Facilities

The Anthropology Program is housed on the third floor of Koren, Luther College's first dedicated library, built in 1921. The department facilities include 5 faculty offices, the departmental office, the Anthropology Lab, and the Collections Storage Area in the basement of Preus Library. The Anthropology Lab is charged with the curation of the Luther College Ethnographic and Archaeological Collections and offers work study opportunities for majors.
The Anthropology Lab:
- three computer workstations with ArcView, SPSS, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite and other software
- document, slide/negative, and flatbed scanners; digital cameras
- transcription machines, stereoscopes, GPS and Total Station equipment
- three permanent collections: archaeological, ethnographic, and numismatic
- teaching collections which include a wide range of prehistoric stone tools, ceramics, faunal material, raw stone collections, and an osteology collection
- Professor Clark Mallam's slide collection containing historic photographs, teaching illustrations, excavation photos and aerial photographs of outlined Effigy Mounds
The Anthropology Lab offers a limited number of work study positions for more information, visit or Work Study Page.







