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Meet the student mentors of Archaeology: ‘I like this opportunity to meet new people’All first-year bachelor’s and master’s students at the Faculty of Archaeology have been assigned a student as a mentor to help them find their way aro...
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Digital archaeologist Alex Brandsen featured in Artificial Intelligence dossierApps that can precisely identify shards, coins or heel bones: archaeology has embraced artificial intelligence. Alex Brandsen is working on a search e...
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ERC Creative Europe Culture grant for Alexandria: (re)activating common urban imaginariesFrom 2020 to 2023, Professor Miguel John Versluys and his research group will participate in an international consortium that has just received a larg...
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How sustainable does the University want to be by 2030?Leiden University has become more sustainable in the past few years, but it could do better, particularly in the area of teaching and research. A stud...
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Maikel Kuijpers takes an archaeological perspective on the materials that shape our worldMaterials like concrete, steel, plastic and fertiliser shape the world around us, but they’re also extremely polluting. If we want to build a more sus...
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Richard Jansen writes about Oss in Archeologie MagazineThe Faculty of Archaeology has a partnership with Archeologie Magazine, the largest archaeology-themed magazine in the Netherlands, aiming to improve ...
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Archaeological fieldwork in corona times: professor Marie Soressi's storyFrom July 25th till August 7th, a team led by Professor Marie Soressi went to France and worked at La Grande Roche de Quinçay, a cave site located in ...
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Aris Politopoulos: ‘I use games as a teaching method'In his lectures Aris Politopoulos combines archaeology with video games. He is one of the three nominees for the 2020 LUS Teaching Prize. 'A good teac...
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Archaeological fieldwork in corona times: bachelor's student Jeroen Huizer's storySecond year BA Archaeology student Jeroen Huizer decided to participate in an excavation this summer, and he is giving us a peek in doing fieldwork un...
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Marie Kolbenstetter will explore the archaeology of southern Honduras with a NWO subsidyOur master’s alumna Marie Kolbenstetter was recently awarded a NWO subsidy for a PhD in the Humanities. With this funding she will be able to continue...
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Electives of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: ‘You can really get a closer look at the subject matter’Are you interested in ancient Egypt, the rich cultural heritage of Mesopotamia or bliblical Hebrew and Aramaic? Students of all faculties can follow e...
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The ecological footprint of European colonization at the doorway to the AmericasHistorical figures such as Columbus have returned to the centre of public debate. Much remains to be discovered about his legacy and current impact on...
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Working in the archaeological ceramic lab in times of coronaBA 3 student Dasha Derzhavets is one of the first students to be back in the lab at the Faculty of Archaeology. She is conducting experiments in the c...
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More powerful data centre will accelerate researchLanguage evolution, targeted drugs or archaeological interpretation. Researchers are making increasing use of supercomputers that can rapidly process ...
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New Handbook on microscopic archaeological samples crosses disciplinesA couple of years ago, Dr Amanda Henry noted that she was unable to determine all microremains in her archaeological samples. Herself an expert on sta...