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Neandertal Legacy Scientific Reports’ article in the top 100 most downloaded30 March 2023With an off-the-charts number of downloads, outstanding media coverage, and more than 300 tweets, a small team behind the Scientific Reports article l...
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Leiden archaeologists repatriate human remains to St. Eustatius30 March 2023Representatives of the Faculty of Archaeology recently traveled to the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius to repatriate human remains. The remains, ori...
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Field School 2023: We are back in Oss!30 March 2023Monday, 3 April, the yearly field school for all first-year students at the Faculty of Archaeology will start. The municipality of Oss is welcoming ou...
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Conservation of Qasr Bshir featured as a cover story in Current World Archaeology27 March 2023‘Qasr Bshir is magnificent even in decline. It sits majestically in the landscape, master of all it surveys. On approaching the site, however, it is c...
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Faculty of Archaeology launches dinosaur-focused research23 March 2023Many an archaeologist, at some point in their career, is asked what type of dinosaur they discovered. Instead of once again patiently explaining that ...
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Conference on the gap between government and citizens21 March 2023It’s often said that citizens have lost trust in their governments. But who exactly are these ‘citizens’? And which aspects of people’s contact with ...
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How did trade networks arise in the third millennium BC?17 March 2023Lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, amber from the Baltic and tin from Tajikistan. In the third millennium BC objects and raw materials were transported ov...
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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...