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In Memoriam: Katharine MacDonald (1976-2022)18 August 2022Our dear colleague and friend Kathy MacDonald passed away unexpectedly on August 9th, 2022, a few days after her 46th birthday. Her sudden passing cam...
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Meet our new colleague Letty ten Harkel: ‘I am interested in what happens when different cultures come together’25 July 2022In August 2022 we welcome our new colleague Dr Letty ten Harkel as Assistant Professor in Roman and Post-Roman Archaeology. For the past ten years she...
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Maritime archaeologist Martijn Manders appointed as Professor of Underwater Archaeology in Leiden20 July 2022Maritime archaeologist Martijn Manders has been appointed professor of Underwater Archaeology and Maritime Cultural Heritage Management at Leiden Univ...
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Throwback to the Archaeological Field School of 2022: ‘Excavating is very rewarding’20 July 2022Back in June, the annual Leiden Archaeology Field School took place in Oss. For a month, every week, a group of 25 first year students gets to learn t...
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Three Leiden PhD candidates awarded Mosaic 2.0 scholarships20 July 2022Three PhD candidates from Leiden University have been awarded a Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for their PhD research. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) Mosaic...
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Meet postdoc Ana Zora Maspoli: ‘I came to Leiden to find a new way to look at the dilemma of Romanisation’12 July 2022Looking for a different approach in the ongoing discussions on the ethereal matter of Romanisation, Ana Zora Maspoli joined Miguel John Versluys’ rese...
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Citizen science project Heritage Quest wins European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 202230 June 2022Gelderland Heritage and Leiden University’s Faculty of Archaeology have won the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2022 in the ‘research’ c...
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Research into grave goods sheds new light on traditional roles28 June 2022New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 w...
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Contested heritage in The Hague: what to do with the remains of the Atlantik Wall?28 June 2022During World War II, the Nazi’s ordered a coastal defensive line to be built from the south of France to Norway. This Atlantik Wall aimed to defend th...
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‘You feel connected to the people of a bygone era’16 June 2022Documenting and preserving rock art in the Pakistani Himalayas; this was the aim of the ‘Karakorum Rescue Project’ to which students at the Honours Co...
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The impact of climate change on groups of people14 June 2022The socio-economic effects of climate change often do not receive enough attention. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) a group of researchers will p...
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Annual Report 2021 published13 June 2022Leiden University’s Annual Report 2021 has been published. In this report, which consists of a general section and a financial section (the financial ...
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Leiden Archaeology Field School 2022 has begun in Oss08 June 2022With the start of June, the annual Leiden Archaeology Field School has begun. Like last year, the Field School takes place in Oss. Every week, a group...
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The person behind the murderer26 May 2022Are all murderers calculating psychopaths with an obscene predilection for bloody chainsaws? Yes, if Hollywood is to be believed, but in the real worl...
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Heritage expert Ian Lilley holds commemoration speech at Netherlands-Australia War Memorial16 May 2022Professor Ian Lilley, the Faculty of Archaeology’s Willem Willems Chair in Archaeological Heritage, was invited by Her Excellency Mrs. Marion Derckx, ...