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Rescuing ancient rock art in Pakistan with a Prince Claus Heritage Emergency Grant 22 October 2020Pakistani 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 2020Building 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 2020In 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 2020The 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 2020From 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 2020From 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 2020In 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...
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The ecological footprint of European colonization at the doorway to the Americas 16 July 2020Historical figures such as Columbus have returned to the centre of public debate. Much remains to be discovered about his legacy and current impact on...
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Archaeologist Ady Roxburgh receives two-year research grant from the Estonian Research Council 02 July 2020Ady Roxburgh has been awarded a two-year grant to continue his research into the choices behind the composition of Roman, copper-alloy artefacts. The ...
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Ancient DNA provides new insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean 05 June 2020According to a new study by an international team of researchers from the Caribbean, Europe and North America, the Caribbean was settled by several su...
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New insights into Neandertal knowledge from the mass-spectrometry analysis of plastic containers 11 May 2020The analysis of protein residues extracted from the storage containers of circa 50,000 year old bone-tools reveals Neandertal strategic selection of b...
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Aris Politopoulos lectures like an Assyrian king: ‘Video lectures need to be ten times more engaging’ 20 April 2020There are some lecturers who are better equipped to provide remote education than others. And then there is Aris Politopoulos, who already owned profe...
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Working from home with the Classical and Mediterranean archaeologists: ‘I should have been in Rome right now’ 09 April 2020The archaeologists have been working from home three weeks now. Remotely, through Teams, we meet up with Miguel John Versluys’ research team, to see h...
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Raymond Corbey’s Leiden experience: Meet the ‘embedded philosopher’ 06 April 2020Raymond 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...
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Hunt for archaeological remains without leaving your home 03 April 2020The Heritage Quest project begins on Monday 6 April. Heritage Quest is the first large-scale citizen science archaeology project in the Netherlands: a...