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 (x2)
- 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
- Olympus polarizing and a dissecting microscopes (SZX7, SZX9, EX41) with digital cameras and Qcapture Pro analytical software (x3)
- 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
- Topcon total stations with data collectors (x2)
- Hemisphere S631 RTK GNSS base and Rover unit
- Geoscan FM256 Fluxgate Gradiometer
- Field excavation equipment
- GSSI 400MHz Ground-Penetrating Radars with tow wheel and 3-wheel cart configurations, SIR 300 and SIR 4000 controllers (x2)
- Sensors and Software 500MHz Noggin Ground-Penetrating Radar with tow wheel
- Bartington Dual Sensor Grad601 Gradiometer
- Geoscan RM15 resistivity meter
- Artec Space Spider 3D Scanner
- Artec Leo 3D scanner
- Bambu Lab X1E 3D printer
- DJI Matrice 350 Drone
- DJI L2 Lidar
- Miccasense Rededge-P multispectral Camera
- Voice recorders
