News
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Veni for climate change and human evolution 06 September 2013
Leiden archaeologist José Joordens has been awarded a Veni grant to develop her research on the role of climate change in early hominin evolution.
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Archeologists involved in drilling the East African Rift System 03 September 2013
NWO-ALW has funded the project Climate impact on human evolution: age calibration of the ICDP Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP), l...
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Neandertals made the first specialised bone tools in Europe 13 August 2013
New finds demonstrate that Neandertals were the first in Europe to make standardised and specialised bone tools – which are still in use today. These ...
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PhD grant for Andy Sorensen 21 June 2013
NWO Humanities and the Humanities Regieorgaan have awarded a PhD grant to Andy Sorensen under the joint funding program PhDs in the Humanities. Andy w...
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Leiden archaeologist Wil Roebroeks appointed Academy Professor 08 May 2013
Wil Roebroeks, Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology in Leiden, is to be awarded the ‘Academy Professors Prize’ of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sc...
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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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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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Sparks on the Reuvensplaats 15 June 2011
Making fire is no simple matter. This became abundantly clear during the demonstration by German archaeologist Jürgen Weiner. Weiner was invited by Pr...
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Humboldt Research Award for Wil Roebroeks 21 January 2011
Prof. Dr. Wil Roebroeks has been elected as recipient of a Humboldt Research Award after having been nominated for this award by the German scientist ...
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Happisburgh, East Anglia 10 July 2010
The research Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe published 8th July 2010 in Nature is part of the An...
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A Neandertal fossil from the north sea 15 June 2009
A fragment of a human skull discovered in sediments extracted from the bottom of the North Sea, 15 km off the coast off the Netherlands, has been iden...
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2008 Culture and cognition of Palaeolithic hominins 11 February 2008
The Palaeolithic period extends from the earliest stone tools (and in Europe, earliest occupation) to the beginning of the current warm period.
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Wil Roebroeks wins Spinoza Prize 04 June 2007
The Leiden archaeologist Wil Roebroeks has been awarded the Spinoza prize for his original observations about early hominins and the development of hu...