News
-
Interfaculty cooperation at the intersection of cultural heritage and climate change14 July 2025Dr. Gül Aktürk Hauser (Assistant Professor, Department of Heritage and Society, Faculty of Archaeology) and Dr. Sophie Starrenburg (Assistant Professo...
-
Arjan Louwen nominated for the LUS Education Award: 'Just 100% myself'07 July 2025University Lecturer Arjan Louwen has been nominated for Leiden University's prestigious LUS Teaching Award. The prize, awarded annually by the Leiden ...
-
First joint meeting 'Collecting Global Heritage' in Leiden04 July 2025On Thursday 26 June 2025, the Pavilion of the Wereldmuseum Leiden featured the first joint meeting of Leiden University and the Vrije Universiteit Ams...
-
4 KIEM grants for HUM03 July 2025Four projects led by the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded KIEM grants. The researchers will receive €10,000 to carry out their plans.
-
Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago02 July 2025Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Afri...
-
Millions in grant funding for research on traumascapes: sites of pain and lossInterdisciplinary research 02 July 2025A consortium led by Leiden University has been awarded 6.75 million euros to research traumascapes: physical places associated with collective trauma ...
-
What does ‘human’ really mean? When Philosophy and archaeology join forces30 June 2025Archaeology is the only science that allows us to study the material traces left by most of human evolution. But what happens when we bring philosophy...
-
Bleda Düring investigates social inequality in Cyprus with ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025Archaeologist Prof Bleda Düring has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for his research on the emergence of social inequalities in the tran...
-
Four Leiden researchers receive ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025From social inequalities in prehistory to placebo effects in medical treatments. Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a prestigio...
-
Alex Geurds new Professor in Central American archaeology: 'A professorship as a unifying force'16 June 2025The appointment of Alex Geurds as Professor in Central American Archaeology reinvigorates an existing focus within the faculty. 'The research chair of...
-
Leiden researchers receive KIEM grant to explore materiality in ancient religions13 June 2025A KIEM grant was recently awarded to a diverse group of Leiden researchers, aiming to organise an interdisciplinary conference with the title ‘Ancient...
-
High diversity in lifeways among early Caribbean inhabitants26 May 2025The first settlers of the Caribbean have long been regarded as bands of highly mobile groups who subsisted exclusively by hunting, gathering, and fish...
-
Slice of 'Zeeuws' life: the complex stories behind human burials in Koudekerke21 May 2025A team of three students affiliated with Leiden University is shedding new light on the lives, diets, health, and mobility of individuals buried at th...
-
Millet isotopes reveal advanced agriculture in early imperial China20 May 2025A new study reveals how ancient Chinese farmers managed soil fertility and water resources over thousands of years. By analyzing carbon and nitrogen s...
-
Homo erectus from the seabed, new archaeological discoveries in IndonesiaUnique insight 16 May 2025Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fos...