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Marie Louise Sørensen Professor in Bronze Age Studies 19 December 2012
The Faculty of Archaeology has appointed Dr Marie Louise Sørensen as Professor in Bronze Age Studies in the European Prehistory research group from 1s...
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Leakey Foundation funds fieldwork in the Turkana Basin 07 December 2012
Dr. Josephine Joordens, post-doctoral researcher of the Human Origins Group, has been awarded a grant of EUR 15.000 to conduct fieldwork in the Turkan...
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Zenobia essay prize for Dr. Miguel John Versluys 01 December 2012
Dr. Miguel John Versluys was awarded the Zenobia Essay Prize during the recent conference Troy: the city, the war, the legend organized by the Zenobia...
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Archaeologists present Queen Beatrix with research on burial mounds at Het Loo 08 November 2012
Archaeologists from Leiden University and the municipality of Apeldoorn have excavated two prehistoric ancestral mounds dating from 300 years BC at th...
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2012 Spectacular finds Fieldschool 2012 Anse Trabaud 01 August 2012
In June and July 2012 a Leiden Fieldschool was conducted at the late pre-Columbian site of Anse Trabaud in southeastern Martinique. High levels of pre...
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2012 LGI Seed funding awarded to research project: Globalisation, materiality and the transference of cultures 27 June 2012
The LGI is pleased to annouce that seed money has been granted to Dr. Miguel John Versluys (Archaeology), Prof. Caroline van Eck (Art History) and Pro...
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Chiara Piccoli wins scholarship by the Italian Research Council 29 March 2012
Chiara Piccoli has been awarded a scholarship by the Italian Research Council to work at the Virtual Heritage Lab of the Institute of Technologies app...
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2012 Fulbright Scholarship for Peter Siegel 01 February 2012
Dr Peter Siegel, Associate Professor in Anthropology from Montclair State University, New York, has obtained a Fulbright Scholarship to participate in...
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EUROTAST Press Release 01 December 2011
The transatlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries represents one of the most traumatic chapters in history and is now widely recognise...
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LeidenGlobal connects research and culture 25 November 2011
On 27 November the official opening of LeidenGlobal will be celebrated in the Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde/National Museum of Ethnology. LeidenGlobal is a ...
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New project on the last Ice Age 02 November 2011
The Australian Research Council funded a truly ‘global archaeology’ project comparing the archaeologies of southwest Tasmania and southwest France dur...
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Vidi voor Miguel John Versluys 30 September 2011
The Netherlands Organisation of Scientic Research (NWO) has granted the VIDI application of Dr. Miguel John Versluys for the research of Cultural inno...
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Early Iron Age princely grave of the Maashorst on display 21 September 2011
In August 2010 the Faculty of Archaeology conducted an excavation in the Maashorst-area, situated in the northeastern part of Brabant.
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Veni research Roy van Beek 25 August 2011
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded dr. Roy van Beek a Veni grant. This grant offers young researchers the possibility to...
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2011 ERC Grant for Bleda Düring for research on Hegemonic Practices of the Middle Assyrian Empire of Tell Sabi Abyad 24 August 2011
The European Research Council had awarded a Starting Independent Researcher Grant to Bleda Düring for the project Consolidating Empire.Reconstructing ...