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New excavation robot shapes future of archaeology 31 March 2022Archaeology has always been at the forefront of innovation. Now, an inventive collaboration between archaeologists Tuna Kalayci and Alex Brandsen brin...
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Archaeology alumna Oda Nuij wins Florschütz Thesis Award 03 March 2022Annually, the Dutch Palynologische Kring invites nominations for the Florschütz Award for best MSc thesis in Palynology and Palaeobotany. This year, t...
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Archaeologist Ann Brysbaert appointed as director of Netherlands Institute at Athens 11 February 2022On March 1 2022, Professor Ann Brysbaert will succeed Dr Winfred van de Put as director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA). Having been a re...
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Researcher develops Google for archaeologists 04 February 2022An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this ma...
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Innovative research offers new insight into ancient infant feeding practices 04 February 2022New sampling and analytical strategies give archaeologists a better understanding of the nutrition and survival of ancient populations. Publication in...
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Three Leiden papers in top 10 most cited of Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 14 January 2022At the start of the year a lot of journals publish lists of their most cited papers of the previous year. Three papers published by Leiden archaeologi...
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Maia Casna investigates respiratory disease in the past with an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant 05 October 2021Every year, an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant is awarded to a prospective PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology. This year, the grant went to M...
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Rachel Schats joins Leiden Teachers Academy: ‘I am always trying to look for ways to make teaching stick better' 24 September 2021The Leiden Teachers Academy (LTA) was founded to help collaboration between excellent teachers. Osteoarchaeologist Dr Rachel Schats has been one of th...
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Asteroid named after Emeritus Professor Corrie Bakels: 'I revolve around the sun in 5.5 years' 22 September 2021Corrie Bakels is known as one of the founders of bio-archaeology in the Netherlands. One of her former students, Dr Marco Langbroek, active in astrono...
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Investigating health equality in the past with a VIDI grant: ‘We will look for indications of stress’ 17 August 2021Dr Sarah Schrader, an expert in the study of human remains, received a VIDI grant for a research project on health and inequality. In present day peop...
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Leiden archaeologists involved in grant for state-of-the-art laboratory for isotope geochemistry 24 June 2021The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a €4.84 million NWO Large grant to set up a new state-of-the-art laboratory for isotope geochemistry. The...
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Angkor region was actually a large Medieval city 10 May 2021The Greater Angkor Region in contemporary Cambodia was dramatically more urbanized in the 13th century than previously thought, and home to 700.000 to...
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Meet archaeologist Tuna Kalayci: ‘How can we integrate robots into archaeology?’ 10 March 2021In the course of 2020 the Faculty of Archaeology was bolstered by some new staff members. Due to the coronavirus situation, sadly, this went for a lar...
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Archaeology in eighth position worldwide in QS World University Rankings 2021 09 March 2021It is the fifth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University...
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Skype a Scientist: talking about ancient bones with people all over the world 02 December 2020Skype a Scientist is an online platform that matches scientists with classrooms and families around the world. At the start of the corona crisis, PhD ...