News
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What makes us human? Or modern human? 31 May 2017
Two Vidi subsidies for Faculty of Archaeology.
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Neanderthals coming out of the dirt 03 May 2017
Extinct hominin DNA extracted from >40,000 years old sediment
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Archaeology article Scientific Reports in top 100 most read 29 March 2017
The research article ‘Selection and Use of Manganese Dioxide by Neanderthals’ received 12421 article views in 2016, placing it as one of the top 100 r...
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Archaeology in ninth position in QS World University Rankings 2017 09 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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Are modern humans simply bad at smoking? 21 September 2016
Scientist looked for the genetic footprint of fire use in our genes, but found that our prehistoric cousins - the Neanderthals - and even the great ap...
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Shumon Hussain wins EAA Student Award 31 August 2016
The 2016 EAA student award was won by Leiden Archaeology PhD candidate Shumon Hussain.
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Neandertals revised 07 June 2016
As the flagship journal of the National Academy of Sciences USA, PNAS publishes several special features each year highlighting topics that are expect...
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Population size fails to explain the evolution of complex culture 04 April 2016
The logic seems inescapable indeed. The bigger the population, the higher the probability it contains an Einstein. Hence, bigger populations are more ...
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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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Roasting tubers for science 15 March 2016
The way that traditional hunter-gatherers roasted tubers can shed new light on how people prepared food in prehistoric times. Archaeologist Stephanie ...
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Neanderthals collected manganese dioxide to make fire 29 February 2016
Manganese dioxide is abundant in nature, and owing to their colour, these oxides have been used as pigments since the Stone Age. Some of the cave pain...
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University of Chicago Press Journals Continue to Earn Top Impact Factor Rankings 14 October 2015
According to Thomson Reuters’ 2014 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) and the Washington & Lee University School of Law 2014 Journal Rankings, 22 journal...
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Fire, a universal landscaping tool 08 June 2015
Ancient peoples might have harnessed the power of fire to modify their environment
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Fire came to Europe later than was thought 30 July 2014
Early hominins probably lived in Europe for hundreds of thousands of years before using fire to alleviate the winter cold, to cook or to make tools. I...
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Jean Jacques Hublin appointed in Leiden 12 September 2013
The Board of Leiden University has authorized the Faculty of Archaeology to appoint Prof. dr. Jean-Jacques Hublin as professor of palaeoanthropology. ...