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Digging for people and means in Mycenaean Greece15 April 2015
In the 13th century BC, Mycenaean Greece was the stage for ambitious monumental building programmes. How were people and means deployed, and with what...
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Thesis prize for Nathalie Brusgaard09 March 2015
Nathalie Brusgaard has won second prize (€ 2.000) in the Leiden University Thesis Prizes 2015 with her thesis 'The Social Significance of Cattle in Br...
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Second prize for Nathalie Brusgaard09 March 2015
Nathalie Brusgaard has won second prize (€ 2.000) in the Leiden University Thesis Prizes 2015 with her thesis 'The Social Significance of Cattle in Br...
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VICI Grant for Dr. David Fontijn16 February 2015
The subsidy funds new research into the: Economies of Destruction. The emergence of metalwork deposition during the Bronze Age in Northwest Europe, c....
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EUR 15 million for excellent archaeological research into the colonisation of the Americas21 October 2014
Corinne Hofman (Professor in Caribbean Archaeology) has been awarded 15 million euro by the EU for her archaeological research on the colonisation of ...
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Dirk Bouwmeester and Corinne Hofman receive NWO Spinoza Prize09 September 2014On 9 September, in the presence of King Willem Alexander, Secretary of State Sander Dekker presented the Spinoza Prize to four researchers, including ...
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Veni for Quentin Bourgeois22 July 2014
The project investigates the landscape organization of Corded Ware groups in north-western Europe during the 3rd Millennium BC.
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National award of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba 2013 for Dr. Roberto Valcárcel Rojas and international team10 April 2014From indigenous space to colonial setting. Archaeological investigations at El Chorro de Maita in Cuba wins prestigious prize.
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NWO Free Competition Grant for Al-Jallad and Akkermans12 February 2014
Dr. Ahmad Al-Jallad and Prof.dr. Peter Akkermans have been awarded with the NWO Free Competition Grant for their research project 'Landscapes of Survi...
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Two Marie Curie Fellowships02 December 2013
The Laboratory of Material Culture Studies welcomes two new researchers in October 2013. Dr. Christina Tsoraki and Dr. Benjamin Tun-Yee Chan, both fro...
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Mixtec activist Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez Honoured06 November 2013Mixtec researcher and cultural activist Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez (Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University) has been awarded a Medal of Merit duri...
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Grant Byvanckfonds for Dennis Braekmans15 October 2013Dennis Braekmans receives funding from the Byvanckfonds for the research "Regional economy in the ancient Mediterranean: a materials approach to the e...
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Veni and NWO Free Competition grant for dr. Tesse Stek30 September 2013
Dr. Tesse Stek has been awarded a Veni and a Free Competition (within the Humanities field) grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Resea...
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KNAW Merian Prize awarded to Corinne Hofman, archaeologist of the Caribbean19 September 2013Corinne Hofman, Leiden Professor of the Archaeology of the Caribbean Region has been awarded the 2013 KNAW Merian Prize for women in science. Her aim ...
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Veni for climate change and human evolution06 September 2013
Leiden archaeologist José Joordens has been awarded a Veni grant to develop her research on the role of climate change in early hominin evolution.