Umeå Environmental Archaeology Laboratory
Function: Analysis of plant macrofossils, pollen, insects, diatoms, anthracology, geoarchaeology, spectroscopy. Developing spectroscopy and image analysis. Curation and improvement of reference collections.
Equipment & facilities: Lab with microscopes, XRF, Raman, FT-IR, NIR probe, NIR camera, Hyperspectral camera with conveyor belt, field sampling equipment. Sample preparation and storage space, insect, seed and wood reference collections, reference and identification literature, archive of subsamples and analysed samples, NAS, desktop and high-spec computers.