Now teachers and educators can use the Teaching Indigenous History and Heritage guide to introduce these topics in and outside the classroom.
Meliam Vigano Gaspar is currently collaborating with NEXUS1492 on the research for her PhD project entitled "Archaeology and History of Carib Speaking Peoples: A Study of the Ceramic Technology". She shares her work with us in this blog post.
Dr. Krysta Ryzewski visited Leiden University last week, where she gave a lecture “Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat: Recent findings from research across the Columbian divide”. After her lecture Dr. Ryzewski took some time to answer a few questions.
E. Plomp, I. von Holstein, J. Koornneef, R. Smeets, L. Font, J. Baart, T. Forouzanfar, and G. Davies recently published a new article entitled "TIMS analysis of neodymium isotopes in human tooth enamel using 1013 Ω amplifiers". This article was published in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. Read the abstract below!
Carmen Ting, Jorge Ulloa Hung, Corinne L. Hofman, and Patrick Degryse will be publishing the article entitled 'Indigenous technologies and the production of early colonial ceramics in Dominican Republic' in the 17th volume of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports in February 2018.
On the 13th of October the opening ceremony for the exhibition 'Tesoros del Arte Taíno' took place at the Centro León in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Prof. Dr. Corinne Hofman, dean of the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, took part in the ceremony and gave a lecture on Precolumbian societies and the encounter of cultures in 1492.
Termeh Shafie, David Schoch, Jimmy Mans, Corinne Hofman, and Ulrik Brandes published an article in the Journal of Historical Network Research entitled "Hypergraph Representations. A Study of Carib Attacks on Colonial Forces, 1509-1700".
Alice C.S. Knaf, J. M. Koornneef, and Gareth R. Davies recently published their article, entitled "Non-invasive” portable laser ablation sampling of art and archaeological materials with subsequent Sr–Nd isotope analysis by TIMS using 1013 Ω amplifiers, in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.
Archaeologists need your help to understand incredible finds from the Caribbean. Help us classify shapes of ceramics used by Amerindians before the arrival of Columbus.
Forensic archaeologist Hayley Mickleburgh has won the first Dutch National Postdoc Prize. The prize is awarded by De Jonge Akademie and the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences. Mickleburgh, who studies how corpses decompose and skeletons fall apart, receives 10,000 euros to freely spend on research.