1,246 search results for “archaeological theory” in the Public website
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Workshop on Algorithms in Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry
Conference
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Materializing Theories of Change - Research seminar Maia Green
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Zach ReynaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Aitor Burguet-Coca studied fire-use from Palaeolithic to Bronze Age: ‘This gives us an image on different uses of fire across prehistory’
For the following years, Dr Aitor Burguet-Coca will be a returning face at the Faculty of Archaeology. He will join Dr Amanda Henry’s team with his expertise on prehistoric fire use and the methodologies that studying ancient hearths requires.
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'Eastern Desert tombs reflect successful culture adapted to harsh environment’
The Jordan Times interviewed professor Peter Akkermans about this research on ancient tombs in Jordan's Eastern Desert. “The evidence of this flourishing culture can be seen, among other things, in the diverse and complex burial record which we are currently investigating.”
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Genner Llanes-Ortiz’s Leiden Experience: ‘Indigenous stories contain knowledge from deep past’
Back in 2016, Genner Llanes-Ortiz joined the Faculty of Archaeology as an assistant professor in the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples research group. Genner works on the crossroads of anthropology, archaeology, heritage, and human rights. ‘I am investigating how contemporary indigenous peoples are re-connecting…
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Collecting the 19th Century: museological and archaeological perspectives from Europe and Latin America
International Symposium
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Tracking migrations and migration effects in archaeology: New insights from isotope bioarchaeology
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Can migration theory be applied to the Irish migration experience since 1945?
Lecture, History Brown Bag Seminar
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LLRC conference: Language teaching: the interplay between practice, theory, and research
Conference
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Optimizing placebo effects in medical contexts: Utilizing learning theories and exploring communication strategies
PhD Defence
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How can you rescue clay tablets from the war in Syria?
On 7 June, the National Museum of Antiquities opened a mini exhibition 'Scanning for Syria'. The exhibition shows how Leiden archaeologists and Delft technical specialists make reconstructions of 3000-year-old Assyrian clay tablets. The originals, stored in museum depots in Raqqa (Syria), have been…
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Neanderthals changed ecosystems 125,000 years ago
Hunter-gatherers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archaeologists from Leiden University in collaboration with other researchers. Neanderthals used fire to keep the landscape open and thus had a big impact on their local environment.…
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graduation ceremony - MA Media Studies - Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory
Festival
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Zsuzsa Bakk winner of PhD Dissertation Award
Zsuzsa Bakk has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Distinguished Dissertation Award of the Classification Society for her thesis entitled 'Contributions to Bias Adjusted Stepwise Latent Class Modeling'.
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Symposium Onderzoek Jonge Archeologen (SOJA)
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Archaeology and linguistics: The Sintashta wells and furnaces and the Indo-Iranian deity Apām Napāt
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divide in lithic research: A plea for pluralism in Palaeolithic archaeology
PhD Defence
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Cognitive enhancement: Toward the integration of theory and practice
PhD Defence
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Introducing: Carolyn Nakamura
Carolyn Nakamura works as a postdoctoral researcher on the profile area Global Interactions.
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POSTPONED | The bilingual mind: Code-switching/mixing, syntactic theory, and cognition
Lecture, SMART Cognitive Science Workshop
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Traces of indigenous "Taíno" found in present-day Caribbean populations
A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called
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‘Heritage decisions limit our ability to imagine alternative forms of society’
It is difficult to imagine a society other than a hierarchical nation-state. This is in part because we neglect alternative forms from the past, argues archaeologist Lewis Borck in the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology.
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‘Heritage is never neutral. It is always interpreted’
As of 1 September 2019, Prof. Pieter ter Keurs will assume the position of Scientific Director at the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development as well as that of Professor of Museums, Collections and Society at the Faculties of Humanities and Archaeology at Leiden University.…
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The bilingual mind: Code-switching/mixing, syntactic theory, and cognition
Conference
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’
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 Rivers Museum, one of the four museums of the University of Oxford.
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Neandertal genome from Les Cottés site sequenced
On March 21 2018, a study was published in Nature, co-authored by Professor M. Soressi from the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University, announcing the sequencing of five new Neandertals, raising the number of high-coverage sequenced Neandertals from two to seven. A tooth lost by a Neandertal woman…
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Exploring the Faculty’s depots: ‘What's an Indian type of cooking pot doing in Jerusalem?’
In the depots of the Faculty of Archaeology, many artifacts, accumulated after decades of fieldwork across the world, are stored. A new project, the Leiden Inventory Depot (LID), aims to unlock this wealth of information to the outside world. Our Master’s students Sam Botan and Rishika Dhumal are currently…
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(cancelled) LCN2 Seminar: Network theory and dynamical systems models in psychopathology research
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Leiden Political Science Workshop: Toward a Political Theory of Narrative Identity
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Valuing Archaeology?: The Past, Present and Future for Local People and Archaeologists in Sudanese Nubi
PhD Defence
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What Globalisation can do for Archaeology: the case of the Mediterranean Iron Age
Lecture
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Unique mosaic floor discovered in Israel
A marvelous mosaic synagogue floor has been discovered at the Israeli excavation site of Horvat Kur. The timeworn stones of the mosaic clearly form the name ‘El’azar’. Leiden University researcher Jürgen Zangenberg and a group of Leiden students played a role in the excavation. ‘El’azar was likely an…
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Archaeologists reconstruct ancient Greek urge to build
An enormous number of monumental buildings, such as burial tombs, appeared in Mycenaean Greece after 1600 BC. Why did this urge to build come to an abrupt end 400 years later? Archaeologist Ann Brysbaert investigates the possible causes thanks to her ERC Consolidator Grant.
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Isotope analysis finds source lead poisoning among slaves on Barbados
The dental remains of 25 enslaved Africans from the site of Newton's Plantation, on Barbados, were subjected to isotope analysis. Previous research had pointed out that the locally born individuals were subjected to high concentrations of lead poisoning. A new study, done by Dr Jason Laffoon among others…
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Unraveling networks of human mobility and exchange of goods and ideas from a pre-colonial, pan-Caribbean perspective
Since the emergence of humankind people have maintained social contacts and traveled widely, establishing interaction networks in which goods are traded and ideas are transmitted, increasingly on a global scale.
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Melodramas of the Tongue: Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory
PhD Defence
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Are you sure? How to present 3D reconstructions with a clear conscience
Lecture, Digital Archaeology Group
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Archaeological context, design and architecture: tensions in museum displays of Egypt
Lecture
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Becoming, material agency, and historical explanation in Roman archaeology: the (un-)making of terra sigillata pottery
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Combat in Context
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Globalised Consumption: Redressing Chinese Materials in Steppe Societies
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Exploring Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory and International Criminal Law
PhD Defence
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On the random-matrix theory of Majorana fermions in topological superconductors
PhD Defence
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quantum butterfly effect in Black Holes and large N quantum field theories
PhD Defence
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Focal-plane wavefront sensors for direct exoplanet imaging: Theory, simulations and on-sky demonstrations
PhD Defence
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Heritage Quest: LiDAR, big data and citizen researchers
Lecture
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Skull 'oldest Dutchman' retrieved from North Sea bed
A fragment of a human skull from the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) and a decorated bison bone, both from the North Sea bed, are rare finds from the end of the last Ice Age. The finds are 13,000 years old and, as such, form the earliest known modern human from the Netherlands…
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Leiden strengthens ties with Latin America and Caribbean
Astronomical observations in Chile, research into native heritage or the treatment of eye diseases in Brazil - Leiden is researching a large number and a wide variety of different topics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Researchers and representatives from 20 countries met on 11 May in Leiden to…
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Smiths and spirits: The ethnography and archaeology of metallurgy and magic
An informal discussion