The Ohlone Tribe: Back from Extinction

Alan Leventhal is a trained archaeologist / ethnohistorian who has been teaching and involved in Indian Affairs over the past 32 years at San Jose State University.  Presently Alan works as an administrative staff/IT in the Office of the Dean, College of Social Sciences and is a volunteer lecturer in Anthropology Department. 

Alan’s research interest centers around the San Francisco Bay “shellmounds”, evolution of complex non-agricultural hunting-gathering societies, evidence of social stratification, stone tool technologies, experimental archaeology, skeletal biology, ancient DNA and stable isotope studies, contemporary Native American issues and Federal Recognition of California Indian Tribes.