News
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Ancient DNA provides new insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean 05 June 2020
According 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 remains 25 May 2020
Wouter 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 Maya 18 May 2020
That 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 2020
Leiden 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 containers 11 May 2020
The 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 2020
Curators 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 Jansen 24 April 2020
On 24 April it was announced that, following his farewell, archaeologist Professor Maarten Jansen was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion....
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their stories 23 April 2020
Remembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history...
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Aris Politopoulos lectures like an Assyrian king: ‘Video lectures need to be ten times more engaging’ 20 April 2020
There are some lecturers who are better equipped to provide remote education than others. And then there is Aris Politopoulos, who already owned profe...
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USC online sports a big success 20 April 2020
How can you stay fit during quarantine? The University Sports Centre may be closed, but online it's even more 'open' than usual.
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Working from home with the Classical and Mediterranean archaeologists: ‘I should have been in Rome right now’ 09 April 2020
The archaeologists have been working from home three weeks now. Remotely, through Teams, we meet up with Miguel John Versluys’ research team, to see h...
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Raymond Corbey’s Leiden experience: Meet the ‘embedded philosopher’ 06 April 2020
Raymond Corbey holds a chair in both Philosophy of Science and Anthropology at the Faculty of Archaeology, to which he has been attached since 1993. T...
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Hunt for archaeological remains without leaving your home 03 April 2020
The Heritage Quest project begins on Monday 6 April. Heritage Quest is the first large-scale citizen science archaeology project in the Netherlands: a...
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Moving to virtual collaboration with Marike van Aerde and her team: ‘There is real team spirit in our WhatsApp group’ 02 April 2020
Marike van Aerde was at the brink of traveling to India for fieldwork when that country closed its borders, three weeks ago. Only a few days later, Le...
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Working from home as an Archaeologist: 'As far as I know, no one has ever explored my living room for lost cities' 01 April 2020
At first glance, archaeology seems like a job that is hard to take home. Nothing could be further from the truth though! Our archaeologists are curren...