Department research, laboratory facilities and resources

Faculty research

Faculty members are involved in a variety of projects that students can participate.

Channel Island Settlement Patterns
Professors sitting under the UNR Anthro tent during Burning Man
Burning Man Archaeology
Professor Geoff Smith calibrating an instrument
Great Basin Paleoindian Research Unit

Facilities

The Department of Anthropology has many laboratory devoted to research

Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Laboratory
Case featuring pottery and basketry of the Great Basin
Anthropology Research Museum
Three people looking over a dirt site
Human Paleoecology and Archaeometry Laboratory