Facilities & Resources

Facilities available within Archaeology and the Colleges of Physical and Life Sciences

• Petrographic and stereomicroscopes
• Palynology laboratory
• Hydrology laboratory
• Dirty and clean sedimentary laboratories
• Soil chemistry laboratory
• Bioarchaeology laboratory and faunal reference collection
• Archaeological Chemistry laboratory
• Trace Element Speciation Laboratory

Web Links

• University of Aberdeen Library Catalogue, including links to electronic journals and other electronic media
• Special Libraries & Archives
• Anatomy Museum
• Marischal Museum
• Zoology Museum

Reference Collections

• The John C. C. (Charlie) Romans Thin Section Reference Collection (Soils, Wood, Seeds, Minerals).
• The E. A. FitzPatrick Soil Thin Section Reference Collection
• Faunal Reference Collection, Zoology Museum
• Herbarium, School of Biological Sciences (120,000 plant specimens, with a special emphasis on British and SE Asia)
• Living plant collection, Cruickshank Botanical Gardens (11 acres containing over 2,500 plant taxa from over 450 different genera)
• Search the University Museums catalogues. The online online catalogues are still being completed, so if you cannot find what you are looking for, please contact Jennifer Downes