# News Sort & Filters close ## Filters Publish Date expand\_more 2016 (2) 2017 (2) 2018 (3) 2025 (7) 2026 (10) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 24 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 24 results [### Publication Highlight: Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey. Results from the 2005-2010 Seasons ](/news/2026/04/publication-highlight-chengdu-plain-archaeological-survey-results-2005-2010-seasons) April 21, 2026 Rowan K. Flad (Harvard University), Joshua Wright, Lin Kuei-chen, Zhou Zhiqing, and Jiang Zhanghua have published a new volume, Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey: Results from the 2005–2010 Seasons (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, UCLA, 2026)... ![Chengdu Plain COVER (image only)](/sites/g/files/omnuum7041/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Chengdu%20Plain%20COVER%20copy.jpg?itok=zvW6nMWz) [### Science Journalism Corner: How Your Brain Might Trick You During Endurance Activities ](/news/2026/04/science-journalism-corner-how-your-brain-might-trick-you-during-endurance-activities) April 17, 2026 New study finds that doing mentally demanding tasks while engaging in endurance exercise makes some, but not everyone, feel more tired. Sheds light on how early modern humans effectively gathered food over long distances. ![treadmill](/sites/g/files/omnuum7041/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/HEB_183_treadmill.jpeg?itok=px0O-vRz) [### Publication Highlight: The Tobacco Takers by Diana DiPaolo Loren ](/news/2026/04/publication-highlight-tobacco-takers-diana-dipaolo-loren) April 10, 2026 Diana DiPaolo Loren (Peabody Museum, Harvard University) has published a new book, The Tobacco Takers: Puritanism, Smoking, Health, and the Archaeology of Bodily Care (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). Book Abstract: Indigenous to the Americas and cultivated by... ![Tobacco_book_cropped](/sites/g/files/omnuum7041/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Tobacco4_0.jpg?itok=veV4b-gx) [### Archaeology of Harvard Yard Open House ](/news/2026/04/archaeology-harvard-yard-open-house) April 10, 2026 ![imgalt](/sites/g/files/omnuum7041/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/image001.png?itok=ZfajNENu) [### Science Journalism Corner: Archaeologists Interpret New Findings on Ancient Chinese Bronze Swords ](/news/2026/03/science-journalism-corner-archaeologists-interpret-new-findings-ancient-chinese-bronze) March 21, 2026 2,500 years ago, the Chinese states of Wu and Yue produced elaborate swords representing the pinnacle of bronze-casting technology. Many of these swords have survived for millennia with little visible corrosion. Until recently, the techniques that made... ![Bronze sword analyzed in Wang et al 2025, Figure 1.](/sites/g/files/omnuum7041/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/12520_2025_2303_Fig1_HTML%20copy.jpg?itok=fZ6yQ__O) [### Scenes from an ancient Roman city — The Falerii Novi Project, Italy ](/news/2026/02/scenes-ancient-roman-city-falerii-novi-project-italy) February 23, 2026 Founded in 241 BCE after the defeat of nearby Falerii Veteres (modern Civita Castellana), Falerii Novi emerged as a new Roman colony in central Italy, settled by a mix of Roman colonists and local Faliscan communities. Situated along the Via Amerina—an... ![Falerii_Novi_Project_3](/sites/g/files/omnuum7041/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Falerii_Novi_Project_3.jpeg?itok=Q3DWvysQ) [### Thesis Spotlight: Elisabeth Ngo (Chinampas and Human-Environmental Interactions) ](/news/2026/02/thesis-spotlight-elisabeth-ngo-chinampas-and-human-environmental-interactions) February 16, 2026 Chinampas and Human-Environmental Interactions in the Basin of Mexico The Basin of Mexico has historically been prone to droughts, some of which—like the drought of One Rabbit in 1454—led to famine, disease, and mass migrations. Although chinampas , a... ![Chinampas](/sites/g/files/omnuum7041/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Ngo_Chinampas%20%281%29.jpeg?itok=rxJg89yh) [### The Flour Mill, the Abandoned Guerrilla Base, and the Soldier: Archaeology of a Spanish Civil War Ruin ](/news/2026/02/flour-mill-abandoned-guerrilla-base-and-soldier-archaeology-spanish-civil-war-ruin) February 11, 2026 Unlike the USA, contemporary archaeology was a relatively new topic in Spain during the early 2000s. I remember how some professors considered any research linked to Spanish Civil War something more related to CSI rather than archaeology. In that context... ![pic2](/sites/g/files/omnuum7041/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Bigure_2.jpg?itok=DnmpxtLB) [### Thesis Spotlight: Eli Visio (Proteomic Analysis of Equine Milk Consumption) ](/news/2026/01/thesis-spotlight-eli-visio-proteomic-analysis-equine-milk-consumption) January 30, 2026 Milk Roads: A Proteomic Analysis of Equine Milk Consumption in Central Asia’s Agro-Pastoral Societies This study explores the patterns and frequency of horse and ruminant milk consumption among pastoral communities within Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, the... ![Overview of the lab's protein extraction protocol.](/sites/g/files/omnuum7041/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/protein_extraction_protocol.jpeg?itok=OlijKXKu) [### Thesis Spotlight: Isabella McMillen (Identity and Adornment in Iron Age Balkan Fibulae) ](/news/2026/01/thesis-spotlight-isabella-mcmillen-identity-and-adornment-iron-age-balkan-fibulae) January 05, 2026 My project will investigate Slovenian and Austrian fibulae (brooches) from the Iron Age (ca. 800 BCE–1 CE). Through the use of archival research, artifact analysis, and data utilization, I aim to elucidate varying aspects of European prehistory including... ![PMAE Object 40-77-40/10763](/sites/g/files/omnuum7041/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/PMAE_Object_40-77-40_10763.jpg?h=dc8db535&itok=5K1dZE2r) [### Digging for Old Harvard: Archaeology in the Yard ](/news/2025/12/digging-old-harvard-archaeology-yard) December 23, 2025 The Harvard Gazette has published a new feature on the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project, now in its twentieth year, which documents student-led excavations behind Hollis Hall and near Holden Chapel. This season’s work focused on deposits associated with... ![Students excavating in Harvard Yard](/sites/g/files/omnuum7041/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/101625_YardDig_043.jpeg?itok=1_oyEs5y) [### Building Pathways into Khipu Research: Openness, Access, and the Next Generation ](/news/2025/12/building-pathways-khipu-research-openness-access-and-next-generation) December 19, 2025 The study of any sub-field can often feel like a closed club—usually because it is, whether intentionally or not. The study of *khipus*, Andean knotted-cord records, is a textbook example, with only a handful of scholars working on these records full time... ![Cords on khipu 32-30-30/53 in the Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (photo by Mackinley FitzPatrick).](/sites/g/files/omnuum7041/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/khipu_cords.png?itok=UyMIm64X) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")