McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge

The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cambridge was established in 1990 through a generous benefaction from the late Dr D M McDonald,
a well-known and successful industrialist. The Institute provides support for Cambridge-based researchers in many branches of archaeology, but has a particular interest in the archaeology of early human cognition. The Institute also places emphasis on archaeological science, and contains laboratories for geoarchaeology, archaeozoology, archaeobotany and artefact analysis. The extensive faunal remains collection of the Department of Archaeology is now based within the McDonald Institute and a corresponding reference collection of plant remains is being assembled.