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Workshop ‘Caribbean World Heritage Sites in the light of today’s global challenges: the case of Historic Bridgetown and Its Garrison' 14 March 2024
Last month (February 5-8 2024), the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, hosted a workshop entitled ‘Caribbean World Heritage Si...
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Exhibition on 50 years of archaeological fieldwork in Oss celebrates an archaeological 'Walhalla' 01 February 2024
In 1974 Professor Modderman (founder of the Institute for Prehistory Leiden; predecessor of the present Faculty of Archaeology) executed a small excav...
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Lorentz workshop on Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology 20 December 2023
From November 13 to 17 2023, a workshop on Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology was organized at the Lorentz Center in Leiden by Eduardo Herrera Malatesta ...
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Leiden archaeologists contribute to unique Iron Age exhibition in Oss 07 September 2023
Museum Jan Cunen in Oss presents the very first retrospective exhibition of the richest graves from the early Iron Age (800-500 BC), including the one...
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New murals depict archaeological profiles of Dutch soil 25 August 2023
On September 5, at the festive opening of the Faculty Year, a range of new murals will be officially presented in the Van Steenis’ Reuvens Hall. The w...
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Archaeologists of the future dig for traces of the past 09 May 2023
Forty archaeology students are holding a shovel somewhat awkwardly in the fields at Oss. This is their first day of fieldwork and they are going to us...
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Field School 2023: We are back in Oss! 30 March 2023
Monday, 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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Maaike de Waal interviewed on new publication Living (World) Heritage Cities 23 December 2022
The LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development has interviewed Dr Maaike de Waal about the new publication of which she is one of the editors. 'Li...
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Throwback to the successful LANCE internship and job market 22 December 2022
On December 1, the Faculty of Archaeology hosted the LANCE internship and job market 2022 for our BA2 and BA3 students. No less than 14 Dutch commerci...
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Coring among sheep: investigating a pasture's past 24 August 2022
It is late June, and on a windy meadow north of Leiden known as the Vrouw Vennepolder a group of archaeology students just hit the last ice age. Consi...
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Throwback to the Archaeological Field School of 2022: ‘Excavating is very rewarding’ 20 July 2022
Back 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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Contested heritage in The Hague: what to do with the remains of the Atlantik Wall? 28 June 2022
During 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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Leiden Archaeology Field School 2022 has begun in Oss 08 June 2022
With 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...