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Prof. Bakels celebrates half-a-century scholarship at Leiden University 17 April 2018Prof. 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 2018Since 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 2018It 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 2018A 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 2018A 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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‘Archaeology is quintessentially interdisciplinary' 13 February 2018Professor of Archaeometry Patrick Degryse analyses archaeological finds using techniques from chemistry, physics and biology. He will give his inaugur...
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Maiden voyage of prehistoric dug out canoe replica 08 February 2018After 30 days of work, the experimental reconstruction of the iron age canoe of Vlaardingen Vergulde Hand is finished! Its maiden voyage will take pla...
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Emotional bond between humans and dogs dates back 14,000 years 07 February 2018Prehistoric 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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Three new professors in Archaeology 31 January 2018At the Faculty of Archaeology, three new professors are appointed with effect from February 1, 2018. They are Ann Brysbaert, Marie Soressi, and Joanit...
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Archaeology alumna Matilda Sebire wins Janneke Fruin-Helb Scholarship 2017 06 December 2017On Friday 10 November 2017 the annual Janneke Fruin-Helb Scholarship was awarded to alumna Matilda Sebire. She graduated in the master's specialisatio...
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First Dutch National Post-Doc Prize Awarded to Dr. Hayley Mickleburgh 24 November 2017The 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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Archaeology alumnus Valerio Gentile wins W.A. van Es Award 20 November 2017Valerio Gentile received the award during the Reuvensdagen for his master's thesis 'Martiality in Practice'. He is the first international student who...
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Schöningen honours researcher from Leiden 26 September 2017Since 1992, Professor Thijs van Kolfschoten, has been excavating at Schöningen.
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'Data science enables us to develop new tools' 18 August 2017PhD 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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Leiden archaeologists identify skull of sabre-toothed cat 12 April 2017Leiden archaeologists have identified a number of bone fragments that were excavated in Germany two years ago. The fragments are from a sabre-toothed ...