News
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Vacancies: 2 PhD positions in Digital Archaeology 04 January 2017The Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University is a partner in the new university-wide Data Science research programme that advocates the use of data s...
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Archaeology student Ivo Verheijen wins award with internship report 21 November 2016Our student Ivo Verheijen won an award with his excellent report on his internship studying mammoths in Northern Siberia. This Thursday he will give a...
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Osteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones 30 August 2016We are pleased to announce that on the 30th of September Dr. Andrea Waters-Rist from the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University (The Netherlands)...
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Palaeolithic fieldschool Barnham UK 2016 18 August 2016This summer seven students from the Faculty of Archaeology crossed the North Sea to assist in the British Museum excavations at East Farm, Barnham, Su...
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A busy early summer for the SETinSTONE team at Salamis, Athens, and the Argolid 02 August 2016In June 2016, Dr. Ann Brysbaert and her SETinSTONE team were invited to participate in the fieldwork training season on Salamis island in Greece.
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Schöningen field campaign 2016 28 June 2016As every year the Faculty of Archaeology bioarchaeology group has visited Schöningen Germany for field research.
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North Wales Botany Club Trip 2016 01 May 2016Between the 29th of April and the 2nd of May 2016 the Botany Club went on its annual excursion. This time, the theme was alpine and arctic plants an...
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Corrie Bakels portrait unveiled 18 April 2016During the Dean’s lecture on April 21 a portrait of Corrie Bakels will be unveiled. This portrait is part of the initiative of Athena’s Angels project...
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Archaeology at Leiden University in Top 10 of QS World University Rankings 2016 22 March 2016The Faculty of Archaeology ranks as the best in continental Europe and is in the top ten of the world. The Faculty of Archaeology hosts a successful m...
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Glue recipes and prehistoric brainpower 17 March 2016How do archaeologists test ideas about the evolution of the modern brain? Veni-researcher Geeske Langejans and then Master student Paul Kozowyk (Leide...
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Paul Kozowyk wins 2nd/3rd prize Leiden University Thesis Awards 13 February 2016Leiden University 2016 thesis awards were awarded to Kaspar Pucek (History), Mariska Meijer (Bio Medical Sciences) and Paul Kozowyk (Archaeology).
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Digital Archaeology group organises sessions at CAA conference 09 February 2016The annual Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference is the most important scientific event in the field of digit...
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Pre-Neanderthalers could handle complex techniques 16 December 2015An international team of researchers including Leiden archaeologists has produced convincing evidence that 300,000 years ago pre-Neanderthal people ha...
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Researched to the bone 12 December 2015Symposium on the extraordinary excavations at Middenbeemster
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Digital Archaeology 04 November 2015
New name of the Computer Applications group