The Archaeological Research Center (ARC) at UC Santa Cruz serves as a center for interdisciplinary archaeological research on the UC Santa Cruz Campus, and a crucial link between UCSC and the broader local community.
Academics
ARC is not currently a degree-granting program. However, ARC faculty members accept graduate students in world-class home departments across the campus. For further information about applying for graduate school in one of these programs, please visit the following department pages: anthropology, history, history of art & visual culture, earth & planetary sciences, and literature.
Looking for volunteer opportunities?
ARC faculty and staff support a wide range of volunteer opportunities for students at different levels of experience who wish to gain additional experience doing hands-on archaeological research. Check back for newly posted projects seeking volunteers, or contact faculty directly.
Center news
Blum Scholars present preliminary results of community-based research
Four graduate students discussed their research on jail health care, Latina resistance, Central Valley youth, and feminism in the farmlands.
Solving ancient riddles: UCSC hosts archaeological genetics conference
The newly formed UC Santa Cruz Archaeological Research Center will hold its first public research conference on how the analysis of ancient DNA can unlock secrets from the past Tuesday afternoon (April 14) on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
Recent publications
Heritage and Democracy
Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration, co-edited by Kathryn Lafrenz, and Jon D. Daehnke
6000 BC
Transformation and Change in the Near East and Europe, co-edited by Peter F. Beihl and Eva Rosenstock
Constructing the Sacred
Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara by Elaine A. Sullivan
The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse
Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California by Tsim D. Schneider
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