Woven Indigenous art from Brazil, ceramics excavated from the Treman State Park area, stone tools, animal bones: a wide variety of objects from vast spans of time contribute to the study of the human condition undertaken by the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). A new Anthropology Collaboratory, set to open with an event on May 14 from 1:30-3:00 p.m., gathers many of the university's anthropology collections and laboratories together in one place in Olin Library.
An Amazonian headdress is displayed with two cases of artifacts in the Anthropology and CIAMS Collections
The Collaboratory consolidates several entities previously housed throughout McGraw Hall, which is being renovated.
"We saw this as an exciting opportunity to bring the labs and Collections together with shared facilities, especially compact storage, and improved layouts," said Nerissa Russell, professor and chair of anthropology (A&S). "We were really excited when the Cornell University Library agreed to host us in the basement of Olin Library because that promises synergies that we are starting to explore and greater visibility with a study area right outside."
A walled-off complex in the lower level of Olin Library, the Collaboratory includes: the Anthropology and Cornell Institute of Archaeology & Material Studies (CIAMS) Collections; the Artifact Processing Lab; the Mesoamerican Archaeology Lab, the Hodinǫ̱hsǫ́:nih Archaeology Lab; the Evolutionary Anthropology Lab; and the Human and Animal Bones Lab (HABLab) complex made up of bioarchaeology and zooarchaeology research labs and a shared teaching lab.
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