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Neanderthals used refined hunting techniques 120,000 years ago 25 June 2018
Neanderthals used careful techniques to hunt their prey at close range. This is the conclusion of an international team of archaeologists, including r...
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European award for dissertation on Early Iron Age elite burials 22 June 2018
In 2017 Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof defended her dissertation on Early Iron Age elite burials of the Low Countries at the Faculty of Archaeology. Ou...
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Lewis Borck's Leiden experience: "Theories and methods brought me in first" 09 May 2018
One 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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Subsidy for digitalisation of Tell Deir Alla fieldwork 09 May 2018
The Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) accepted the request for subsidy to digitise the archive of the archaeological fieldwork at Tell Deir...
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Joanita Vroom investigates Byzantines and Ottomans with Aspasia grant 29 March 2018
The Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) has awarded Professor Joanita Vroom with the Aspasia grant of €200,000. She will use...
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Neandertal genome from Les Cottés site sequenced 27 March 2018
On March 21 2018, a study was published in Nature, co-authored by Professor M. Soressi from the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University, announcin...
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Rescue excavations in the Caribbean 02 March 2018
Alongside 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 2018 01 March 2018
It 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 populations 22 February 2018
A 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 African 15 February 2018
A 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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Skull 'oldest Dutchman' retrieved from North Sea bed 14 February 2018
A fragment of a human skull from the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) and a decorated bison bone, both from the North Sea ...
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Knowledge of Caribbean Amerindians crucial for colonisation of Americas 13 February 2018
The 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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Field school in Portugal: Romans, drones and monasteries 12 February 2018
Staff and students from the Faculty of Archaeology are just back from a newly started Field School in the inland of Portugal.
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Research into colonial encounters wins Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 06 February 2018
Archaeologist 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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Three new professors in Archaeology 31 January 2018
At the Faculty of Archaeology, three new professors are appointed with effect from February 1, 2018. They are Ann Brysbaert, Marie Soressi, and Joanit...