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Les Cottés excavations reveals how Neandertals and Homo sapiens adapted to a changing climate 40,000 years agoThe transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic is a major biological and cultural threshold in the construction of our common humanity. Technological...
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Rebuilding Palmyra in MinecraftWith RoMeincraft, you get to play the popular computer game Minecraft while learning about the ancient Romans. RoMeincraft, the project of the VALUE F...
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Your opinion of the library counts!What do you think of our libraries, the (digital) collections, services and the library staff? The Leiden University Libraries (UBL) would like to know!
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Isotope analysis finds source lead poisoning among slaves on BarbadosThe dental remains of 25 enslaved Africans from the site of Newton's Plantation, on Barbados, were subjected to isotope analysis. Previous research ha...
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Neanderthals knew what they were doing when it came to making the oldest known glueAdhesives are an incredibly important part of every day life. They help hold together everything from shoes and mobile phones to satellites in space. ...
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444 Interdisciplinary Activity Grant for Alex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der VaartAlex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart, PhD candidates in the Digital Archaeology research group and the Data Science Research Programme, ha...
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Archaeologist Omar Aguilar Sánchez receives Mexican youth prizeOn October 21st, 2019, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, handed out the National Prize for the Youth in the academic achievement c...
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Looking to the future of Leiden’s legacy collections: taking care of the past, teaching tomorrow’s studentsIn the Faculty of Archaeology depots, many artefacts, accumulated after decades of fieldwork across the world are stored. The Leiden Inventory of the ...
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What do you learn when attending an Open Day?The Open Day of Leiden University, on Saturday, October 19, 2019 was busy, in a pleasant way. More than 12,500 prospective students and supervisors vi...
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Materials from the past contain lessons for todayStudying ancient materials and the way they were made can give us groundbreaking insights into the past. Not only that, the interplay between people a...
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Neanderthal glue from the North SeaA flint tool covered with a tar-like substance has turned out to be a top scientific find. Research by a Dutch team of scientists showed the find to b...
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First LUF Snouck Hurgronje Grant awarded to Past-at-Play LabAt the end of 2018, the LUF announced a new annual grant: the Snouck Hurgronje Grant. This annual grant is awarded to innovative interfaculty research...
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Public Lecture ‘The Role of the Humanities in an Information Age’ by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger ProfessorLeiden University Libraries invites you to the public lecture by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger Professor. This lecture will be held on Thursday 21 ...
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Archaeology Open Day: ‘Excavations are cool’‘We’ve come because our granddaughter started studying archaeology here this year. But I’m really interested in archaeology too.’ The Open Day at the ...
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Monique van den Dries' Leiden Experience: 'Usually I end up with (too) many ideas and running projects'Heritage expert Monique van den Dries has a long history with our Faculty. She did her studies and PhD in Leiden, and before returning to academia ...