In the media
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Dr. Andrew Sorensen at University of the Netherlands: Lecture on Ancient Fire-Use27 May 2021When is the last time you made a fire? Not light a candle with a match, but an actual fire from scratch. Thousands of years ago, humans already made f...
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In the media: Prof. Dr. Joanita Vroom about the Van Steenis depot27 May 2021In a closed room in the Van Steenis building, hundreds of boxes are waiting under fluorescent lights for someone to come and see them. The jumble of h...
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Podcast 'Talk That Science' with Maikel Kuijpers as guest25 May 2021Talk That Science, a podcast with the aim of presenting science in a challenging, new and relevant way. They do this by combining music and science. T...
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Archaeologist Andy Sorensen in National Geographic Magazine about ancient fire use10 February 2021When and how commenced the use of fire by early humans? Armed with stones, peat moss, and fungi, archaeologist Andy Sorensen tries to answer that ques...
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Leiden archaeologists in international media on early form of money in the Bronze Age28 January 2021People in the Early Bonze Age used bronze artefacts as a means of payment. This is the conclusion reached by archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catali...
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Archaeologist Maikel Kuijpers reflects on academic feud over Nebra sky disc20 January 2021In a New York Times report on a bitter archaeological feud over the Nebra sky disk, Maikel Kuijpers reflects on its importance. 'It’s really unfortuna...
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Dental remains shed light on drug use in 19th century Dutch village11 January 2021Archaeologist Bjørn Peare Barthold suspected farmers in a doctorless 19th century Dutch village may have been self-medicating to manage pain and disea...
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Archaeology student Jan Dekker interviewed by NewScientist and Smithsonian Magazine on arrowheads of human bone16 December 2020The identification of the material of prehistoric arrowheads as human bone led to interest from the media. Research Master's student Jan Dekker, the p...
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Archaeologist Bleda Düring in conversation about new publication on Archaeologies of Empire16 December 2020The School for Advanced Research organised an onlne conversation between Dr Bleda Düring and his co-editors of the publication Archaeologies of Empire...
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Maikel Kuijpers takes an archaeological perspective on the materials that shape our world19 November 2020Materials like concrete, steel, plastic and fertiliser shape the world around us, but they’re also extremely polluting. If we want to build a more sus...
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Richard Jansen writes about Oss in Archeologie Magazine27 August 2020The Faculty of Archaeology has a partnership with Archeologie Magazine, the largest archaeology-themed magazine in the Netherlands, aiming to improve ...
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Amanda Henry in Sapiens.org about microfossils in a Finnish skeletal collection04 June 2020The Southwestern part of Finland isn’t exactly known as a great place for archeologists to go and find anything than the sturdiest of remains. The con...
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How Stone Age Humans Unlocked the Glucose in Plants06 April 2020Early cave paintings of hunting scenes may give the impression our Stone Age ancestors lived mainly on chunks of meat, but plants were just as key to ...
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Raymond Corbey interviewed about new book on the missionary's perspective on New Guinean ritual art05 March 2020Protestant missionaries have provided the earliest and most detailed sources regarding the ritual art of the Papuan peoples of the Geelvink Bay. Raymo...
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Archaeologist Rachel Schats on Science071 about malaria in medieval low countries14 February 2020Osteoarchaeologist Rachel Schats investigates traces of malaria in old human skeletons. Even though the disease cannot be spotted directly in bone mat...