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Exhibition: The untold Caribbean story13 March 2023The Caribbean Ties exhibition at Oude UB aims to reveal the many unwritten stories of indigenous cultures and peoples of the Caribbean. It rewrites th...
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Archaeologist Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart wins the IALA dissertation award for his doctoral thesis09 March 2023‘I was very happy and honoured that my thesis was recognised as a valuable contribution to the topic of landscape archaeology.’
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Alex Geurds receives NWO Vici grant for investigating human-environmental engagement across Central America & Colombia02 March 2023During pre-Columbian times, the Central American isthmus was marked by dynamic exchange and human mobility. Despite this, indigenous communities were ...
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Pop-up ArcheoHotspot: A day full of (fake) skeletons, mammoth teeth and Roman pottery02 March 2023The Faculty of Archaeology turns 25 this year. To celebrate, it opened its doors to the public on 1 March. ‘We want to be an institution that not only...
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Veronica Tamorri comes to Leiden with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship02 March 2023Since November 2022, Veronica Tamorri has been a new face at the Faculty of Archaeology. Originally from Rome, she joined the Faculty with a two-year ...
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Interdisciplinary minor ‘Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’27 February 2023The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits of t...
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Faculty of Archaeology features in Archeologie Magazine Special23 February 2023The Faculty of Archaeology is proud to present the special edition in honor of our 25th anniversary. In 15 pages, the Dutch-language special gives an ...
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Four Vici grants for Leiden University researchers23 February 2023Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applica...
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Interdisciplinarity offers ‘golden opportunities’ but not without big changes23 February 2023How should we organise interdisciplinary work within Leiden University? This was the key question at a symposium organised by the Liveable Planet inte...
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Turkish and Syrian students talk to Rector about possible support22 February 2023A group of Turkish and Syrian students from the university are raising money for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Two of them met Recto...
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Proteins are not distributed equally in ancient teeth20 February 2023In a study led by Leiden alumnus Jan Dekker, based on his research master’s thesis, he applied Mass Spectrometry Imaging to archaeological human teeth...
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Changing of the guard: Quentin Bourgeois to succeed Joanita Vroom as Head of the Department of World Archaeology20 February 2023Joanita Vroom's term as Head of the Department for World Archaeology runs out on March 1, 2023. Quentin Bourgeois will succeed her. In this interview,...
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Diversifying archaeological practice with a small grant: ‘This helps us to work in collaboration with the Faculty community’20 February 2023The Faculty of Archaeology is running a funding scheme to assist small-scale projects that contribute to diversifying archaeological practice in all d...
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Archaeologist Everest Gromoll wins LUF Thesis Prize with groundbreaking research on human responses to climatic shifts20 February 2023On Saturday, February 11, 2023, at the Dies for Alumni event, archaeology alumni Everest Gromoll was awarded the LUF Thesis Prize. His thesis, titled ...
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The Ambassador of the Dominican Republic visits the Faculty of Archaeology16 February 2023Monday 6 February the Faculty of Archaeology had the honour to receive the e Ambassador of the Dominican Republic, H.E. Dr. Juan Bautista Durán. The m...