In the spring of 1997 the Department of Anthropology moved into newly renovated facilities in McElhaney Hall. We designed these facilities with the special needs of anthropologists in mind, and anticipate that our new complex will serve students and faculty alike for years to come. All faculty offices are located in the G12 suite, where we also have faculty mailboxes, a directory of office locations and telephone numbers, and a sizeable library of resource materials relating to internships and professional opportunities in anthropology.
We have two major classrooms within McElhaney, one designed for larger classes and a 25 seat laboratory classroom suitable for biological anthropology and archaeology classes. Work space within the department includes a Wash and Flotation Room for processing archaeological artifacts coming in from the field, and a very large Archaeology Analysis Laboratory with workstations and storage facilities. A small Faunal Lab houses our comparative faunal collection, and provides space for processing faunal specimens in a fume hood and closet for a dermestid beetle colony. A Drafting Lab includes storage for a large collection of regional maps as well as drafting tables and light tables for mapping and illustration. Previously processed archaeological artifacts are stored in our curation room, adjacent to the Archaeology Analysis Lab. Finally, we are developing a small computer laboratory, that currently houses the video imaging and analysis equipment that was provided by a National Science Foundation grant, as well as several general computer workstations.
In the Spring of 2008 the Anthropology Department expanded into the G-1 complex in McElhaney Hall. All faculty offices, the Secretary's office, and a new Seminar Room are located in this new complex. This move opened up space in the G-12 suites for various archaeology projects and the department's new Masters Degree in Public Archaeology that will begin in the Fall 2009 semester.
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