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Femke Lippok wins W.A. van Es-prize for her pioneering work on early medieval burial rites27 November 2019During the 2019 Reuvensdagen, PhD candidate Femke Lippok was awarded the prestigious W.A. van Es-prize for her research master’s thesis The Pyre and t...
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Sandrine Gallois second place in prestigious Rising Talent Prize22 November 2019Sandrine Gallois, a post-doctoral research in the HARVEST project, was awarded second place in the prestigious L'Óreal UNESCO For Women In Science Ris...
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Exploring Roman Portugal with Regato grant20 November 2019The ancient Roman province of Lusitania, more or less contemporary Portugal, has been the focus of a joint research project by Leiden University, Évor...
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Archaeologist Omar Aguilar Sánchez receives Mexican youth prize23 October 2019On October 21st, 2019, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, handed out the National Prize for the Youth in the academic achievement c...
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Thijs van Kolfschoten President Quaternary Research union10 September 2019This summer, the International Union For Quaternary Research (INQUA) 2019 Congress took place in Dublin (Ireland), with 2305 delegates from 75 countr...
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant09 September 2019Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and te...
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Andrew Sorensen receives Veni for continuation of prehistoric fire-making research16 July 2019In 2018, Sorensen’s research into the fire-making habits of the Neanderthals reached the headlines all over the world. Now, a Veni grant will enable h...
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers16 July 2019From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden Universit...
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Jason Laffoon's Archaeometry article in top 20 most read25 June 2019The research article ‘The life history of an enslaved African’ is one of the top 20 read Archaeometry articles in the period of January 2017 to Decemb...
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Andy Sorensen's Scientific Reports article in top 100 most read21 May 2019The research article ‘Neanderthal fire-making technology inferred from microwear analysis’ received 7,053 article views in 2018, placing it as one of ...
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LUF Grant for Natalia Donner for archaeological research at Darien Gap18 April 2019Archaeologist Natalia Donner has been awarded a grant of €5,000 from the Bakels Fonds for her research Bridging the Gap: a historical ecological appro...
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Anita Casarotto receives LUF grant for unlocking Mediterranean legacy survey data12 April 2019Mediterranean archaeologist Dr Anita Casarotto has been awarded a grant of € 5,800 from the Byvanck Fonds for her research on unlocking important data...
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Tymon de Haas receives LUF grant for research on the ecological impact of Roman expansion04 April 2019Through the Byvanck Fund, Classical Mediterranean archaeologist Tymon de Haas has received a grant of €6,350 for his research on the ecological impact...
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Erasmus+ grant for project on heritage as bridge between Academy and Society07 March 2019Together with four European partner universities heritage specialist Dr Monique van den Dries has been granted an Erasmus+ project (EU-CUL) by the Eur...
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Building an excavation report search engine with a Digital Humanities grant21 February 2019PhD candidate Alex Brandsen, working in the Digital Archaeology research group has recently received a grant from the Leiden University Centre for Dig...