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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.

Picuris Pueblo, NM has a rich history of bird-human relationships. These relationships are characterized differentially based on species, spatialit...

Pre-Neolithic occupations in Cyprus remain rare but are increasingly documented through recent fieldwork. The Ancient Seafaring Explorers of Cyprus...

UPCOMING EVENTS Wednesday, March 4, 2026 ARF LUNCH TALK Wednesday, March 4, 2026 @ 12:10 PM Archaeological Duty: advancing recovery efforts through the Missing American Aircrew Project (MAAP)...

The film's trailer offers glimpses of the ancient world that UC Berkeley Professor Kim Shelton digs up in Nemea, Greece.

Chamber tombs are among the most numerous and significant lines of evidence in the Mycenaean world and are central to social-archaeological questio...

For over a century, archaeologists have used mortuary evidence to reconstruct the major social, political, and economic developments of the Late Br...

In conversation with paleoethnobotanical analyses conducted by the Taraco Archaeological Project, whose research centers around early settled life ...

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...

YouTube video by Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley

YouTube video by Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley

YouTube video by Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley

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

A UC Berkeley archaeologist is building a reference system that can expedite recovery of the remains of service members killed in World War II.

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...

Indigenous boarding schools are a complex and tragic part of North America’s history. Recent community interest in documenting and sharing these ...

Scholars of the Greek Late Bronze Age Mycenaean religion (ca. 1600-1100 BCE) have long relied on a dichotomous “official” versus “popular” ...

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,...

YouTube video by Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley

YouTube video by Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley

Origin Stories · Episode

UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday, April 29 The reuse of Greek epic tradition in the poetic dedication of Isidoros at Narmouthis Speaker: Prof. Anastasia Maravela, University of Oslo Time: Tuesday, April 29,...

UPCOMING EVENTS Wednesday, April 2 ARF LUNCH TALK Excavations at el Hibeh, 2024 Season https://events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/295681-excavations-at-el-hibeh-2024-season Speaker: Leah Packard-Grams,...

YouTube video by Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley

Indigenous boarding schools are a complex and tragic part of North America’s history. Recent community interest in documenting and sharing these ...

Lidar technology has revolutionized archaeology by providing unprecedented insights into landscapes and structures that remain hidden to the naked ...

Learn about and apply for the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology from Archaeological Institute of America. Find scholarships, fellowships, and grants for excavation, research,...

Please join us to learn about opportunities for archaeologists in cultural resource management (CRM). This event will feature brief presentations, ...