Department Information

Facilities

Archeology Labs. Excavation equipment, wet labs, artifact processing labs, advanced microscopes, topographic and geophysical surveying instruments, photographic equipment (traditional and digital), computers, and a dark room are available.

Biological Anthropology Labs.The department possesses microscopes, thin-sectioning, x-ray, photographic equipment, osteological instruments, skeletal collections, morphometric and computer image analysis equipment.

Computer Labs are easily accessible in Old Main, nearby Ozark Hall, and elsewhere on campus. Windows pentium, Macintosh, and Unix labs are available together with state-of-the-art digitizing equipment, graphics stations, printers, plotters, and software through the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies.

James A Scholtz Reading Room (Main 332). Jim Scholtz received his MA from UAF. At the time of his sudden death in 1978 he was Asst. Director of the University Museum. His library was given to the Department as the basis for a Reading Room. Books are to be used only in the Reading Room.

Specific Laboratories

Archeo-Imaging Lab (Professor Kvamme)
Comparative Morphology Lab (Professor Plavcan)
Paleoanthropology Lab (Professor Ungar)
Quaternary Archeology Lab (Professor Kay)