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• 10/19/09 Lecture: Much Ado about Nothing: 2012 and the Maya
• 10/2/09 Family Event and Fiesta: Day of the Dead: Two Events, Twice the Fun!
• 9/15/09 Lecture: Sixteenth-Century Mexican Map Reveals Origin Story
• 9/10/09 Open House: Zooarchaeology Lab on Columbus Day
• 9/9/09 Lecture: Monseñor Federico Lunardi (1880–1954): The Italian Diplomat-Archaeologist and Mayan National Identity in Honduras
• 9/4/09 Lecture: Hearing Voices
• 9/4/09 News: Fall Archaeological Dig in Harvard Yard Explores 17th-Century Harvard
• 9/1/09 News: Sacred Spaces book to be published in October
• 9/1/09 Exhibition and Book Signing News: Sacred Spaces: Reflections on a Sufi Path opens 10/22/09
• 8/31/09 News: Celebrate Archaeology Month (October) at the Peabody Museum
• 8/19/09 News: Smithsonian Museum Day at the Peabody with Family Event
• 8/4/09 News: Robert Gardner's new book to be published this fall
• 6/12/09 News: Summer and Fall Archaeological Digs in Harvard Yard
• 6/8/09 News: Peabody Museum wins IMLS grant for Map Collection
• 6/8/09 News: Awatovi book wins IPPY Award
• 5/21/09 News: Peabody Museum puts 27,000 photos on the web.
• Exhibition: Guy Tillim exhibition open through Sept. 7, 2009
• 5/20/09 Alessandra Sanguinetti named 2009 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography.
• 4/14/09 New date for Lecture: Starting at Standing Rock: Following Custer and Sitting Bull to the Little Big Horn. Speaker: Nathaniel Philbrick.
• 4/13/09 Exhibition Opening: Masked Festivals of Canton Bo, Southwest Africa.
• 3/26/09 Exhibition Opening and Book Signing: Avenue Patrice Lumumba: Photographs by Guy Tillim.
• 3/18/09 Family Event: Maize at the Museum during School Vacation Week.
• 3/16/09 Founder's Lecture: Entangled at Catalhoyuk: Material Life in the First Cities. Speaker: Ian Hodder, Ph.D.
• 3/9/09 News: Preserving Rare Daguerreotypes.
• 2/26/09 Exhibit: Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West.
• 2/26/09 Weekend of the Americas Seminar: Visualizing Power: Plains Pictographic Arts.
• 2/26/09 Lecture: Starting at Standing Rock: Following Custer and Sitting Bull to the Little Big Horn. Speaker: Nathaniel Philbrick.
• 2/19/09 Gordon R. Willey Lecture: Itza and Kowaj: Conflicts and Factions in the Last Maya Kingdom. Speaker: Prudence Rice, Ph.D.
• 2/12/09 Lecture: How Much is Heritage Worth? Australia's Greatest Rock Art Competes with its Most Valuable Industry. Speaker: Iain Davidson.
• 1/26/09 Hallam L. Movius Lecture: The Shock of the Old: New Discoveries in Ice Age Art. Speaker: Paul Bahn, Ph.D.
• 1/11/09 Meet the Filmmakers: New Harvard Student Ethnographic Works.
• 11/4/08 Lecture: The Ancient Maya in Modern Honduras: Archaeology, Anthropology, and History as Nationalist Imagination. Speaker: Dario Euraque, Ph.D.
• 10/23/08 Seminar: Pseudo-Archaeology: Supermarket Aisle Archaeology and the Bible. Speakers: Jonathan L. Reed, Ken Feder, Eric Cline, Peter Feinman. 
• 10/9/08 Exhibit: Digging Veritas: The Archaeology and History of the Indian College and Student Life at Colonial Harvard.
• 10/6/08 Event: Zooarchaeology Lab Open House.
• 10/8/08 Event: Day of the Dead Family Event and Fiesta.
• 9/29/08 Event: Irma Bailey Native American Arts & Crafts Show and Sale.
• 9/22/08 Lecture: Finding His Focus: The Extraordinary Robert Burkitt in Copán. Speaker: Elin Danien.
• 9/17/08 Exhibit: Remembering Awatovi: The Story of an Archaeological Expedition in Northern Arizona, 1935-1939.
• 9/8/08 Event: Harvard Museums Community Day.
• 9/8/08 Curators’ Talk: Remix: Indigenous Identities Today. Speakers: Tanner Amdur-Clark , Caitlin Finch, LeRenzo Tolbert-Malco. Click here.
• 6/5/08 Dayanita Singh of New Delhi, India, is awarded the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography.
• 4/17/08 Lecture: The State of Native Nations. Speaker: Joseph Kalt.
• 4/10/08 Lecture: National Museum of the American Indian: Reflections. Speaker: W. Richard West.
• 3/30/08 Exhibit: Fragile Memories: Images of Archaeology and Community at Copan, 1891–1900.
• 3/25/08 Exhibit: Remix: Indigenous Identities in the 21st Century.
• 3/20/08 Lecture: Diet, Energy, and Evolution. Speaker: Leslie Aiello, PhD.
• 3/4/08 Lecture: Modern Human Behavior. Speaker: Fred Wendorf.
• 2/28/08 Lecture: All in the Family: Reconstructing Classic Maya Royal Genealogies. Speaker: Peter L. Mathews.
• 2/21/08 Lecture: Japan as Artifact and Archive. Speaker: Eleanor M. Hight.
• 1/24/08 Exhibit: Storied Walls: Murals of the Americas.
• 1/24/08 Lecture: Hobbits in the Haystack. Speaker: William L. Jungers.
• 10/29/07 Lecture: Trade Routes: Collecting Photographs, Making Anthropology. Speaker: Elizabeth Edwards.
• 10/10/07 Lecture: Don Francisco’s Nose-Piece: Forming New Empires in Renaissance America. Speaker: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, PhD.
• 10/10/07 Event: Día de los Muertos/The Day of the Dead.
• 10/08/07 Event: Zooarchaeology Lab Open House.
• 9/10/07 Event: The Irma Bailey Native American Arts and Crafts Show and Sale.
• 8/31/07 Discovery: Groundbreaking Study Extracts Human DNA from Ancient Artifacts.