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Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
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Supporting archaeological research by UC Berkeley scholars
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Our website http://arf.berkeley.edu
Upcoming Events Calendar
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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
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In person at the ARF and on Zoom
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December 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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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
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2025-10-23 “The real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians” (Eric Harvey)
YouTube video by Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
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November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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ARF Affiliated archaeologists are part of the team investigating this site
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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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November 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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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
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November 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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A feature on ARF Affiliate Jun Sunseri's project recovering MIA servicemembers on Veteran's Day
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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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November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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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.
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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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November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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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
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November 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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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)
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October 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Today! Oct 20, 2025 at 6:30pm
Corrina Gould: Sogorea Te' Land Trust | Institute of Urban & Regional Development Lecture
112 Bauer Wurster Hall
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October 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Today! Oct 20, 2025 at 6:30pm
Corrina Gould: Sogorea Te' Land Trust | Institute of Urban & Regional Development Lecture
112 Bauer Wurster Hall
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October 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Upcoming Events this Week
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October 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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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
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October 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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.
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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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September 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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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.
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ARF Opportunities - Google Groups
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September 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Fall 2025 AHMA Colloquium
Friday Sept 26 (Today) at noon (in-person only) Professor Rita Lucarelli is presenting "'When Everything is Human, the Human is an Entirely Different Thing': Animal Powers in the Ancient Egyptian Demonic Imaginary." in Room 254 of the Social Sciences Building.
September 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Today's Lunch Talk is online and in-person
The Dynamics of Mycenaean Sacred Space: Insights from the Cult Centre at Mycenae
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Speaker: Elizabeth Keyser, Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
Time: September 24 @ 12:10 PM
The Dynamics of Mycenaean Sacred Space: Insights from the Cult Centre at Mycenae
Scholars of the Greek Late Bronze Age Mycenaean religion (ca. 1600-1100 BCE) have long relied on a dichotomous “official” versus “popular” ...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Upcoming Events
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UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday, September 16, 2025 @ 2:00 Pacific Learning in Retirement - New Fragments of Euripides: The Path From an Excavated Tomb to Scholarly Publication Time: Tuesday, September 16,...
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September 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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ARF Affiliated graduate student Leah Packard-Grams' work with the ARF's X-ray fluorescence instrument is featured in the latest issue of Berkeley Science Review.
www.berkeleysciencereview.com/article/2025...
September 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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We are pleased to co-sponsor this lecture series!
Join us on our video channel
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September 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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UPCOMING
From Stone to Clay: Rethinking Maya Art at Tonina
Esther Parpal (Anthro)
Wed Sept 10 at 12pm
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Taking Our Water for the City: Archaeology of New York's Watershed Communities
Thurs, Sept 11, 2025 @ 3
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September 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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A welcome note from our new ARF Director Kim Shelton
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September 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Enjoy this presentation by Leah Packard Grams on her recent work in Egypt!
youtu.be/G5-S90Tk04I
2025-04-02 Excavations at el Hibeh 2024 Season (Leah Packard-Grams)
YouTube video by Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
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May 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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An interesting new episode on 150+ years of history in the San Antonio neighborhood of Oakland with Mitchell Schwarzer
May 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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This ARF lecture is now available online
Greeting the Ostiarius: A Preliminary Exploration of Doorkeepers' Rooms in the Houses of Pompeii (Cesca LaPasta, UC Berkeley)
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2025-02-12 Greeting the Ostiarius... Doorkeepers' Rooms in the Houses of Pompeii (Cesca LaPasta)
YouTube video by Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
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May 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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New episode
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The Shanidar Cave Neanderthals
Origin Stories · Episode
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May 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM