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‘We even found a diaper’: mapping Leiden through a different lens 19 February 2024
Getting up at 5 AM, strolling through rain and looking at a dirty diaper: students of the Honours College Archaeology endured it all. For their class ...
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Karsten Lambers appointed as Professor of Digital and Computational Archaeology 12 February 2024
In January, Dr Karsten Lambers was appointed as Professor of Digital and Computational Archaeology at Leiden University's Faculty of Archaeology. With...
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Exhibition on 50 years of archaeological fieldwork in Oss celebrates an archaeological 'Walhalla' 01 February 2024
In 1974 Professor Modderman (founder of the Institute for Prehistory Leiden; predecessor of the present Faculty of Archaeology) executed a small excav...
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D&I Symposium 2024: What have we achieved with a decade of diversity policy? 15 January 2024
How has progress been made on diversity and inclusion at Leiden University over the past decade? Attendees reflected on this at the D&I Symposium 2024...
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Supercomputer ALICE is even more powerful, and that is good news for many disciplines 03 January 2024
Supercomputer ALICE has been expanded, making it even more powerful and faster. This means researchers and students can work with heavier models. From...
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Archaeology Inter-Section journal offers students the chance to publish: ‘I learned a lot during the process’ 20 December 2023
The Faculty of Archaeology's own home-grown journal Inter-Section has released a new volume. Inter-Section offers students and PhD candidates the uniq...
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Lorentz workshop on Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology 20 December 2023
From November 13 to 17 2023, a workshop on Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology was organized at the Lorentz Center in Leiden by Eduardo Herrera Malatesta ...
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 2023 19 December 2023
Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdiscipli...
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Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’ 12 December 2023
What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the Europ...
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Hunting of European straight-tusked elephants was widespread among Neanderthals 125,000 years ago 06 December 2023
Finds uncovered in the east of Germany show that Neanderthals stored and preserved vast amounts of meat and/or temporarily aggregated in larger groups...
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Beaver exploitation testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominins 24 November 2023
Exploitation of smaller game is rarely documented before the latest phases of the Pleistocene, which is often taken to imply narrow diets for earlier ...
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These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’ 22 November 2023
Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course,...
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Remembering Olivier Nieuwenhuyse with a festschrift: ‘He would have loved this book’ 22 November 2023
On November 16 a festschrift in honor of Dr Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was presented in a moving event at the Faculty of Archaeology. Professor Bleda Düring...
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New social media pilot at Archaeology: from Wes Anderson to community archaeology 20 November 2023
Anyone who follows the Faculty of Archaeology on social media must have noticed that something changed in September. Videos on research projects, inte...
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Archaeological laboratories visit Faculty of Science for sustainable ideas 07 November 2023
In 2018 the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) was launched in the UK. The aim of this programme was to help laboratories work more sus...