Teaching and Training

The Anthropology Department is located at the center of the UNLV campus in the newly renovated John Wright Hall. The faculty and students enjoy high-tech, comfortable classrooms. Opportunities for teaching abound for graduate students including those in the classroom/lab, and as members of field school teams.

Physical and Biological Laboratories and Collections

Resources include newly constructed laboratories and on-site collections. The physical labs house extensive human, primate, and fossil casts collections and state of the art equipment including a 3-D digitizer, X-ray unit, photo laboratory, and a thin-sectioning station. The Bioanthropology labs are equipped to conduct state of the art research on human blood, urine and saliva samples. The medical and hormone labs are designed for radio immunoassay, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, spectrophotometry, and anthropometric research.

Archaeology Laboratories and Collections

The Department facilities include impressive laboratory and collections space for research and for archaeological collections. The facilities support lithic and ceramic analysis in brand new laboratories, which contain state of the art equipment for the analysis of archaeological materials. The Department houses archaeological collections recovered from various sites in  Southern Nevada, and includes both prehistoric materials associated with Puebloan and Paiute occupation of the region and materials from Nevada's historic past. 

Linguistics/Ethnology Laboratory

The Department's Linguistics/Ethnology lab was designed to accommodate text, video, and audio-based ethnographic research. Lab facilities also include computer-based ethnographic research tools such as Anthropac and Ethnograph. The department also has unlimited online access to HRAF and AnthroSource materials and data.

Additional Resources

Several facilities outside of the department encourage interdisciplinary research. At the Desert Research Institute, part of the University and Community College System of Nevada, students have the opportunity for research using sophisticated computing facilities, archaeological, remote sensing, Geographic Information System (GIS), and several other specialized laboratories. In addition, the facilities of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, including the Division of Anthropological Studies and the Environmental Research Center, also are available. Finally, research opportunities exist for exchange with other universities and institutions outside of the United States.