Archeology & geoarchaeology facilities

The Archaeology & Quaternary Research Laboratory at ISU is equipped with state of the art facilities and equipment for archaeological & geoarchaeological field and laboratory sample collection and analysis:

Ford F250 4WD & Suburban 4WD vehicles

Giddings trailer-mounted hydraulic soil probe

GSSI SIR-3000 Ground Penetrating Radar (400 Mhz antenna)

Geoscan FM-36 Fluxgate Gradiometer

Bartington MS2 Magnetic Susceptibility System

CILAS Laser Diffraction Particle Analyzer

WinIntel workstations with ArcMap 9.0

Microsoft SQL Server & ArcSDE

HP DesignJet 800 ink-jet printer (42 inch)

HP high-resolution scanner

large-format SummagridV digitizing tablet

Zeiss Stemi 2000 Stereomicroscopes

Topcon Total Station

Pentax Rotating Laser Levels

FLOTE-TECH flotation tanks

Trimble GeoXT & GeoExplorer3 GPS

Canon & Nikon digital cameras

E-198 Hydrometer Jar Bath

ASTM 152H Hydrometers & Jars

Ro-tap Shaker & sieves