A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....
In summer 2018 classical archaeologist Hanna Stöger passed away. At that moment she was in the midst of several cutting-edge research projects on the ...
Archaeologist Bjørn Peare Barthold suspected farmers in a doctorless 19th century Dutch village may have been self-medicating to manage pain and disea...
Researchers from the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Archaeology, with the support of the communication departments of these Faculties and th...
A festival that combines music and science, and a digital 'time machine' for science history: four Leiden projects that focus on science communication...
The identification of the material of prehistoric arrowheads as human bone led to interest from the media. Research Master's student Jan Dekker, the p...
The School for Advanced Research organised an onlne conversation between Dr Bleda Düring and his co-editors of the publication Archaeologies of Empire...
Archaeologist Quentin Bourgeois received an NWO Vidi grant to investigate the emergence of a pan-European culture in the third millennium BC. ‘We see ...
Niels Laurens recently started as the new Director of Operations at the Faculty of Archaeology as well as the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs...
Over the years, many spectacular archaeological finds have been washed ashore on the Dutch coast. Among these a large assemblage of barbed points made...
The world is becoming increasingly digitised, and the information one has easy access to is often rather overwhelming. In particular, the accumulative...
Skype a Scientist is an online platform that matches scientists with classrooms and families around the world. At the start of the corona crisis, PhD ...
Local perceptions, attachments and knowledge are often not considered in the methodology of archaeology when researching a site, argues PhD-candidate ...
The idea that modern humans displaced Neanderthals because they were better protected against toxic smoke components is now under fire. An earlier stu...
Materials like concrete, steel, plastic and fertiliser shape the world around us, but they’re also extremely polluting. If we want to build a more sus...
