Part 1: Ground Breaking, The Archaeology of Harvard Yard

Students in ANTH S-1130 The Archaeology of Harvard Yard, http://www.summer.harvard.edu/2011/courses/32660.jsp, dig below the grass of Harvard Yard in search of artifacts that can inform gaps in the written history of Harvard College and the Indian College that stood in the Yard in the 17th century.

To mark the beginning of this year's excavation, an Opening Ceremony was held on site. Representatives from the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs, and Harvard faculty joined the students and members of the community in the groundbreaking. Shelley Lowe, Executive Director of HUNAP, and Harley-Daniel Interpreter, a Harvard Summer School student and member of the Navajo Nation, broke ground.

ANTH S-1130 is taught by Christina J. Hodge, PhD, Senior Curatorial Assistant, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, and Diana Loren, PhD, Associate Curator, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

This is the 1st of 4 videos documenting this summer's findings and analysis.

Project partners include the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Harvard Native American Program, the Harvard University Department of Anthropology, and the Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs.

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