1,679 search results for “indigenous artefact in museum collections” in the Public website
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The (pre)historic distribution and habitat of the elk in the Netherlands
The project aims to explore Eurasian elk's role in the ecosystems of the past and its relationship with humans through analysis of its distribution and habitat in the Netherlands.
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Amsterdam's Atlantic: Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil
The rise and fall of Dutch Brazil (1624-1654) was a major news story in early modern Europe, and marked the emergence of a
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Wapishana bilingual education
Evaluating processes of Wapishana-English Bilingual Education Programme in Guyana.
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Here it is. A Nahuatl translation of European cosmology
Context and contents of the Izcatqui manuscript in the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam
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Heritage, landscape and spatial justice: new legal perspectives on heritage protection in the Lesser Antilles
This dissertation presents a legal geographical analysis of the heritage laws of the independent English-speaking islands of the Lesser Antilles.
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Mochica: grammatical topics and external relations
On the 12th of May, Rita Barrera Virhuez-Eloranta successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Rita Barrera Virhuez-Eloranta on this achievement.
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A Grammar of Sunwar. Descriptive Grammar, Paradigms, Texts and Glossary
This grammar provides a description of Sunwar, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, based on data collected during twelve months of field work.
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Alvaro Viljoen
Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria - South Africa
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Negotiating Custom: A History of the Galle Landraad (1740-96)
Nadeera Seneviratne defended her thesis on 21 January 2016.
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Representations of Minamoto no Yoshitsune in Visual Culture and Literature: Cultural Memory in Late Edo and Meiji Japan
This project examines changes in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century representations of the legendary twelfth-century general Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159-1189) and how they reflect not only developments in themes of representation, but also changes in the focus of early modern and modern Japan’s…
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Descolonizando Tiempo, Espacio y Conocimiento
El pueblo Kamëntšá en la encrucijada del patrimonio cultural
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We navel-string bury here
Landscape history, representation and identity in the Grenada islandscape
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Who gets what, when, and how? An analysis of stakeholder interests and conflicts in and around Big Science
Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…
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Department of Environmental Biology (CML-EB)
Mission: The Environmental Biology department aims to increase the scientific understanding of how current and emerging anthropogenic threats affect biodiversity and ecosystem services. Through this understanding they facilitate strategic management of natural resources by addressing urgent challenges…
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Landscapes of Survival
Pastoralist Societies, Rock Art and Literacy in Jordan’s Black Desert (200 BC to 800 AD)
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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Career prospects
Open up a world of opportunities with your master's degree in Archaeology from Leiden University!
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Sport & Culture
There’s more to life than studying hard; sometimes you just need to relax. It’s good to know then that The Hague’s offering in the area of sport and culture is surprisingly extensive.
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Lorentz Center Public Events
The Lorentz Center organises public events with lectures by internationally renowned scientists.
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Gendered empire. Intersectional perspectives on Dutch post/colonial narratives
Yearbook of Women's History.
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Career
The field of science communication is very broad. Below is a list of organisations where SCS students can fulfill internships or where alumni have found jobs.
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Alumni blog
Interested in studying Ancient History at Leiden University? Find out what our alumni said about this master's programme.
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EXALT: Excavating Archaeological Literature
We will use Artificial Intelligence to make an intelligent, multilingual search engine for archaeological texts, which will enable new discoveries about the human past.
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Of Islanders and Foreigners? Tracing local identities and cultural encounters in the Gulf of Fonseca, Central America (AD 400-1521)
How did local lifeways and crafting practices persist and develop in the diverse environments of the increasingly interconnected Gulf of Fonseca (AD 400-1521)?
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Charlemagne's Workshops
An Investigation into the role of copper-alloy craft production in the early medieval economy of northwest Europe.
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Into the cold: The adaptive role of pyrotechnology among the earliest modern humans in Europe, ca. 45,000–20,000 years ago
The routine assumption that Upper Palaeolithic early modern humans in Europe were regular fire users who produced fire at will has never been tested against the archaeological record. Utilizing literature, database and microwear analytical approaches, this project seeks to establish the role and forms…
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Asia
Engagement between Asia and Europe is increasing. If these continents want to build a lasting relationship, they need to understand each other better in the economic, socio-cultural, historical and legal arena. Researchers from Leiden have already contributed to the body of knowledge on past and present…
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About
Leiden University has been promoting studies on Latin America and the Caribbean for a long time.
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The skeleton as a source of information
Bones contain information about people’s lives such as where they came from, their age at death and which diseases they suffered from. Researchers can deduce a lot from them about a person’s life and about human evolution. This generates leads that could help solve present-day problems, such as how…
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Conference: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling (KNIR, 17-20 October)
From October 17 to October 20, the international conference "Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling" will take place at the Dutch Royal Institute in Rome. Research Master students can obtain 2 ECTS by participating in this conference an an additional…
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Building / Patrons: Forging Links Between Buildings and Builders in Renaissance Italy
Subproject of
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Material Aspects of Etruscan Religion
Proceedings of the International Colloquium Leiden, May 29 and 30, 2008
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Studying Homo erectus Lifestyle and Location (SHeLL)
An integrated geo-archaeological research of the hominin site Trinil on Java
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The End of our Third Decade (volume II)
Papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the institute of Prehistory, Volume II.
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Babesch Supplement 16
The Supplementa series of BABESCH is designed as a platform for thematic publications, in juxtaposition to the annual and varied mix of contributions offered by the journal itself. The thematic publications will include proceedings of colloquia, collections of particular studies by one or more authors,…
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About
The Modern and Contemporary Cluster is the largest within LUCAS and home to more than 100 staff members and PhD candidates.
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Archaeology and the application of Artificial Intelligence
Case-studies on use-wear analysis of prehistoric flint tools
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Iron Age Echoes
D. Fontijn, Quentin Bourgeois & Arjan Louwen (eds) (2012). This publication describes the history of “barrow landscape” near Echoput in Apeldoorn. Two burial mounds were examined and it became clear that our prehistoric predecessors carefully managed and maintained the open area for a long time, before…
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Reconstructing Object Biographies
We live in a world of things and people in the past must have been as closely entangled with their material surroundings as we are now. In the Laboratory for Artefact Studies Van Gijn takes a close look at the biographies of objects: what kind of raw material an object is made off and what is its provenience,…
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The Minor Centres Project
This five year research project aimed to investigate the role of minor central places in the economy of Roman Central Italy.
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Etrusco ritu
Case Studies in Etruscan Ritual Behaviour
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The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt
New insights into the Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic.
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Conference and Winter School
The ERC Consolidator project Food Citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities: solidarity and diversity, skills and scale (2017-2022) organizes Conference Friday 4 February and Winter School 24 January to 4 February 2022.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students the world-class environment needed to reach their potential.
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Why Leiden University
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