The Integrated Laboratory for Archaeological Sciences (ILAS) was created in 2023 to facilitate research in the archaeological sciences, including, but not limited to, paleoethnobotanical, zooarchaeological, petrographic, and bioarchaeological analyses. The laboratory is shared between the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and Brown University's Department of Anthropology. 

The ILAS is located in Room 407 of the Medical Research Laboratory (MRL) building at 89 Waterman Street on the Brown University Campus.

The Paleoethnobotany Laboratory at Brown (PEBLab), located in Giddings House at 128 Hope Street in Providence, was created in 2023 to facilitate research using paleoethnobotanical methods, including macrobotanical (carpological and anthracological) and microbotanical (phytolith and starch grain) analyses. Researchers at the PEBLab include faculty and students from Brown University's Department of Anthropology and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.

Research at the PEBLab focuses on foodways and ethnoecology. Research teams draw botanical residues from artifacts, teeth, and sediments to understand human-plant relationships in the historic and ancient past. Paleoethnobotanical research enables teams to pose new questions about human adaptations to climate shifts and human impacts on local environments over time. Researchers can also illuminate culinary practices and gastronomic traditions, using paleoethnobotanical methods to extract and analyze food residues.

The Digital Archaeology Laboratory, based in the Brown University Department of Anthropology, is a community of scholars working at the intersections of archaeology and digital practice. The lab was founded in 2016 as a center for teaching and research in archaeology and Geographic Information Systems, and we maintain core interests in that area, as well as a collection of GIS workstations that are available for students and faculty to use. Lab members’ activities also extend to a broad range of other digital domains, including mobile technologies, digital photogrammetry, remote sensing, machine learning, 3d visualization and digital collaboration.

The Historical Archaeology Lab, in Giddings House at 128 Hope Street in Providence, houses the Cocumscussoc Archaeological Collection, an assemblage of 17^th-early 20^th century artifacts. Recent projects include a Point Count Analysis of the composition and distribution of petrographic inclusions under an optical microscope at 10x magnification to determine the origin of “Iberian” ceramics; water absorption and hardness tests of yellow “Dutch” bricks to assess their use; and a type-variety approach to the study of black-glazed earthenware ceramics recording wall thickness, paste and glaze colors with a Munsell Color Chart, and other attributes such as rim and base diameters with a radius chart to differentiate utilitarian and serving vessels. Cross-mending glass sherds, initiated in course research and continued during a department research apprenticeship, reassembled unidentified tablewares such as a pressed-glass salt cellar decorated with patriotic motifs and tumblers with molded “Gothic” panels like those on ironstone ceramics popular in the 19^th century that added to the comparative value and knowledge of the collection.

Two blocks away from the Institute, the RISD Museum houses collections of Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, Mesoamerican, Asian and African art, artifacts and coins. Georgina Borromeo, the Curator of Ancient Art, who received her Ph.D. from Brown in classical archaeology and art history, regularly teaches courses on art history and the curatorial process for Brown’s archaeology concentrators. Several undergraduate and graduate students at the Joukowsky Institute have arranged internships working closely with the RISD collections – cataloguing objects, assisting with tours, giving lectures, planning gallery exhibitions and preparing artifacts for display.

Brown University’s museum of cultural history is located in Bristol, Rhode Island, as well as having a satellite location in Manning Hall on Brown’s Main Green – very close to the Joukowsky Institute. The Haffenreffer mounts new exhibits regularly, and often involves undergraduate and graduate student interns or volunteers in their planning and installation.

Just 45 minutes away by car or commuter train, Boston is home to many museums including the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Peabody Essex Museum and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

The MFA has recently offered the opportunity for students of the Joukowsky Institute to intern in their Art of the Ancient World Department. Working closely with curators, conservators and photographers, students are exposed to all aspects of museum work. While the internship at the MFA focuses mostly on the study of specific objects, researching the art and writing labels, it also offers a chance to give tours to groups of college students, to study the collection in depth, to examine the process of conservation and to learn about the planning, layout and construction of new galleries.

This museum is also just under an hour away from Brown, and is a newer complex that presents the histories and cultures of the Mashantucket Pequot and other Native American tribes, as well as the natural history of the New England area through a series of innovative presentations.

Under an hour away, the Worcester Art Museum is home to the largest and finest group of mosaics from ancient Antioch in America. Its collections also boast sculpture and decorative arts from ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece, an Asian collection that includes works in many media representing the major periods of Persian, Chinese, Indian and Japanese art, and a twelfth-century Romanesque Chapter House.