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William Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology and Howells Director of the Peabody Museum welcomes the crowd to Digging Harvard, a new exhibit at the Peabody Museum

Photograph by Justin Ide/Harvard News Office

Student diggers take Harvard’s roots from dirt to display case

Emily Pierce ’10 was up to her hips in Harvard Yard, standing in a square hole in the ground, carefully scraping soil as she sought bits of archaeological treasure: a button here, a piece of bone there — clues that together could weave a tale of Harvard’s early years.

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