News
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Leiden strengthens collaboration with China 16 October 2018
A delegation from Leiden University, headed by Vice-Rector Hester Bijl, was in China from 9 to 11 October. During the visit to different universities ...
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Mike Field to head the Bioarchaeology Labs 10 September 2018
Dr 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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In memoriam: Dr Johanna Stöger (1957-2018) 21 August 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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First trials with Iron age dugout canoe 26 July 2018
On the 6th of July, wood specialists, members of the canoe club Natsec, a professional boat builder, volunteers of the Vlaardingen Broekpolder and stu...
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Neanderthals could make fire – just like our modern ancestors 19 July 2018
Neanderthals were able to make fire on a large scale with the aid of pyrite and hand-axes. This means they could decide when and where they wanted fir...
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2 new Veni-grants: investigating malaria in the Middle Ages and coinage in Rome 17 July 2018
Two researchers at the Faculty of Archaeology have received a Veni award from the Netherlands Organisation for Academic Research (NWO). This award off...
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Reconstructing a Medieval house in Vlaardingen 05 July 2018
Nine Archaeology students have built a reconstruction of an early medieval house in Vlaardingen. The house, built according to a houseplan discovered ...
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How can you rescue clay tablets from the war in Syria? 07 June 2018
On 7 June, the National Museum of Antiquities opened a mini exhibition 'Scanning for Syria'. The exhibition shows how Leiden archaeologists and Delft ...
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Prof. Bakels celebrates half-a-century scholarship at Leiden University 17 April 2018
Prof. C. Bakels is an archaeobotanist who devoted most of her career researching farming, its (pre)history and influence on the landscape. Born in 194...
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Sarah Schrader to head the Osteoarchaeology lab 09 April 2018
Since August 2017, dr. Sarah Schrader is working at the Faculty of Archaeology in the department of Archaeological Sciences. Her expertise is human os...
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Archaeology in eighth position in QS World University Rankings 2018 01 March 2018
It is the third year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is ranked the highest in continental Europe. Aside from this the faculty features, as it...
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Traces of indigenous "Taíno" found in present-day Caribbean populations 22 February 2018
A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called "Taíno", the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of European...
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Dental analysis gives unique insight in life of enslaved African 15 February 2018
A new study published in Archaeometry describes the unexpected results obtained from analyses of five human teeth discovered in a ritual cache at an ...
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‘Archaeology is quintessentially interdisciplinary' 13 February 2018
Professor of Archaeometry Patrick Degryse analyses archaeological finds using techniques from chemistry, physics and biology. He will give his inaugur...
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Maiden voyage of prehistoric dug out canoe replica 08 February 2018
After 30 days of work, the experimental reconstruction of the iron age canoe of Vlaardingen Vergulde Hand is finished! Its maiden voyage will take pla...