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at Lowry Hall
Lowry Hall is located on the old
"Front Campus" portion of Kent State University. The building was extensively renovated in 1996, and the Department of Anthropology had the opportunity at that time to design its own space and facilities. Below are some of the places occupied by the anthropologists of Lowry
Hall.
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Room 112 contains hundreds of casts of living and extinct primates, including an extensive array of fossil hominids. The collections in this room are mainly a resource for faculty and graduate student research projects, but they also are used in the classroom as appropriate. We also make use of similar resources at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and their extensive Hamann-Todd series, consisting of over 3100 human and over 900 primate skeletons. |
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Students
also benefit from specialized classrooms such as Room 147 (left), adjacent
to the multimedia lecture hall. This room serves as the primary location for teaching analytical and laboratory methods in both archaeology and biological anthropology. Students also benefit from a ten-station computer lab with high-speed laser printers, internet access, and relevant GIS, CAD, and statistical software located within the department in Rm 113.
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Lowry Rm 143 is the main lecture hall used for anthropology introductory classes and special events. In the 1930s (right), it was a women's dining room. Image right: © 1993 A Book of Memories, Kent State University Press.
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Lowry Rm 138
is one of our biological anthropology labs, in this case designed for research on human growth and development. There are similar labs focused on primate behavior and ecology, and hominid cognition and brain function. There is also a well-equiped osteology lab and an anatomy and dissection facility within the department.
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Lowry Rms 201, 205, 207, 209, and 211 constitute the archaeology complex, consisting of a 16-station bench lab (far left), an adjacent drafting and GIS lab, a layout room for analysis, a room for processing flotation and faunal samples, and a 1,015 sq. ft. curation facility (near left). The latter is the repository for over 350,000 artifacts recovered from archaeological excavations, and for the written records, maps, and photographs that document their recovery. Our collections represent one of the largest university collections of archaeological materials in Ohio.
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