The Environmental Archaeology Laboratory was founded in 2000 and is a comprehensive laboratory integrating undergraduate teaching, graduate training and scientific research. The head of the laboratory is Professor Tang Zhuowei. The laboratory has more than 30 experimental equipment including microscopes, centrifuges, slicers, and fume hoods, and more than 2,000 various ancient animals, ancient plants, ancient soil and rock samples.

The experimental teaching in this laboratory is mainly for undergraduates and graduate students majoring in archaeology and museology, with plant remains analysis, animal remains analysis, and ancient site environment analysis as the main body of the experimental teaching system. The training of archaeological geographic information system development and utilization skills are also taken into accounts.

The laboratory focuses on ensuring the experimental teaching of the courses of "Environmental Archaeology" and "Science Archaeology" for undergraduates. It also provides support for the independent innovation experiments of undergraduates, the scientific research practice of graduate students, and various scientific research and projects undertaken by teachers. In addition, a public elective course "Archaeology and Technology" for undergraduates of the whole school has been opened, and a corresponding appointment-type experimental project has been designed.

The experimental teaching adopts a combination of multimedia demonstration and practical operation, so that students can master the ability of collecting, sorting, identifying and analyzing ancient environmental remains through experimental teaching, and enhance the comprehensive ability of students. Through the development of experimental teaching in this laboratory, advanced practical teaching concepts, methods and technical means have been infiltrated into all links of undergraduate and graduate research and innovation ability training.

In recent years, the laboratory has undertaken a number of provincial and school-level scientific research projects, published dozens of papers and the first "Environmental Archaeology" textbook (Science Press, 2004).

For many years, our laboratory has cooperated with the Research Center for Scientific and Technological Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Sydney in Australia, the Institute of Earth Environment of Japan, the Institute of Archaeological Environment of Korea, the University of Rome, Italy. The lab has built a superior platform for the training of high-quality archaeological talents.