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Femke Reidsma to Harvard with Rubicon Grant for research on early fire usePaleoecology 23 March 2026Researcher Femke Reidsma has been awarded a prestigious Rubicon grant. With this fellowship, she will spend two years conducting research at Harvard U...
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Neanderthal prey: elephant teeth preserve 125,000-year-old record of movement and diet17 March 2026Fossil teeth can preserve remarkable information, much like a biological identity card with data about the lives of individuals tens of thousands of y...
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Contributions in New World Archaeology Vol. 18 dedicated to our late colleague Dr Andrzej Antczak10 March 2026The latest volume of Contributions in New World Archaeology (Vol. 18) has been dedicated to the memory of Dr Andrzej Tadeusz Antczak, an eminent archa...
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Quentin Bourgeois appointed new Vice-Dean for Education at the Faculty of Archaeology12 February 2026Quentin Bourgeois, Associate Professor of European Prehistory, will assume the position of Vice-Dean for Education at the Faculty of Archaeology of Le...
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Wil Roebroeks looks back on a life in archaeology: ‘I’ve always enjoyed my work’09 December 2025After nearly two years of retirement, Wil Roebroeks looks back on a career that began in a time of freedom and ended in a field that has undergone pro...
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Ice age architecture: how mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity27 November 2025What do you build with when trees are scarce and winters are brutal? For hunter-gatherers living in current-day Ukraine some 18,000 years ago, the ans...
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Investigating the Europe-wide connections of early medieval commoners with an ERC Synergy Grant06 November 2025A large research group involving Leiden University as corresponding Host Institution has been awarded a major European grant, the ERC Synergy Grant. T...
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Early hunter-gatherers reshaped Europe’s ecosystems long before agriculture22 October 2025In a new study published in PLOS One, Leiden archaeologist Anastasia Nikulina, together with an international team from France, Denmark, the United Ki...
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Tracing mobility and connection to place in the world’s first farming villages09 October 2025How did people move and form communities when human societies first shifted from hunting and gathering to farming? A new study of the Neolithic period...
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Lennart Kruijer returns to Archaeology: ‘It’s good to be back!’22 September 2025After a three-year absence, Lennart Kruijer has returned to the Faculty of Archaeology. He previously completed his PhD within the VICI project Innova...
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Leiden archaeologists play a role in repatriating Central and South American heritage05 September 2025On 3 September 2025, more than 30 archaeological objects were returned to Peru, Panama and Costa Rica. The objects come from a private collection belo...
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ERC grant for Nathalie Brusgaard's investigation into complex relationship early farmers and wild animalsA largely unexplored theme 03 September 2025The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a prestigious Starting Grant to Leiden archaeologist Dr Nathalie Brusgaard. With this €1.5 million gra...
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Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago02 July 2025Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Afri...
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What does ‘human’ really mean? When Philosophy and archaeology join forces30 June 2025Archaeology is the only science that allows us to study the material traces left by most of human evolution. But what happens when we bring philosophy...
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Bleda Düring investigates social inequality in Cyprus with ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025Archaeologist Prof Bleda Düring has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for his research on the emergence of social inequalities in the tran...