The Anthropological Archaeology Lab is located at the University at Buffalo. This lab focuses on long-term dynamics of social inequalities in a global perspective. Using comparative approaches to material culture and spatial dynamics of human activity, research in this lab examines social, economic, political, and ideological organization in the past. Faculty and students in this lab draw from a wide range of analytical specialties to design and execute research projects focused on the complex relationship between human experiences and structural institutions in societies in the past. Members of this lab have ongoing research in the archaeology of Europe, Near East, and North America.

People

Lab Director

Dr. Colin P. Quinn

Student Researchers

There are several University at Buffalo graduate and undergraduate students that work on research through the Anthropological Archaeology Lab. The current students affiliated with the lab are:

Graduate Student Researchers

• Sophie Chorek
• Nathan Dubinin
• Elizabeth Smith
• Sarah Smith

Undergraduate Student Researchers

• River North

Research

• Geospatial analyses
• Chronological modelling
• Lived and performed identities through bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology

Collections

The lab houses small experimental and archaeological collections that provide hands-on experience for student researchers and research projects for senior theses, Master’s theses, and PhD dissertations.