302 search results for “early hominin” in the Staff website
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Wei Ping YoungFaculty of Archaeology
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New technique makes it easier to determine how our ancestors used fire
The use of fire can tell us a lot about human evolution. Archaeologist Femke Reidsma has developed a more accurate technique to identify how our ancestors used fire. Existing archaeological studies will need to be revised. Reidsma’s study was published in Nature Scientific Reports on 2 November.
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Hominin diversity in Eastern Asia
Conference
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exploitation testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominins
Exploitation of smaller game is rarely documented before the latest phases of the Pleistocene, which is often taken to imply narrow diets for earlier hominins. In a study now published in Scientific Reports, a team of German and Dutch archaeologists present new data that contradict this view of Lower…
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Widespread cultural diffusion of knowledge started 400,000 years ago
Different groups of hominins probably learned from one another much earlier than was previously thought, and that knowledge was also distributed much further. A study by archaeologists at Leiden University on the use of fire shows that 400,000 years ago knowledge and skills must already have been exchanged…
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Amanda Henry appointed Full Professor in Evolution of Hominin Diets
As of 1 September, archaeologist Amanda Henry has been appointed Full Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, where she will hold the chair in Evolution in Hominin Diets. The appointment marks a new chapter in her academic journey, building on her longstanding research into ancient human diets and…
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Thijs van KolfschotenFaculty of Archaeology
t.van.kolfschoten@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272640
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Literacy development for Deaf/Hard-of-hearing children in the early years
Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People
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Femke Reidsma to Harvard with Rubicon Grant for research on early fire use
Researcher Femke Reidsma has been awarded a prestigious Rubicon grant. With this fellowship, she will spend two years conducting research at Harvard University, where she will join a leading paleoecology laboratory.
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Nina WittemanFaculty of Humanities
n.c.g.witteman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271636
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Mat ImmerzeelFaculty of Humanities
m.immerzeel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512
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Quantum Parameter Estimation for Early Fault-tolerant Quantum Simulation
PhD defence
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Jacques van der VlietFaculty of Humanities
j.van.der.vliet@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272221
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Ivo van WijkFaculty of Archaeology
i.m.van.wijk@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Mette LangbroekFaculty of Archaeology
m.b.langbroek@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Dusan MaczekFaculty of Archaeology
d.maczek@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Frans TheuwsFaculty of Archaeology
f.theuws@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
r.p.fagel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272730
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Nadine AkkermanFaculty of Humanities
n.n.w.akkerman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272065
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Rik SchalbroeckFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
r.schalbroeck@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
j.l.blusse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Gerrit van UitertFaculty of Humanities
g.c.van.uitert@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272117
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Jacobine MelisFaculty of Archaeology
j.melis@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jos BazelmansFaculty of Archaeology
j.g.a.bazelmans@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Joanne MouthaanFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
j.mouthaan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276781
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Nicolette MoutFaculty of Humanities
m.e.h.n.mout@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
m.keblusek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272360
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Leonie VreekeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
l.j.vreeke@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Lionel LaborieFaculty of Humanities
l.p.f.laborie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273546
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Weishuo LiFaculty of Archaeology
w.li@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
j.j.hylkema@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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KNAW Early Career Partnerships
Research
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
s.p.m.bussels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272693
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Jesse SarneelFaculty of Humanities
j.t.sarneel@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Archaeologist Amanda Henry traces ancient diets and human adaptability with a Vici grant
Dr Amanda Henry has secured a prestigious Vici grant for her groundbreaking research project, Hominin FoodWays: Changing Diet and Food Processing Across Climate Frontiers. This five-year study, set to begin in September, aims to unravel the dietary adaptations of Eurasian hominins between 1.8 and 0.9…
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Lukas Verburgt wins KNAW early career award
Dr. Lukas Verburgt, guest researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, has received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He received this award for his innovative research into changes in the way scientists and philosophers define the nature and boundaries…
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Investigating the Europe-wide connections of early medieval commoners with an ERC Synergy Grant
A large research group involving Leiden University as corresponding Host Institution has been awarded a major European grant, the ERC Synergy Grant. This for research on how Europe developed after the fall of the Roman Empire with special attention to the yet underexplored but undoubtedly important…
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Exhibition Early Photography of the Middle East
From Persia and Arabia to North Africa: as early as the nineteenth century, there were Dutch people who used the camera themselves in various regions of the Middle East.
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Early Career Award for Kaya Peerdeman
Last week, Kaya Peerdeman received the SIPS Early Career Award at the fourth international conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies in Duisburg, Germany.
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Jorrit KelderFaculty of Humanities
j.m.kelder@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Andrew SorensenFaculty of Archaeology
a.c.sorensen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Joanne StolkFaculty of Humanities
j.v.stolk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272906
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
j.pollmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272740
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
f.rosu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274116
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271611
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Rafal Matuszewski awarded a KNAW Early Career Partnership
Dr. Rafal Matuszewski, assistant professor at the ancient history department of the Institute for History, has been awarded an Early Career Partnership by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
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KNAW Early Career Awards for two Leiden researchers
Young Leiden researchers Alisa van de Haar and Marleen Kunneman have received a KNAW Early Career Award. The prize, awarded annually for outstanding achievements, consists of 15,000 euros and a unique work of art.