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Archaeological Science article on experimental archaeology among most downloaded 15 August 2019
The 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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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...
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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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Archaeologists visit Ethiopia for material culture studies project 10 January 2019
Annelou 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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Review of 2017 Leiden Experimental Archaeology conference 18 October 2018
The 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 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...