CACHe Labs
Experiential Learning Lab
The Experiential Learning Lab is a teaching and research space where upper-level anthropology courses are often held. Housed within the same building as curated collections, students have an opportunity to gain real-world, hands-on learning experiences by working with artifacts in the classroom.
Amanuel Beyin teaches the “Lithic Technology” course at CACHe, where, among other things, students learn how to make stone tools using various techniques used by our ancestors. The course seeks to provide students an educational experience by which they become aware of the foundations of our technological ingenuity while also developing the intuition of problem-solving. The pictures on this page represent activities from the course.
Lobby
The lobby is envisioned as a gathering and organizing area for school groups and other visitors. A half-wall offers a direct view into the wet and dry labs.
Wet Lab
The Wet Lab includes four sinks for washing and pre-processing artifacts, bone or other materials.
Dry Lab
The Dry Lab is an active workspace for curating collections. In this photo, UofL Anthropology students are rebagging, retagging, and cataloging a “legacy” collection excavated in the 1970s to bring it up to current curation standards.
Anthropological Sciences Lab
The anthropological sciences lab is a multipurpose research space with equipment for physically and chemically analyzing sediments and artifacts to process and prepare bone samples.
Engaged Ethnography Lab
The Engaged Ethnography Lab is a space for faculty and students to conduct meetings, interviews and focus groups with community partners.
Artifact Analysis Lab
The Artifact Analysis Lab is a dedicated research space for faculty, graduate and undergraduate students analyzing lithic and ceramic collections.
Osteology Lab
The Osteology Lab is a dedicated research space for faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students analyzing human remains and faunal collections and for conducting Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) inventories and summaries.
Curation Lab and Collection Stacks
The Curation Lab is located adjacent to the Collection Stacks. CACHe curates collections owned by federal, state and local agencies from the Falls of the Ohio region and surrounding Southeast and Midwest. The Curation Lab offers a second, more private space for faculty, students and visiting scholars to curate and research these important collections.