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Corinne Hofman honored during the final Dean's LectureCorinne Hofman’s term as Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology has finished. After 11 years she leaves the Faculty Board to fully focus on her research o...
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What makes peace sustainable?‘Realising we have shared ancestors and that our past is dynamic makes us more accepting of others.’ Sada Mire is an archaeologist at Leiden Universit...
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The end of an era: Corinne Hofman’s term as Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology has finishedDuring the Faculty Staff Meeting of August 28th, Corinne Hofman spoke about her time on the Faculty Board. “I look back on a rich decade in which I ha...
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International Student finds human burial: “No regrets about staying in the Netherlands this summer”During the Faculty of Archaeology’s 2018 Field School excavation, in Leiden, two Early Medieval burials were encountered, as well as some house plans....
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Devastation of the Museu Nacional Brazil: “I have no words to say how horrible this is.”On Sunday September 2, the Museu Nacional of Brazil was destroyed by fire. It is estimated that 90 percent of the collection is lost. National Geograp...
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Mike Field to head the Bioarchaeology LabsDr Mike Field is the newly appointed Head of the Bioarchaeology Laboratories (Zoology, Human Osteology, and Botany). The new laboratories provide memb...
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Computer models chart extensive Caribbean inter-island networksThe precolonial inhabitants of the Caribbean islands communicated, travelled, and exchanged objects and ideas along an expansive inter-island network....
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Cultural heritage and video games join together in Amsterdam exhibitionThe newly opened Culture Arcade exhibition is a place where cultural heritage and video games come together. It is co-organized and curated by the VAL...
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Amy Strecker wins Breed Grant to work on Property and Spatial Justice in International LawDr Amy Strecker has recently been awarded a LGI BREED grant to develop her project on property and spatial justice in international law. Building on h...
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology"Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has ...
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Leiden contributes to Getty Museum exhibitionLeiden researchers have made an important contribution to the successful ‘Beyond the Nile’ exhibition in the American J. Paul Getty Museum. They also ...
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Archaeologist Meliam Gaspar interviewed about isolated indigenous groups by Dutch news showOn the occassion of the appearance of new drone footage of indigenous groups living isolated in the Amazon rainforest, Meliam Gaspar was interviewed b...
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Soil samples show impact of Columbus's arrivalAfter Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic), the farming culture of the indigenous people quickly...
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In memoriam: Dr Johanna Stöger (1957-2018)On 19th August, we received the sad news that our dear colleague, Dr Johanna Stöger, has passed on. Hanna died, surrounded by family, at home in South...
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Impressions from the Nexus 1492 fieldwork in the Dominican RepublicThe summer has flown by and the Nexus 1492 team in Valverde, Dominican Republic, has once again had an exciting and successful season!