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85 results for "Collections Technologies"

85 results for "Collections Technologies"

Video: Origins of the Silk Roads

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Approximately 4,000 years ago, the peoples of China and Eurasia gradually began to develop networks of interaction and exchange that radically transformed the cultures of both regions. These networks eventually gave rise to the Silk Road trade routes...

Video: Decoding Maya Hieroglyphs with 3D Technology

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The Peabody Museum has conducted archaeological research in the Maya site of Copan, Honduras, since the 1890s. One of Copan’s most iconic elements is a staircase made of over 620 blocks carved with Maya glyphs. Dating back to the eighth century CE, this...

Current Research

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Ongoing projects of field research, documentation, and preservation of monuments at sites in the publication series aim to connect descendant communities with historic documentation combined with new technologies, keep pace with the discovery of new...

Video: Exploring Humanity’s Technological Origins

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Human evolutionary scholars have long assumed that the earliest stone tools were made by members of the genus Homo, 2.4–2.3 million years ago, and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread of savannah...

Audio: Products, Plastics, Putrefaction, and Power

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The majority of urban trash is plastic or biodegradable. What is the best way to manage these materials? Businesses and environmentalists are battling it out right now. Products, Plastics, Putrefaction, and Power Trash Talk Public Lecture by Samantha...

Hello Friends

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Welcome to the Harvard Peabody Museum Collections Division blog! What’s a Collections Division you ask? At the Peabody, it encompasses the departments of Collections Management and Access, Archives, Registration, Conservation, and Collections Technologies...

Wendel White

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Robert Gardner Photography Fellow 2021 Wendel White, Distinguished Professor of Art at Stockton University, New Jersey, will use the 2021 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography to work on Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, an ongoing photographic project of...

Manifest: Thirteen Colonies

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Virtual Lecture & Conversation Advance registration required Register Wendel White, Distinguished Professor of Art & American Studies, Stockton University; 2021 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard...

The Breakout: The Origins of Civilization
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For much of the twentieth century, Mesopotamia was thought to he the singular "Cradle of Civilization;" and the agents of change that brought it about were thought to be demographic, ecological, and technological. Bronze Age Mesopotamian accomplishments...

Video: Unseen Connections: A Natural History of Cell Phones

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Cell phones are among people’s most prized possessions. They play an important role in daily life, facilitating everything from communications with others to the recording of social experiences and emotions. Despite the importance and ubiquity of cell...