Ashleigh Morris is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Burcu Yildirim is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

As part of Mariana Françozo’s BRASILAE project, a group of representatives of the Ka’apor people was invited to visit Leiden. The Ka’apor, an indigenous people from Brazil, are some of the present-day relatives of the Tupi-speaking peoples who used to live in the northeastern region of Brazil, claimed…

The Archaeological Forum lecture series gives colleagues and other interested parties the chance to listen to presentations on research or fieldwork. The lectures are followed by drinks. Lieke Bes Living in an early medieval emporium: who was buried in Dorestad? Adam Benfer Animating Stone: Zoomorphic…

For thousands of years, the prehistoric communities of the Low Countries followed their own path, compared with the rest of Europe. An international research team has now published these findings in Nature.

In Bronze Age Europe many bronze objects such as axes, swords and jewels were deliberately left at specific spots in the landscape. PhD research by Leiden archaeologist Marieke Visser shows that these practices were expressions of people’s relationship with the world around them. ‘It was a completely…

Murat Dirican is a Postdoc Researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Mike Field is Associate Professor in Archaeobotany at the Faculty of Archaeology. He is also Head of the Bioarchaeology Laboratories.

13:30 Tour at the museum 14:30 Leiden junior research in Islamic archaeology Kate Mokránová Aila Santi Jonathan Ouellet 15:30 Coffee break 16:00 Keynote Neil Price (Uppsala University) 17:00 Drinks 18:30 Speakers' dinner Registration until November 18th at: H.Nol@em.uni-frankfurt.de. Please mention…

For already two years, Vincent Niochet has been affiliated with the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology as an external PhD candidate. Now, he has been awarded an NWO PhDs in the Humanities grant, allowing him to continue his research as a paid PhD staff member. ‘The past two years have been quite challenging,…

Recently Professor Joanita Vroom’s book Feeding the Byzantine City was published by the prominent academic publishing house Brepols. This volume is the fifth in a series called Medieval and Post-Medieval Mediterranean Archaeology, of which she is the editor. ‘This series aims to offer new perspectives…

De Faculteit Archeologie bestaat dit jaar 25 jaar. Ter ere van dit jubileum opende de faculteit op 1 maart zijn deuren voor het brede publiek.

Mr. A. Ramcharan is staff member of the Zoology Laboratory & expert in the area of animal bone.

Fenno Noij is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain why underwater archaeology is important to understanding our history.

Zara Ali is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

The African Studies Centre Leiden will host a conference on Friday 6 June to mark the 50th anniversary of the Organisation of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS). The conference will be organised by the Collaborative Research Group Governance, Entrepreneurship, and Inclusive Development.…

In the context of the NWO-Veni project ‘Places To Not Forget’, and the book project ‘Slavery & the Dutch State: Dutch Colonial Slavery and Its Afterlives’, this two-day conference will comprise keynote lectures, research and book presentations, and panel discussions. See the Call for Papers and…

Save the date! On Wednesday October 22 the Faculty of Archaeology organises an 'ArcheoHotspot', an open house. Join for free for lectures, workshops with archaeological materials, or let our experts look at your own archaeological finds! See for more information the Dutch-language website. This event…

On March 1 2022, Professor Ann Brysbaert will succeed Dr Winfred van de Put as director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA). Having been a regular at the institute for several decades, she will combine her new appointment with teaching at the Faculty of Archaeology. ‘Visits at the NIA were…

This workshop focuses on cooperation, resilience, and collective identities in the prehistoric societies of southeastern Türkiye and wider southwest Asia. It follows the public lecture on 24 February by Prof. Necmi Karul on the Taş Tepeler sites of southeastern Türkiye, most notably Göbekli Tepe and…

The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum has been hailed as a major museological achievement, a cutting-edge and high-tech advancement with the potential to shift global discourses on the repatriation of Pharaonic antiquities. And yet, little emphasis has been placed on how such discourses entrench…

Guilherme D'Andrea Curra is a current PhD student at the Faculty of Archaeology.