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 indigenous people from Brazil, are some of the present-day relatives of the Tupi-speaking peoples who used to live in the northeastern region of Brazil, claimed…

For thousands of years, the prehistoric communities of the Low Countries followed their own path, compared with the rest of Europe. An international research team has now published these findings in Nature.

In Bronze Age Europe many bronze objects such as axes, swords and jewels were deliberately left at specific spots in the landscape. PhD research by Leiden archaeologist Marieke Visser shows that these practices were expressions of people’s relationship with the world around them. ‘It was a completely…

Murat Dirican is a Postdoc Researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Mike Field is Associate Professor in Archaeobotany at the Faculty of Archaeology. He is also Head of the Bioarchaeology Laboratories.

Faculties and other organisational units have their own emergency response coordinators (BHV). Below is an overview of all the University’s BHV coordinators, and a link to their full contact details.

Archaeologist Prof Bleda Düring has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for his research on the emergence of social inequalities in the transition from the Copper Age to the Bronze Age in Cyprus. Using excavations, isotope analysis and cultural interpretations, he investigates how and why…

13:30 Tour at the museum 14:30 Leiden junior research in Islamic archaeology Kate Mokránová Aila Santi Jonathan Ouellet 15:30 Coffee break 16:00 Keynote Neil Price (Uppsala University) 17:00 Drinks 18:30 Speakers' dinner Registration until November 18th at: H.Nol@em.uni-frankfurt.de. Please mention…

For already two years, Vincent Niochet has been affiliated with the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology as an external PhD candidate. Now, he has been awarded an NWO PhDs in the Humanities grant, allowing him to continue his research as a paid PhD staff member. ‘The past two years have been quite challenging,…

De Faculteit Archeologie bestaat dit jaar 25 jaar. Ter ere van dit jubileum opende de faculteit op 1 maart zijn deuren voor het brede publiek.

Mr. A. Ramcharan is staff member of the Zoology Laboratory & expert in the area of animal bone.

Fenno Noij is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

During this event the book 'Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology. Past, Present, and Future' will be presented by the authors. After the presentation and a review of the publication, there will be drinks. Please register for the event if you plan to attend either on campus or online. The event will…

Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain why underwater archaeology is important to understanding our history.

Save the date! On Wednesday October 22 the Faculty of Archaeology organises an 'ArcheoHotspot', an open house. Join for free for lectures, workshops with archaeological materials, or let our experts look at your own archaeological finds! See for more information the Dutch-language website. This event…

On March 1 2022, Professor Ann Brysbaert will succeed Dr Winfred van de Put as director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA). Having been a regular at the institute for several decades, she will combine her new appointment with teaching at the Faculty of Archaeology. ‘Visits at the NIA were…

The Research Seminars Medieval and Early Modern History are informal and intended to foster discussion.

The Research Seminars Medieval and Early Modern History are informal and intended to foster discussion.

The Research Seminars Medieval and Early Modern History are informal and intended to foster discussion.

In August 2022 we welcome our new colleague Dr Letty ten Harkel as Assistant Professor in Roman and Post-Roman Archaeology. For the past ten years she has built up an impressive track record in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Read the interview about her background and research…

The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum has been hailed as a major museological achievement, a cutting-edge and high-tech advancement with the potential to shift global discourses on the repatriation of Pharaonic antiquities. And yet, little emphasis has been placed on how such discourses entrench…

The "Proteha mi" project, an initiative by the Bonaire Archaeological Institute (BONAI), has been awarded significant grants under the Faro Initiative of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and Mondriaanfonds. Developed in collaboration with archaeologists Daudi Cijntje (Archol BV) and Maaike…

Guilherme D'Andrea Curra is a current PhD student at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Claire Perrette is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Mélie Louys is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology

Dr Aktürk Hauser is Assistant Professor at the Department of Heritage and Society.

Femke Tomas is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.