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Royal honour for Gert Oostindie
Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honour by Leiden mayor Henri Lenferink after giving his valedictory lecture, ‘The future of the colonial past’, in the Academy Building of Leiden University…
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Craft and innovation take centre stage at LeidenGlobal exhibition
An interdisciplinary photo exhibition about crafts and craftsmanship in different cultures will open at Oude UB on 6 October. At the opening Fridus Steijlen will give an introduction to the Tau Tau puppets that are made in Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Aitor Burguet-Coca studied fire-use from Palaeolithic to Bronze Age: ‘This gives us an image on different uses of fire across prehistory’
For the following years, Dr Aitor Burguet-Coca will be a returning face at the Faculty of Archaeology. He will join Dr Amanda Henry’s team with his expertise on prehistoric fire use and the methodologies that studying ancient hearths requires.
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Egyptian archaeologists deepen their expertise on human osteoarchaeology in Leiden
The Leiden Faculty of Archaeology is an institution of international renown. Frequently, researchers from other places of learning visit the faculty to broaden and deepen their own expertise. Currently, the Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology is hosting two scholars from Egypt, Samar Abudahab and…
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Contested heritage in The Hague: what to do with the remains of the Atlantik Wall?
During World War II, the Nazi’s ordered a coastal defensive line to be built from the south of France to Norway. This Atlantik Wall aimed to defend their territories in continental Europe from an Allied naval invasion. The defensive line went right through the Dutch city of The Hague. The material remains…
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End of Year Event Archaeology
End of Year Event
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Archaeologist Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart wins the IALA dissertation award for his doctoral thesis
‘I was very happy and honoured that my thesis was recognised as a valuable contribution to the topic of landscape archaeology.’
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Leiden archaeologists create open educational resources on agent-based modeling
The past two years, Laura van der Knaap and Professor Karsten Lambers worked on creating open teaching materials on agent-based modeling, funded by Erasmus+ and in collaboration with Danish, Irish and Dutch partners. Programming is an important skill involved in this, which is often seen as intimidating…
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Archaeologists of the future dig for traces of the past
Forty archaeology students are holding a shovel somewhat awkwardly in the fields at Oss. This is their first day of fieldwork and they are going to use muscles they didn’t even know they had.
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Graduation Ceremony (R)MA Archaeology
Graduation Ceremony
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Archaeologist Alex Geurds becomes member of Society of Antiquaries: ‘It is an honor bestowed for life’
Dr Alex Geurds was elected as a Fellow for the Society of Antiquaries, a prestigious and old educational charity based in London. Established in 1707, the society aims at the encouragement and advancement of the study and knowledge of the antiquities.
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Research into grave goods sheds new light on traditional roles
New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 words ago were less traditional than was thought. The research was conducted by a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Archol, the National Museum…
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Leiden research on Neanderthals featured in the Wall Street Journal article
In the article “Neanderthals and Us: We’re More Alike Than Once Thought”, we are reminded that many negative traits, from unintelligent to unsophisticated, have long been attributed to Neanderthals in popular culture. However, recent studies bring to light an ever-increasing amount of evidence contradicting…
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Ritanjan DasFaculty of Humanities
r.das@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278022
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Rachael Hallr.a.hall@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Lydia van de Fliertl.l.van.de.fliert@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Adrien Martineta.martinet@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Herman TiekenFaculty of Humanities
h.j.h.tieken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Nils MartinFaculty of Humanities
n.m.r.martin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277107
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Archaeology in the Dealer’s Archive
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Archaeological Forum: Gül Aktürk en Murat Dirican
Lecture
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The paleo diet: Is it what our ancestors really ate?
The paleo diet: eating like people in the Stone Age did, because it is supposed to be healthier. But how accurate are the recipes in this diet?
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Jonathan SilkFaculty of Humanities
j.a.silk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272510
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Aone van EngelenhovenFaculty of Humanities
a.van.engelenhoven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272072
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
n.j.g.kaptein@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Leiden Archaeology Network and Career Event
Study information, Network and Career Event
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Jeroen WiedenhofFaculty of Humanities
j.m.wiedenhof@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272080
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Anouk Roggemaa.f.roggema@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Margot Hogewoningm.h.hogewoning@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Karien Wentinkk.wentink@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276571
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Lidwien Meulenkampl.e.meulenkamp@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Caroline Hagedoornc.c.e.hagedoorn@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272439
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Jeroen de Briej.s.de.brie@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Marten Jesse Potm.j.pot@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272685
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Jan Pronkj.l.j.pronk@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274199
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Hanne Berginkh.bergink@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Venelin Kolevv.s.kolev@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jasper Kanbierj.w.kanbier@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Johan Verweijj.a.verweij@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273559
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Laura Youssefl.youssef@arch.leidenuniv.nl |
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Archaeological Forum: Aris Politopoulos and Dennis Braekmans
Lecture
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Archaeological Forum: Nathalie Brusgaard and Martin Berger
Lecture
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Hsini HuangFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
h.i.huang@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Júlia García PuigFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
j.garcia.puig@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 0623822177
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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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Wouter HoflandFaculty of Humanities
w.g.hofland@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Albert Planelles OrozcoFaculty of Humanities
a.planelles.orozco@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272038
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Kiki FreriksFaculty of Humanities
k.r.freriks@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272258
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Jesse Millek
Faculty of Humanities
j.m.millek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727