{"id":174,"date":"2017-02-16T11:41:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/?page_id=174"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:26:59","slug":"flo-tech-wet-room","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/facilities\/flo-tech-wet-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Flo-Tech Wet Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-flote-tech-water-separation-devices\">Flote-Tech\u2122 Water Separation Devices<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Archaeological Research Laboratory (ARL) maintains three Flote-Tech\u2122 machine assisted water flotation devices used to recover botanical remains and small bones from archaeological soil samples. These materials are crucial in reconstructing past diets, and the Flote-Tech\u2122 systems have been demonstrated to have a high rate of recovery and a low rate of cross-contamination of samples. The ARL\u2019s units are typically used in the archaeology laboratory but the machines are portable and can be used in the field site in certain cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignright uwm-c-img--right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/364\/2017\/02\/flo-tech.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/364\/2017\/02\/flo-tech.jpg\" alt=\"Archaeological flotation machines on pallets in a laboratory with artifact storage shelving\" class=\"wp-image-559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/364\/2017\/02\/flo-tech.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/364\/2017\/02\/flo-tech-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\"><div class=\"content_block\" id=\"custom_post_widget-1392\"><nav aria-label=\"Sidebar\" class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list uwm-p-navigation-list--gold-border \"><div class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list--title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/facilities\/\">Facilities<\/a><\/div><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/facilities\/botanical-analysis-lab\/\">Botanical Analysis Lab<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/facilities\/ceramic-petrography\/\">Ceramic Petrography<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/facilities\/comparative-collections\/\">Comparative Collections<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/facilities\/curation\/\">Curation<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/facilities\/flo-tech-wet-room\/\"><span aria-current=\"page\">Flo-Tech Wet Room<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/facilities\/gis-digital-mapping\/\">GIS and Digital Mapping<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/facilities\/library-central-records\/\">Library &amp; Central Records<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/facilities\/research-computing\/\">Research Computing<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/facilities\/xrf-compositional-analysis\/\">XRF Compositional Analysis<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/facilities\/zooarchaeology-laboratory\/\">Zooarchaeology Laboratory<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":59,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-174","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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