Tag: Polly Hubbard

  • Nation & World

    Field and streaming

    This semester, Harvard archaeology students are dropping in on nearly 90 virtual classrooms as special guest speakers, telling more than 2,500 public and private school students and teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools about subjects ranging from ancient tombs offerings in Mexico to trade practices in the Red Sea region.

    5 minutes
    Two people at an archaeology site.
  • Nation & World

    Hurtling back through time

    A Wintersession course introduced students to the ancient atlatl, a hunting and fighting tool that improved the range and velocity of spears.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Homing in on bones

    Skulls and bones drew a class of Cambridge third0graders to Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. They visited the museum’s zooarchaeology lab to learn about different animals and how they relate to the study of human life.

    4 minutes