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Impressions from the Nexus 1492 fieldwork in the Dominican Republic20 August 2018The summer has flown by and the Nexus 1492 team in Valverde, Dominican Republic, has once again had an exciting and successful season!
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Corinne Hofman elected to prestigious British Academy fellowship19 July 2018Professor Corinne Hofman has been made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences. She is among 76 distingui...
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Film funded with ERC grant in premiere at Mexican film festival17 July 2018The feature drama film In Times of Rain will have its world premiere at the Guanajuato International Film Festival (#GIFF 2018) in Mexico. The film is...
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Lewis Borck's Leiden experience: "Theories and methods brought me in first"09 May 2018One and half years ago, Lewis Borck exchanged the arid and hot Southwest of the USA for the Netherlands. While an expert in Ancestral Pueblo and Hohok...
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Rescue excavations in the Caribbean02 March 2018Alongside the incredible devastation brought by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the fall of 2017, the storms have had an extremely damaging effect on the...
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Archaeology in eighth position in QS World University Rankings 201801 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 populations22 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 African15 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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Knowledge of Caribbean Amerindians crucial for colonisation of Americas13 February 2018The significance of indigenous Amerindian knowledge has been marginalised in the history of the colonisation of the Americas. Wrongly, according to re...
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Research into colonial encounters wins Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship06 February 2018Archaeologist Corinne Hofman wins the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 2018/19 for research into the changing world of indigenous peoples as a result ...
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First Dutch National Post-Doc Prize Awarded to Dr. Hayley Mickleburgh24 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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Latin American and Caribbean delegation visits Faculty of Archaeology24 November 2017The 4th Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) meeting was held at the Faculty of Archaeology on 20 November. Ambassadors and representatives from coun...
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Archaeology in ninth position in QS World University Rankings 201709 March 2017
It is the second year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is ranked the highest in continental Europe. Aside from this the faculty features, as i...
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Solving water problems with archaeology03 February 2017Archaeologist Araceli Rojas has been invited to participate in the award-winning festival Let’s Talk about Water. This festival combines academic semi...
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Scholarship for archaeologist Catarina Guzzo Falci04 January 2017In the beginning of December 2016 PhD candidate Catarina Guzzo Falci was awarded a scholarship for a collections study by Musée du quai Branly. The Mu...