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If you’ve ever watched a movie or played a video game about ancient humans, you’ve likely seen the archetype: muscular hunters hurling spears to take down charging mammoths.

Decades of popular media have glorified these violent depictions of how human ancestors lived. But these long-held tropes don’t hold up against basic physics or oral histories from around the globe.

Now, Berkeley archaeologists are setting the record straight.

In this 101 in 101 video, our series where a Berkeley expert explains an aspect of their work in 101 seconds, UC Berkeley archaeologist Jun Sunseri shares a pivotal technology that allowed human ancestors to survive — ground-planted pikes.

More explainer videos at the link in our bio: https://bit.ly/4bMwNlL

[Video description: A man is speaking to camera and demonstrates ancestral hunting tools. Visual depictions of ancient humans hunting mammoths and other large creatures appear throughout.]

#UCBerkeley #101 #Anthropology

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Zoom is now available for the Historically Situating Mayan Scientific Knowledge event taking place October 16th and noon by Gerardo Aldana. Aldana’s talk is titled, “Sak Tahn Waax, Astronomy and Psychedelics in the History of Mayan Oracular Science.” Zoom is the third link in my bio. Event will be at the @latinxresearch and this talk series was made possible from @clacsberkeley. We’re offering a historical analysis to overcome mental paralysis.

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#history #Maya #MayanAstronomy #ucberkeley #education

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Happy #OskiBday! 💙🐻💛 As Oski celebrates another birthday, we’re celebrating ours, too! Since 1976, mentorship has been at the heart of everything we do. Through the ISSI Graduate Fellows Program, doctoral students gain the support and interdisciplinary training they need to tackle society’s most pressing challenges.

In honor of Oski's 85th birthday and our 50th anniversary, an anonymous donor will match every gift made to ISSI, dollar for dollar, up to $10,000! Will you make a birthday gift so every scholar has someone who believes in them?

🔗 in bio to make a difference this Bear-a-thon 🐻

Left-right: Savannah Shange (@blackfemanthro); Robert Ortiz Stahl, PhD candidate @calanthro & @ucberkeleypublichealth alum; Jessica Law, PhD candidate @ucberkeleysociology

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Congrats and welcome, ISSI Fellows! 💙👏💛 Seven @ucberkeleygraduate students have joined the ISSI Graduate Fellows Program: Alexa Kurmanov (@lost_in_the_field1988), Edward Martin (@afroachilles), Jesús Nazario, Coryna Ogunseitan (@cocogunseitan), Natasha Shannon, Deibi Sibrian (@day_bee), and Derek Wu!

The Fellows come from a range of fields, including @calanthro, @ucbgeography, and @natureatcal.

Learn more ➡ link in bio

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A glimpse of my speech at 2026 Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize @ucberkeleylibrary I never thought that the project I started with a friend in far 2022 will turn into longtime artistic and research journey with installation, book project and more to come. Bridging social art practice with ethnographic methodology I aim to democratize cultural and knowledge production, expand framework of how we see academia and creativity. Invisible Luggage is still in progress till December 2026 @inluggage Stay tuned! Thank you @linliin_wang for making this awesome video!

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With graduation season upon us, I can’t help but look back on one of the proudest moments of my life...my OWN graduation from UC Berkeley. 🎓

Sitting in the stadium in my cap and gown, on Mommy's lap, was a moment I’ll never forget.

Thank you, Jennifer, for capturing it so perfectly!! 💋

GO BEARS!! 💙💛

#GraduationMemories #ClassOf2025 #YouMadeItEinstein #UCberkeleyProud #CapAndPaws

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Join us April 15 for Dr. Yarimar Bonilla’s lecture “Puerto Rico and the Aporias of American Empire.” This talk argues that the current U.S. political agenda of expansionism exposes the longstanding contradictions at the heart of the so-called “Empire of Liberty.” Drawing on legal history, political theory, and visual analysis, it returns to an earlier moment of imperial expansion – centered on Puerto Rico – to uncover the tensions between democratic ideals and imperial practice that have structured U.S. power from its inception.

🗓️ Wednesday - April 15
🕠 5:30 p.m.
📍145 McCone Hall, UC Berkeley

This event will not be livestreamed or recorded.

There will also be lunch conversation on public scholarship open to UCB graduate students at 11:30 AM. Registration required. More details for both events on our website and the links in our bio.

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🌺Dear community 👋💜

You’re warmly invited to Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting (Peru, 1980–2000), an itinerant cultural and educational series featuring 📚 literature, 🎬 documentary film, 📷 photography, and 🗣️ community dialogue on memory, justice, and human rights in response to the political violence Peru 🇵🇪experienced between the 1980s and 2000s, and its lasting impact today.

🌎 Bilingual (Spanish/English)
✅ Open to the public

Below are the San Francisco / Bay Area and Los Angeles event. Please share with friends, students, and your Peruvian networks 🙏✨

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CANCELLED 🥲 Dear UC Berkeley and Art Practice Communities, Tomorrow’s Artist Lecture with King Cobra is cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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09/23: "Fighting Against and For the Concept of Trauma in Palestine and the Arab Region" featuring Distinguished Research Professor Dr. Suad Joseph (UC Davis)!

🗓️: Monday, September 29, 2025
⏰: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
📍: 3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

"The violence in the Arab region has produced millions of refugees and internally displaced people. In 2020, about 55% of refugees globally originated from the Arab Region. By 2023, even with the war in Ukraine, over 40% of world refugees came from the Arab region. Over half of the refugees in the world come from Palestine, Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Sudan, with the largest number coming from Palestine, Syria, and Sudan – three major Arab countries.

How can we develop a concept of trauma for Gaza, for Palestine, for Lebanon, for Syria, for Iraq, for Libya, for Yemen, for Sudan, for Somalia, and in many other parts of the world. This paper is a call for conversations in the Arab Region and for those who care about the Arab Region to develop a concept of trauma appropriate for this transformative historical moment in the Arab Region, for its circumstances, its cultural conditions. And it is call for socializing the concept of trauma– registering trauma as the social condition of many Arab countries today."

Suad Joseph is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at the University of California, Davis. She is the founder of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association; the Association for Middle East Women's Studies; & the Arab Families Working Group. She founded and directed the University of California Davis Arab Region Consortium. She was president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, co-founder of the Arab American Studies Association; the Association for Middle East Anthropology; & the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. Dr. Joseph has edited or co-edited 12 books, and published over 100 articles.

This event is free, open to the public, & cosponsored by the Departments of Anthropology, Gender & Women's Studies, & the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

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Sad to close this chapter at Berkeley 😢🐾 I’ll miss all my friends, walks, and squirrel chases on campus. But I know we’ll make new memories in our new home in Oakland! 🐶💛 Goodbye Berkeley… you’ll always have a piece of my heart. 💙🏙️

#EinsteinTheServiceDog #GoodbyeBerkeley #NewAdventuresAhead #FromBerkeleyToOakland #CampusDog #MovingPaws #ChapterClosed #DogOnTheMove #BittersweetGoodbye #NewMemoriesComing #Einstein #EinsteinsTales #EinsteinsBerkeleyPawspective #PawsitivelyEinsteininBerkeley #EinsteinsGoldenBearTales #UCBerkeley #EinsteinTheDog #Berkeley #BerkeleyLife #MyUCBerkeley #BerkeleyStudentPup #GraduatedPup #AdventuresWithMommy #CutenessOverload

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I'm a UC Berkeley alumni! 😁
#CalGrad #CalAlumni #Graduation #Einstein #EinsteinsTales #EinsteinsGoldenBearTales #EinsteinsBerkeleyPawspective #PawsitivelyEinsteininBerkeley #Berkeley #BerkeleyLife #MyUCBerkeley #BerkeleyStudentPup #AdventuresWithMommy #CutenessOverload #BerkeleyCampus

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