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The person behind the murderer 26 May 2022
Are all murderers calculating psychopaths with an obscene predilection for bloody chainsaws? Yes, if Hollywood is to be believed, but in the real worl...
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‘Homo sapiens is too arrogant: call us Homo faber, the toolmaker’ 16 May 2022
We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part to all our predecesso...
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Aitor Burguet-Coca studied fire-use from Palaeolithic to Bronze Age: ‘This gives us an image on different uses of fire across prehistory’ 09 May 2022
For the following years, Dr Aitor Burguet-Coca will be a returning face at the Faculty of Archaeology. He will join Dr Amanda Henry’s team with his ex...
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Registration open new minor Violence Studies 22 April 2022
In the academic year 2022-2023 the Social Resilience and Security interdisciplinary programme will offer a new minor for students who are interested i...
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Honours Class makes cultural heritage tangible: ‘You are dealing with people’ 22 April 2022
An Honours Class about the ostensibly unrecognisable worlds of insular Southeast Asia teaches students a fundamental piece of wisdom: "We do not diffe...
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Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022! 13 April 2022
On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant 11 April 2022
Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their re...
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Cypriot Ambassador visits Faculty of Archaeology 04 April 2022
The Faculty of Archaeology was honored by a visit by the Ambassador the Republic of Cyprus. Ambassador Frances-Galatia Lanitou Williams had heard of t...
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New excavation robot shapes future of archaeology 31 March 2022
Archaeology has always been at the forefront of innovation. Now, an inventive collaboration between archaeologists Tuna Kalayci and Alex Brandsen brin...
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Omani Ambassador visits Faculty of Archaeology 30 March 2022
The Faculty of Archaeology was honored by a visit by the Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman. Ambassador Sheikh Dr. Abdullah Salim Hamed Al Harthi had...
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Charlotte van der Voort wins Leiden Thesis Prize 09 February 2022
The winner of the Leiden University Thesis Prize has made an original and substantial contribution to argumentation theory. This is what Annetje Ottow...
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Researcher develops Google for archaeologists 04 February 2022
An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this ma...
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Innovative research offers new insight into ancient infant feeding practices 04 February 2022
New sampling and analytical strategies give archaeologists a better understanding of the nutrition and survival of ancient populations. Publication in...
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Jan Kolen new Artificial Intelligence Coordinator at Leiden University 03 February 2022
The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Jan Kolen as the University’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Coordinator as of 1 February 2022. I...
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Three Leiden papers in top 10 most cited of Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 14 January 2022
At the start of the year a lot of journals publish lists of their most cited papers of the previous year. Three papers published by Leiden archaeologi...