News
-
Early Iron Age princely grave of the Maashorst on display21 September 2011In August 2010 the Faculty of Archaeology conducted an excavation in the Maashorst-area, situated in the northeastern part of Brabant.
-
Veni research Roy van Beek25 August 2011The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded dr. Roy van Beek a Veni grant. This grant offers young researchers the possibility to...
-
2011 ERC Grant for Bleda Düring for research on Hegemonic Practices of the Middle Assyrian Empire of Tell Sabi Abyad24 August 2011The European Research Council had awarded a Starting Independent Researcher Grant to Bleda Düring for the project Consolidating Empire.Reconstructing ...
-
Sparks on the Reuvensplaats15 June 2011Making fire is no simple matter. This became abundantly clear during the demonstration by German archaeologist Jürgen Weiner. Weiner was invited by Pr...
-
EEC Grant for John Bintliff and Hans Kamermans08 April 2011
Prof. John Bintliff and Dr. Hans Kamermans have been awarded a 4-year EEC grant to develop Enhanced Reality reconstructions in Classical Archaeology.
-
Humboldt Research Award for Wil Roebroeks21 January 2011
Prof. Dr. Wil Roebroeks has been elected as recipient of a Humboldt Research Award after having been nominated for this award by the German scientist ...
-
Professor Natasja Sojc on the Marathon memorials13 January 2011Archaeologist Natasja Sojc wants to study the archaeological finds from the Battle of Marathon as a source in themselves and thus without the need to ...
-
NWO-multiple project for Prof. Harry Fokkens17 December 2010The Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research has honored the application of Prof. Harry Fokkens for the research project entitled "Farmers of t...
-
Happisburgh, East Anglia10 July 2010The research Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe published 8th July 2010 in Nature is part of the An...
-
2010 Leiden University cooperation with SIMARC19 May 2010As a cooperation between the St. Maarten Archaeological Center (SIMARC) and Leiden University in the Netherlands, graduate student Khristy Werleman of...
-
2010 Pilot excavation in Iraqi Kurdistan23 February 2010The Netherlands organisation for Scientific Research NWO has granted a subsidy to prof. dr Wilfred H. van Soldt (Humanities, LIAS) and dr Diederik J.W...
-
A Neandertal fossil from the north sea15 June 2009A fragment of a human skull discovered in sediments extracted from the bottom of the North Sea, 15 km off the coast off the Netherlands, has been iden...
-
2008 Culture and cognition of Palaeolithic hominins11 February 2008The Palaeolithic period extends from the earliest stone tools (and in Europe, earliest occupation) to the beginning of the current warm period.
-
Wil Roebroeks wins Spinoza Prize04 June 2007The Leiden archaeologist Wil Roebroeks has been awarded the Spinoza prize for his original observations about early hominins and the development of hu...