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Executive Board distances itself from Van Rijn CommitteeThe Executive Board of Leiden University has distanced itself from the Minister of Education, Culture and Science’s response to the Van Rijn Committee...
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Jason Laffoon's Archaeometry article in top 20 most readThe research article ‘The life history of an enslaved African’ is one of the top 20 read Archaeometry articles in the period of January 2017 to Decemb...
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Dog remains are often ‘just’ a wolfResearchers have spent years looking for the ‘missing link’ between wolves and dogs. But many of the domesticated dogs that had been found prove to ha...
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Osteoarchaeology Laboratory takes centre stage in student video on osteologyOur MSc in Human Osteology student Judyta Olszewski, together with Raven Todd Da Silva, made the first of a series of videos on the study of human bon...
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Jason Laffoon’s Leiden Experience: ‘I am expanding my horizons chronologically and regionally’Back in 2008, Jason Laffoon moved from Chicago to Leiden. He came to join the Faculty of Archaeology’s Caribbean research group as a PhD candidate. No...
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Peer-reviewed student journal Inter-section in the spotlight: ‘We aim at quality work’Point your talented students to Inter-Section! That is the main message of the journal’s Editorial Board. But what exactly is Inter-Section? ‘It is me...
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A small ode to 412 deadIn 2011 Leiden University came into possession of the skeletons from a graveyard in Middenbeemster. But what could be done with all these bones and sk...
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Corinne Hofman to KITLV for in-depth Caribbean researchIn the coming five years, Professor Corinne Hofman and her group will be conducting research at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and...
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Van Bergen Prize winner Archery Attack has growth potentialDutch and international students brandishing bows and arrows fire at each other on the fields of the University Sports Centre on 11 May. This is the a...
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Definitive report: positive verdict on quality assurance at Leiden UniversityLeiden University has undergone a second institutional accreditation and audit (ITK), and the verdict on its quality assurance is once again positive....
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Exploring the Faculty’s depots: ‘What's an Indian type of cooking pot doing in Jerusalem?’In the depots of the Faculty of Archaeology, many artifacts, accumulated after decades of fieldwork across the world, are stored. A new project, the L...
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Using computer simulations to discover where Neanderthals livedArchaeologist Fulco Scherjon has used computer simulations to identify where and how Neanderthals lived in West Europe. What stood out was that they p...
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Caribbean Ties international exhibition opens at MuseonThe international travelling exhibition Caribbean Ties will open at Museon in The Hague on Saturday 25 May. It tells the untold story of the indigenou...
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Andy Sorensen's Scientific Reports article in top 100 most readThe research article ‘Neanderthal fire-making technology inferred from microwear analysis’ received 7,053 article views in 2018, placing it as one of ...
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Magic moments at Museum NightLeiden University opened its doors on Leiden Museum Night, with a whole host of things to see and do at the Academy Building, Hortus botanicus and Old...