#  Live Archaeology Excavation: Discovering Colonial Student Life 

 



    ![2 archaeologists digging in deep pit.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4921/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2025-09/CILC-HYAP%20web.jpg?itok=qxbwR3DD) 

 



 

####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 16, 2025** 

 12:30PM - 01:30PM EDT 

 [ Advance registration required by October 14 arrow\_circle\_right ](https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OYDuhSJISvO9Tq_goy48YA) 

 



 

## Free Virtual Program for Grades 4–12

Register your class for a virtual visit to a live archaeology excavation into the eighteenth century. College student archaeologists-in-training uncover history around Harvard’s Holden Chapel which housed a soldiers’ barracks during the American Revolution among other activities. Your class will meet the excavation directors who explain the project and the questions they are seeking to answer with archaeological evidence. College students demonstrate excavation methods and show what they have uncovered during their participation in the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project.

· Watch a[ time-lapse view](https://youtu.be/B9OolCks7h8) of the 2014 excavation site in Harvard Yard.

· See [Teacher Resources](http://bit.ly/43RJysZ)

Registration required by October 14. Rain Date: Thursday, October 23, 12:30–1:30 pm ET

Presented by the the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.



 

 



 

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