Diana Beach was able to spend two months of research in conjunction with the completion of the Kalambo Falls publication, under the direction of Drs. J. Desmond Clark (Anthropology) and Julie Cormack. In this research, Diana-who is heading towards further training and a career in museum ethnography at Oxford University - was able to do first hand work in the statistical, typological and technological analyses of Earlier and Middle Stone Age assemblages from Kalambo Falls. For Diana, to have the chance to work first-hand with the ways in which archaeological materials must be analyzed, reinforces her belief in the potential of archaeological and museum collections for interpretive understandings of the human past.

Sara Palmer, currently a senior in the Anthropology major, was able to carry out first hand archaeological reconnaissance and fieldwork on the Palmer Ranch in the Flint Hills of Kansas. This research forms the basis for her senior thesis, being completed now under the supervision of Prof. Laurie Wilkie (Anthropology). Sara was able to carry out survey of various homesteader sites of the 19th century, and, with a volunteer surveyor from the Natural Resources Conservation Survey, begin the basic research to understand the archaeology of the social landscapes of these homesteaders. She will supplement and contextualize this archaeology with her access to diaries, letters and census/land records. Sara had other Berkeley undergraduates volunteer to work with her, and by now, she has become familiar and experienced with the logistics of fieldwork! We look forward to her thesis. Applications for 1997 Undergraduate Research Awards are now available from the ARF office, and are due April 15. We look forward to being able to support new projects and we encourage those of you who might want to augment our funds for this worthy cause to do so!