The RMCL is a dedicated facility located on the UC Berkeley Campus in Dwinelle Hall, Room 310B (top floor/Level G, inside Suite 310). It is available for use by UC Berkeley faculty and students pursuing research involving Roman material culture.
The facility contains a work table, storage cabinets, bookshelves, a file cabinet, a map case and a computer table with two desktop computer (PC) work stations. The two computers are provided with software useful for the study of material culture, including Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite 6, FileMaker Pro 12, AutoCAD 2012, Harris Matrix Composer, DinoCapture 2.0, ArcView GIS, JMP 5, Pie-Slice, and the set of MURR programs for the analysis of multivariate archaeometric data and are connected to a laser printer and a scanner. The facility is equipped with two optical microscopes (Meiji ML9300 trinocular polarizing microscope; Meiji trinocular stereo microscope) provided with still and video camera systems, a digital microscope (Dino-Lite AM413T), a Nikon D5100 digital SLR camera, a Structure Sensor 3-D scanner and an O’Haus CS2000 electronic scale. It also contains a sizable collection of publications relevant to the study of Roman material culture (with particular emphasis on pottery), manuals for petrographic analysis, a collection of geologic and topographic maps of Italy, an extensive set of thin sections of Roman pottery and modest study collections of Italian potting clays, Roman pottery and Roman building stone.
For permission to use the laboratory, interested persons should contact the director (J.T. Peña, Department of Classics) by email at tpena@berkeley.edu).
