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ERC Advanced Grant for Frans Theuws 06 April 2017
Prof. dr. Frans Theuws has received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The 2,5 million euro grant will be used in a 5-year A...
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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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Archaeologist involved in developing boardgame 01 March 2017
Archaeologist Maikel Kuijpers participated in the development of the boardgame Epoch: Early Inventors. “This game is inspired by the major innovation ...
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Archaeologist Tesse Stek studies Roman colonisation with fellowship 16 February 2017
As Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW) fellow, Tesse Stek will explore the intricate relationship between the history of ideas about ...
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Archaeology student Erik Kroon wins university thesis award 2017 16 February 2017
During the Dies Natalis for alumni, February 11 2017, the annual university thesis awards ceremony was held. The winner of 2017 is Erik Kroon, of the ...
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'I cook, therefore I am' 10 February 2017
For a new food-related exhibition in the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, archaeologist Dr. Joanita Vroom has cooperated in creating the Taste Lab, where one ...
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Solving water problems with archaeology 03 February 2017
Archaeologist Araceli Rojas has been invited to participate in the award-winning festival Let’s Talk about Water. This festival combines academic semi...
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New visiting staff member: Beatriz Paneda Murcia 11 January 2017
Beatriz Pañeda Murcia, from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, will be present at our Faculty as a guest PhD researcher over the coming months.
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Scholarship for archaeologist Catarina Guzzo Falci 04 January 2017
In the beginning of December 2016 PhD candidate Catarina Guzzo Falci was awarded a scholarship for a collections study by Musée du quai Branly. The Mu...
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Bastiaan Steffens takes up PhD position at Leicester University 14 December 2016
January 1st 2017, Bastiaan Steffens will be taking up the Graduate Teaching Assistance PhD position at the Archaeology and Ancient History department ...
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Former research assistant Hannah Plug appointed at Liverpool University 14 December 2016
Until September 2016, Hannah Plug was Research Assistant for the Consolidating Empire Research Project under the direction of Dr. Bleda Düring. Now, ...
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Invisible Landscapes: Colonialism and history in Montecristi 12 December 2016
Archaeologist Eduardo Herrera Malatesta reflects on the unfamiliarity with the pre-Columbian past that he encountered during fieldwork in the Montecri...
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Archaeologist Joanita Vroom receives Global Interactions Breed Grant 30 November 2016
Dr. Joanita Vroom has been awarded a Breed Grant by the Leiden Global Interactions research profile to support the realisation of her project ‘Shiftin...
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Leiden University hosts closing symposium of HERA-CARIB Project 12 October 2016
On 26 and 27 September 2016, the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University hosted the closing symposium of the HERA-CARIB project “Caribbean Connect...