Indian College found?

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Source: Harvard Gazette
By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer
Video by Rebecca E. Rollins, Sr. Multimedia Producer

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.

“We found what we were hoping we might find,” Fash said. “We believe it might be an original wall location for the Indian College.”

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/12/indian-college-foundation/

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Video at the link

[hedgehog]

1. This just in : Archeologists at Yale locate skull of Geronimo.....

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2. K & R

[XemaSab]

3. Have I ever told you that I love your username?

:D

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4. Who? Me?

Do you know what it refers to? :)

[XemaSab]

5. I think I do, yes

Only one of the greatest books of the 20th century. :D

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6. Rats! Being the vain male that I am I relish every female compliment, even on my username...

however, *cough* honesty forces me to admit that the Letter referred to is from the late 10th-century, and is something of a compilation of then-current beliefs about the nature of the Antichrist figure. It was written to Gerberga, Queen of the Franks, partially in response to her inquiry about the possible eschatological significance of Viking raids along the (now French) coast, among other things.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/primary/adsoletter.html

At the time I chose my username I had just finished a lengthy set of readings/study on the effects of eschastological/apocalyptic beliefs about the future on peoples actions in the present (whatever period of historical "present" that might be); "Adso's Letter" is considered a very important document bercause it collates disparate views then current on this most famous of apocalyptic figures, as well as serving as a basis for further interpretations; many of which account for current beliefs/interpretations/actions of eschatologically minded individuals, although they may not realize the ultimate source of their beliefs.

I've since moved on into a broader study of the "History of Ideas" and their influences, but I kept the name at the name-change amnesty.

And now I must suffer the loss of esteem in your eyes... :D :hi:

How are things with you? Are you still pursuing opportunities in your field (if I recall correctly, your degree involved natural resource use?).

[XemaSab]

7. Right now I am pursuing

$8.75 an hour as a clerk for the census. :P