Beads are among the oldest types of human artistic expression. Even so, the small ornaments have a bad status record regarding archaeological investig...
At the start of the year a lot of journals publish lists of their most cited papers of the previous year. Three papers published by Leiden archaeologi...
Dr Quentin Bourgeois and a group of students are currently exploring the Veluwe. In 2019 and 2020 volunteers looked at altitude maps of the Veluwe and...
American anthropologist Rosemary Joyce will be awarded an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on its Dies Natalis on 8 February. Joyce has deliv...
The starting point of human-induced landscape changes has been under permanent debate. It is widely accepted that the emergence of agriculture strongl...
A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. In the largest such analysis published...
Hunter-gatherers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archaeologists from Leiden Uni...
Scientists have long assumed Neanderthals simply lost the evolutionary race against humans. But their disappearance may be a bit more complex. In Disc...
Sustainability researchers can play an important role in the energy transition. But what if their partners are not (yet) sustainable and science itsel...
Dr Alex Geurds was elected as a Fellow for the Society of Antiquaries, a prestigious and old educational charity based in London. Established in 1707,...
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long whil...
In Bronze Age Europe many bronze objects such as axes, swords and jewels were deliberately left at specific spots in the landscape. PhD research by Le...
What effect do trends in the art world have on the formation of museum collections? University lecturer Martin Berger wants to answer that question in...
Debates about the ‘end’ of the Roman era, how, when, and even if it ended, are still very much alive and raging. However, what happened after the (lon...
Rapid developments in DNA techniques allow researchers to find out more and more about human genetics. An international group of scientists has drawn ...
