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Archaeology at a Glance

(past cultures)

Established: 1895

Collection Strengths: 1.5 million artifacts

Research Strengths: Material culture studies of prehistoric and early historic peoples of the Great Plains, lithic and ceramic analysis, geoarchaeology, paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology and rock art.

Collections Manager: Kara Kelly
kara_kelly@ku.edu
Curator Emerita: Mary Adair
785.864.2675

Biodiversity Institute Research Divisions

• Archaeology
• ​Biodiversity Modeling
• Botany
• Entomology
• Herpetology
• Ichthyology
• Informatics
• Invertebrate Paleontology
• Invertebrate Zoology
• Mammalogy
• Ornithology
• Paleobotany
• Vertebrate Paleontology