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Archaeology at Leiden University in Top 10 of QS World University Rankings 2016 22 March 2016
The 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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Archaeology as self-reflection 10 March 2016
Archaeology can help us reflect critically on our European identity. This is what David Fontijn will claim in his inaugural lecture on 18 March.
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David Fontijn made Professor of the Archaeology of Early Europe at Leiden University 18 June 2015
Congratulations to David Fontijn, who has been recognized by the University with the title of full Professor of the Archaeology of Early Europe.
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Second prize for Nathalie Brusgaard 09 March 2015
Nathalie Brusgaard has won second prize (€ 2.000) in the Leiden University Thesis Prizes 2015 with her thesis 'The Social Significance of Cattle in Br...
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VICI Grant for Dr. David Fontijn 16 February 2015
The subsidy funds new research into the: Economies of Destruction. The emergence of metalwork deposition during the Bronze Age in Northwest Europe, c....
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Veni for Quentin Bourgeois 22 July 2014
The project investigates the landscape organization of Corded Ware groups in north-western Europe during the 3rd Millennium BC.
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Breaking and making the ancestors 11 June 2014
Arjan Louwen (MA) will start a PhD research project on the social and ideological aspects of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age cremation graves in co...
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Visit to Cambridge 19 May 2014
From 12 – 16 May, prof. Fokkens and five RMA students (Kiki de Bondt, Jordy Aal, Mette Langbroek, Gwendolynn de Groote and Bastiaan Steffens) visited ...
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Rubicon (NWO) awarded to Dr. Quentin Bourgeois 27 March 2013
A Rubicon Grant is awarded to dr Quentin Bourgeois for his reserach project "Walking along Ancestral Lines. Prehistoric barrow alignments from the 3rd...
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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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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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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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NWO-multiple project for Prof. Harry Fokkens 17 December 2010
The Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research has honored the application of Prof. Harry Fokkens for the research project entitled "Farmers of t...