ArchLab
ArchLab is a national infrastructure for archaeological science which provides a framework for the initiation, support and renewal of cutting-edge research into the long-term past of humans and the world around them. This research will lead to breakthroughs in understanding past human interactions and effects on the landscape, cultural responses to climate variability, migration and conflicts.
ArchLab will address three major challenges:
- The need for investment, innovation and upgrading of laboratories;
- the need for a coherent programme to ensure that new lab capacity has integrative platforms that generate integrated datasets amenable to big-data analysis and modelling;
- support to diverse stakeholders within archaeology, nationally and internationally, and support to cross-sectorial collaborations, in heritage management, biodiversity conservation and climate research.
The infrastructure joins 13 laboratories coordinated by Environmental Archaeology Lab, Umeå University, together with Stockholm University and Lund University. The Tandem Laboratory, The aDNA Unit, and the Uppsala Archaebotanical Group are part of the infrastructure from Uppsala University.
The Council for Research Infrastructures (RFI) funds this research infrastructure, which the Swedish Research Council considers to be in the national interest.
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