Recent arf_nonpubpp items

Geospatial Data from a 2007 Journey with a Llama Caravan

Thu, 5 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In 2007 a group of investigators accompanied a llama caravan transporting salt from the Cotahuasi Valley in Arequipa, Peru to Calcauso in Apurimac, Peru approximately 100 km to the north. They completed the round-trip journey and the voyage was logged using a GNSS unit attached to one of the llamas. These data are shared here.

ARF Publication policy regarding U.S. Indigenous Materials

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Policy requiring consent from tribes for the publication of texts and cultural knowledge

Teaching Community-Accountable Archaeology: Pedagogy and Practice

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In the fall of 2022 we held a graduate seminar foregrounding the articulation of social science research with restorative justice and contemporary community struggles for self-determination, with a particular emphasis on community-accountable scholarship. This poster presents the results of projects committed to community authority, which represent new kinds of risks and rewards for both sides, and directly impacts the types of research questions addressed in their partnered project deliverables.

FoodStore: Food storage in the late Fifth, Fourth and Third millennia BC in the Northern Fertile Crescent

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

FoodStore: Food storage in the late Fifth, Fourth and Third millennia BC in the Northern Fertile Crescent

Tobler's walking model using Optimal Path as Line or Pathdistance in ArcGIS

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Tobler's Walking Model data converted to a Vertical Factor Table for use in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst distance functions.

The Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP): Mission Statement

Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP) (2014- ) is an ongoing effort to document, preserve, study and publish culturally and scientifically important information concerning Palestine’s rural history and heritage. The corpus contains over 1,300 personallyconducted oral history interviews documenting the local body of knowledge of some 700 Palestinian communities. It encompasses rare and invaluable information about Palestine’s historical geography, genealogies, toponymy, archaeology, nature, economy, politics, agricultural practices, traditions and lore. Lastly, it also holds, inter-alia, over a century’s worth of personal stories and recollections of life under Ottoman, British, Jordanian and Israeli rule.

UC Berkeley Field School in Oakland's Fruitvale District: Community Archaeology for a New Generation of Professionals

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This poster, presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, describes the first season of the UC Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility Field School. The 2022 ARF Field School recruited students from a broad range of backgrounds and several nearby colleges with the goal of increasing the discipline’s diversity with 10 new archaeological technicians and graduate students.

GPR and Gradiometry in the Hyper-Arid Atacama:Assessing Features Among Fossil Channels, Paleosols, and Lithic Dispersions at Quebrada Mani 35, Chile.

Sat, 1 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile dozens of Terminal Pleistocene archaeological sites been identified in an area that previously held seasonal surface water channels, riparian vegetation, and a wetland landscape. These sites shed light on the early peopling of western South America because the onset of hyper-aridity during the early Holocene resulted in severe decline in habitat for most plant and animal life, including humans. The extreme aridity also allowed for the preservation of horse, ground sloth, camelid, rodent, and bird remains that might correspond to different time frames but are being exposed by wind erosion along with other fossilized botanical remains.

As sand dunes are actively covering and uncovering the surface, in 2018 we carried out geophysical research at Quebrada Mani where some of these archaeological and paleontological features have been exposed and dated to between 12.5 to 11.2k cal BP. In this poster...

European Theoretical/Social Archaeology: studies in ambiguity