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Alex Tutwiler receives Archol grant to reveal hidden stories of child labor08 December 2025PhD candidate Alex Tutwiler, from the Faculty of Archaeology, has received a grant from Archol, via the P.J.R. Modderman Foundation, to investigate ho...
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LUF grants for historical hormone research and safe, inclusive cities06 November 2025Why did fewer women suffer from osteoporosis in the past than today? And which aspects of a city make public spaces safe, accessible and comfortable f...
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PhD-Student Maia Casna receives two awards for osteoarchaeological research23 September 2024PhD-student Maia has received multiple awards regarding her research on the impact of tobacco on the respiratory health of past Dutch populations.
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DNA analysis of historical mosquitoes will help us understand malaria transmission05 April 2024Researchers from Leiden University, McMaster University and Public Health Ontario are calling on colleagues to track down archival specimens of mosqui...
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International Women's Day: the visibility of women in archaeology08 March 2024On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. For years, the rol...
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Leiden osteoarchaeologists hold an online class for Italian schoolchildren25 May 2023Postdoctoral researcher Veronica Tamorri and a PhD candidate Maia Casna held an online osteoarchaeological class for secondary school children. Howeve...
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Osteoarchaeologist Maia Casna receives the NVFA Incentive Prize: ‘I try to push osteology into the public eye as much as I can’24 April 2023PhD candidate Maia Casna received an Incentive Prize from the Dutch Association for Physical Anthropology (NVFA). She was rewarded this honor for her ...
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Investigating health equality in the past with a VIDI grant: ‘We will look for indications of stress’17 August 2021Dr Sarah Schrader, an expert in the study of human remains, received a VIDI grant for a research project on health and inequality. In present day peop...
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Archaeozoological Lab reorganised and renewed: 'We can now study most of the fauna in Europe'01 October 2020The Laboratory for Archaeozoological Studies underwent a big reorganization and received a great donation from the Institute of Biology this summer. L...
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Rachel Schats’ Leiden Experience: ‘I want to contribute to human history and human health.’01 August 2019Rachel Schats has been a familiar face at the Faculty of Archaeology since she started her bachelor’s in Archaeology in 2005. Now she is an assistant ...
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A small ode to 412 dead14 June 2019In 2011 Leiden University came into possession of the skeletons from a graveyard in Middenbeemster. But what could be done with all these bones and sk...
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800 year old mystery of ancient bone disease solved30 April 2019Scientific research at the molecular level on a collection of medieval skeletons from Norton Priory in Cheshire, United Kingdom, could help rewrite hi...
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About 350 human skeletons from Arnhem come to Leiden on loan19 October 2018Leiden Archaeology students may write their master's theses on the recently acquired collection skeletons from the city of Arnhem. We interviewed oste...
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Leiden archaeologist discovers unique ancient horse grave in Sudan25 April 2018A unique archeological find near Tombos in Northern Sudan. Archaeologist Sarah Schrader from Leiden University, working with a team of international r...
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Sarah Schrader to head the Osteoarchaeology lab09 April 2018Since August 2017, dr. Sarah Schrader is working at the Faculty of Archaeology in the department of Archaeological Sciences. Her expertise is human os...