News
-
The ecological footprint of European colonization at the doorway to the Americas 16 July 2020
Historical figures such as Columbus have returned to the centre of public debate. Much remains to be discovered about his legacy and current impact on...
-
Archaeologist Ady Roxburgh receives two-year research grant from the Estonian Research Council 02 July 2020
Ady Roxburgh has been awarded a two-year grant to continue his research into the choices behind the composition of Roman, copper-alloy artefacts. The ...
-
Ancient DNA provides new insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean 05 June 2020
According to a new study by an international team of researchers from the Caribbean, Europe and North America, the Caribbean was settled by several su...
-
New insights into Neandertal knowledge from the mass-spectrometry analysis of plastic containers 11 May 2020
The analysis of protein residues extracted from the storage containers of circa 50,000 year old bone-tools reveals Neandertal strategic selection of b...
-
Aris Politopoulos lectures like an Assyrian king: ‘Video lectures need to be ten times more engaging’ 20 April 2020
There are some lecturers who are better equipped to provide remote education than others. And then there is Aris Politopoulos, who already owned profe...
-
Working from home with the Classical and Mediterranean archaeologists: ‘I should have been in Rome right now’ 09 April 2020
The archaeologists have been working from home three weeks now. Remotely, through Teams, we meet up with Miguel John Versluys’ research team, to see h...
-
Raymond Corbey’s Leiden experience: Meet the ‘embedded philosopher’ 06 April 2020
Raymond Corbey holds a chair in both Philosophy of Science and Anthropology at the Faculty of Archaeology, to which he has been attached since 1993. T...
-
Hunt for archaeological remains without leaving your home 03 April 2020
The Heritage Quest project begins on Monday 6 April. Heritage Quest is the first large-scale citizen science archaeology project in the Netherlands: a...
-
Moving to virtual collaboration with Marike van Aerde and her team: ‘There is real team spirit in our WhatsApp group’ 02 April 2020
Marike van Aerde was at the brink of traveling to India for fieldwork when that country closed its borders, three weeks ago. Only a few days later, Le...
-
Videoconferencing with the Rural Riches group: ‘The most important thing is to develop some discipline’ 26 March 2020
The Rural Riches research group convenes for coffee on a daily basis. Remotely, that is, to prevent the spread of coronavirus. It is the perfect way t...
-
Archaeology in ninth position worldwide in QS World University Rankings 2020 12 March 2020
It is the fourth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World Universit...
-
Approaching ancient Assyria through archaeology leads to new insights 11 March 2020
Dr Bleda Düring deemed it was time for an archaeological approach on the imperialisation of Assyria. ‘While there are lot of archaeological studies of...
-
Building a Byzantine and Ottoman Data Atlas with a DANS grant 16 January 2020
Joanita Vroom, Professor Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia at the Faculty of Archaeology, has again received a DANS Klein DataProject (...
-
Chastelain-Nobach grant allows Tymon de Haas to enlarge Roman expansion research project 12 December 2019
Through the Chastelain-Nobach LUF fund, Classical and Mediterranean archaeologist Tymon de Haas has received a grant for his research on the ecologica...
-
Professor Miguel John Versluys joins Supervisory Council of National Museum of Antiquities 11 December 2019
From 1 December 2019, Miguel John Versluys, Professor and Chair of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology, will join the ...