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Ever wondered what's under your feet in the Yard?
A group of summer school students, working with Professor Stephen Williams and John D. Stubbs, Jr. '80 found an assortment of refuse that would make the most hardened dorm crewer gasp.
They include a wig curler, a clay tile marred by a cat's footprint, pieces of dishes and pipestems, meat bones and the wreckage of the original College building, which literally fell apart in the late 17th century.
Stubbs, who is staking his candidacy for a doctorate on 350 years' worth of academic garbage, joined Williams, Ian W. Brown '73, and James Deetz '57 yesterday in a layman's presentation entitled, "Historical Archaeology at Harvard."
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