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Archaeology alumnus Wytze Stellingwerf 2nd place IISG Thesis Award 201707 December 2017With his master's thesis 'The patriot behind the pot' Wytze Stellingwerf reached second place, among 38 contestants, in the IISG Thesis Award 2017. "W...
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First Dutch National Post-Doc Prize Awarded to Dr. Hayley Mickleburgh24 November 2017The first Dutch National Post-Doc Prize was awarded to Dr. Hayley Mickleburgh, postdoctoral researcher in the field of funerary archaeology with ERC-S...
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Shower of prizes at the World Cultural Council ceremony in Leiden09 November 2017Leiden University celebrated the annual prize ceremony of the World Cultural Council (WCC) on 8 November with lectures by leading scientists in a fes...
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Andy Sorensen wins Pecha Kucha presentation prize05 October 2017At the 7th annual meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE) conference held here in Leiden September 21-23 Andy Sorensen...
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Schöningen honours researcher from Leiden26 September 2017Since 1992, Professor Thijs van Kolfschoten, has been excavating at Schöningen.
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Plastic Soup Surfer calls for sustainable academic year04 September 2017One person can already make a difference, and if all students and academics were eco-friendly, the world would be a much more sustainable place. Plast...
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What makes us human? Or modern human?31 May 2017Two Vidi subsidies for Faculty of Archaeology.
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€ 18.8 million grant for research into innovation processes in antiquity04 May 2017Successful innovation requires more than technological progress alone. Every new concept must first be firmly anchored into an existing context. At le...
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Gravitation grants for three major research programmes04 May 2017Three major research projects involving Leiden scientists have been awarded a grant from NWO’s Gravitation Programme. The projects are on innovation p...
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DANS Klein DataProject bursary for Joanita Vroom03 May 2017Joanita Vroom, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, has received a DANS Klein DataProject (KDP) bursary for her project entitled ‘Data A...
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City of Epe issues subsidy for research Quentin Bourgeois06 April 2017For the next three years the municipality of Epe will contribute to the research on the Epe barrow alignment. The city complements funds that NWO made...
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ERC Advanced Grant for Frans Theuws06 April 2017Prof. dr. Frans Theuws has received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The 2,5 million euro grant will be used in a 5-year A...
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ERC starting grant for Mariana de Campos Françozo04 April 2017Mariana Françozo has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. With this 1.5 million euro grant Dr. Françozo and her research te...
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Archaeology article Scientific Reports in top 100 most read29 March 2017The research article ‘Selection and Use of Manganese Dioxide by Neanderthals’ received 12421 article views in 2016, placing it as one of the top 100 r...
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Archaeology in ninth position in QS World University Rankings 201709 March 2017It is the second year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is ranked the highest in continental Europe. Aside from this the faculty features, as i...