The Center offers important collaborative services for local Cultural Resource Management (CRM) firms conducting research. We work on projects both in the field and in the laboratory.  We have worked in many places as part of larger ongoing projects, including the Wilder Ranch Archaeology survey, the Big Basin Survey, the Hidden Villa survey, the Midpenninsula Open Space District survey at Mindego Hill, the Palo Alto Foothill Park survey, the Valley Medical Center Cemetery project and others. 

In 2014 the Center has initiated a long-term cultural landscape study with the MROSD (Mid-peninsula Regional Open Space District) and Stanford University, forming together the Bay Area Cultural Landscape Research Group (BACLRG).  Students from Foothill College have been conducting surveys in the Santa Cruz Mountains as part of the research program.  Currently, we are conducting CRM field schools at Hidden Villa.  This long term project has trained hundreds of studnets while uncovering hidden histories of a locally cherished non-profit land-based educational institution.  In addition, we are doing laboratory analysis and generating reports on our archaeology work at all of these places.  Students are working and volunteering in the Center for Applied Anthropology to help with all these facets of CRM work.  

Clear Lake Archaeology Project

2025 Summer Excavations at Windrem Ranch- Artifact processing, analysis, documentation

2024 Summer Excavations at Kelseyville School - completed and report submitted

2021 Summer research at Ely Stage Stop

Hidden Villa Archaeology

Spring 2026 project - Season 7 - current work

Winter 2026 laboratory analysis

Fall 2025 - Season 6 

Spring 2025 - Season 5

Winter 2025 laboratory analysis

Fall 2024 units - Season 4

Spring 2024 - Season 3

Winter 2024 lab

Fall 2023 - Season 2

Spring 2023 First season

Ecuador - Pambamarca Archaeology Project

Summer 2026 - upcoming

Summer 2025

Summer 2022

Hawaii Indigenous Archaeology Project

Summer 2026 - upcoming

Summer 2024

Summer 2023

Summer 2022