Department Resources
The Anthropology department has six faculty research laboratories that house a variety of facilities and resources available to faculty and students including:
- Fume hood
- Chemical storage
- Drying oven
- Drying racks
- Sinks with grease and silt traps
- Chest freezer
- Fridge
- Vacuum pump and embedding chamber
- Buehler Isomet low speed saw
- Buehler Petro-Thin system
- Polishing wheels for thin sections
- Three Olympus polarizing and a dissecting microscopes (SZX7, SZX9, EX41) with digital cameras and Qcapture Pro analytical software
- X-ray equipment: Faxitron cabinet x-ray unit, Picker x-ray unit, Nikon 225 micro-CT scanner, powerful graphics computers with processing software.
- Gradient block and thermal cycler
- Table mounted illuminated magnifiers
- Numerous osteological calipers
- Digital cameras, photographic stand and light box
- Two Topcon total stations with data collectors
- Topcon Hyperlite+ RTK GPS unit
- Geoscan FM256 Fluxgate Gradiometer
- Field excavation equipment
- GSSI 400Mhz GPR
- Bartington Dual Sensor Grad601 Gradiometer
- Geoscan RM15 resistivity meter
