history through maps and photography. Earth Sciences & Map Library in McCone Hall. Brief remarks at 12:30pm guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=1442...
Díí Agódzáá (This Happened): The Theodore Roosevelt School Ethnographic Project Prof. Nicholas Laluk (Anthropology, UCB) Oct 1 @ 12:10 PM in ARF, Room 101 This talk will take place in person at the ARF only. events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/29... Other events www.facebook.com/Archaeologic...
Díí Agódzáá (This Happened): The Theodore Roosevelt School Ethnographic Project
Indigenous boarding schools are a complex and tragic part of North America’s history. Recent community interest in documenting and sharing these ...
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𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑨𝑹𝑭 𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑳𝒊𝒔𝒕 We've set up a new email list to share information we receive periodically about job openings, research opportunities, or field schools from other universities, organizations, and businesses. groups.google.com/a/lists.berk...
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