News
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Roasting tubers for science 15 March 2016
The way that traditional hunter-gatherers roasted tubers can shed new light on how people prepared food in prehistoric times. Archaeologist Stephanie ...
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Haarlem ontlast 11 March 2016
Over poep, pies en de beerput
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Archaeology as self-reflection 10 March 2016
Archaeology can help us reflect critically on our European identity. This is what David Fontijn will claim in his inaugural lecture on 18 March.
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Should we close our borders? Not according to the Classical World! 09 March 2016
Leiden University archaeologists receive multiple awards for research on interaction between the Greek and Roman world and ‘The East’
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Neanderthals collected manganese dioxide to make fire 29 February 2016
Manganese dioxide is abundant in nature, and owing to their colour, these oxides have been used as pigments since the Stone Age. Some of the cave pain...
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VICI Award for Miguel John Versluys 16 February 2016
Dr. Miguel John Versluys (Archaeology) has been awarded a prestigious Vici grant for his project: "Innovating objects. The agency of global connection...
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MOU Signing Between Leiden University And ACTA 15 February 2016
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Professor Corinne Hofman of the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University and Professor Albert Feilzer fr...
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A DANS KDP grant for ‘Mapping historical Leiden’-phase 2 03 February 2016
Second phase of mapping historical Leiden project made possible by DANS Kleine Data funding.
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Start of reconstruction indigenous village in St. Vincent 25 January 2016
In 2010, the remnants of a 16th century indigenous village were discovered in St. Vincent, on the construction terrain of the new International Argyl...
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NEXUS1492 study on ancient human microbiomes published in Nature Scientific Reports 16 November 2015
An international team of researchers, involving members from the ERC Synergy project NEXUS 1492 based at the Leiden University, the Universities of Ok...
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University of Chicago Press Journals Continue to Earn Top Impact Factor Rankings 14 October 2015
According to Thomson Reuters’ 2014 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) and the Washington & Lee University School of Law 2014 Journal Rankings, 22 journal...
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David Fontijn made Professor of the Archaeology of Early Europe at Leiden University 18 June 2015
Congratulations to David Fontijn, who has been recognized by the University with the title of full Professor of the Archaeology of Early Europe.
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Fire, a universal landscaping tool 08 June 2015
Ancient peoples might have harnessed the power of fire to modify their environment
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Second prize for Nathalie Brusgaard 09 March 2015
Nathalie Brusgaard has won second prize (€ 2.000) in the Leiden University Thesis Prizes 2015 with her thesis 'The Social Significance of Cattle in Br...
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VICI Grant for Dr. David Fontijn 16 February 2015
The subsidy funds new research into the: Economies of Destruction. The emergence of metalwork deposition during the Bronze Age in Northwest Europe, c....