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People

Mary Adair
Mary Adair
Senior Curator
Archaeology
madair@ku.edu
785.864.2675
Spooner Hall
Barbara Crable
Barbara Crable
Master's Student
Archaeology
bcrable@ku.edu
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Jack Hofman
Jack Hofman
Courtesy Research Associate, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Archaeology
hofman@ku.edu
785.864.2634
Spooner Hall
Sandra Olsen
Curator-in-Charge
Archaeology
sandra.olsen@ku.edu
785.864.6511
Spooner Hall
Kaitlin Stanley
Graduate Student
Archaeology
kaitlin.stanley@ku.edu
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Spooner Hall- Modern Comparative Faunal Collection

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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.

Curator-in-Charge: Sandra Olsen
785.864.6511

Curator: 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

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