1,247 search results for “archaeological theory” in the Public website
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Guiding Travelers: Reading the landscape
Conference, Workshop
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A cultural biography of Egypt: objects, style and agency
Conference
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Assyrians were more 'homely' than we thought
Archaeologist Victor Klinkenberg examined an old Assyrian settlement in Syria, near to the IS stronghold Raqqa. 'Social life was more important than military life.' PhD defence 27 October.
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Maia Casna investigates respiratory disease in the past with an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant
Every year, an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant is awarded to a prospective PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology. This year, the grant went to Maia Casna, enabling her to study respiratory disease in the past. ‘My hypothesis is that the rapid formation of cities in the medieval Netherlands, must…
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The Oegstgeest bowl and the bones of a giant king mentioned in Beowulf
Recently, archeologists of Leiden University made an excavation in Oegstgeest, where they found a unique silver bowl from the first half of the seventh century as well as imported pottery and winebarrels. Thijs Porck, lecturer in Old English language and culture at Leiden University, places the Oegstgeest…
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Changing Paradigms of Research: the Arabian Peninsula
Keynote Lecture | Seminar for Arabian Studies
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L.A.S. Terra symposium: Old man and the sea
Conference
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Searching multiple museum collections using image recognition
Lecture
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Visualizing cityscapes of Classical antiquity: From early modern reconstruction drawings to digital 3D models
PhD Defence
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Prehistoric Veluwe more densely populated than previously thought
Within the space of a few months, the Heritage Quest citizen science project, whereby volunteers scan elevation maps of the Veluwe area for burial mounds and other prehistoric remains, has already led to groundbreaking new insights. Hundreds of burial mounds have been found, as have a huge number of…
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Egypt beyond representation
PhD Defence
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Between Cananefates and Romans
Lecture, What did you do last summer?
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of the Divine Crocodile – Recent Research on Textual and Other Archaeological Remains from Soknopaiou Nesos
Conference
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Applying space syntax to insula V ii in Ostia
Lecture, Digital Archaeology Group Meeting
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Building formal approaches for the study of spatial patterns in Galician moundscapes
Lecture
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Dialogues Between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies
'Dialogues Between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies', edited by Henk Borgdorff, Peter Peters and Trevor Pinch, will be published by Routledge on November 18
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Alumni event Archeologie: The National Museum of Antiquities and me
Alumni Event
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ICOMOS lecture on Centre for Global Heritage and Development
Lecture
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Landscape, Land-Change and Well-Being in Small Island Contexts: Case Studies from St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory, Dominica
PhD Defence
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Landscapes of survival
Conference
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The Raqqa tablets back to life!
Lecture, Studium Generale
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James & Arlette Mellaart: The journey to Çatalhöyük
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Labouring with large stones
Lecture
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After the act
Conference
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Dutch Symposium of the Near East
Conference
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Experimental event: tools and production
Festival, Experimental event
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Using Rhetorical Structure Theory for contrastive analysis at the micro and macro levels of discourse: An investigation of Japanese EFL learners’
PhD Defence
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Investment Treaty Tribunals: The Partial Revival of the Localisation Theory
PhD Defence
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How to make a ‘Cōḻa bronze’? Theory and practice of bronze casting in South India and the Rijksmuseum research on Asian bronzes
Lecture, Friends of the Kern Institute lecture
- The global cosmopolis. Past, present and future of the city of Alexandria
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Remote Sensing and the Roman Military
Lecture
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Revealing the desert’s flourishing past
Lecture, Geoarch@Leiden
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Networked practices of contact
Cultural identity at the Late Prehistoric settlement of Aguas Buenas, Nicaragua, AD 500-1522
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Leiden contributes to Getty Museum exhibition
Leiden researchers have made an important contribution to the successful ‘Beyond the Nile’ exhibition in the American J. Paul Getty Museum. They also contributed to the exhibition volume that will be presented to Rector Magnificus Carel stolker on 5 September.
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Lara Weiss: ‘Egypt is not just pyramids and mummies’
Egyptologist Lara Weiss is curator at The National Museum of Antiquities and has been leading the VIDI research project 'Walking Dead' since 2017. The exhibition 'Saqqara: Living in a necropolis', which will be on display at the museum starting March 10 next year, is part of the project.
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The impact of climate change on groups of people
The socio-economic effects of climate change often do not receive enough attention. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) a group of researchers will provide more insight. How does climate change affect whether people work together or conversely end up as opponents? And what can we learn from societies…
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Film funded with ERC grant in premiere at Mexican film festival
The feature drama film In Times of Rain will have its world premiere at the Guanajuato International Film Festival (#GIFF 2018) in Mexico. The film is a result of the Leiden University project ‘Time in lntercultural Context’, funded by the European Research Council.
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Tweets from the desert
Uncovering ancient Arabian inscriptions feels like pioneering detective work, says Arabist Michael Macdonald in a video interview with Leiden Islam Centre LUCIS. 'First you have to learn the alphabets that they're written in, and then you have to try and work out what they say.'
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Excavations at the Edge of Arabia: Bronze Age Settlement of Ras al-Jinz RJ-3, Oman
Lecture, What did you do last summer?
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Fake (and the notion of Real) in ancient and modern societies
Conference
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Elite Wari Women and Digital Methods - A GIS case study in a Peruvian Burial chamber
Lecture
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CCLS Seminar
Lecture, seminar
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Beyond Prometheus: Pursuing the origins of fire production among early humans
Lecture, Studium Generale
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European Prehistory
Our research deals with the deep history of Europe and Eurasia, from the inception of farming up until the beginning of the Roman Period. This was a period in which key developments took place that had a profound impact on European landscapes and society until the present day. Our research and teaching…
- Greek(ness) in Babylonia
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Recent Advances in the Study of Ancient Migrations: Isotopes and Isoscapes
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Style formation, patterns and the transfer of Antiquity
Conference, Byvanck Style Symposium
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In the gathering shadows of material things
Lecture, Dean's Lecture
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Studying Human Origins
Disciplinary History and Epistemology
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Interactive Pasts
Conference