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Building an excavation report search engine with a Digital Humanities grant 21 February 2019
PhD candidate Alex Brandsen, working in the Digital Archaeology research group has recently received a grant from the Leiden University Centre for Dig...
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’ 20 February 2019
Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rive...
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Archaeologist helps develop board game on European prehistory 15 February 2019
In the new board game Epoch – Early Inventors you explore the prehistoric landscape. You gather food and raw material to develop tools and skills, and...
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Dr Andrew Sorensen wins Tübingen Prize for Older Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology 12 February 2019
Andrew Sorensen received the award for his work on the origins of fire-making, especially for his dissertation "Beyond Prometheus: Pursuing the origin...
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Wanted: research questions for citizen science 11 February 2019
How many species of butterfly are living in my garden? Do I recognise the Leiden dialect? What is the air quality like in my area? Do you have a quest...
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Giacomo Fontana wins thesis prize with 'Seeking tombs from space' 11 February 2019
The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) annually awards the best theses on the Ancient Near East. The 2018 award went to archaeology studen...
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Leiden University celebrates 444th birthday with residents of Leiden and The Hague 08 February 2019
Leiden University celebrated its 444th anniversary with a historical procession on 8 February. It celebrated this year’s Dies Natalis in time-honoured...
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A real professor in front of the class 08 February 2019
A lesson about aerodynamics from Vice-Rector Hester Bijl, about child rights by UNICEF professor Ton Liefaard, or about muscles by LUMC professor Ann...
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The interplay of cultures and technologies investigated in successful Lorentz Workshop 06 February 2019
In the week of 14 to 18 January the Lorentz workshop 'Intersecting Worlds. The Interplay of Cultures and Technology' took place at the Lorentz Center ...
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Valentina Azzarà’s Leiden Experience: “I work on the big picture” 06 February 2019
Recently, Valentina Azzarà joined the Faculty of Archaeology as a postdoc in the Archaeology of the Near East research group. She mostly focuses on th...
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How the ‘English disease’ turned out to be not so very English after all 21 January 2019
A vitamin D deficiency is often associated with smoggy English industrial cities during the Industrial Revolution, but research carried out on skeleto...
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Replica of unique prehistoric sword unveiled in Oss 11 January 2019
The Faculty of Archaeology has a long research tradition in the municipality of Oss. Since 1974, researchers and students have been carrying out archa...
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Archaeologists visit Ethiopia for material culture studies project 10 January 2019
Annelou van Gijn and Diederik Pomstra took part in the Shire Project in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, to contribute to an exciting mix of lithic and use-...
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Victor Klinkenberg’s Leiden Experience: “I like to bring experts and ideas together” 08 January 2019
Dr Victor Klinkenberg calls himself a generalist pur sang. As an expert on digital archaeology he has worked on nearly all the regions the Faculty of ...
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Sarah Schrader appointed to Young Academy Leiden 08 January 2019
The recently formed Young Academy Leiden consists of a group of young scholars who are committed to increasing interdisciplinary research, promoting s...