News
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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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Dean Archaeology Corinne Hofman Member of Academia Europaea 15 September 2016
The Council of the Academia Europaea (AE) has announced prof.dr. Corinne Hofman as one of the new Academy members. Corinne Hofman, Dean of the Faculty...
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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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High-tech imaging reveals rare precolonial Mexican manuscript hidden from view for 500 years 16 August 2016
Researchers from the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and from universities in the Netherlands have used high-tech imaging to uncover the det...
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Crowd funding for Cultural centre at Aguas Buenas archaeological site, Nicaragua 04 August 2016
Campaign initiated at Generosity to cover the cost of construction.
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Leiden archaeologist as president to byzantine world conference 01 August 2016
Joanita Vroom has been appointed as president of the Society ‘Byzantine Studies Netherlands / Byzantijnse Studies Nederland’, the Dutch branch of the ...
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Boest: Bronze Age at its best 20 July 2016
Prof. David Fontijn’s Economies of Destruction team was invited by Museum Midtjylland to participate in this year’s excavation in Boest, Jutland (Denm...
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Four Rubicon grants for Leiden researchers 13 July 2016
Four young Leiden researchers have been awarded a Rubicon grant to conduct research abroad. They will be working in Germany, the UK and the US study...
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New Professor for the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden 11 July 2016
Miguel John Versluys (1971) has been appointed Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.
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Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds winner - Marcus Adrian Roxburgh 22 June 2016
His PhD research project - entitled Charlemagne's Workshops - is an ongoing investigation into the role of copper-alloy craft production in the early ...
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Documentaries regarding Amerindian Heritage on Hispaniola 16 June 2016
Two short documentaries by Till F. Sonnemann highlight the work conducted by Leiden archaeologists on Hispaniola as part of the Nexus1492 project.
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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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Eleven Vidi grants for Leiden 13 May 2016
NWO has awarded eleven Leiden researchers a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. The research subjects range from Cicero and muscle dystrophy to the archaeolo...
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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...