Live Archaeology Excavation: Discovering Colonial Student Life

Two women peering at tableware in the Resetting The Table exhibit

Free Virtual Program for Grades 4–12

Register your class for a virtual visit to a live archaeology excavation into the eighteenth century. College student archaeologists-in-training uncover history around Harvard’s Holden Chapel which housed a soldiers’ barracks during the American Revolution among other activities. Your class will meet the excavation directors who explain the project and the questions they are seeking to answer with archaeological evidence. College students demonstrate excavation methods and show what they have uncovered during their participation in the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project. 

·      Watch a time-lapse view of the 2014 excavation site in Harvard Yard.

·      See Teacher Resources 

Rain Date: Thursday, October 23, 12:30–1:30 pm ET

Presented by the the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. 

Advance registration is required by October 14.

2 archaeologists dig in deep pit.
Harvard Yard Archaeology Project