AGES

Archaeological, Geographical & Environmental Sciences

Research Laboratories and Facilities

• Stable Light Isotope Facility
• Chemistry laboratory
• Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
• High Pressure Liquid Chromatography
• Gas Chromatography and Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (GC and GC-MS)
• Biological Anthropology Research Centre (BARC)
• Histology and microscopy laboratory
• Environmental archaeology laboratory
• Palaeoecology and tephrochronology lab
• Lithic Microwear Research Laboratory
• Geophysics laboratory
• Archaeomagnetic Dating laboratory
• Geophysical Field Equipment
• Roman research laboratory
• Hunter-Gatherer Research Laboratory
• Northern Atlantic Research Unit (NARU) Laboratory
• Field Survey Equipment
• Archaeometallurgy Laboratory
• Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis
• Conservation laboratory
• X-radiography and X-ray digitiser
• More equipment in the School's Analytical Centre

Major Collections

• The Raistrick collection (geology)
• Herbarium and Lichen database
• BARC human remains collection
• Archaeolozoology and archaeobotany collection