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Archaeologist Sada Mire hosts radio and TV programmesSomali archaeology in Somaliland takes centre stage in a BBC World Service radio programme and a China Global Television Networks (CGTN) programme, bo...
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From the Colossal to the Microscopic: exhibition on archaeological sciences in Van SteenisScientific methods and techniques have been employed in archaeological research since the very birth of the discipline. It is impossible to imagine mo...
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Siberian 'unicorn' takes centre stage in radio interviewThe publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution about the so-called Siberian unicorns took centre stage in a Dutch radio interview.
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Faculty of Archaeology contributes to 'Heritage on the Move' Overview ExhibitionThe Faculty of Archaeology, in the persons of Marlena Antczak and Lennart Kruijer, had three pictures included in the exhibition 'Heritage on the Move...
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Siberian 'unicorns' extinct much later than believedGiant prehistoric 'unicorns' once wandered over the prairies of Central Asia. New research has shown that these so-called Siberian unicorns lived much...
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Aris Politopoulos’ Leiden Experience: “video games can provide new avenues for research”Seven years ago, Aris Politopoulos left Athens for a master’s programme at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology. Now he has nearly finished his PhD disse...
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Prof Ann Brysbaert participates in Getty Foundation’s initiativeA new and recently started Getty Foundation project, Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond, aims to forge connections among M...
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Wil Roebroeks interviewed about new discoveries Borneo: "This killed Eurocentric views on early rock art"In a remote cave on the Indonesian island of Borneo, a series of rock art paintings have been discovered. The oldest painting might be the oldest-know...
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Catalin Popa’s Leiden experience: “Archaeology needs to contribute to society.”
Originally from Romania, Catalin Popa has been working at our Faculty as a Postdoc for two years now. He is a landscape archaeologist with a deep inte...
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About 350 human skeletons from Arnhem come to Leiden on loanLeiden Archaeology students may write their master's theses on the recently acquired collection skeletons from the city of Arnhem. We interviewed oste...
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Getting to know Dean Jan Kolen: “I would describe myself as a connector”Professor Jan Kolen was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology on September 1, 2018. We sat down with him and interviewed him about his backgrou...
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Student Igor Djakovic awarded Raymond and Beverly Sackler ScholarshipIgor recently started his research master's in Archaeology. Now he is awarded the prestigious Raymond and Beverly Sackler Scholarship. The scholarship...
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Burial mound research in National Geographic HistoriaQuentin Bourgeois and Luc Amrkeutz were interviewed for an National Geographic Historia article about the burial mound research in the Veluwe.
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Review of 2017 Leiden Experimental Archaeology conferenceThe 10th Experimental Archaeology Conference of EXARC took place in Leiden, Netherlands, over three days; 20th to the 22nd April 2017, in Leiden Unive...
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Archaeologist Diederik Pomstra subjects himself to wild food experimentWhat did our distant ancestors eat and how did they prepare their food? For the length of a month, experimental archaeologist Diederik Pomstra subject...