Research, Exhibits, Lectures, & Seminars

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• 2/26/15 Two shows look at art and war, Boston Globe
• 2/4/15 Museums of Science and Culture To Create Student Board, Harvard Crimson
• 2/4/15 Hip Fossil Challenges Ape Family Tree, Archaeology
• 2/3/15 Walk like a man, Harvard Gazette
• 1/21/15 Cambridge students visit prehistoric times through Foragers to Farmers program, Cambridge Chronicle
• 11/7/14 More Remnants of Indian College in Yard Emerge, Harvard Crimson
• 11/2/14 'Arts of War' at Harvard's Peabody Museum asks intriguing questions, MetroWest Daily News
• 10/6/14 Archaeology Fair Sheds Light on Harvard of Yore, Harvard Crimson
• 9/26/14 More Art Sees the Light, Harvard Gazette
• 9/23/14 Earth Movers, Harvard Crimson
• 9/16/14 Undergraduates Begin Excavations in Yard, Harvard Crimson
• 6/13/14 In 'Shadows of Shangri La,' medieval and modern in Nepal, Boston Globe
• 2/28/14 Technology helps MAU students tour Harvard museum, from classroom, Bennington Banner
• 2/24/14 Boston’s Best Museum Exhibits This Spring, CBS Boston
• 10/29/13 An ancient tribe, and change, Harvard Gazette
• 10/27/13 Five things to do in and around Boston: Dia de los Muertos, Boston Globe
• 10/9/13 Locals unearth the wonders of archaeology at Harvard, Cambridge Chronicle
• 9/19/13 Unraveling Maya mysteries, Harvard Gazette
• 5/19/13 Photographer documents the vanishing culture of Papua New Guinea, MetroWest Daily News
• 5/15/13 Capturing contrast, Harvard Gazette
• 5/13/13 Artist frames the face of transition, The Australian
• 5/12/13 A distant island seen without the distance, Boston Globe
• 5/9/13 Pages out of Time, Harvard Gazette
• 4/25/13 The Problem with Predictions, Harvard Gazette
• 4/12/13 The Power of Dreams, Harvard Gazette
• 1/24/13 Zooarchaeology Lab: Homing in on Bones, Harvard Gazette
• 1/23/13  Cambridge Students Learn How to Examine Animal Bones, Cambridge Chronicle/Wicked Local
• 12/12/12 Peabody Leader Goes to Harvard, Yale Daily News
• 12/4/12 A Director for Museums of Science and Culture, Harvard Gazette
• 7/3/12 Images from long ago or far away (From Daguerreotype to Digital exhibition), Harvard Gazette
• 4/27/12 Man Food: Learning About "Man, Food, Fire" at Harvard, Boston Magazine
• 4/27/12 Barbecue's Beginnings, Harvard Gazette
• 4/23/12 How to Organize Chaos, Harvard Gazette
• 4/22/12 At Peabody Museum, youngsters recycle trash into artwork, Boston Globe
• 4/10/12 Dr. Loco y ZUMIX (video), LasParceritas
• 4/10/12 Dr. Loco y ZUMIX (video), BostonMAS-TV
• 4/8/12 Alutiiq Warrior's Kayak (video), Metrowest Daily News
• 4/8/12 The last kayak: 1860 Alutiiq boat hold clues to an Alaskan culture, Metrowest Daily News
• 3/27/12 Objects of Desire, The Crimson
• 3/10/12 Kayak offers gateway to vanishing culture, Boston Globe
• 3/10/12 Conserving a Warrior Kayak (video), Boston Globe
• 3/6/12 Alutiiq Warrior Kayak Restoration in Planning Stage, KMXT public radio
• 1/30/12 No time to waste: Some progress but room for improvement as University aims high in recycling efforts, Harvard Gazette
• 1/26/12 Picks of the Day: Stuff by the Yard lecture, Boston Globe
• 12/5/11 Scaling a mountain of trash: Professor notes successes, failures in U.S. waste disposal, Harvard Gazette
• 11/30/11 Things to Do: Plastics, Putrefaction, and Power Talk, Boston Globe
• 11/28/11 To Do List: Shooting for Peace, Boston Globe
• 11/22/11 From marsh to Yard: Diggers uncover centuries-old stone drainage ditch, Harvard Gazette
• 11/14/11 Egyptian Pyramid Schemes: Gen Ed Course Pushes the Boundaries of Teaching and Learning, Harvard Alumni Magazine
• November/December 2011 Adapting to Conquest, Archaeology Magazine
• 10/19/11'Day Of The Dead' Expanding In U.S., Huffington Post
• 10/7/11 Peabody Director Talks Trash, Harvard Crimson
• 10/4/11Trash or treasure? Sifting through ancient rubbish for archaeological gold, CNN.com
• 9/28/11 Taking a Stand, Haaretz.com
• 9/24/11 National Museum Day, Examiner.com
• 9/23/11 The Return to Recycling, Harvard Gazette
• 9/22/11 To Do List: Pick of the Day Trash Talk, Boston Globe
• 9/14/11 To Do List: Pick of the Day That's Rubbish, Boston Globe
• 8/19/11 Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Wins $150,000 Grant for Archaeological Collection, Art News Daily
• 8/3/2011 Digging in the Yard: It's Child's Play, Harvard Gazette
• 7/24/11 "Native Life in the Americas" at Harvard's Tozzer Library has spirit, Brockton Enterprise
• 6/30/11 They dig the past, Harvard Gazette
• 5/4/11 Pick of the Day: Native life, Boston Globe
• 5/2/11 Israeli Photographer Wins $50k Robert Gardner Fellowship for 2011, PDNPulse
• 5/2/11 Peabody Museum Names Miki Kratsman as the 2011 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Art News Daily
• 4/17/11 30 Perks of Living in a College Town, Boston Globe
• 3/21/11 Take a journey of the mind with Singh exhibit, MetroWest Daily News
• 3/6/11Dayanita Singh’s images ask the viewer to write their captions, Boston Globe
• 3/3/11 A lifelong love of African art, Harvard Gazette
• 2/2/11 Harvard Exhibit Moves ‘Tangible Things’ Out Of Place, WBUR-FM
• 1/28/11 Mexico: Ancient Wisdom Examined, Harvard Gazette Multimedia
• 1/27/11 Hide and seek: new exhibit puts things in their places, and also outside them, Harvard Gazette
• 1/15/11 "Common Artifacts, Uncommon Impact" Boston Globe review
• 12/18/10 Treasure: Good Dogs, Harvard Magazine
• 12/15/10 Lost Language, Nights (Radio New Zealand)
• 12/7/10 Diaspora Sufism, (video), UrduvoaNews
• 11/4/10 ‘Murals of the Americas’ opens a window onto ancient civilizations, Metrowest Daily News
• 11/11/10 Dig This, Boston Globe
• 11/1/10 Dearly Departed, Boston Globe
• 10/11/10 Peru Language Found, As It Happens (CBC radio) [Click the third link, Part Two]
• 10/11/10 Dig this, Boston Globe
• 10/5/10 Lectures Trace Development of Writing, Harvard Crimson
• 9/30/10 Archaeologists dig up 400-year-old letter, find a lost language, Digital Journal
• 9/24/10 Lost language unearthed in a letter found in Peru, Reuters
• 9/21/10 The Crimson's Roving Reporter visits the Peabody's chocolate exhibition, Harvard Crimson
• 9/20/10 Language made visible: Researchers celebrate writing’s ‘diverse oneness’, Harvard Gazette
• 8/27/10 "Lost" Language Found on Back of 400-Year-Old Letter, National Geographic
• 8/24/10 A glimpse of lost language: Unearthed 400-year-old document shows how Peruvian natives used numbers, Harvard Gazette
• 7/24/10 Spying on the Past finds art high in the sky, Boston Globe
• 5/12/10 Harvard's Peabody Museum Press wins award, Cambridge Chronicle
• 4/29/10 Getting a bird’s-eye view of the past: Archaeological work using satellite photos featured in Peabody exhibit, Harvard Gazette
• 4/29/10 Building on tradition: Harvard students build a traditional wetu using poles and bark, Harvard Gazette
• 3/28/10 A very different kind of western: Following the final sheep drive in Montana, Boston Globe
• News: As the pace of globalization quickens, Harvard embraces the world as its classroom, Harvard Gazette
• News:Cowboy’s tale: Documentary ‘Sweetgrass’ depicts Montana sheep herders, Harvard Gazette
• 3/12/10 An earlier changing climate: humans had to adapt in ancient warming world, Harvard Gazette
• News: National Treasures: Enlivening exhibits of Native American art at the Peabody, Harvard Crimson
• A new book takes on the task of making ancient Sufi traditions relevant to current debates about Islamic identity, Time Out Bengaluru
• 1/11/10 Defining Themselves: Two 19th century daguerreotypes allowed African Americans to show their lives as they were, Harvard Gazette.
• 12/16/09 Indian College Found?, Harvard Gazette. Archaeologists believe they've located a foundation trench.
• 12/8/09 Digging Veritas: The Find, Harvard Gazette video. Results of the 2009 archaeological dig in Harvard Yard.
• 12/8/09 Review "Much Ado about Nothing: 2012 and the Maya" talk, Boston Phoenix blog
• 11/19/09 Download: "Much Ado About Nothing: 2012 and the Maya"
• 11/14/09 Lesley Ellis Digs Harvard Peabody Museum, Arlington Advocate. School visits Harvard Yard Archaeology Open House.
• 11/12/09 Editor's Pick: 11/19/09 Lecture: Much Ado about Nothing: 2012 and the Maya, Boston Phoenix
• 11/5/09 Treasures Unearthed: Pencil, Musket Ball Found During Yard Excavation, Harvard Gazette
• 10/30/09 Día de los Muertos: una celebración para reírse de la muerte y festejar la vida, El Planeta
• 10/30/09 Middle Ground: Aiming to Educate a Western Viewer, Islamic Art on Campus Balances Social and Aesthetic Value, Harvard Crimson
• 10/15/09 Islam's Mystical Dimensions Take Flight, Harvard Gazette. Preview of the exhibition Sacred Spaces: Reflections on a Sufi Path.
• 10/1/09 Expanding the Canon (Second Life and iPhone apps in Harvard Yard dig), Campus Technology
• 9/10/09 Digging Up Dirt on Veritas History, Harvard Crimson
• 8/17/09 Critics' Pick: Guy Tillim Exhibition, artforum.com
• 8/3/09 Harvard Yard Excavation Results, The Boston Globe. Summer archaeological dig open to the public with findings on display.
• 5/5/09 Guy Tillim exhibit shares scenes of stillness and gentleness amid decay, The Boston Globe.
• 4/12/09 Seeing the West Through Lakota Eyes, MetroWest Daily News. A review of Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West exhibition.
• 3/25/09 Apocalypse soon: The end is nigh! Or not, Boston Phoenix. Peabody Museum's Marc Zender on the Maya and 2012.
• 3/20/09 Not on Exhibit, Harvard Crimson. An audio slideshow featuring Peabody objects not currently on display.
• 3/19/09 Drawing From History: Exhibit Evokes Lakota Cosmology, Harvard Gazette. A preview of Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West exhibition.
• 3/19/09 Preserving Rare Daguerreotypes, Harvard Gazette. The Peabody Museum works with Harvard’s Weissman Preservation Center to treat and preserve rare daguerreotypes for future generations. 
• 3/13/09 Night at the Museum: Harvard Faculty Get Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Peabody Museum, Harvard Gazette. Harvard faculty find out how to integrate Peabody Museum objects and expertise into their classes.
• 3/8/09 Images of the Lakota, Bismarck Tribune. Tribal arts teacher becomes a co-curator for new exhibition.
• 3/5/2009 Vivid Images, Stern Warnings Mark Ice Age ‘Rock’ Star’s Talk, Harvard Gazette. "Rock" star Paul Bahn talks about Ice Age rock art.
• 2/19/09 Messages from the Ice Age, MetroWest Daily News. New discoveries in Ice Age rock art.
• 11/20/08 Hoja de Laurel de Oro Awarded to Museum Director and Director of Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Peabody Museum. Honduras gives a prestigious lifetime award to William and Barbara Fash for thirty years of preserving and documenting Honduras’ cultural heritage. Press Release
• 11/13/08 Peabody Museum Hosts Harvard Relics, Harvard Crimson. The Peabody opens a new exhibit of colonial archaeological artifacts discovered in Harvard Yard by Harvard students.
• 11/13/08 Harvard’s Roots: From Dirt to Display Case, Harvard Gazette. “Digging Veritas: The Archaeology and History of the Indian College and Student Life at Colonial Harvard” opened Nov. 10, 2008.
• 11/2/08 Peabody Museum Hosts Annual Two-Part Día de los Muertos Celebration, Harvard Crimson. The Museum offers a Day of the Dead Family Event, followed by a free Day of the Dead Fiesta with live mariachi music.
• 10/16/08 Reading Human History in the Bones of Animals, Harvard Gazette. The Zooarchaeology Lab at the Peabody Museum trains archaeologists in the study of animal bones.
• 10/5/08 Native Art Comes to Campus, Harvard Crimson. Irma Bailey’s Native American Arts & Crafts Show and Sale comes to the Peabody Museum.
• 10/3/08 Shopping Tip of the Day: Southwestern Exposure, Boston Globe. The Boston Globe recommends Irma Bailey’s Native American Arts & Crafts Show and Sale.
• 8/21/08 Digging Up Aquinnah History, Martha’s Vineyard Times. Harvard students and Peabody Museum staff research links to Harvard’s Indian College with members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard.
• 8/21/08 Student Curators Highlight American Indian Cultural ‘Remix,’ Harvard Gazette. Native American Harvard students curate an exhibit of contemporary Native American artists exploring their identities as native peoples.

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