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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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Schöningen honours researcher from Leiden 26 September 2017
Since 1992, Professor Thijs van Kolfschoten, has been excavating at Schöningen.
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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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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...