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New Handbook on microscopic archaeological samples crosses disciplines13 July 2020A couple of years ago, Dr Amanda Henry noted that she was unable to determine all microremains in her archaeological samples. Herself an expert on sta...
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Archaeologist Ady Roxburgh receives two-year research grant from the Estonian Research Council02 July 2020Ady Roxburgh has been awarded a two-year grant to continue his research into the choices behind the composition of Roman, copper-alloy artefacts. The ...
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Crete as melting pot: New opportunities for archaeological research of ancient Gortyn29 June 2020Joanita Vroom and Mink van IJzendoorn have been awarded a grant of the Chastelain‐Nobach Fund, enabling them to continue their work at Gortyn, Crete. ...
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Dead elephant was a feast for the entire neighbourhood19 June 2020Former archaeology student Ivo Verheijen made a unique discovery in Schöningen in Germany: the almost complete skeleton of an extinct Eurasian straigh...
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André Ramcharan’s Leiden experience: ‘When I started, I didn’t see this as a career path.’18 June 2020André Ramcharan has been a familiar face at the Faculty of Archaeology for decades. Joining our faculty without any knowledge on animal bones, he has ...
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Alumna Matilda Siebrecht hosts Experimental Archaeology Podcast: ‘We want to show the range archaeological research can take.’16 June 2020Matilda Siebrecht has found the perfect combination of her interests, namely experimental archaeology, and journalism. She was asked by EXARC, a found...
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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....