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Thijs van Kolfschoten President Quaternary Research union 10 September 2019
This summer, the International Union For Quaternary Research (INQUA) 2019 Congress took place in Dublin (Ireland), with 2305 delegates from 75 countr...
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant 09 September 2019
Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and te...
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Andrew Sorensen receives Veni for continuation of prehistoric fire-making research 16 July 2019
In 2018, Sorensen’s research into the fire-making habits of the Neanderthals reached the headlines all over the world. Now, a Veni grant will enable h...
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers 16 July 2019
From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden Universit...
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Jason Laffoon's Archaeometry article in top 20 most read 25 June 2019
The research article ‘The life history of an enslaved African’ is one of the top 20 read Archaeometry articles in the period of January 2017 to Decemb...
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Andy Sorensen's Scientific Reports article in top 100 most read 21 May 2019
The research article ‘Neanderthal fire-making technology inferred from microwear analysis’ received 7,053 article views in 2018, placing it as one of ...
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LUF Grant for Natalia Donner for archaeological research at Darien Gap 18 April 2019
Archaeologist Natalia Donner has been awarded a grant of €5,000 from the Bakels Fonds for her research Bridging the Gap: a historical ecological appro...
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Anita Casarotto receives LUF grant for unlocking Mediterranean legacy survey data 12 April 2019
Mediterranean archaeologist Dr Anita Casarotto has been awarded a grant of € 5,800 from the Byvanck Fonds for her research on unlocking important data...
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Tymon de Haas receives LUF grant for research on the ecological impact of Roman expansion 04 April 2019
Through the Byvanck Fund, Classical Mediterranean archaeologist Tymon de Haas has received a grant of €6,350 for his research on the ecological impact...
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Erasmus+ grant for project on heritage as bridge between Academy and Society 07 March 2019
Together with four European partner universities heritage specialist Dr Monique van den Dries has been granted an Erasmus+ project (EU-CUL) by the Eur...
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Building an excavation report search engine with a Digital Humanities grant 21 February 2019
PhD candidate Alex Brandsen, working in the Digital Archaeology research group has recently received a grant from the Leiden University Centre for Dig...
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Dr Andrew Sorensen wins Tübingen Prize for Older Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology 12 February 2019
Andrew 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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Giacomo Fontana wins thesis prize with 'Seeking tombs from space' 11 February 2019
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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2018 Hall of Fame 21 December 2018
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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Student Igor Djakovic awarded Raymond and Beverly Sackler Scholarship 18 October 2018
Igor recently started his research master's in Archaeology. Now he is awarded the prestigious Raymond and Beverly Sackler Scholarship. The scholarship...