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Chastelain-Nobach grant allows Tymon de Haas to enlarge Roman expansion research project12 December 2019Through the Chastelain-Nobach LUF fund, Classical and Mediterranean archaeologist Tymon de Haas has received a grant for his research on the ecologica...
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Professor Miguel John Versluys joins Supervisory Council of National Museum of Antiquities11 December 2019From 1 December 2019, Miguel John Versluys, Professor and Chair of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology, will join the ...
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Webinar Week: reaching out to prospective master's students09 December 2019Not all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, ...
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Honours students participate in poster presentations at Reuvensdagen06 December 2019On Friday, November 22, students of the Archaeology Honours track participated in a poster presentation at the national archaeological congress 'De Re...
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No humans needed: Neanderthals possibly responsible for their own extinction27 November 2019Scientists remain puzzled by the sudden extinction of Neanderthals, some 40,000 years ago. New research by scientists from Eindhoven University of Tec...
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Femke Lippok wins W.A. van Es-prize for her pioneering work on early medieval burial rites27 November 2019During 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 2019Colonial 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 Prize22 November 2019Sandrine 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 grant20 November 2019The 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 Kong15 November 2019Leiden 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 ago04 November 2019The 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 Minecraft04 November 2019With 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 Barbados30 October 2019The 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 glue29 October 2019Adhesives 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 Vaart24 October 2019Alex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart, PhD candidates in the Digital Archaeology research group and the Data Science Research Programme, ha...