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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><i><font color="#000000" face="Garamond">Digging
Veritas: The Archaeology and History of the Indian College and Student
Life at Colonial Harvard </font></i></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000"
face="Garamond">Location: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Harvard Square </font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font
color="#000000" face="Garamond">Exhibit Dates: November 10, 2008 to
January 2010 </font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000"
face="Garamond">Phone: 617-495-1027</font></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Garamond">The Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents a new exhibition on the
archaeology of Harvard Yard entitled</font></span><span lang="en-us"><b><i>
<font face="Garamond">Digging Veritas: The Archaeology and History of
the Indian College and Student Life at Colonial Harvard</font></i></b></span><span
lang="en-us"><b><font face="Garamond">.</font></b></span><span
lang="en-us"><font face="Garamond"> </font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Garamond">Through
archaeological finds from Harvard Yard, historic maps, and more, the
exhibition reveals how students lived at Colonial Harvard, and the role
of the Indian College in Harvard’s early years.</font></span><span
lang="en-us"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font
face="Garamond">Student archaeologists unearthed evidence of colonial
Harvard as a landscape shaped by social and religious tensions—tensions
that affected everything from Native American and English settler
relationships to the everyday routines of student life. As the
students searched for meaning in the material remains of Harvard
students of the past, three themes emerged: literacy and the Indian
College; rule (breaking) and religion; and negotiations of social
status. Who knew small fragments buried below ground could reveal so
much?</font></span></p>
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