An early farming community in Thessaly, Greece.

Investigating domestic crafts and subsistence activities through experiments and material analysis

The times between the Neolithic and Urban revolutions in Mesopotamia have for a long time been interpreted as a period of stagnation. This volume is part of an emerging discourse that challenges such assumptions.

The meaning of the Swifterbant Culture for the process of neolithisation in the western part of the North European Plain (4900-3400 BC)

Report on the Excavations of the University of Amsterdam (1988) and the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden (1991-1993) in Syria.

Tell Sabi Abyad is a major Late Neolithic settlement mound in Northern Syria, belonging to the seventh and early sixth millennium bc. This book presents the results of large-scale fieldwork conducted at the site between 1994 and 1999, under the auspices of the Netherlands National Museum of Antiquities…

Papers in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn

Numerous beads and pendants of amber, jet and bone have been found in Dutch Neolithic and Bronze Age context, both in settlements and in graves. Because ornaments are personal items, they are closely linked with people’s identity.

Report on the Excavations of the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden in the Balikh Valley, Syria.

In this book, Peter Akkermans provides a systematic overview of the Halaf culture of the 6 th millennium BC in the Syrian portion of the valley of the Balikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates.

Leiden archaeologists have set fire to a reconstructed Neolithic house in Horsterwold: all in the name of science. Studying the remains will help them understand present and future finds.

Isotopic insights on human diet from the later stone age to Neolithic in Northwest Africa, Morocco

Archaeologist Annelou van Gijn received an NWO Archeologie Telt grant to investigate domestic craft and subsistence activities of late Neolithic peoples in the coastal area of the Netherlands

A neolithic settlement on the Dutch North Sea coast c. 3500 CAL BC.

Also including: Wateringen 4 & Acquiring a taste.

Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse

Investigating Neolithic houses in Britain through microwear and residue analysis of stone tools

Understanding Late Neolithic Ceramic Containers from Upper Mesopotamia

Volume 20 contains eight articles based on research of the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Tracing the residues of Neolithic activities through the study of stone artefacts

Papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Prehistory, Volume I.

Papers presented at a colloquium, held in honour of Professor Dr. P.J.R. Modderman, Leiden, 3-7 May 1982.

Four studies on its prehistoric occupation and Holocene geology. With a contribution by Agatha S. Knip, Late Neolithic Skeleton Finds from Molenaarsgraaf (Z.H.).

Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia is the annual journal of the Faculty of Archaeology (formerly the Institute of Prehistory), Leiden University.

An analysis of pot decoration and hut distributions from the Central European Neolithic communities of Elsloo and Hienheim.

Principles of Functional Analysis applied to Dutch Neolithic Assemblages.

Abrupt Climate Change and Cultural Transformation

Between foraging and farming: an extended broad spectrum of papers presented to Leendert Louwe Kooijmans.

Clustered Neighbourhood Settlements of the Central Anatolian Neolithic ca. 8500-5500 Cal. BC

Eine Archäobotanische untersuchung zu Umwelt und Landwirtschaft der Ältesten Bankkeramik.

Microwear and starch grain analysis on experimental and archaeological grinding tools from Central

This abrupt climate change of 8200 years ago (the so-called 8.2k calBP climate event) has received wide attention among natural scientists, also because of today's rapid climate changes and their impact on our own society. The archaeological implications, however, have not been investigated so far.…

In the master’s programme in Archaeology, you can follow courses on the archaeology of West Asia, deepening your understanding of this region’s fascinating past.

A Paleoecological Study of Sittard, Stein, Elsloo and Hienheim

This subproject, carried out by post-doctoral researcher Dr. O. Nieuwenhuyse, investigates changes and continuities in the functional, social and symbolic uses of the material culture, c. 6800-5800 BC. A contextually oriented approach is adopted, which pays attention to the local socio-economic and…

New insights into the Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic.

The neolithization of the southern Netherlands in an antropological and geographical perspective

Material Culture Studies revolves around the analysis of the cultural biographies of all sorts of material objects from flint axes, to pottery, to houses and monumental structures.

Mit Beiträgen von R.R. Newell, E.J. Brinkman und Corrie C. Bakels

Nowadays, most Europeans speak a language belonging to the Indo-European language family. However, very different languages were spoken on our continent before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans. The EUROLITHIC project tries to find answers to the question which languages these were and where they came…

Digitally Preserving Heritage at Risk