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Our histology lab (229) is located in the Banks Building on the ANU campus (44 Linnaeus Way). I supply hard tissue processing training, protocols, and expertise. Support is provided by our technician David McGregor. |
Lab equipment, funded in most part by ANU internal grants (e.g. 2018 Major Equipment Grant $135,000) and the Australian Research Council, includes:
We now have a collection, or a "library", of thin sections that is growing day by day. It mainly includes human bone and tooth samples from ancient and modern contexts, but we also have some other vertebrates represented (e.g. rats, kangaroo, wombat). Our specimens span thousands (and in some fossil cases millions!) of years and cover multiple different parts of the world, with a focus on Asia Pacific. The collection receives funding from the Australian Research Council and has been possible to set up thanks to my wonderful international and domestic collaborators, including:
- two Olympus BX53 with DP74 camera microscopes (one with a rotating stage)
- one Olympus BX50 with a Lumenera’s INFINITY1-2 2.0 megapixel CMOS digital camera microscope
- one Buehler EcoMet 300/AutoMet 300 Pro Touchscreen grinder-polisher
- one confocal microscope Olympus OLS5000
- one Kemet MICRACUT Precision Cutter
We now have a collection, or a "library", of thin sections that is growing day by day. It mainly includes human bone and tooth samples from ancient and modern contexts, but we also have some other vertebrates represented (e.g. rats, kangaroo, wombat). Our specimens span thousands (and in some fossil cases millions!) of years and cover multiple different parts of the world, with a focus on Asia Pacific. The collection receives funding from the Australian Research Council and has been possible to set up thanks to my wonderful international and domestic collaborators, including:
- Institute of Archaeology in Hanoi, Vietnam
- Department of Pathology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Malaysia
- Department of Anatomy, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
- School of Anthropology & Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
- Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU, Australia
- The John Curtin Medical School of Research, ANU, Australia
- Dental & Medical School, University of Melbourne, Australia
- St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
- Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science, Melbourne, Australia
- Australian Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia
- School of Archaeology, University of Queensland, Australia
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France
- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, New Zealand
- Department of Bioarchaeology, University of Warsaw, Poland
All work on human remains undertaken in the lab is justified by a rigorous and well planned/ thought out study design so as to avoid the destruction of often irreplaceable archaeological samples. We adhere to discipline standards and guidelines that relate to lab processing of human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts. Where necessary, projects are also reviewed by relevant ethics boards.