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Archaeology students make museum exhibition on Sugar: ‘Before this I had no idea how sugar was produced’ 01 February 2021
When following a course on archaeology of the Crusaders, five archaeology students were presented the unique opportunity to create a small exhibition ...
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Book Landscapes of Survival sheds new light on the habitation of the Jordan deserts 22 January 2021
December 2020 saw the crowning publication of the Landscapes of Survival project by Professor Peter Akkermans. Its main topic is human habitation in m...
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New publication affirms academic legacy of Hanna Stöger 13 January 2021
In summer 2018 classical archaeologist Hanna Stöger passed away. At that moment she was in the midst of several cutting-edge research projects on the ...
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NWA-grant for project 'Streaming the past' 21 December 2020
Researchers from the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Archaeology, with the support of the communication departments of these Faculties and th...
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Investigating a prehistoric Pan-European culture with an NWO grant: ‘One of the most transformative periods in European prehistory’ 11 December 2020
Archaeologist Quentin Bourgeois received an NWO Vidi grant to investigate the emergence of a pan-European culture in the third millennium BC. ‘We see ...
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Prehistoric hunters from the North Sea used human bones as weapons 02 December 2020
Over the years, many spectacular archaeological finds have been washed ashore on the Dutch coast. Among these a large assemblage of barbed points made...
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Data Management and the Gortyn Project: ‘With great data comes great responsibility’ 02 December 2020
The world is becoming increasingly digitised, and the information one has easy access to is often rather overwhelming. In particular, the accumulative...
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Studying the pre-Roman Samnite people with an IRESMO research grant 19 November 2020
In Spring next year, a new and international team of archaeologists, historians, and education experts will start a collaborative project on the archa...
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Rescuing ancient rock art in Pakistan with a Prince Claus Heritage Emergency Grant 22 October 2020
Pakistani archaeologist Abdul Ghani Khan (MPhil) and Dr Marike van Aerde (Leiden University) have been awarded the Prince Claus Heritage Emergency Gra...
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Unravelling prehistoric fire use: ‘Variation in fire conditions equals variation in human behaviour’ 21 October 2020
Building a fire involves many variables, such as size, choice of fuel, temperature, and burn time, that affect the way the generated heat can be used,...
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New investigation of South African rock shelter sheds light into Middle and Later Stone Age modern human behaviour 21 October 2020
In the eighties the Umhlatuzana rock shelter in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, was excavated. Results from this excavation led to an understanding when...
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The enduring impact of Egypt on Western culture 07 October 2020
The material and intellectual presence of Egypt is at the heart of Western culture, religion, and art from Antiquity to the present. In his book ‘Beyo...
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ERC Creative Europe Culture grant for Alexandria: (re)activating common urban imaginaries 09 September 2020
From 2020 to 2023, Professor Miguel John Versluys and his research group will participate in an international consortium co-funded by the Creative Eur...
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Archaeological fieldwork in corona times: professor Marie Soressi's story 26 August 2020
From July 25th till August 7th, a team led by Professor Marie Soressi went to France and worked at La Grande Roche de Quinçay, a cave site located in ...
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Aris Politopoulos: ‘I use games as a teaching method' 19 August 2020
In his lectures Aris Politopoulos combines archaeology with video games. He is one of the three nominees for the 2020 LUS Teaching Prize. 'A good teac...