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Archaeology in ninth position worldwide in QS World University Rankings 202012 March 2020It 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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The future of experiencing the past11 March 2020The Faculty of Archaeology experiments with innovating their teaching methods, using 3D scans and visualisation technology to enable active learning. ...
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'I am interested in how we simulate ourselves into the future'04 February 2020It is a known trait in humans to anchor innovations in the past, so as to make new developments easier to accept. It is an aspect of humanity that can...
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Housebuilding prehistoric style21 January 2020There’s a Stone Age house at Broekpolder, near the city of Vlaardingen. It wasn’t built by prehistoric people but by modern archaeologists from Leiden...
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Neanderthals knew what they were doing when it came to making the oldest known glue29 October 2019Adhesives are an incredibly important part of every day life. They help hold together everything from shoes and mobile phones to satellites in space. ...
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Archaeological Science article on experimental archaeology among most downloaded15 August 2019The research article ‘Anatomy of a notch. An in-depth experimental investigation and interpretation of combat traces on Bronze Age swords’ is one of t...
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Exploring 3D technology in pottery studies: ‘It is the future’06 May 2019In 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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Archaeologists visit Ethiopia for material culture studies project10 January 2019Annelou van Gijn and Diederik Pomstra took part in the Shire Project in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, to contribute to an exciting mix of lithic and use-...
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From the Colossal to the Microscopic: exhibition on archaeological sciences in Van Steenis13 December 2018Scientific methods and techniques have been employed in archaeological research since the very birth of the discipline. It is impossible to imagine mo...
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Review of 2017 Leiden Experimental Archaeology conference18 October 2018The 10th Experimental Archaeology Conference of EXARC took place in Leiden, Netherlands, over three days; 20th to the 22nd April 2017, in Leiden Unive...
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Archaeologist Diederik Pomstra subjects himself to wild food experiment17 October 2018What 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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First trials with Iron age dugout canoe26 July 2018On 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 ancestors19 July 2018Neanderthals 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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Reconstructing a Medieval house in Vlaardingen05 July 2018Nine 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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Archaeology in eighth position in QS World University Rankings 201801 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...