Teaching Community-Accountable Archaeology: Pedagogy and Practice
Developing 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.
Our 2023 SCA poster is on the ARF's eScholarship list:
Our latest publication in PLOS One
We think the findings reignite debates about Clovis points and reshape how we think about the ingeniously engineered composite systems that Native American Ancestors developed to co-exist with animals some 13,000 years ago. See our work in this coverage.
Bear Bones Lab Team Receives Chancellor’s Awards for Public Service
Each year, the Chancellor recognizes students, staff, faculty, and community partnerships that embody UC Berkeley’s proud tradition of public service and commitment to improving our local and global community.
Promoting Tribal Sovereignty - in the news
Committed to Community-Accountable Research, Bear Bones Lab supports Indigenous archaeology, check out this article featuring our Bear Bones Lab alumnus, Morino Baca: