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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...
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Asteroid named after Emeritus Professor Corrie Bakels: 'I revolve around the sun in 5.5 years' 22 September 2021
Corrie Bakels is known as one of the founders of bio-archaeology in the Netherlands. One of her former students, Dr Marco Langbroek, active in astrono...
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Investigating health equality in the past with a VIDI grant: ‘We will look for indications of stress’ 17 August 2021
Dr Sarah Schrader, an expert in the study of human remains, received a VIDI grant for a research project on health and inequality. In present day peop...
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Leiden archaeologists involved in grant for state-of-the-art laboratory for isotope geochemistry 24 June 2021
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a €4.84 million NWO Large grant to set up a new state-of-the-art laboratory for isotope geochemistry. The...
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Angkor region was actually a large Medieval city 10 May 2021
The Greater Angkor Region in contemporary Cambodia was dramatically more urbanized in the 13th century than previously thought, and home to 700.000 to...
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Meet archaeologist Tuna Kalayci: ‘How can we integrate robots into archaeology?’ 10 March 2021
In the course of 2020 the Faculty of Archaeology was bolstered by some new staff members. Due to the coronavirus situation, sadly, this went for a lar...
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Archaeology in eighth position worldwide in QS World University Rankings 2021 09 March 2021
It is the fifth 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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Skype a Scientist: talking about ancient bones with people all over the world 02 December 2020
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 ...
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Putting life into Neolithic houses with an NWO subsidy: ‘We will bring detail in our image of past domestic activities’ 20 October 2020
Archaeologist Annelou van Gijn received an NWO Archeologie Telt grant to investigate domestic craft and subsistence activities of late Neolithic peopl...
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Archaeozoological Lab reorganised and renewed: 'We can now study most of the fauna in Europe' 01 October 2020
The Laboratory for Archaeozoological Studies underwent a big reorganization and received a great donation from the Institute of Biology this summer. L...
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NWO subsidy for archaeological search engine: ‘There is no physical digging involved!’ 28 September 2020
When you want to analyse big quantities of archaeological data, you run into the issue that searching through excavation reports is extremely time-con...
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Digital archaeologist Alex Brandsen featured in Artificial Intelligence dossier 10 September 2020
Apps that can precisely identify shards, coins or heel bones: archaeology has embraced artificial intelligence. Alex Brandsen is working on a search e...
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Marie Kolbenstetter will explore the archaeology of southern Honduras with a NWO subsidy 19 August 2020
Our master’s alumna Marie Kolbenstetter was recently awarded a NWO subsidy for a PhD in the Humanities. With this funding she will be able to continue...
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New Handbook on microscopic archaeological samples crosses disciplines 13 July 2020
A couple of years ago, Dr Amanda Henry noted that she was unable to determine all microremains in her archaeological samples. Herself an expert on sta...