News
-
Professor Corrie Bakels receives 50th Analecta 26 March 2020
Corrie Bakels would have given this year's Kroon lecture on Friday March 20, but the event was canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak. Her colleague...
-
Rachel Schats is preparing an archaeology course from home: ‘Do what you can and don’t make it yourself too difficult’ 26 March 2020
As a lecturer of a block 4 course, osteoarchaeologist Dr Rachel Schats is preparing to give her education remotely. For this she uses Kaltura, Leiden ...
-
Archaeology in ninth position worldwide in QS World University Rankings 2020 12 March 2020
It is the fourth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World Universit...
-
The future of experiencing the past 11 March 2020
The Faculty of Archaeology experiments with innovating their teaching methods, using 3D scans and visualisation technology to enable active learning. ...
-
Mike Field’s Leiden Experience: ‘I try to make research teaching and teaching research.’ 11 March 2020
Mike Field has been at the Faculty of Archaeology since 2008. As a driven archaeobotanist, he is consistantly contributing to the study of plant fossi...
-
Sandrine Gallois second place in prestigious Rising Talent Prize 22 November 2019
Sandrine Gallois, a post-doctoral research in the HARVEST project, was awarded second place in the prestigious L'Óreal UNESCO For Women In Science Ris...
-
Thijs van Kolfschoten President Quaternary Research union 10 September 2019
This summer, the International Union For Quaternary Research (INQUA) 2019 Congress took place in Dublin (Ireland), with 2305 delegates from 75 countr...
-
Rachel Schats’ Leiden Experience: ‘I want to contribute to human history and human health.’ 01 August 2019
Rachel Schats has been a familiar face at the Faculty of Archaeology since she started her bachelor’s in Archaeology in 2005. Now she is an assistant ...
-
Amanda Henry’s Leiden Experience: ‘I want to know why our ancestors made certain choices’ 03 May 2019
Two years ago, Amanda Henry joined the Faculty of Archaeology’s Archaeological Sciences department. She investigates diet and human evolution, with a ...
-
800 year old mystery of ancient bone disease solved 30 April 2019
Scientific research at the molecular level on a collection of medieval skeletons from Norton Priory in Cheshire, United Kingdom, could help rewrite hi...
-
Sarah Schrader appointed to Young Academy Leiden 08 January 2019
The recently formed Young Academy Leiden consists of a group of young scholars who are committed to increasing interdisciplinary research, promoting s...
-
From the Colossal to the Microscopic: exhibition on archaeological sciences in Van Steenis 13 December 2018
Scientific methods and techniques have been employed in archaeological research since the very birth of the discipline. It is impossible to imagine mo...
-
About 350 human skeletons from Arnhem come to Leiden on loan 19 October 2018
Leiden Archaeology students may write their master's theses on the recently acquired collection skeletons from the city of Arnhem. We interviewed oste...
-
Archaeologist Diederik Pomstra subjects himself to wild food experiment 17 October 2018
What did our distant ancestors eat and how did they prepare their food? For the length of a month, experimental archaeologist Diederik Pomstra subject...
-
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 ...