1,178 search results for “asian and east mediterranean archaeology” in the Staff website
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Archaeological Forum: Sarah Schrader and Alejandra Roche Recinos
Lecture
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Research Data Management in Archaeology
Course, ARCHON Workshop
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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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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
j.j.l.gommans@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272167
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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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Graduation Ceremony (R)MA Archaeology
Graduation Ceremony
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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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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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One language = one archaeological culture? Peruvian evidence for a richer interface between language and archaeology
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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Chinese Labor Migration to the Dutch East Indies
Lecture, China Seminar
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Archaeology in the Dealer’s Archive
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Keynote lecture: The quest to be (trans)nationals: Experiences of being Asian in Europe
Lecture
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Ritanjan DasFaculty of Humanities
r.das@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278022
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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 MillekFaculty of Humanities
j.m.millek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Georg Cyrus
Faculty of Humanities
g.c.cyrus@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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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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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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‘I want to work with Indonesia in the present day’
Alumnus Rennie Roos lives and works in Indonesia. What took him there, what does he do there and what inspires him?
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Leiden Archaeology Network and Career Event
Study information, Network and Career Event
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Opening of the Herta Mohr Building: brand new and also recycled location for Humanities
Light, open and green: a description that fits the new, renovated location of the Faculty of Humanities. The official opening of the Herta Mohr Building took place on 8 October, and it has many remarkable features: for example, recycled ‘mushroom columns’, a pedestrian bridge to the University Library…
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Symposium: Japan between the East and the West
Symposium
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Ilan PeledFaculty of Humanities
i.peled@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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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 Brie
j.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