103 search results for “mediterranean archaelogy” in the Staff website
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Labouring with large stones
Lecture
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Building a Byzantine and Ottoman Data Atlas with a DANS grant
Joanita Vroom, Professor Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia at the Faculty of Archaeology, has again received a DANS Klein DataProject (KDP) bursary for her project entitled ‘Data Atlas of Byzantine and Ottoman Material Culture: Archiving Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Fieldwork…
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Guest researcher Ignasi Grau: taking the comparative perspective
"Landscape archaeologists often face similar research questions across regions, whether working in the Mediterranean with its long history of studies or in other areas. Understanding settlement systems, connectivity or the role of identity formation as linked to places and place-making, such as ritual…
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Catering selection
The Party Catering Administration Office has special catering packages for the Faculty Club, and an overview is presented below.
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Professor Miguel John Versluys joins Supervisory Council of National Museum of Antiquities
From 1 December 2019, Miguel John Versluys, Professor and Chair of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology, will join the Supervisory Council of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (RMO).
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Aris Politopoulos: ‘I use games as a teaching method'
In his lectures Aris Politopoulos combines archaeology with video games. He is one of the three nominees for the 2020 LUS Teaching Prize. 'A good teacher is always open to feedback from students.'
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Gastronomical archaeology in new book Medieval MasterChef
The archaeology of food is in all sorts of ways ‘hot’. To illustrate this, recently the book Medieval MasterChef was published, focusing on cuisine and foodways in the Mediterranean and north-western Europe during Medieval and Post-Medieval times.
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Call for Abstracts Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie
Research
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Siberian 'unicorns' extinct much later than believed
Giant prehistoric 'unicorns' once wandered over the prairies of Central Asia. New research has shown that these so-called Siberian unicorns lived much longer than was believed, and probably did not become extinct until 'just' 39,000 years ago. Publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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Liquid Footprints: Water, Urbanism, and Sustainability in Roman Ostia
Lecture, Archaeological Forum
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Shaping Cultural Landscapes and Movement Dynamics: Rural Lives beyond the Walls
Conference
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Apply for KNIR colloquia programme
Research
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Faculty publications of 2018
Research
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Applying space syntax to insula V ii in Ostia
Lecture, Digital Archaeology Group Meeting
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Prof Ann Brysbaert participates in Getty Foundation’s initiative
A new and recently started Getty Foundation project, Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond, aims to forge connections among Mediterranean and Eastern scholars who rarely come into contact with one another’s work. Ann Brysbaert is one of the 25 invited specialists investigating…
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Transformative technologies: ground stone tool biographical changes and early metal use in Cyprus
Lecture, Archaeological Forum
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New Professor for the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden
Miguel John Versluys (1971) has been appointed Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden.
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Joanita Vroom investigates Byzantines and Ottomans with Aspasia grant
The Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) has awarded Professor Joanita Vroom with the Aspasia grant of €200,000. She will use this grant to develop a new line in research and education focusing on the long-term dynamics of material culture in the eastern Mediterranean and adjacent…
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How a very international archaeologist was born
From mandrill teeth to the microstructure of bones: archaeology alumna Simone Lemmers (31) is determined to reveal the past by studying old remains. Her curiosity has led to a very international career, also in the UK, where she witnessed the Brexit referendum.
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Farewell meeting Marleen Termeer
Farewell meeting
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200 years of archaeology in the Netherlands
Two hundred years ago Caspar Reuvens was appointed as the first professor of archaeology in the Netherlands. He was to lay the basis for both the National Museum of Antiquities and the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University. To mark the occasion, the faculty is organising an anniversary lecture…
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Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds winner - Marcus Adrian Roxburgh
His PhD research project - entitled Charlemagne's Workshops - is an ongoing investigation into the role of copper-alloy craft production in the early medieval economy of North-west Europe. The geographic limits of this research have up until now centred on the Netherlands (Frisia Magna in medieval times)…
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Tymon de Haas’ Leiden Experience: ‘A European consortium would be a very good option’
Classical and Mediterranean archaeologist Tymon de Haas is a relatively recent addition to the Faculty of Archaeology. Succeeding Tesse Stek in September 2018, he has played an important role in teaching since then, working together with colleagues from multiple research groups. ‘I have my corner of…
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Revealing the desert’s flourishing past
Lecture, Geoarch@Leiden
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From lugal.Gal to wanax?
Workshop
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The "Byzantine District” of Gortyn (Crete)
Lecture
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Social responsibility of archaeology: UMMA ERC Starting Grant implementation and community-based sustainable development at Old Dongola, Sudan
Lecture
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In memoriam: Dr Johanna Stöger (1957-2018)
On 19th August, we received the sad news that our dear colleague, Dr Johanna Stöger, has passed on. Hanna died, surrounded by family, at home in Southern Germany. She had battled her illness for some time, and for a while it looked as if treatment would be successful. Alas, Hanna’s recovery was to…
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The archaeology of imperial landscapes
Lecture, Book presentation
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Tracing social dynamics in the Iberian Iron Age landscape
Lecture, Archaeological Forum
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Unlocking Archaeological Legacy Survey Data with Digital Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science: a Manifesto
Lecture
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Qualitative Data Analysis in Archaeology: the myth, materiality and memory of the wooden horse of Troy
Lecture
- The Emergence of Greek Sacred Travel: Archaic Sanctuaries and Material Agency
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Mike Field’s Leiden Experience: ‘I try to make research teaching and teaching research.’
Mike Field has been at the Faculty of Archaeology since 2008. As a driven archaeobotanist, he is consistantly contributing to the study of plant fossils encountered in many faculty as well as external projects. ‘Flexibility, spontaneity, creativity, these are all parts of being an academic.’
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Gravitation grants for three major research programmes
Three major research projects involving Leiden scientists have been awarded a grant from NWO’s Gravitation Programme. The projects are on innovation processes, organs-on-chips and quantum software.
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Leiden contributes to Getty Museum exhibition
Leiden researchers have made an important contribution to the successful ‘Beyond the Nile’ exhibition in the American J. Paul Getty Museum. They also contributed to the exhibition volume that will be presented to Rector Magnificus Carel stolker on 5 September.
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“Should we close our borders? Not according to the Classical World!”
Leiden University archaeologists receive multiple awards for research on interaction between the Greek and Roman world and ‘The East’
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Three new professors in Archaeology
At the Faculty of Archaeology, three new professors are appointed with effect from February 1, 2018. They are Ann Brysbaert, Marie Soressi, and Joanita Vroom. How do they react to their appointments, and what will be their foci in the following years?
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Safer Field Research in the Middle East and North Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The impact of Winckelmann on Europe
Lecture, Byvanck Lecture
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Dining with the dead in early Byzantine Sicily
Lecture
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Gottfried Semper: Landscapes of polychromy
Lecture
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Archaeology students explore visual culture with artworks
In a creative assignment as a part of the bachelor's course Visual Culture, students explored the impact and complexity of visual culture by means of visual culture. The resulting artworks were of such a high quality that it was decided to present these in an exhibition.
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A busy early summer for the SETinSTONE team at Salamis, Athens, and the Argolid
In June 2016, Dr. Ann Brysbaert and her SETinSTONE team were invited to participate in the fieldwork training season on Salamis island in Greece.
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From precious stones to utilitarian wares: the value of geoscience in archaeology
Lecture
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Going Eurasian. Challenging traditional areal boundaries
Lecture
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Beyond hybridity: innovation through translation in the Hellenistic and Roman oecumene
Forschungsseminar
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Mshatta and the Invention of “Islamic Art” as a modern Concept
Public Lecture
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‘Morocco Institute crucial for better understanding of Arab world’
A better understanding of Morocco and the Arab world is crucial for international relations and for Dutch society. This was the key message of Minister of Education, Culture and Science Jet Bussemaker and Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam, at the opening of the renewed Netherlands Institute in Morocco…
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Alternative Archaeologies, multiple Agencies, hidden Narratives
Masterclass