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Gary Urton Awarded Honorary Professorship

Professor Gary Urton has been awarded an appointment as Honorary Professor of the Humanities, at La Católica. ...more


Essays in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef
Transitions in Prehistory: Essays in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef

Edited by John J Shea and Daniel E Lieberman
(Oxbow Books for the American School of Prehistoric Research 2009)

This collection of papers celebrates the career of Ofer Bar-Yosef and his contribution to the study of prehistory. As professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University (1970-1988) and as MacCurdy Professor at Harvard University (1989-present), Ofer has had a huge impact on prehistoric archaeology, fostering multi-national research projects worldwide. With such wide-ranging research interests spanning his career, the editors of this book needed to find a theme which could somehow reflect the entirety of his career so far. ...more


Harvard Summer School Courses in Anthropology
Investigate Archaeology and Social Anthropology during Summer 2009: Language and Culture; the Archaeology of Harvard Yard; Introduction to Social Anthropology; Introduction to Archaeology; Museum Anthropology; the Language and Culture of Middle Earth; and much more (including summer field schools around the world)

Harvard Yard Excavation


Peabody Museum Director William Fash sifts through soil in Harvard Yard in 2007.
Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office

Archaeology of Harvard Yard (Anthro S-1130) Excavation Opening Ceremony

Thursday, June 25, 2009, 10:30 a.m.
Harvard Yard, near Matthews Hall
(possible site of the Harvard Indian College)

This summer and fall, Harvard Yard will be dotted with holes and strung with orange snow fencing. Student archaeologists from Archaeology of Harvard Yard, a Harvard University course, will be excavating the Yard, searching for 17th-century structures and artifacts. The excavation, part of the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project, is directed by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in collaboration with the Harvard University Native American Program, and the Harvard University’s Department of Anthropology.

Speakers include:
Jim Peters, Executive Director, Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs
Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, Chairman, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Bettina Washington, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
William L. Fash, William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the Peabody Museum

Sponsored by:
The Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, The Harvard University Native American Program, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology


Harvard Yard Excavation Results Day


Artifacts recovered from a 2005 dig.
See what the summer excavation in Harvard yard found. Staff and students will be available to answer questions.

Harvard Yard Archaeological Dig Summer Results Day
August 4, 2009
8:30-11:30 a.m.
Harvard Yard
Rain date: August 6th

Commencement 2009
The 358th Commencement of Harvard University

Biological Anthropology Ph.D. recipients are:
Coren Apicella
Susanne Cote
Amanda Lobell

Social Anthropology Ph.D. recipients are:
Sharon Abramowitz
Omar Al-Dewachi
Adia Benton
Zongze Hu
Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin
Laurie McIntosh
Andrew Preston

Medical Anthropology A.M. recipient:
Gavin Myers


New Faculty Publication
"Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India"
by Ajantha Subramanian Stanford University Press. 2009.
"After a clerical sanction prohibited them from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic fishers from a village on India's southwestern coast took their church to court. They called on the state to recognize them as custodians of the local sea, protect their right to regulate trawling, and reject the church's intermediary role."


Anthropology brings a global comparative and very broad perspective to the study of human beings, exploring an enormous range of similarities and differences in time and space. The field is linked through its subdisciplines (i.e. Archaeology, Social Anthropology, Linguistic, Medical, Sensory Ethnography and Applied Anthropology) to many other fields in the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences.

At Harvard, the Anthropology Department is divided into two programs, each concerned with one of the main branches of Anthropology: Archaeology and Social Anthropology.



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