Posted on 12/17/2009 6:07:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv
On one of the last of days of digging in Harvard Yard this fall, archaeologists believe they finally found evidence linked to one of the University's earliest buildings, the Indian College that stood on the site from 1655 to 1698.
Archaeologists working in a chest-deep hole near Matthews Hall uncovered a narrow strip of dark earth in a lighter, orange-brown layer that marks natural soil. They believe that the dark earth is the bottom of an architectural trench most likely dug for the Indian College, built to house Native American students as part of the University's original mandate to educate the youth of both European settlers and Native people. The find may fulfill the overarching goal of a series of digs in the Yard over the last four years.
The digs have been conducted as part of a class, the "Archaeology of Harvard Yard," offered every other autumn and led by William L. Fash, Howells Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology...
Finding the Indian College foundation may be the crowning achievement of years of work in the area, but it's not the only significant discovery to emerge from the Yard's soil. Earlier this semester, students displayed other treasures they found that help to illuminate early life at Harvard, including a slate pencil found by Winthrop House junior Daniel Balmori, who came across the pencil's two halves on separate days of digging.
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Ah yes! The original Skull and Bones Socity!
And to keep the old tradition alive, I am so proud of my cousin (a Yurok Indian of the Klamath River in N. Calif)who this past year has graduated with honors from Harvard and is now working in the tribal project to bring back the Calif. Condors.
very interesting, thanks for posting
Congrats to him....
I hope you have taught him well....
Last I checked the CA Condors were thriving.....where they were released in CA.
I suspect they are going well in the Colorado River/ Grand Canyon area too....But I've not heard.
Do you know?
I knew a girl like that once..............
Yes and.....
The CA Condor's range was very large at one time.
I think they ventured into the great plains...back in the day.
We are getting Bald eagles back nesting around here now.....and I see Bald eagles very often in the winter....and the occasional Golden eagle too.
As you probably know...they are more scavengers than most people realize.
Had one fly off a road killed jack-rabbit the other day...as I drove up.
Brozho Nican!!
Also have an old pic...of my grand mother that doesn't look a whole lot different than that pic you posted...She looked mean or miffed. Ha!!
I don't know why....My Great Aunts would never give me the straight skinny....Maybe because she was the oldest? I dunno.....
They all had Pottawatomie middle names...
Didn't see that show though....I will watch for it though, thanks!
Megwetch, Nican!!
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