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The Tobacco Takers: Puritans, Pipes, and Bodily Care

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Free Hybrid Lecture Speakers: Diana DiPaolo Loren, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator, Peabody Museum, Harvard University Stephen W. Silliman, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Boston Indigenous to...

Video: Homo sapiens Meets Neanderthals: The End of a World

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Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture Series Lecture by Jean-Jacques Hublin, Professor at the Collège de France (Paris), Emeritus Professor at the Max Planck Society The arrival of Homo sapiens in the mid-latitudes of Eurasia 48,000 to 45,000 years ago and the...

Video: The Archaeology of Boston's Revolutionary Past

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Join Boston City Archaeologist Joe Bagley for a presentation on archaeological research that is deepening our understanding of Boston’s role in the American Revolution. Bagley shares new findings on the impact of the Siege of Boston and the 1775 Battle of...

Benjamin Franklin, Frankenstein, and the Age of Revolution

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Free Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Joyce E. Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University Ask anyone why Benjamin Franklin is famous and they will likely mention his role in the American Revolution. Yet Franklin’s...

Homo sapiens Meets Neanderthals: The End of a World

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Free Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Jean-Jacques Hublin, Professor at the Collège de France (Paris), Emeritus Professor at the Max Planck Society Advance registration recommended for in-person and online attendance Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture Series The...

The Archaeology of Boston's Revolutionary Past

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Free Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Joe Bagley, City Archaeologist and Director of Archaeology, Boston Archaeology Program Advance registration recommended for online and in-person attendance. Join Boston City Archaeologist Joe Bagley for a presentation on...

Ancient Cities of Guatemala’s Pacific Coast

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Free 2026 Gordon R. Willey Series Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Associate Professor, Yale University On Guatemala’s western Pacific coast, the region of Escuintla is home to many ancient cities, and for thousands of years it has...