History and General Information
In Fall 2009, the Department of Anthropology expanded into the entire ground floor of McElhaney Hall. Faculty offices are now in the G-1 complex. Lab space and graduate student work areas are in McElhaney G-12. Other rooms on the ground floor include a specialized laboratory classroom, the large general teaching and archaeological research lab in G-3. We designed these facilities with the special needs of anthropologists in mind, and we anticipate that our new complex will serve students and faculty alike for years to come. All faculty offices are located in the G1 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 (McElhaney 104) and a twenty-four-seat laboratory classroom suitable for biological anthropology and archaeology classes. (G-2) 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. McEL G-5 is now the Geophysical Lab and home to the NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program Funded Mobile Spatial Data Acquisition Program, which provided funds for the purchase of instrumentation for ground penetrating radar surveys, magnetometry, electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, and large-format printers. Other instruments provided through funding from the State System of Higher Education Technology Fee program include a Nikon Total Data Station, Trimble R-8 GPS Base and Rover system, and Trimble Handheld GPS units.
