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Data Management: Where to permanently store the digital archaeological datasets these days?22 February 2021It is the end of your archaeological research project, and you may be wondering where to deposit your data. After the excavation, all of the finds are...
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Embedding scientific research in the Caribbean with funding from NWO17 February 2021On January 7th Minister van Engelshoven of Education, Culture and Science of The Netherlands announced that the project Island(er)s at the Helm: Co-cr...
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All university buildings closed on Monday morning 15 February14 February 2021The KNMI has issued a code red weather warning because of slippery conditions. This applies from 03.00 on Monday 15 February. All university buildings...
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Local Panama communities work with archaeologists on historic land rights09 February 2021The question of land property titles is a common source of conflict between indigenous communities and federal authorities all over the Americas. A ne...
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Archaeology students make museum exhibition on Sugar: ‘Before this I had no idea how sugar was produced’01 February 2021When following a course on archaeology of the Crusaders, five archaeology students were presented the unique opportunity to create a small exhibition ...
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Book Landscapes of Survival sheds new light on the habitation of the Jordan deserts22 January 2021December 2020 saw the crowning publication of the Landscapes of Survival project by Professor Peter Akkermans. Its main topic is human habitation in m...
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Leiden archaeologists discover an early form of money from Prehistoric Central Europe20 January 2021People in the Early Bonze Age used bronze artefacts as a means of payment. This is the conclusion reached by archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catali...
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Academia in motion: a different form of recognition and reward18 January 2021A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....
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New publication affirms academic legacy of Hanna Stöger13 January 2021In summer 2018 classical archaeologist Hanna Stöger passed away. At that moment she was in the midst of several cutting-edge research projects on the ...
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NWA-grant for project 'Streaming the past'21 December 2020Researchers from the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Archaeology, with the support of the communication departments of these Faculties and th...
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NWA subsidy for four Leiden science communication projects21 December 2020A festival that combines music and science, and a digital 'time machine' for science history: four Leiden projects that focus on science communication...
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Investigating a prehistoric Pan-European culture with an NWO grant: ‘One of the most transformative periods in European prehistory’11 December 2020Archaeologist Quentin Bourgeois received an NWO Vidi grant to investigate the emergence of a pan-European culture in the third millennium BC. ‘We see ...
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New Director of Operations Niels Laurens: ‘I am grateful there are people who chose to do archaeology as their profession.’02 December 2020Niels Laurens recently started as the new Director of Operations at the Faculty of Archaeology as well as the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs...
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Prehistoric hunters from the North Sea used human bones as weapons02 December 2020Over the years, many spectacular archaeological finds have been washed ashore on the Dutch coast. Among these a large assemblage of barbed points made...
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Data Management and the Gortyn Project: ‘With great data comes great responsibility’02 December 2020The world is becoming increasingly digitised, and the information one has easy access to is often rather overwhelming. In particular, the accumulative...