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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.
3/20/09 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.
3/5/2009 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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