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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...
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Archaeology thanks to computer-based research 04 February 2020
A mix of data research, artificial intelligence and archaeology led to lively discussions on 31 January. On that day the unique event 'AI & Data Scien...
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No humans needed: Neanderthals possibly responsible for their own extinction 27 November 2019
Scientists remain puzzled by the sudden extinction of Neanderthals, some 40,000 years ago. New research by scientists from Eindhoven University of Tec...
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Innovative online course on Modelling and Simulation in Archaeology 02 July 2019
Simulation is a formal scientific method used to develop, compare and test hypotheses (models). In the last few decades the use of simulation has incr...
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A digital eye for archaeologists 25 June 2019
Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart is refining an artificial intelligence system that can detect and classify archaeological objects on digital images. Su...
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Exploring 3D technology in pottery studies: ‘It is the future’ 06 May 2019
In the depots of the Faculty of Archaeology, many artifacts, accumulated after decades of fieldwork across the world, are stored. A new project, the L...
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Building an excavation report search engine with a Digital Humanities grant 21 February 2019
PhD candidate Alex Brandsen, working in the Digital Archaeology research group has recently received a grant from the Leiden University Centre for Dig...
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Victor Klinkenberg’s Leiden Experience: “I like to bring experts and ideas together” 08 January 2019
Dr Victor Klinkenberg calls himself a generalist pur sang. As an expert on digital archaeology he has worked on nearly all the regions the Faculty of ...
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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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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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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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'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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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...