News
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Emotional bond between humans and dogs dates back 14,000 years 07 February 2018
Prehistoric people may well have had an emotional bond with domesticated dogs much earlier than we thought. Leiden PhD candidate and vet Luc Janssens...
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Three new professors in Archaeology 31 January 2018
At the Faculty of Archaeology, three new professors are appointed with effect from February 1, 2018. They are Ann Brysbaert, Marie Soressi, and Joanit...
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Archaeology alumna Matilda Sebire wins Janneke Fruin-Helb Scholarship 2017 06 December 2017
On Friday 10 November 2017 the annual Janneke Fruin-Helb Scholarship was awarded to alumna Matilda Sebire. She graduated in the master's specialisatio...
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First Dutch National Post-Doc Prize Awarded to Dr. Hayley Mickleburgh 24 November 2017
The first Dutch National Post-Doc Prize was awarded to Dr. Hayley Mickleburgh, postdoctoral researcher in the field of funerary archaeology with ERC-S...
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Archaeology alumnus Valerio Gentile wins W.A. van Es Award 20 November 2017
Valerio Gentile received the award during the Reuvensdagen for his master's thesis 'Martiality in Practice'. He is the first international student who...
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Schöningen honours researcher from Leiden 26 September 2017
Since 1992, Professor Thijs van Kolfschoten, has been excavating at Schöningen.
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'Data science enables us to develop new tools' 18 August 2017
PhD students Alex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart are both doing a project within the university’s Data Science research programme. The ar...
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Leiden archaeologists identify skull of sabre-toothed cat 12 April 2017
Leiden archaeologists have identified a number of bone fragments that were excavated in Germany two years ago. The fragments are from a sabre-toothed ...
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Archaeology in ninth position in QS World University Rankings 2017 09 March 2017
It is the second year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is ranked the highest in continental Europe. Aside from this the faculty features, as i...
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"I simply couldn't use traditional methods for my fieldwork" 20 February 2017
Karsten Lambers was interviewed by the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, where he was a post-doctoral research fellow from 2008 to 2010. Read ab...
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From scarcity to abundance: big data in archaeology 17 January 2017
New digital methods and a data explosion are radically changing archaeological research. Karsten Lambers, Associate Professor of Archaeological Comput...
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Vacancies: 2 PhD positions in Digital Archaeology 04 January 2017
The Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University is a partner in the new university-wide Data Science research programme that advocates the use of data s...
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Archaeology student Ivo Verheijen wins award with internship report 21 November 2016
Our student Ivo Verheijen won an award with his excellent report on his internship studying mammoths in Northern Siberia. This Thursday he will give a...
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Osteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones 30 August 2016
We are pleased to announce that on the 30th of September Dr. Andrea Waters-Rist from the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University (The Netherlands)...
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Palaeolithic fieldschool Barnham UK 2016 18 August 2016
This summer seven students from the Faculty of Archaeology crossed the North Sea to assist in the British Museum excavations at East Farm, Barnham, Su...