Highlights
- At Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, pictures that perform, Boston Globe
- Native group celebrates return of totem pole from Harvard's Peabody Museum, Boston Globe
- Harvard University Transfers Historic Kayak to Alutiiq Museum, Alutiiq Museum
- Standing Bear’s Pipe-Tomahawk Returned to the Ponca Tribe
- Stephanie Mach to Join as New Curator of North American Ethnographic Collections
- Message from the Peabody Museum Director
- Tindal named director of Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Gazette
- Online Exhibit At Harvard’s Peabody Museum Elevates Wampanoag, WBUR
- Plenty to Digest at 'Resetting the Table', Boston Globe
- Listen To A 'Native American Poets Playlist' For Indigenous People's Day, At Harvard's Peabody Museum, WBUR
- How the camera confronted slavery — and still does, Boston Globe
- ‘All the World Is Here: Harvard’s Peabody Museum and the Invention of American Anthropology’ Review, Wall Street Journal
- Harvard museum marking 150 years with new exhibit, Associated Press
2023
- 5/18/23 At Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, pictures that perform, Boston Globe
- 5/11/23 Native group celebrates return of totem pole from Harvard's Peabody Museum, seeks more artifacts, Boston Globe
- 1/25/23 Harvard University Transfers Historic Kayak to Alutiiq Museum, Alutiiq Museum
2022
- 6/15/22 Standing Bear’s Pipe-Tomahawk Returned to the Ponca Tribe
- 5/16/22 Peabody returns sacred scrolls, pipe tomahawk to White Earth tribe in repatriation ceremony, Harvard Gazette
- 2/2/22 Stephanie Mach to Join as New Curator of North American Ethnographic Collections
- 1/10/22 Message from the Peabody Museum Director
2021
- 4/27/21 Virtually Digging up Archaeology, Phys. Org
- 4/14/21 Tindal Named New Director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, The Crimson
- 4/13/21 Tindal named director of Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Gazette
- 4/12/21 Recovering the life stories of the Zealy daguerreotype subjects, Harvard Gazette
- 3/30/21 Agassiz’s other photographs tell a global tale of scientific racism, Harvard Gazette
- 3/30/21 A reckoning on Native American remains and cultural objects, Harvard Gazette
- 3/25/21 Who is this museum for?, Harvard Gazette
- 1/28/21 "To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes" review, The Od Review (Book review)
2020
- 12/30/20 "How the camera confronted slavery—and still does" review, The Boston Globe (Book review)
- December 2020 "Favorite Photobooks of 2020" review, LensCulture
- 9/29/20 "The First Photos of Enslaved People Raise Many Questions About the Ethics of Viewing" review , The New York Times
- 11/19/20 Museums of Native culture wrestle with decolonizing, Harvard Gazette
- 11/17/20 Does food have a gender?, Harvard Gazette
- 10/22/20 See Their Faces, Harvard Magazine
- 10/22/20 "See Their Faces" review The Harvard Magazine (Book review)
- 10/12/20 Online Exhibit At Harvard’s Peabody Museum Elevates Wampanoag, WBUR
- 10/12/20 Online exhibit gives glimpse into Wampanoag life, Cape Cod Times
- 10/9/20 "Exploring the North’s long history of slavery, scientific racism" review, The Harvard Gazette (Book event coverage)
- 10/8/20 "11 New Books We Recommended This Week" review The New York Times
- 10/8/20 Peabody Museum Exhibit Pairs Tribal Members With Wampanoag Artifacts, Martha's Vineyard Gazette
- 10/7/20 'We are the original people of this land,' Martha's Vineyard Times
- 3/2/20 A great civilization brought low by climate change (and, no, it’s not us), Harvard Gazette
- 2/27/20 This giant lake, this gentle sea: Images of the Caspian, Mizan Project
- 1/22/20 Plenty to Digest at 'Resetting the Table', Boston Globe
2019
- 11/20/19 Why We Eat What We Do, Harvard Magazine
- 11/19/19 Peabody Museum examines the origins of our favorite foods, how we make them, and who serves them, Harvard Gazette
- 5/21/19 Pickering Named Director of Peabody Museum, Harvard Gazette
- 5/21/19 Peabody's new director shares strategies for a new era in museum work, Harvard Gazette
- 5/2/19 Shaped by Oil, Artscope
- 4/26/19 Framing the Caspian Sea, Harvard Gazette
- 2/7/19 Harvard Yard Archaeology Project, NewTV
- 1/23/19 Clues of heart disease found in 16th-century mummies, Harvard Gazette
- 1/23/19 Reading Between the Lines, Harvard SEAS Communications
2018
- 11/2/18 Harvard University honors Native Americans with poetry-rich exhibit, Cambridge Chronicle
- 10/31/18 Marigolds to decorate altar for Boston’s first official Day of the Dead observance, Boston Globe
- 10/29/18 Archeology dig in Harvard Yard offers glimpse into student life over the centuries, Boston Globe
- 10/8/18 Listen To A 'Native American Poets Playlist' For Indigenous People's Day, At Harvard's Peabody Museum, WBUR-FM
- 10/7/18 In photos, a recollection of life among the Bushmen, Patriot Ledger
- 10/1/18 Anthropology with a family touch, Harvard Gazette
- 8/28/18 Putting a new face, and new faces, on the 1893 World’s Fair, Harvard Gazette
- 1/15/18 How a fake monster creeped into our museums, Hyperallergic
2017
- 11/6/17 Student Groups, Peabody Museum Celebrate Día de los Muertos, Harvard Crimson
- 10/15/17 Museums where music is part of the experience, Boston Globe
- 5/18/17 Fascinating Harvard exhibit explores the rise of anthropology, Boston Globe
- 5/15/17 'Where the Roads All End' is where story begins, Harvard Gazette
- 5/6/17 ‘All the World Is Here: Harvard’s Peabody Museum and the Invention of American Anthropology’ Review, Wall Street Journal
- 5/5/17 The World in an Exhibit, Harvard Gazette
- May-June 2017 Anthropolology Anew: The Peabody's Prized Collections, Harvard Magazine (Preview of All the World Is Here exhibition)
- 4/22/17 Harvard museum marking 150 years with new exhibit, Associated Press
- 4/13/17 Boston's Best Brainy Attractions, WhereTraveler.com
- 3/31/17 Free things to do in Boston April 2017, Boston Magazine
2016
- 12/12/16 Digging Archaeology at Harvard Yard, Stuff You Missed in History Class
- 11/4/16 Archaeologists: Even in Puritan times, Harvard students liked to get drunk, Cambridge Chronicle
- 10/17/16 Harvard museum to dust off curiosities long kept in storage, Associated Press
- 10/16/16 Harvard museum dusts off curiosities long kept in storage, Associated Press and Daily Mail
- 10/14/16 If Indiana Jones had a favorite museum . . ., Boston Globe
- 10/10/16 Visitors Flock to Peabody Museum’s 150th Anniversary Party, Harvard Crimson
- 10/1/16 ART PREVIEW: Peabody Museum in Cambridge celebrates 150th anniversary, wickedlocal.com, Quincy Patriot Ledger
- 9/23/16 10 Best Things to Do in Boston in October 2016, Mommy Nearest
- 9/15/16 Mermaid Goes on Display at Harvard Museum, Mysterious Universe
- 9/14/16 Mermaid on Display at Harvard, New England Cable News
- 9/12/16 This mermaid will make your skin crawl, Boston Globe
- 8/25/16 Blood & beauty: Weapons exhibit informs and unsettles, Bay State Banner
- 8/10/16 Weapons as Objets d'Art, MHQ (Military History Quarterly Autumn 2016)
- 5/4/16 Cambridge: Five Fascinating Harvard Museums to Discover, Travelmag.com
- 4/21/16 Running With the Wings of America, HEPSTRACK.com
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4/18/16 Woman's Boston run a tribute to Tarzan Brown, The Westerly Sun
4/17/16 ‘Born to Run’ Book Hero Arnulfo Quimare Making Boston Debut, Competitor.com - 4/17/16 Wampanoag students celebrate Native American running tradition, Cape Cod Times
- 4/14/16 Running as tradition, Harvard Gazette
- 4/14/16 A Preserved Kayak Floats an Exhibition in Alaska, New York Times
2015
- 11/1/15 Day of the Dead a Big Draw for the Peabody, Metro Boston
- 11/1/15 Celebrating Day of the Dead, Boston Herald
- 11/1/15 Peabody Museum Celebrates the Day of the Dead, Harvard Crimson
- 8/25/15 Birchbark Canoes Making a Comeback: Native Peoples Relearning Craft, with Help from Museums, The Working Waterfront
- 5/22/15 My Lasting Harvard Memory: Samantha Noh ’15 connected to a distant student past during her archaeology digs in the Yard, Harvard Gazette
- 4/29/15 Nepal, Before The Earthquake Struck: A Photographer's Portfolio
- 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
2014
- 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
2013
- 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
2012
- 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
2011
- 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
2010
- 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.
2009
- 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.
- 3/20/09 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.
2008
- 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.
- 7/08 Pay Dirt in Yard Dig, Harvard Magazine. In a dig led by the director of the Peabody Museum, student archaeologists discover colonial pieces of print type used in North America’s earliest printing press in Harvard Yard.
- 6/2/08 Ancient Photography, Boston Globe. The Boston Globe recommends the Fragile Memories exhibit of 19th-century photographs from Peabody Museum expeditions to Copan, Honduras.
- 5/8/08 Speakers Talk about the ‘Renaissance’ Taking Place in Native Nations, Harvard Gazette. Researchers from the Harvard Project on Indian Economic Development discuss the increasing self-determination of Native American tribes at the Peabody Museum.
- 4/3/08 Eating Meat Led to Smaller Stomachs, Bigger Brains, Harvard Gazette. A paleoanthropologist speaks at the Peabody Museum about the effects of eating meat on human evolution.
- 3/08 Harvard Reconnects with Its Native American Past, Archaeology Magazine. The Archaeology of Harvard Yard class, led by Peabody Museum director William Fash, searches for the roots of Harvard’s Indian College.
- 3/20/08 The Story Behind ‘Storied Walls,’ Harvard Gazette. A Peabody Museum Research Associate’s discovery of an ancient Maya mural leads to an exhibition of mural art at the Peabody Museum.
- 3/13/08 Today’s Picks, Boston Globe. The Boston Globe recommends the new Storied Walls: Murals of the Americas exhibit.
- 3/9/08 Getting into Harvard, Boston Globe. Native American collections at the Peabody Museum are featured as one of Harvard’s many museum attractions.
- 1/14/08 Dig Reveals Location of Harvard’s Native Presses, The Times (U.K.). A Peabody Museum dig in Harvard Yard uncovers pieces of early print type used in Harvard’s colonial press operated by a Native American.
- 1/08 When Farmers Met Foragers, Harvard Magazine. A Peabody Museum collaboration with Harvard Medical School examines ancient DNA to determine the spread of ancient farming populations.
- 1/1/08 The Scientist: Trash to Treasure, The Scientist [requires subscription]. When ancient peoples chomped on the equivalent of chewing gum and then tossed it away, they left a valuable record of DNA for Peabody Museum and Harvard Medical School researchers.
2007
- 12/16/07 Showcase Examines Art that Commodified Japan, Gatehouse News Service. An exhibit of early souvenir photos depicting Japanese ”types” of people examines Western demand for Eastern stereotypes.
- 11/22/07 Tribe Celebrates Federal Recognition on Eve of Annual Holiday Protest, Boston Globe. Mashpee Wampanoags perform a special ceremony at the Peabody Museum.
- 11/15/07 Digging History in Harvard Yard, Harvard Gazette. Student archaeologists digging in Harvard Yard discuss their finds as the dig continues.
- 11/2/07 Family: A Lively Tribute, Boston Globe. The Boston Globe recommends the Museum’s Day of the Dead Family event.
- 9/28/07 American Indians Bless Search for Harvard Roots, Harvard Gazette. A group of American Indian leaders bless the start of an archaeological dig in Harvard Yard for Harvard’s Indian College.
- 8/31/07 Scientists Have Something to Chew On, Harvard Gazette. Harvard researchers use the remains of yucca leaves chewed by ancient people to extract DNA.
- 8/27/07 At Harvard, it's CSI: The Early Years, Boston Globe. For the first time anywhere, Harvard researchers extract DNA from ancient artifacts.
- 8/24/07 DNA from Spit Helps Decode Lives of Early Settlers, “All Things Considered,” NPR. A Peabody Museum researcher describes the benefits of getting DNA from ancient chewed leaves.
- 8/22/07 Ancient Chewing Gum Yields DNA, Science Now [requires subscription]. A vanished tribe of Native Americans left their DNA traces for Harvard researchers to discover.
- 4/27/07 Photographing Distant Lands and Vanished Kingdoms, Harvard Crimson. The Peabody features an exhibit of photos taken by National Geographic explorers in the 1920s.
- 4/18/07 Archaeological Bookends in Copán Valley, Harvard Gazette. Peabody Museum researchers begin making 3D scans of ancient hieroglyphs and prepare to dig at two Maya sites.
- 4/12/07–5/3/07 Scanning History, Yaxchilan, Mexico, Harvard Gazette Multimedia. A series of multimedia presentations about Peabody Museum 3D scans of archaeological finds.