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Femke Lippok wins W.A. van Es-prize for her pioneering work on early medieval burial rites 27 November 2019
During the 2019 Reuvensdagen, PhD candidate Femke Lippok was awarded the prestigious W.A. van Es-prize for her research master’s thesis The Pyre and t...
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Who is the rightful owner of colonial art? 26 November 2019
Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the ...
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Sandrine Gallois second place in prestigious Rising Talent Prize 22 November 2019
Sandrine Gallois, a post-doctoral research in the HARVEST project, was awarded second place in the prestigious L'Óreal UNESCO For Women In Science Ris...
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Exploring Roman Portugal with Regato grant 20 November 2019
The ancient Roman province of Lusitania, more or less contemporary Portugal, has been the focus of a joint research project by Leiden University, Évor...
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Leiden University advises students to leave Hong Kong 15 November 2019
Leiden University is advising its students to leave Hong Kong and return to the Netherlands. This is due to the worsening situation there.
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Les Cottés excavations reveals how Neandertals and Homo sapiens adapted to a changing climate 40,000 years ago 04 November 2019
The transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic is a major biological and cultural threshold in the construction of our common humanity. Technological...
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Rebuilding Palmyra in Minecraft 04 November 2019
With RoMeincraft, you get to play the popular computer game Minecraft while learning about the ancient Romans. RoMeincraft, the project of the VALUE F...
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Isotope analysis finds source lead poisoning among slaves on Barbados 30 October 2019
The dental remains of 25 enslaved Africans from the site of Newton's Plantation, on Barbados, were subjected to isotope analysis. Previous research ha...
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Neanderthals knew what they were doing when it came to making the oldest known glue 29 October 2019
Adhesives are an incredibly important part of every day life. They help hold together everything from shoes and mobile phones to satellites in space. ...
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444 Interdisciplinary Activity Grant for Alex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart 24 October 2019
Alex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart, PhD candidates in the Digital Archaeology research group and the Data Science Research Programme, ha...
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Archaeologist Omar Aguilar Sánchez receives Mexican youth prize 23 October 2019
On October 21st, 2019, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, handed out the National Prize for the Youth in the academic achievement c...
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Looking to the future of Leiden’s legacy collections: taking care of the past, teaching tomorrow’s students 23 October 2019
In the Faculty of Archaeology depots, many artefacts, accumulated after decades of fieldwork across the world are stored. The Leiden Inventory of the ...
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What do you learn when attending an Open Day? 22 October 2019
The Open Day of Leiden University, on Saturday, October 19, 2019 was busy, in a pleasant way. More than 12,500 prospective students and supervisors vi...
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Materials from the past contain lessons for today 22 October 2019
Studying ancient materials and the way they were made can give us groundbreaking insights into the past. Not only that, the interplay between people a...
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Neanderthal glue from the North Sea 22 October 2019
A flint tool covered with a tar-like substance has turned out to be a top scientific find. Research by a Dutch team of scientists showed the find to b...