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Archaeology students make documentary on the Cypriot past29 February 2024The Leiden Archaeology social media team presents its first documentary on one of our faculty's research projects. A team led by Bleda Düring, Victor ...
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Looking for the earliest European home with an ERC Consolidator Grant14 February 2024During the Late Pleistocene, Europe was a cold and unforgiving place to live. Even so, groups of early modern humans roamed around, just like their Ne...
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Developing methods on remote sensing detection of archaeological features in Colombia with LDE grant18 January 2024A Leiden-Delft-Erasmus research team has been awarded a LDE Global Support Grant to develop reusable algorithms in the remote detection of non-orthogo...
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Archaeology Inter-Section journal offers students the chance to publish: ‘I learned a lot during the process’20 December 2023The Faculty of Archaeology's own home-grown journal Inter-Section has released a new volume. Inter-Section offers students and PhD candidates the uniq...
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Leiden archaeologist investigates washed up plastics with National Geographic grant20 December 2023Roberto Arciero is part of RESPIRE project (Research Educational and Storytelling Project in Italian Remote Ecosystem), an international and interdisc...
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Grant enables archaeologists to study origins of museum artefacts13 December 2023Two researchers from the Faculty of Archaeology have received a grant from the Museums, Collections and Society (MSC) interdisciplinary programme. Thi...
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Hunting of European straight-tusked elephants was widespread among Neanderthals 125,000 years ago06 December 2023Finds uncovered in the east of Germany show that Neanderthals stored and preserved vast amounts of meat and/or temporarily aggregated in larger groups...
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Beaver exploitation testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominins24 November 2023Exploitation of smaller game is rarely documented before the latest phases of the Pleistocene, which is often taken to imply narrow diets for earlier ...
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These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’22 November 2023Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course,...
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Remembering Olivier Nieuwenhuyse with a festschrift: ‘He would have loved this book’22 November 2023On November 16 a festschrift in honor of Dr Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was presented in a moving event at the Faculty of Archaeology. Professor Bleda Düring...
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Investigating obsidian sources in Honduras with a Corrie Bakels Grant13 November 2023Obsidian, a volcanic glass-like material, is often used for making tools by Mesoamerican societies. In Honduras, certain obsidian artefacts do not yet...
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The future of the past is enough to make you feel down03 November 2023The slogan of the Faculty of Archaeology, ‘The Future of the Past starts at Leiden University’, might sound like empty marketing speak. But there is s...
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‘Media appearances are less scary than you might think’: Researchers share their top tips02 November 2023As a researcher, it can be fun and useful to talk to the media about your work. But on what terms should you agree to do an interview or appear on a t...
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New publication reviews Dutch colonial sources on the Indigenous Brazilian Tapuia people30 October 2023New publication reviews Dutch colonial sources on the Indigenous Brazilian Tapuia people: ‘For them the Dutch were another piece on the political ches...
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Beavers had a big influence on how people in the Stone Age lived17 October 2023For thousands of years, beavers had a big influence on the Dutch ecosystem and the people that lived there. This is the conclusion of research by arch...