Archaeological Analytical Research Facilities Biological Anthropology Research Facilities           Archaeological Analytical Research Facilities

The Archaeological Analytical Research Facility provides infrastructural and analytical support for research and teaching by faculty and students in the Department of Anthropology at Binghamton University.  The Facility consists of a laboratory complex located on the second floor of the South Wing, in the Science 1 Building on the University campus.  The purpose-built, multi-room laboratory complex (Rooms 201, 201A, 203, and 205) houses a number of collections, and provides equipment and work space for individual and group projects.  The focal collection includes over 300 vertebrate skeletons, housed in Room 201A.   These comparative zooarchaeological materials are accessed for research and teaching by faculty, students, and interested members of the public. The core of the collection includes approximately 250 accessioned skeletons, most of which are disarticulated and curated in appropriately labeled and taxonomically-ordered collections boxes. A representative sample of articulated and mounted specimens is also located throughout the main collections room for display and study.  The bulk of accessioned specimens represent common and local taxa from the Northeastern United States, in addition to representative specimens from other areas of North America..  An additional number of comparative specimens are available for study.  These include taxa collected by departmental archaeologists in the course of their field research, and include examples from South America, West Africa, and the Arctic.   Other comparative materials include an expanding collection of invertebrate specimens,     primarily from the western neotropics, as well as a variety of modern butchery specimens and variously modified examples for taphonomic research. The collections are regularly accessed during undergraduate and graduate teaching, in addition to tours by non-University organizations, visits by interested members of the public, and official use by various law-enforcement agencies in the course of routine investigations.  The facility also is regularly accessed in the course of advanced training and research in zoorchaeology and taphonomy by graduate students at both the Masters and Doctoral levels.  Advanced undergraduate students are especially encouraged to use these materials and available wet lab space for original, independent research projects during their junior and senior years.  Many of these projects have formed the basis for Senior Honor's Theses and subsequent publication in international journals. The facility also houses teaching collections, including ceramic and pottery, lithics, and the departmental slide compilation, which are available on a sign-out basis for faculty and students.  These are housed in an adjacent room (205), which also includes microscopes and illuminated lenses, digital balances, geological screens, cameras, and various forms of lab equipment for independent research projects.  Limited work space, computer facilities, and temporary curation of study collections are also available in Room 205.   The facility is also equipped with an Olympus Zoom microscope with attached photographic abilities, along with various  IBM-compatible equipment to support computer-aided graphics in Room 203.  Teaching and study space are available throughout the various rooms of the facility.

Alphabetical Listing of Available Taxa

Accipiter cooperii    Cooper's Hawk Accipiter striatus    Sharp-shinned Hawk Agkistrodon contortix   Copperhead Agkistrodon piscivorus    Cottonmouth Agouti paca     Paca Aix sponsa    Wood Duck Alces alces    Moose Alligator mississippiensis    Alligator Alopex sp.    Arctic Fox Alouatta palliata    Howler Monkey Ambystoma opacum    Marbled Salamander Ambystoma talpodeum    Mole Salamander Ambystoma texanum    Small Mouth Salamander Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum    Eastern Tiger Salamander Anas domestica    Domestic Duck Anas platyrhincos    Mallard X Domestic Duck Anguilla rostrata    American Eel Anolis carolinensis    Green Anole Anolis sagrei    Brown Anole Anser domesticus    Domestic Goose Apalone spinifera spinifera    Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtle Aplodinotus grunniens    Freshwater Drum Archilocus colubri    Ruby-throated Hummingbird Blarina brevicauda    Short-Tailed Shrew Boa constrictor     Boa Bombycilla cedrorum    Cedar Waxwing Bonasa umbellus    Ruffed Grouse Bradypus variegatus    Three-toed Sloth Branta canadensis    Canada Goose Bubo virginianus    Great Horned Owl Bufo americanus    American Toad Bufo marinus    Giant Toad Buteo jamaicensis    Red-Tailed Hawk Caiman sp.     Caiman Cairina moschata   Muscovy Duck Canis familiaris    Domestic Dog Canis latrans    Coyote Capra hircus    Domestic Goat Carpodacus mexicanus    House Finch Castor canadensis    American Beaver Cavia porcellus    Guinea Pig Cephalophus sp.    Forest Duiker Cercopithecus aethiops    Vervet Cervus canadensis    Wapiti Chelydra serpentina    Snapping Turtle Chen caerulescens    Snow Goose Chionactis palarostris    Sonoran Shovel-nosed Snake Chrysemys picta belli    Western Painted Turtle Chrysemys picta dorsalis    Southern Painted Turtle Clemmys insculpta    Wood Turtle Columba livia     Domestic Pigeon Colaptes auratus   Common Flicker Condyura cristata  Star-nosed Mole Corvus brachyrhyncos    Common Crow Cyanocitta cristata   White-Toothed Shrew Crocidura sp.    White-Toothed Shrew Cricetomys gambianus     West African Giant Rat Crotalus atrox    Western Diamondback Rattler Cyanocitta cristata   Blue-Jay Cygnus olor    Mute Swan Cynomys gunnisoni    Whitetail Prairie Dog Cyprinus carpio    Carp Dasypus novemcinctus    Armadillo Dendroica petechia    Yellow Warbler Dendroica pinus   Pine Warbler Desmognathus fuscus    Dusky Salamander Didelphis virginianus    Common Opossum Dorosoma cepedianum    Gizzard Shad Dryopithecus pileatus    Pileated Woodpecker Enhydra lutris    Sea Otter Epinephelus nigritus    Warsaw? Grouper Eptesicus fuscus    Big Brown Bat Equus sp.    Dwarf Domestic Donkey Equus caballus    Horse Erethizon dorsatum    Porcupine Eurycea bislineata    Two Lined Salamander Eurycea longicauda    Dark Sided Salamander Falco sparverius    Sparrow Hawk Felis domesticus    Domestic Cat Gallus domesticus    Domestic Chicken Gallus domesticus    Domestic Cornish Hall Cross Gallus domesticus    Domestic Rock Cornish Game Hen Geomys bursarius     Eastern Gopher Graptemys kohnii    Mississippi Map Turtle Grus canadensis    Sandhill Crane Homo sapiens    Human Ictalurus nebulosus    Brown Bullhead Ictalurus punctatus    Channel Catfish Iguana iguana     Iguana Junco hyemalis    Dark-eyed Junco Kinosternon subrubrum    Mississippi Mud Turtle Kinixys sp.    West African Hinged-Back Tortoise

Larus delawarensis    Ring-Billed Gull Leontopithecus rosalia    Golden Lion Tamarin Lepisosteus osseus    Longnose Gar Lepomis macrochirus    Bluegill Lepus californicus    Blacktail Jackrabbit Lutra canadensis    River Otter Lynx rufus    Bobcat Macaca mullatta    Rhesus Monkey Marmota monax    Woodchuck Meleagris gallopavo    Domestic Turkey Meleagris gallopavo    Turkey "Broad-Breasted White" Meleagris gallopavo    Wild Turkey Melospiza melodia   Song Sparrow Mephitis mephitis    Skunk Mesocricetus auratus    Golden Hamster Microtus pennsylvanicus    Meadow Vole Mus musculus    House Mouse Mustela erminea    Stoat Mustela frenata    Long-Tailed Weasel Mustela vison    American Mink Myotis lucifugus    Little Brown Bat Necturus maculosus    Mudpuppy Neotoma albigularis    Wood Rat Nerodia sipedon sipedon    Northern Water Snake Numida meleagris    West African Guinea Fowl Odobenus sp.     Walrus Odocoileus virginianus    White-Tailed Deer Oncorhyncus sp.    Salmon Ondatra zibethicus    Muskrat Opheodrys vernalis    Smooth Green Snake Ophichthus zophochir    Yellow Snake Eel Oporornis philadelphia    Mourning Warbler Oryctolagus cuniculus     Domestic Rabbit Oryzomys bombycinus    Rice Rat Oryzomys caliginosus    Rice Rat Otus asio    Screech Owl Ovis aires    Domestic Sheep Passer domesticus    European Sparrow Perca flavescens    Yellow Perch Peromyscus eremicus    Cactus Mouse Peromyscus leucopus    White-Footed Mouse Peromyscus maniculatus    Deer Mouse Phasianus colchicus    Ring-Necked Pheasant Philohela minor    American Woodcock Phoca sp.    Seal Pica pica    Black-billed Magpie Picoides villosus    Hairy Woodpecker Plecostomus sp.    South American Catfish Pomatomus saltator    Blue Fish Potos flavus     Kinkajou Prionotus evolans  Striped Sea Robin Procyon lotor    Raccoon Proechimys semispinosus    Spiny Rat Pseudemys concinna    Heiroglyphic River Cooter Pseudemys concinna concinna    Eastern River Cooter Pseudemys rubiventris    Redbelly Turtle Rana catesbiana    Bullfrog Rana clamatins,    Green Frog Rana pipiens    Northern Leopard Frog Rattus sp.    Rat Regulus satrapa    Golden-Crowned Kinglet Salmo sp.    Atlantic Salmon Salmo clarki    Cutthroat Trout Sciurus carolinensis    Eastern Gray Squirrel Sciurus niger    Fox Squirrel Serrasalmus sp.    Piranha Sialia sialis    Eastern Bluebird Sorex cinereus    Masked Shrew Sphyrapicus varius    Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sternotherus odoratus    Common Musk Turtle Storeria occipitomaculata    Northern Redbelly Snake Strix varia    Barred Owl Sturnus vulgaris    Starling Sus scrofa    Domestic Pig Sylvilagus auduboni    Desert Cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus    Eastern Cottontail Tamias striatus    Eastern Chipmunk Tamiasciurus hudsonicus    American Red Squirrel Terrapene carolina carolina    Eastern Box Turtle Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis    Eastern Garter Snake Thryonomys swinderianus    Grasscutter Trachemys scripta    Slider Trachemys scripta elegans    Red-eared Slider Turdus migratorius    American Robin Urocyon cinereoargentus    Gray Fox Ursus americanus    American Black Bear Varanus sp.    Monitor Lizard Vulpes vulpes    Red Fox Xenopus laevis  African Clawed Frog Zapus hudsonicus    Meadow Jumping Mouse Zenaidura macroura    Mourning Dove