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Citizen scientists discover more than 1,000 new burial mounds 24 January 2023
Over the past few years, citizen scientists from the Heritage Quest project have scoured the entire Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas for unknown a...
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People used bearskins to keep warm 300,000 years ago 23 December 2022
Cut marks on the bones of bears show that people in North-West Europe used bearskins to keep warm 300,000 years ago. Archaeologists believe that a met...
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Robotics and AI in archaeological theory and practice 22 December 2022
What can Robotics and AI bring to archaeological theory and practice? In return, how can archaeology contribute to the developments in robotics and AI...
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The Botany Club goes abroad: excursion to the Eifel 15 September 2022
The Botany Club, a group of enthusiastic archaeobotanists and -biologists, travelled to the Eifel in May 2022 for their annual excursion. The chosen d...
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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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Aitor Burguet-Coca studied fire-use from Palaeolithic to Bronze Age: ‘This gives us an image on different uses of fire across prehistory’ 09 May 2022
For the following years, Dr Aitor Burguet-Coca will be a returning face at the Faculty of Archaeology. He will join Dr Amanda Henry’s team with his ex...
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 7th in QS World University Ranking 08 April 2022
It is the sixth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University...
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New excavation robot shapes future of archaeology 31 March 2022
Archaeology has always been at the forefront of innovation. Now, an inventive collaboration between archaeologists Tuna Kalayci and Alex Brandsen brin...
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Archaeology alumna Oda Nuij wins Florschütz Thesis Award 03 March 2022
Annually, the Dutch Palynologische Kring invites nominations for the Florschütz Award for best MSc thesis in Palynology and Palaeobotany. This year, t...
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Archaeologist Ann Brysbaert appointed as director of Netherlands Institute at Athens 11 February 2022
On March 1 2022, Professor Ann Brysbaert will succeed Dr Winfred van de Put as director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA). Having been a re...
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Researcher develops Google for archaeologists 04 February 2022
An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this ma...
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Innovative research offers new insight into ancient infant feeding practices 04 February 2022
New sampling and analytical strategies give archaeologists a better understanding of the nutrition and survival of ancient populations. Publication in...
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Three Leiden papers in top 10 most cited of Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 14 January 2022
At the start of the year a lot of journals publish lists of their most cited papers of the previous year. Three papers published by Leiden archaeologi...
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Maia Casna investigates respiratory disease in the past with an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant 05 October 2021
Every year, an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant is awarded to a prospective PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology. This year, the grant went to M...
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Rachel Schats joins Leiden Teachers Academy: ‘I am always trying to look for ways to make teaching stick better' 24 September 2021
The Leiden Teachers Academy (LTA) was founded to help collaboration between excellent teachers. Osteoarchaeologist Dr Rachel Schats has been one of th...