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'Stephen Hawking put abstract science on the map' 14 March 2018
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (76) passed away on 14 March at his home in Cambridge, having been a long-term sufferer of the muscular disease ...
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Fourteen women professors take over the Senate Chamber 07 March 2018
Fourteen women professors are to be given a place in the classic portrait gallery in Leiden University’s Senate Chamber. The portraits will be unveile...
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Rescue excavations in the Caribbean 02 March 2018
Alongside the incredible devastation brought by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the fall of 2017, the storms have had an extremely damaging effect on the...
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Archaeology in eighth position in QS World University Rankings 2018 01 March 2018
It is the third year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is ranked the highest in continental Europe. Aside from this the faculty features, as it...
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Traces of indigenous "Taíno" found in present-day Caribbean populations 22 February 2018
A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called "Taíno", the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of European...
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Ancient DNA reveals impact of the “Beaker Phenomenon” on prehistoric Europeans 20 February 2018
In the largest study of ancient DNA ever conducted, an international team of scientists has revealed the complex story behind one of the defining peri...
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Dental analysis gives unique insight in life of enslaved African 15 February 2018
A new study published in Archaeometry describes the unexpected results obtained from analyses of five human teeth discovered in a ritual cache at an ...
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Skull 'oldest Dutchman' retrieved from North Sea bed 14 February 2018
A fragment of a human skull from the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) and a decorated bison bone, both from the North Sea ...
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Knowledge of Caribbean Amerindians crucial for colonisation of Americas 13 February 2018
The significance of indigenous Amerindian knowledge has been marginalised in the history of the colonisation of the Americas. Wrongly, according to re...
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‘Archaeology is quintessentially interdisciplinary' 13 February 2018
Professor of Archaeometry Patrick Degryse analyses archaeological finds using techniques from chemistry, physics and biology. He will give his inaugur...
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Field school in Portugal: Romans, drones and monasteries 12 February 2018
Staff and students from the Faculty of Archaeology are just back from a newly started Field School in the inland of Portugal.
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Emotional bond between humans and dogs dates back 14,000 years 07 February 2018
Prehistoric people may well have had an emotional bond with domesticated dogs much earlier than we thought. Leiden PhD candidate and vet Luc Janssens...
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Research into colonial encounters wins Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 06 February 2018
Archaeologist Corinne Hofman wins the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 2018/19 for research into the changing world of indigenous peoples as a result ...
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Three new professors in Archaeology 31 January 2018
At the Faculty of Archaeology, three new professors are appointed with effect from February 1, 2018. They are Ann Brysbaert, Marie Soressi, and Joanit...
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This archaeologist dives to VOC ship De Rooswijk 05 January 2018
Martijn Manders conducts research on the sunken VOC ship De Rooswijk. Tirzah Schnater from the Ministry of Education, Culure and Science produced this...