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Walking among elephants: A 300,000-year-old, nearly complete elephant skeleton from Schöningen10 June 2020Elephants ranged over Schöningen in Lower Saxony 300,000 years ago. In recent years, remains of at least ten elephants have been found at the Palaeoli...
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Archaeology student Grace left a lockdowned Leiden for her home country: ‘We jumped on one of the last remaining tickets’08 June 2020International Archaeology student Grace Alonzo went back to her home country when the coronavirus situation developed. Now she is living at her parent...
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Ancient DNA provides new insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean05 June 2020According to a new study by an international team of researchers from the Caribbean, Europe and North America, the Caribbean was settled by several su...
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Employing Artificial Intelligence in the search for archaeological remains25 May 2020Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart has developed a way to use Deep Learning and geography software to rapidly and systematically map prehistoric barrows, ...
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Corn connects many generations of Maya18 May 2020That corn was highly important in the Maya culture is something that Genner Llanes Ortiz, himself a Maya from the Mexican province of Yucatan, has alw...
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The kick of citizen science: ‘It's a kind of addiction’13 May 2020Leiden archaeologists appealed for help from volunteers to search for archaeological remains on satellite images of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, a national pa...
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New insights into Neandertal knowledge from the mass-spectrometry analysis of plastic containers11 May 2020The analysis of protein residues extracted from the storage containers of circa 50,000 year old bone-tools reveals Neandertal strategic selection of b...
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‘I miss the smell of old paper in the vault’28 April 2020Curators devote a lot of attention to their collections. How is Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at Leiden University Libraries, managing t...
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Royal Distinction for archaeologist Maarten Jansen24 April 2020On 24 April it was announced that, following his farewell, archaeologist Professor Maarten Jansen was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion....
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their stories23 April 2020Remembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history...
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Aris Politopoulos lectures like an Assyrian king: ‘Video lectures need to be ten times more engaging’20 April 2020There are some lecturers who are better equipped to provide remote education than others. And then there is Aris Politopoulos, who already owned profe...
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USC online sports a big success20 April 2020How can you stay fit during quarantine? The University Sports Centre may be closed, but online it's even more 'open' than usual.
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Working from home with the Classical and Mediterranean archaeologists: ‘I should have been in Rome right now’09 April 2020The archaeologists have been working from home three weeks now. Remotely, through Teams, we meet up with Miguel John Versluys’ research team, to see h...
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Raymond Corbey’s Leiden experience: Meet the ‘embedded philosopher’06 April 2020Raymond Corbey holds a chair in both Philosophy of Science and Anthropology at the Faculty of Archaeology, to which he has been attached since 1993. T...
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Hunt for archaeological remains without leaving your home03 April 2020The Heritage Quest project begins on Monday 6 April. Heritage Quest is the first large-scale citizen science archaeology project in the Netherlands: a...