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Archaeology students play important role in visit indigenous Ka’apor people 27 June 2023
As part of Mariana Françozo’s BRASILAE project, a group of representatives of the Ka’apor people was invited to visit Leiden. The Ka’apor, an indigeno...
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Exhibition: The untold Caribbean story 13 March 2023
The Caribbean Ties exhibition at Oude UB aims to reveal the many unwritten stories of indigenous cultures and peoples of the Caribbean. It rewrites th...
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The wisdom of the Nahua 10 June 2021
Indigenous philosophies have been ignored for too long. This prompted Osiris González Romero to study the wisdom of the Nahua in Mexico. Their philoso...
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Local Panama communities work with archaeologists on historic land rights 09 February 2021
The question of land property titles is a common source of conflict between indigenous communities and federal authorities all over the Americas. A ne...
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Corn connects many generations of Maya 18 May 2020
That corn was highly important in the Maya culture is something that Genner Llanes Ortiz, himself a Maya from the Mexican province of Yucatan, has alw...
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Genner Llanes-Ortiz’s Leiden Experience: ‘Indigenous stories contain knowledge from deep past’ 14 March 2019
Back in 2016, Genner Llanes-Ortiz joined the Faculty of Archaeology as an assistant professor in the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples research group. Ge...
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Research into colonial encounters wins Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 06 February 2018
Archaeologist Corinne Hofman wins the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 2018/19 for research into the changing world of indigenous peoples as a result ...
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Caribbean Collections in European Museums and the Question of Returns 20 December 2017
Mariana de Campos Françoso and Amy Strecker published a new article in the International Journal of Cultural Property last week entitled 'Caribbean Co...
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Indigenous people as essential research partners 16 November 2017
The knowledge held by indigenous people is essential if you want to study the history or the language of a particular region. Leiden archaeologists an...
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Araceli Rojas presents her book to Mexican communities 04 January 2017
On November 25, Dr Araceli Rojas presented her book El tiempo y la sabiduría: un calendario sagrado entre los ayöök de Oaxaca. The event took place in...
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Caribbean heritage under threat 18 October 2016
Loss of cultural heritage first brings to mind the destruction in the Middle East. But in the Caribbean it is mainly natural processes such as coastal...
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Drones help write new history of Caribbean 13 October 2016
Drones are proving to be a good means of mapping man-made changes in the landscape. Geophysicist Till Sonneman and his colleagues (archaeology) are ex...
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Reconciling conflicting interests 24 December 2015
A far-reaching understanding of human behaviour is necessary to get to grips with conflicts in society and to encourage parties to meet each other hal...
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ERC grant for Maarten Jansen 23 November 2011
The European Research Council has awarded an Advanced Grant to Prof. dr. Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen for the research project "Time in Intercultural Conte...