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Devastation of the Museu Nacional Brazil: “I have no words to say how horrible this is.”On Sunday September 2, the Museu Nacional of Brazil was destroyed by fire. It is estimated that 90 percent of the collection is lost. National Geograp...
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Mike Field to head the Bioarchaeology LabsDr Mike Field is the newly appointed Head of the Bioarchaeology Laboratories (Zoology, Human Osteology, and Botany). The new laboratories provide memb...
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Computer models chart extensive Caribbean inter-island networksThe precolonial inhabitants of the Caribbean islands communicated, travelled, and exchanged objects and ideas along an expansive inter-island network....
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Cultural heritage and video games join together in Amsterdam exhibitionThe newly opened Culture Arcade exhibition is a place where cultural heritage and video games come together. It is co-organized and curated by the VAL...
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Amy Strecker wins Breed Grant to work on Property and Spatial Justice in International LawDr Amy Strecker has recently been awarded a LGI BREED grant to develop her project on property and spatial justice in international law. Building on h...
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology"Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has ...
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Leiden contributes to Getty Museum exhibitionLeiden researchers have made an important contribution to the successful ‘Beyond the Nile’ exhibition in the American J. Paul Getty Museum. They also ...
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Archaeologist Meliam Gaspar interviewed about isolated indigenous groups by Dutch news showOn the occassion of the appearance of new drone footage of indigenous groups living isolated in the Amazon rainforest, Meliam Gaspar was interviewed b...
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Soil samples show impact of Columbus's arrivalAfter Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic), the farming culture of the indigenous people quickly...
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In memoriam: Dr Johanna Stöger (1957-2018)On 19th August, we received the sad news that our dear colleague, Dr Johanna Stöger, has passed on. Hanna died, surrounded by family, at home in South...
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Impressions from the Nexus 1492 fieldwork in the Dominican RepublicThe summer has flown by and the Nexus 1492 team in Valverde, Dominican Republic, has once again had an exciting and successful season!
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Maritime archaeologist Martijn Manders on National Geographic channelOn Sunday August 19, the National Geographic channel programme 'Drain the Oceans' will focus on Martijn Manders' excavation of the Dutch VOC ship De R...
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Enthusiastic start to EL CIDMore than 3,500 enthusiastic Leiden first-years, 80% of them coming to Leiden University, gathered on Monday morning 13 August at the Lammermarkt for...
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Andrzej Antczak to head World Archaeology: “Keeping archaeology relevant in a globalising world”With the departure of Tesse Stek to the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome for three years, Andrzej Antczak will take over the role of Departmental Head fo...
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Archaeologists in action: stories from the fieldDuring the summer, staff of the Faculty of Archaeology congregate in all parts of the world, initiating or joining fieldwork projects. Read some of th...