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312 search results for “early hominin” in the Staff website

• 
  Henk Kern Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.h.c.kern@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272764

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  Minke Jonk-Thuong ICTO coordinator

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.d.m.jonk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272140

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  Anna Scott Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.m.scott@kunsten.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rolf Bremmer Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.h.bremmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Petr Koluch PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.v.koluch@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Travis Bowman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.m.b.bowman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Pim van der Helm PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.p.van.der.helm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Wim Tigges Guest

  w.tigges@sea.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Birte Kristiansen Management assistant

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.kristiansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Fernanda Korovsky Moura Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.k.moura@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yasasmala Widyalankara PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.a.d.widyalankara@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Magda Rafael PhD Candidate

  ICLON

  m.m.rafael@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ton Harmsen

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.j.e.harmsen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Paul Hoftijzer Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.g.hoftijzer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Suicides in Lithuania in the late 19th − early 20th centuries Event - 24 November 2025

  Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar

• Prestigious Gutenberg Research Award for archaeologist Wil Roebroeks News - 23 February 2022

  Leiden archaeologist Professor Wil Roebroeks receives the 2021 Gutenberg Research Award of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). "By granting Wil Roebroeks the 2021 Gutenberg Research Award, we are honoring his extraordinary contributions to paleoanthropology through his field research, his interdisciplinary…

• Kingship, Normative Ethics, and Religion in Early Modern Persian Ramayanas Event - 9 May 2025

  VVIK Lecture

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History October 2025 Event - 24 October 2025

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

• [CANCELLED] Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire Event - 8 April 2025

  Middle East Studies Lecture

• Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam News - 18 November 2021

  From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…

• A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden Event - 2 December 2025

  Lecture, Book launch event

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  Anke Klein Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.m.klein@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276673

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  Leonor Alvarez Francés PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.alvarez.frances@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Archaeological excavations in Romania show life of earliest modern humans in Europe News - 23 August 2022

  In a new article in the journal Scientific Reports, Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the site of Româneşti, one of the most important sites in southeastern Europe associated with the earliest Homo sapiens. The site gives an important glimpse…

• Mixed Methods: Making the Manuscript Miscellany in Early Modern England Event - 20 February 2026

  PhD defence

• Gut Microbial Metabolomics to Understand Allergies in Early Life Event - 17 March 2026

  PhD defence

• Quantum Parameter Estimation for Early Fault-tolerant Quantum Simulation Event - 22 May 2026

  PhD defence

• Homo erectus from the seabed, new archaeological discoveries in Indonesia News - 16 May 2025

  Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how and where these early humans lived, says Leiden archaeologist Harold Berghuis.

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  Alisa van de Haar University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.d.m.van.de.haar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272179

• Archaeologist Mette Langbroek works on beads exhibition: ‘Humans have a special relationship with beads' News - 26 January 2022

  Beads are among the oldest types of human artistic expression. Even so, the small ornaments have a bad status record regarding archaeological investigation. PhD candidate Mette Langbroek, usually at home studying early medieval beads, had the opportunity to work on a publication and exhibition on 5000…

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  Manon van der Heijden Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.p.c.van.der.heijden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272670

• Workshop early recognition of imbalance for team members Course

• PhD research Ivana van Leeuwen News - 31 March 2026

  Galaxies in the early universe contain more dust and hidden star formation than previously thought. That's what Ivana van Leeuwen concludes in her PhD research, where she combines data from various telescopes to create a more complete picture.

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  Vincent Niochet PhD candidate

  v.niochet@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Edmund Hayes University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274692

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  Joost Augusteijn Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.augusteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272763

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  Alistair Kefford Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.kefford@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009970

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  Corrie Bakels Emeritus professor

  c.c.bakels@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 0715613845

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  Paul Smith Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.j.smith@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Matthew Broad Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.broad@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271398

• PhD Researcher Anastasia Nikulina Wins Nick Ryan Bursary Award 2021 News - 23 June 2021

  To honour the work of its longstanding chair Nick Ryan, CAA International provides the annual Nick Ryan Bursary Award. The Nick Ryan Bursary Award winner is chosen from each year’s student paper presenters. The award goes towards the costs of attending the CAA Conference the following year, up to a…

• Nadine Akkerman’s Spycraft reviewed in several publications News - 23 August 2024

  Nadine Akkerman's book Spycraft, which she co-wrote with historian of science Pete Langman, has garnered top publications, with reviews featured in The Telegraph, Literary Review, The Spectator, History Today, and the Times Literary Supplement.

• Faith and Sexual Violence: Reflections on Methodologies for Trauma in Early Modern France Event - 11 April 2025

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

• Professionals on the Move: the Language Sector and Migrant Agency in Early Modern Europe Event - 12 December 2025

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

• The Historical Topography of Medina: Faith, Power, and Memory in Early Islamic Arabia Event - 3 April 2025

  Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series

• Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts Event - 7 May 2025

  Conference

• Captive Entanglements: Slavery, Medicine, and Natural Inquiry in Early Modern Italy Event - 15 January 2025

  Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar

• The Plurality of Early Modern Media: 21st-Century Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities Event - 8 January 2025

  Conference

• These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’ News - 22 November 2023

  Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course, co-taught by Vroom, Letty ten Harkel and various guest lecturers, investigated the transition of the city of Rome from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages,…

• Sunni constitutional theory in light of an early hadith about obedience Event - 12 November 2025

  Lecture