The Tobacco Takers: Puritans, Pipes, and Bodily Care
Indigenous to the Americas and cultivated by Native peoples for thousands of years, tobacco was introduced to Europeans in the 16th century, and by the early 17th century, it had […]
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Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Knapping the First Tools: Teen Saturdays Workshop
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United StatesKnapping, or chipping sharp edges into stone, is one of the earliest known technologies. Millions of years ago, our ancestors learned to shape stone tools for hunting and survival. In […]
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The Many Lives of Theban Tomb 16
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe ancient Egyptian tomb known as Theban Tomb 16 dates to the reign of Ramesses II in the Nineteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom (around 1250 BCE). Originally, it served as the burial place of a priest named Panehsy and his wife, Tarenu, a chantress. Long after their lifetimes, the tomb remained an important resting […]