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Archaeologist helps develop board game on European prehistoryIn the new board game Epoch – Early Inventors you explore the prehistoric landscape. You gather food and raw material to develop tools and skills, and...
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Dr Andrew Sorensen wins Tübingen Prize for Older Prehistory and Quaternary EcologyAndrew Sorensen received the award for his work on the origins of fire-making, especially for his dissertation "Beyond Prometheus: Pursuing the origin...
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Wanted: research questions for citizen scienceHow many species of butterfly are living in my garden? Do I recognise the Leiden dialect? What is the air quality like in my area? Do you have a quest...
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Giacomo Fontana wins thesis prize with 'Seeking tombs from space'The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) annually awards the best theses on the Ancient Near East. The 2018 award went to archaeology studen...
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Leiden University celebrates 444th birthday with residents of Leiden and The HagueLeiden University celebrated its 444th anniversary with a historical procession on 8 February. It celebrated this year’s Dies Natalis in time-honoured...
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A real professor in front of the classA lesson about aerodynamics from Vice-Rector Hester Bijl, about child rights by UNICEF professor Ton Liefaard, or about muscles by LUMC professor Ann...
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The interplay of cultures and technologies investigated in successful Lorentz WorkshopIn the week of 14 to 18 January the Lorentz workshop 'Intersecting Worlds. The Interplay of Cultures and Technology' took place at the Lorentz Center ...
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Valentina Azzarà’s Leiden Experience: “I work on the big picture”Recently, Valentina Azzarà joined the Faculty of Archaeology as a postdoc in the Archaeology of the Near East research group. She mostly focuses on th...
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How the ‘English disease’ turned out to be not so very English after allA vitamin D deficiency is often associated with smoggy English industrial cities during the Industrial Revolution, but research carried out on skeleto...
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Replica of unique prehistoric sword unveiled in OssThe Faculty of Archaeology has a long research tradition in the municipality of Oss. Since 1974, researchers and students have been carrying out archa...
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Archaeologists visit Ethiopia for material culture studies projectAnnelou van Gijn and Diederik Pomstra took part in the Shire Project in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, to contribute to an exciting mix of lithic and use-...
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Ancient populations pioneered the idea of recycling wasteThe circular economy is typically seen as the progressive alternative to our wasteful linear economy, where raw materials are used to make the product...
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Digging into stone age secretsArchaeologist Dr Gerrit Dusseldorp's research project was covered by a South African newspaper. Dusseldorp and his team investigate the evolution of h...
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Victor Klinkenberg’s Leiden Experience: “I like to bring experts and ideas together”Dr Victor Klinkenberg calls himself a generalist pur sang. As an expert on digital archaeology he has worked on nearly all the regions the Faculty of ...
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Sarah Schrader appointed to Young Academy LeidenThe recently formed Young Academy Leiden consists of a group of young scholars who are committed to increasing interdisciplinary research, promoting s...