877 search results for “palaeolithic archaeology” in the Public website
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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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Siberian 'unicorns' extinct much later than believed
Giant prehistoric 'unicorns' once wandered over the prairies of Central Asia. New research has shown that these so-called Siberian unicorns lived much longer than was believed, and probably did not become extinct until 'just' 39,000 years ago. Publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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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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Visualizing cityscapes of Classical antiquity: From early modern reconstruction drawings to digital 3D models
PhD Defence
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Searching multiple museum collections using image recognition
Lecture
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L.A.S. Terra symposium: Old man and the sea
Conference
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of the Divine Crocodile – Recent Research on Textual and Other Archaeological Remains from Soknopaiou Nesos
Conference
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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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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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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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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
- 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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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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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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Rock art research at Qurta
Dirk Huyge (Director) & Wouter Claes (Vice-Director)
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André Ramcharan’s Leiden experience: ‘When I started, I didn’t see this as a career path.’
André Ramcharan has been a familiar face at the Faculty of Archaeology for decades. Joining our faculty without any knowledge on animal bones, he has become an expert on the matter, supervising the organisation and expansion of the faculty’s collection. ‘We expanded to include birds, fish, and shellfish.…
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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
- 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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In the gathering shadows of material things
Lecture, Dean's Lecture
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Style formation, patterns and the transfer of Antiquity
Conference, Byvanck Style Symposium
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Guiding Travelers Workshop: Visual Religion
Lecture
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Guiding Travelers Workshop: Visual Religion
Conference
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Mobile Peoples - Permanent Places
PhD Defence
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Interactive Pasts
Conference
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Symposium in Honour of Olivier Nieuwenhuyse
Conference
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Seascape Corridors, Modeling Routes to Connect Communities Across the Caribbean Sea
PhD Defence
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Reconstructing Interactions and Mobility in Prehistoric Cyprus
Conference
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Micromorphology of Mycenaean Chamber Tombs
Lecture
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L.A.D. Johan Picardt Experimental Event
Festival
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From in-person lectures to a first-class degree: our year on social media
Covid year 2021 might have felt somewhat less strange than the year before, but the virus still left its mark on University life and our students and staff. Fortunately there was also room for research, visiting dignitaries and in-person classes. And our social media accounts weren’t only about covid…
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Imprint of Action
Lecture
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Retrieving Cultural Heritage: Combatting Cypriot art trafficking and restitution
Conference