Archaeological Resource Library

The construction of ancient human skeleton, animal, plant and cultural relics specimen resource base and digital resource base in Southwest China, and the special integration of the College of Life Sciences, which has a million modern animal and plant specimen base, and the West China Medical Massive Modern Population Health and Genetic Data Resource, which will provide a powerful data support for the comparison of the ancient and modern samples from the perspective of big data.

Research Function

- Establish a resource bank of human skeletal samples in Southwest China. - Accumulate research data on flora and fauna, stone tools, bronzes, etc.

Equipments and Capabilities

- More than 10,000 samples/set of ancient people, animals, plants, stone tools, bronze tools, etc. in the western region (College of Archaeology and Letters and Museums).

- Millions of modern animal and plant specimens library, population health and genetic data resources (College of Life Sciences, College of Computer Science, West China College of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Sciences, West China Institute of Rare Diseases, West China College of Stomatology, West China School of Clinical Medicine).