Anthropology
Posted on May 2, 2013 by Harvard Gazette
Students in Matthew Liebmann’s “Encountering the Conquistadors” class recently got a feel for prehistoric life, trying their hands at an ancient weapon called the atlatl.
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Posted on April 12, 2013 by Harvard Gazette
Zongze Hu, who received his doctorate in anthropology from Harvard in 2009, has wasted little time fostering the discipline in his native China, establishing new graduate and undergraduate programs at Shandong University.
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Posted on July 24, 2012 by Harvard Gazette
Research led by scientists at Harvard and University College London has shown that Native Americans arrived in three waves of migration, not one, as is commonly held and that at least one group returned home to Asia.
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Posted on July 3, 2012 by Harvard Gazette
A new exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology traces the development of photography and its use in anthropology from the beginnings of both fields in the 1800s to the present.
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Posted on July 3, 2012 by Harvard Gazette
A new exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology traces the development of photography and its use in anthropology from the beginnings of both fields in the 1800s to the present.
Tags: Alvin Powell, Anthropology, Copan, Culture & Society, daguerreotype, Exhibit, Exhibition, HarvardScience, Lisa Barbash, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Photography, Roger Marshutz
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Posted on April 23, 2012 by Harvard Gazette
In his new book, “Revolt: An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico,” Assistant Professor of Anthropology Matthew Liebmann offers a first-of-its-kind look at how the Pueblo people lived during their brief independence from Spain.
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