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Lead isotopes in artifacts from ancient China and the ambiguity that comes with themIsotope Analysis 08 May 2026Chen Wang has recently finished her doctoral research and will be defending her dissertation on May 13th. For her PhD she researched the lead in artef...
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Two Education Directors appointed for the Faculty of Archaeology23 April 2026The Faculty of Archaeology is welcoming two new Education Directors this spring: Aris Politopoulos for the bachelor’s programme and Rachel Schats for ...
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Import in the Stone Age? How object biographies shed new light on the NeolithicUse-wear analysis 17 April 2026On April 22, Lasse van den Dikkenberg defended his dissertation: Living with Flint. For this, he examined flint finds from the Rhine-Meuse Delta. Thes...
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Editing Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology: ‘It’s the beginning of a conversation’Publication 16 April 2026Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology, a new open access volume edited by Felicia Fricke, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, and Maaike de Waal, is already generati...
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Students bring ‘Archaeology of the Margins’ to centre stage at SOYA 2026Student-organised conference 31 March 2026On 10 April, the Faculty of Archaeology will host the Symposium of Young Archaeologists (SOYA), a fully student organised conference dedicated to the ...
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How do you find your way as an early career researcher in the academic pressure cooker?Graduate School 30 March 2026From inspiring career stories to hands-on workshops, the Career Event for PhD candidates and postdocs offered young researchers an insight into the ma...
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Alex Geurds' first months as Dean: ‘It is important to be an organization without pain or scruples’Dean Archaeology 30 March 2026Since January 2026, Alex Geurds has been the new Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology. His start was calmer than many expected, but behind that calm lie...
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Revolution in Archaeology: Virtual Excavation with AI iDigArtificial intelligence 24 March 2026The days of an archaeologist studying soil traces with a shovel in hand seem to be numbered. Digital archaeologists will soon launch the first version...
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Femke Reidsma to Harvard with Rubicon Grant for research on early fire usePaleoecology 23 March 2026Researcher Femke Reidsma has been awarded a prestigious Rubicon grant. With this fellowship, she will spend two years conducting research at Harvard U...
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Mariana Françozo launches collaborative research with Tupinambá and Mapuche people with NWO Vici grant20 March 2026Dr Mariana Françozo has been awarded a prestigious NWO Vici grant for a five year research project that brings together Indigenous communities, museum...
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Neanderthal prey: elephant teeth preserve 125,000-year-old record of movement and diet17 March 2026Fossil teeth can preserve remarkable information, much like a biological identity card with data about the lives of individuals tens of thousands of y...
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Dr Sarah Schrader appointed Head of Department Archaeological Sciences10 March 2026The Faculty of Archaeology is pleased to announce that Dr Sarah Schrader has been appointed as the new Head of the Department of Archaeological Scienc...
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Contributions in New World Archaeology Vol. 18 dedicated to our late colleague Dr Andrzej Antczak10 March 2026The latest volume of Contributions in New World Archaeology (Vol. 18) has been dedicated to the memory of Dr Andrzej Tadeusz Antczak, an eminent archa...
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Exhibition Archaeo‑Sexism on display throughout March in Van Steenis03 March 2026On Monday 2 March at 16:00, the Faculty of Archaeology opened the travelling exhibition Archaeo‑Sexism. The exhibition will be on display throughout t...
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Jan Pronk reappointed as Executive Director of the Faculty of Archaeology03 March 2026Jan Pronk has been reappointed by the Executive Board of Leiden University as Executive Director of the Faculty of Archaeology. Pronk will begin his s...