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• Archaeological Forum: Sarah Schrader and Alejandra Roche Recinos Event - 18 September 2025

  Lecture

• Research Data Management in Archaeology Event - 12 November 2025

  Course, ARCHON Workshop

• Postdoc Dita Auzina investigates relationship between appearance of monumentality and disruptive environmental events News - 4 March 2025

  In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dita Auzina, originally from Latvia, works as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds. ‘I have joined the project as a landscape archaeologist, but I also run my own fieldwork in Nicaragua.’

• Egyptian archaeologists deepen their expertise on human osteoarchaeology in Leiden News - 2 December 2024

  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…

• Contested heritage in The Hague: what to do with the remains of the Atlantik Wall? News - 28 June 2022

  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…

• End of Year Event Archaeology Event - 4 December 2025

  End of Year Event

• Archaeologist Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart wins the IALA dissertation award for his doctoral thesis News - 9 March 2023

  ‘I was very happy and honoured that my thesis was recognised as a valuable contribution to the topic of landscape archaeology.’

• Leiden archaeologists create open educational resources on agent-based modeling News - 13 June 2024

  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…

• Archaeologists of the future dig for traces of the past News - 9 May 2023

  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.

• Remote sensing for Roman Mallorca with a Chastelain-Nobach fund News - 23 May 2024

  For the past 2 years, Dr Letty ten Harkel has been jointly running an excavation project of a suspected Roman villa site on the Balearic island of Mallorca with colleagues Dr Antoni Puig Palerm and Ritchie Kolvers, MA. The project was recently awarded a LUF Chastelain-Nobach fund to explore the extend…

• Graduation Ceremony (R)MA Archaeology Event - 31 March 2026

  Graduation Ceremony

• Archaeologist Alex Geurds becomes member of Society of Antiquaries: ‘It is an honor bestowed for life’ News - 10 December 2021

  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.

• Research into grave goods sheds new light on traditional roles News - 28 June 2022

  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…

• On Kino and On Analogue: Obsolete Media in Post-socialist China Event - 21 May 2025

  Lecture, China Seminar

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  Aida Gholami Research assistant

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rodrigo Ochigame Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.k.ochigame@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Caspar van den Berg Guest Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  c.f.van.den.berg@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Rachael Hall PhD candidate

  r.a.hall@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jack Tillman PhD candidate

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  Max Willem Lenssen PhD candidate

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  Azra Say Otun PhD candidate

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  Lydia van de Fliert PhD candidate

  l.l.van.de.fliert@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Adrien Martinet PhD candidate

  a.martinet@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Leiden research on Neanderthals featured in the Wall Street Journal article News - 17 April 2023

  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…

• Graduation Ceremony Media Technology Event - 21 March 2025

  Afstudeerceremonie

• One language = one archaeological culture? Peruvian evidence for a richer interface between language and archaeology Event - 20 March 2026

  Lecture, Language and the Human Past

• Mark Driessen's Jordan fieldwork features in Photo Exhibition News - 19 December 2022

  The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden features a small photo exhibition on Mark Driessen's fieldwork research project in Southern Jordan. In this small exhibition you will see a selection of nine photos, made in Udhruh. This ancient Jordanian settlement lies fifteen kilometres east of Petra,…

• Archaeologist Lennart Kruijer's year: a Cum Laude dissertation, a grant, a fellowship News - 14 September 2022

  In May 2022 Lennart Kruijer succesfully defended his PhD, which he wrote as a member of the VICI Project ‘Innovating Objects’, led by prof. Miguel John Versluys. So succesfully, in fact, that he was awarded the Cum Laude honors. Just a short time later he was awarded a grant and a fellowship to further…

• Archaeology in the Dealer’s Archive Event - 7 April 2026

  Lecture, Faculty Lecture

• Archaeological Forum: Gül Aktürk en Murat Dirican Event - 17 April 2025

  Lecture

• The paleo diet: Is it what our ancestors really ate? News - 31 March 2025

  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?

• Remembering Olivier Nieuwenhuyse with a festschrift: ‘He would have loved this book’ News - 22 November 2023

  On November 16 a festschrift in honor of Dr Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was presented in a moving event at the Faculty of Archaeology. Professor Bleda Düring, a personal friend of Nieuwenhuyse, was one of the initiators. ‘If he had been here, he would have loved this book.’

• Leiden Archaeology Network and Career Event Event - 5 February 2026

  Study information, Network and Career Event

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  Anouk Roggema Student ambassador

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  Margot Hogewoning Staff Member Student Affairs

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  Linda Relijveld Study adviser

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  Karien Wentink Event Manager

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  Lidwien Meulenkamp Assessor/Studentlid

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  Caroline Hagedoorn Secretary

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  Jeroen de Brie Staff Member Student Affairs

  j.s.de.brie@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marten Jesse Pot Communications Advisor

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  Jan Pronk Executive Director

  j.l.j.pronk@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274199

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  Hanne Bergink Study Adviser / Career Advisor

  h.bergink@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Venelin Kolev Student ambassador

  v.s.kolev@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jasper Kanbier Engineering and application manager

  j.w.kanbier@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Johan Verweij Board secretary

  j.a.verweij@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273559

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  Laura Youssef Student Assistant

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• Bart Schermer: ‘Bedreigingen via internet zijn ook strafbaar’ News - 11 August 2022

  Oostenrijk wil online bedreigingen en haat harder aanpakken. Aanleiding is de dood van huisarts Lisa-Maria Kellermayr. Zij maakte eind juli een einde aan haar leven, nadat ze maandenlang werd bedreigd door mensen die tegen coronamaatregelen en vaccinaties zijn.

• Archaeological Forum: Aris Politopoulos and Dennis Braekmans Event - 20 November 2025

  Lecture

• Archaeological Forum: Nathalie Brusgaard and Martin Berger Event - 20 March 2025

  Lecture