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Leiden archaeologist Wil Roebroeks appointed Academy Professor08 May 2013
Wil Roebroeks, Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology in Leiden, is to be awarded the ‘Academy Professors Prize’ of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sc...
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Rubicon (NWO) awarded to Dr. Quentin Bourgeois27 March 2013
A Rubicon Grant is awarded to dr Quentin Bourgeois for his reserach project "Walking along Ancestral Lines. Prehistoric barrow alignments from the 3rd...
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24 years of excavations on one DVD: The archive of Tell Sabi Abyad will be digitized with a grant from DANS27 February 2013
DANS (Digital Archiving and Networked Services - an institute of the KNAW) has granted an application for a Small Data Project for the digitizing and ...
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Minister Plasterk opens exhibition on the work of Corinne Hofman and Menno Hoogland on Saba24 January 2013
During his visit to the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, Minister Ronald Plasterk (Home Affairs) on Thursday, January 24, 2013 performed the official op...
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Marie Louise Sørensen Professor in Bronze Age Studies19 December 2012
The Faculty of Archaeology has appointed Dr Marie Louise Sørensen as Professor in Bronze Age Studies in the European Prehistory research group from 1s...
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Leakey Foundation funds fieldwork in the Turkana Basin07 December 2012
Dr. Josephine Joordens, post-doctoral researcher of the Human Origins Group, has been awarded a grant of EUR 15.000 to conduct fieldwork in the Turkan...
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Zenobia essay prize for Dr. Miguel John Versluys01 December 2012Dr. Miguel John Versluys was awarded the Zenobia Essay Prize during the recent conference Troy: the city, the war, the legend organized by the Zenobia...
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Archaeologists present Queen Beatrix with research on burial mounds at Het Loo08 November 2012Archaeologists from Leiden University and the municipality of Apeldoorn have excavated two prehistoric ancestral mounds dating from 300 years BC at th...
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2012 Spectacular finds Fieldschool 2012 Anse Trabaud01 August 2012In June and July 2012 a Leiden Fieldschool was conducted at the late pre-Columbian site of Anse Trabaud in southeastern Martinique. High levels of pre...
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2012 LGI Seed funding awarded to research project: Globalisation, materiality and the transference of cultures27 June 2012The LGI is pleased to annouce that seed money has been granted to Dr. Miguel John Versluys (Archaeology), Prof. Caroline van Eck (Art History) and Pro...
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Chiara Piccoli wins scholarship by the Italian Research Council29 March 2012Chiara Piccoli has been awarded a scholarship by the Italian Research Council to work at the Virtual Heritage Lab of the Institute of Technologies app...
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2012 Fulbright Scholarship for Peter Siegel01 February 2012Dr Peter Siegel, Associate Professor in Anthropology from Montclair State University, New York, has obtained a Fulbright Scholarship to participate in...
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EUROTAST Press Release01 December 2011The transatlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries represents one of the most traumatic chapters in history and is now widely recognise...
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LeidenGlobal connects research and culture25 November 2011On 27 November the official opening of LeidenGlobal will be celebrated in the Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde/National Museum of Ethnology. LeidenGlobal is a ...
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New project on the last Ice Age02 November 2011The Australian Research Council funded a truly ‘global archaeology’ project comparing the archaeologies of southwest Tasmania and southwest France dur...